Vertical AI Innovations: Abacus LLM in Finance & Synthesia's Video Avatars | E2112

Hey everybody, welcome back to Twist. This is Alex, and I have two amazing interviews for you on this very fine Tuesday. Thematically, they are linked because we are talking about the application of AI to particular sectors. This is often called vertical AI, kind of building off the idea of vertical SaaS, but taking generative AI tools and applying them to one particular industry. First up, we're going to talk to advocacy.

Now, this company wants to bring gen AI into regulated industries, think credit unions, banks, and insurance companies. It's very interesting to hear how they're going about approaching that market. And it's quite different than other AI first companies and how they're going after their own markets, especially if they're more consumer oriented. Then second, we're going to talk to Synthesia, a company that I actually demoed on the show a couple months back.

They're a Twist 500 company and they're working on uh basically video generated AI models of people for things like training videos and so forth. Well, they have a pretty important revenue milestone to talk about and some very cool technology, and they have notes on where people are buying Gen AI technology inside the enterprise today. So if you're a little tired about hearing about the newest model this and the newest benchmark that and want to know where does the rubber meet the road, well, here you go. Let's start with abacus. This week in Startups is brought to you by Atlassian.

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