The Morning Brief ET in the Valley: Ashish Thusoo, Co-founder and CEO, CurieTech AI.
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Dec 17, 2025 In a compelling discussion, Ashish Thusoo, co-founder and CEO of CurieTech AI, shares his journey from Oracle to transforming data processing at Facebook. He explores the emergence of AI-driven automation and its implications for Indian IT, emphasizing the need for adaptation and leveraging domain knowledge. Thusoo addresses concerns about the AI bubble, circular investments, and H-1B visa policies affecting talent flow. He articulates how CurieTech's AI-first approach can redefine software delivery and accelerate development cycles in enterprise systems.
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From Oracle To Hive To QBOL
- Ashish Thusoo traced his career from Oracle to creating Apache Hive at Facebook and founding QBOL to build cloud-scale big data platforms.
- He sold QBOL in 2020 and later joined AWS before starting CurieTech AI in 2023.
AI-First Automation For IT Integrations
- CurieTech AI focuses on automating IT engineering and integrations, not product development workflows.
- The company builds AI-first fleets of agents, fine-tunes models with high-fidelity data, and automates workflows to high accuracy.
Build Automation Around Data First
- Create high-fidelity task data, fine-tune models, then automate workflows for reliable results.
- Build IP around data and agents to achieve high automation accuracy.