Start up Profile

Ambient.ai’s breakthrough technology combines cutting edge deep learning with a contextual knowledge model to endow agents with human-like perception ability. The company was founded in 2017 by experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. The company’s technology processes video and can then provide captions for its contents, ranging from broad context about what’s taking place in a chunk of footage (for example, saying “this is a busy street”) while also captioning specific actions, like saying “there is a man walking.” All of that information is coming out of one algorithm, which means specific captions can benefit from the broader context, and vice versa. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, YCombinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie and Elad Gil.