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NeurIPS 2024 / Diaries - Day 1 at NeurIPS was a whirlwind - and yes, our CTO David Mataciunas met with VCs, potential new AQ22 AI engineers, and other prominent AI people. He snapped a few photos, so here is the evidence 👇 If you’re at the conference today, say hello to David Mataciunas. It would be best to ping him via LinkedIn! #NeurIPS2024 #AI #AQ22

Our new paper has been released!!!! 🚀 We made an audit of the global data ecosystem across text ✏️, speech 📢, and video 📽️ datasets revealing key trends: 📈 Data Sourcing Shifts ➡️ Synthetic data use soared from ~10M tokens pre-2018 to 100B+ in 2024. ➡️ 70%+ of speech and video data now comes from YouTube, despite restrictive Terms of Service. 🛑 Hidden Restrictions ➡️ While ~30% of datasets have permissive licenses, 78% of sources include anti-crawling restrictions, complicating compliance. 🌍 Representation Gaps ➡️ Less than 0.2% of dataset content originates from Africa or South America. ➡️ Representation distribution hasn’t improved significantly in over a decade. This study seeks to quantify trends in data sourcing, representation, and restrictions across the ecosystem and provide developers with tools to navigate datasets ethically and inclusively. Measuring these characteristics at scale is crucial for the community to evaluate its progress, highlighting the urgent need for improved transparency, better restriction documentation, and more equitable representation. It's fantastic to be part of this incredible project. Thank you so much to the whole team for making it happen. Great team: Shayne Longpre, Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep, Kushagra T., Joanna Materzynska, William Brannon, Robert Mahari, Manan Dey, Mohammed Hamdy, Nayan Saxena, Ahmad Anis, Dr Emad A Alghamdi, Minh Chien Vu, Nana Obeng-Marnu, Da Yin, Kun Qian, Yizhi Li, Minnie Liang, An Dinh, Shrestha Mohanty, Tobin South, Jianguo Zhang, Ariel N. Lee, Campbell Lund, Christopher Klammer, Damien Sileo, Diganta Misra, Enrico Shippole, Kevin Klyman, Lester JV Miranda, Niklas Muennighoff, Seonghyeon Ye, Seungone Kim, Vipul Gupta, Vivek Sharma, Xuhui Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Luis Villa, Stella Biderman, Alex Pentland, Sara Hooker, and Jad Kabbara. Also, a huge thanks to Melissa Heikkilä for featuring our work in MIT Technology Review (link shared in the comments). #ai #data #machinelearning #deeplearning

The more I look into the SHIFT within the finance world now vs. the next 5 years, the more evident it becomes that very little will remain unchanged. Processes will evolve Interfaces will transform. Client information flow will change. Requirements will change. Job roles will be redefined. Compliance frameworks will be reshaped. This transformation is underway, and AQ22 will play a pivotal role. #ai #finance

Our CTO, David Mataciunas, is going to be at NeurIPS 2024 🚀 Already tomorrow the biggest AI research conference, NeurIPS, will begin! David will be discussing new AI research together with the top AI researchers in the world. We are proud to share that David's and his fellow researcher's collaborative research paper, "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons", co-authored with brilliant researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cohere For AI, has been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS. If you’re in Vancouver this week, ping David! Whether it’s to chat about AI, share insights, or grab a coffee, he would love to meet fellow enthusiasts and researchers. #ai #neurips #researchers

