The History of Facebook AI Research

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It was actually, we are acquired in 2015 by Facebook. And it was very interesting because it was really the beginning of the big AI wave. Mark Zuckerberg himself was very, very, very involved because he wanted to build this team and build AI capabilities of Facebook. Back then, just all the desks around Zek were the AI team. We had unlimited resources. It's still small, but growing very, very fast and with a lot of ambition.

Today, we’re excited to get to know Alexandre Lebrun, CEO and Cofounder of Nabla, a personalized AI assistant for doctors. Before founding Nabla, Alex was the Head of Engineering at Facebook AI research for almost four years, and is a seasoned entrepreneur, having sold his previous companies Wit.ai, an AI platform that makes it easy to build apps that understand natural human language, to Facebook in 2015 and VirtuOz, a customer service chatbot, to Nuance Communications in 2012.

In this episode, Alexandre shares his experiences after 22 years and founding 3 startups, why proprietary data is more important than ever for defensibility, tactics on GTM and customer focus specific to healthcare buyers, and opportunities and safety for generative AI in healthcare.