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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S8 Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Suman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human oriented person - one who wants to elevate the experience of people. Outside of tech, he enjoys playing volleyball and is a foodie with his wife. They enjoy yellow tail sashimi and modern Mexican fusion, but at home, they enjoy remixing cuisines with different spices. In his previous company, Suman built solutions around augmenting the human experience for blind people. Moving forward, he wanted to expand this to allow people to use AI to create long term memory, personally for you and your loved ones. This is the creation story of Personal AI. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

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0:00.0

The technology behind the scenes is essentially what we refer to as a personal language model.

0:06.0

You know, when we started the company three years ago, the development of large language model was known.

0:11.0

But my co-founder and CTO, Sharon Zong, she told me that to truly achieve what you're trying to achieve,

0:17.0

you cannot start with a large language model because fundamentally we need to ground

0:21.2

this data in small amounts of data which belongs to an individual.

0:24.8

So we actually start with something called a long-term memory, long-term memory of every person.

0:29.0

And this memory is time-bound, like similar to how our lives are.

0:32.1

As you go by your life, historically or continuously, we create this like memory units,

0:36.9

a unit of data.

0:39.0

I'm Saman Kanaganti.

0:40.2

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Personal Lord AI.

0:46.7

This is Code Story.

0:49.4

A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.

0:52.4

It's six months moonlighting.

0:53.7

There's nothing at the backcats.

0:55.8

Who share what it takes to change in industry.

0:58.3

I don't exactly know what to do next.

1:00.2

It took many goes to get right.

1:02.0

Who built the teams that have their back.

1:04.5

The company is its people.

1:06.1

The teams help each other achieve.

1:07.5

Most proud of our team.

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