AI AGENT CONGRESS 2024 - Pioneering the Future of Intelligent Agents? We are excited to share that our CEO, Catherine Kurt, had the privilege of joining some of the brightest minds in technology at the inaugural #AIAgentCongress, hosted by Jeremiah Owyang and Blitzscaling Ventures. Everyone who participated in this memorable event is shaping how AI agents develop, the speed of their evolution, and the industries they will impact the most. Who's excited? 😎 The congress not only explored today’s key topics and best practices among founders but also posed critical questions about the future: Will we talk to one agent or many? What will the interface look like? Will we control agents by voice? If so, how? Will agents manage our finances or other aspects of our lives? What protocols are needed, especially for highly regulated industries? How will AI agents identify themselves in areas like financial services? What about the KYA—Know Your Agent—process? What about pricing models? Usage-based or value-based? …and many more questions that spark curiosity and debate. AQ22 is happy to be a part of this debate! 🚀 Cc: Chris Yeh, Adam Silverman (Hiring), Anna Yuan, Aditi Kothari, Amir Sarhangi, Amit Shah, Ammar Safdari, Anna Yuan, Bogdan Cristei 🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸, Brooke Hopkins, Chi Wang, Charles Maddock, Colin Wiel, David Fant, David Pettey, Ebru Yıldırım Gul, Gabriela de Queiroz, Ginny Fahs, Jiquan Ngiam, John Xie, Karpagam Narayanan, Qingyun Wu, parth ?., Taranjeet Singh, Sarah Allali, Tim Shi, Peda Venki Pola. #AI #AIAgentCongress #Innovation #Technology

Meet us at the Plug and Play Tech Center in SUNNYVALE tomorrow! Catch us on the main stage at 10:40 AM—it’s going to be a pitch you won’t want to miss! We’ll be sticking around all day, so if you want to chat about big ideas, groundbreaking tech, or just say hi, message David or Catherine via Brella or LinkedIn to schedule a meeting. 💬 See you at Plug and Play Summit! #PlugAndPlay #Siliconvalley #Innovation

AQ22 / Last week, our team had the opportunity to visit Taiwan and engage with the leaders of top Taiwanese banks, focusing on data and commercial lending discussions. The talks around emerging trends in the Asian financial market were affirming. Huge thanks to Paulius Lukauskas for the connection. The team met with representatives from Cathay United Bank, CTBC Bank, E.sun Financial Holding Co., Ltd, Taishin Financial Holdings, and a few other institutions. Thanks to everyone who shared and gave advice. This trip was invaluable in validating our ideas and gathering feedback that will shape our future strategies for AQ22's growth. The journey in Silicon Valley continues. 🚀 #Taiwan #bankinginnovation #AI #finance #fintech

Last week, right after the scary typhoon, our team landed in Taiwan to participate in one of the biggest fintech events in the area - FINTECH TAIPEI 🇹🇼! We chatted with representatives from international banks and local players about how they integrate AI into their branches, internal operations, and financial analysis. The market seems to be open to the AI innovations coming their way, but it is also considering some new regulations as guardrails for the upcoming change. Interesting! David Mataciunas, our CTO, participated as one of the panelists at the International Fintech Forum, the session called "Policy and Governance Frameworks for AI in Financial Services" with other panelists (Thomas Puschmann, Sarah Nur, Marcus Tsai, and Brenda Hu). Thank you very much to Paulius Lukauskas for the invitation to participate. Next up: one-on-one meetings with financial institution representatives to hear how our technology can help them. #fintech #AI #event #taipei

🌟Startup Spotlight - AQ22! AQ22 offers AI agents to automate commercial loans and financial analysis 💵 AQ22 is at the forefront of transforming credit assessment processes for banks, credit unions, and alternative lending institutions. Their AI-powered platform enables credit analysts to make decisions 10 times faster and with greater accuracy by: - Utilizing intelligent document prescreening techniques, - Delivering comprehensive reports and insightful analysis, and - Leveraging their proprietary Financial LLM and AI agents. David used to be a financial analyst at a private equity firm, where he dealt with manual and slow processes when prescreening companies. This is exactly what AQ22 wants to help financial institutions overcome - financial analysts focusing on insights rather than processes. David has over 10 years of experience in AI and ML. He is an independent AI researcher at Cohere for AI and the Chairman of the AI Association of Lithuania. Together with Kotryna's entrepreneurial experience and mindset, they form a rockstar team, and we couldn't wish for a cooler startup to be part of our cohort! 🤩 Discover more about AQ22 and their innovative solutions at the link below: https://aq22.ai/ Kotryna Kurt David Mataciunas

NVIDIA x AQ22! Who is building AI startups without the support of NVIDIA for Startups? We are happy that during the World AI Summit, we got to meet Alexander Martynau, who is one of the people running the Nvidia Inception Program in Europe. 🚀 Excited about the partnership and being a part of the program. NVIDIA is truly changing the game for AI startups! #AI #Nvidia #AQ22 #startup