George Sivulka, hailed as a wunderkind by Peter Thiel, is the founder of Hebbia, a groundbreaking AI company revolutionizing financial research. Having worked at NASA as a teenager, he later earned a math degree from Stanford in just 2.5 years. George has secured $130M in funding for Hebbia at a $700M valuation, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and Thiel himself. Hebbia’s AI platform, trusted by firms like Centerview Partners and Charlesbank, has driven a 15x revenue growth in 18 months by pioneering RAG techniques that ensure LLM outputs remain within company-sanctioned data.

In this conversation, we discuss:

How Hebbia is reshaping financial research with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
The leap from academia to entrepreneurship—how George Sivulka turned research into real-world impact.
The expanding role of AI in high-stakes industries where precision is critical.
The ethical challenges of AI and how transparency can make or break trust.
Why AI agents will change knowledge work—but not in the way you might think.
The future of AI-powered research and its impact on decision-making.

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