S01 E02 Q10 | Podcast #2 | Janu Verma - Senior AI Leader | Microsoft Copilot | AI + Research

Tenth question from our conversation with Janu Verma, Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft's Copilot, London. Janu brings over a decade of experience in building AI systems. You can find more about him in his linkedin:   / janu-verma-b79b8823  

*About the Host* :
•⁠ ⁠Pls meet Anuj Gupta (  / anujgupta-82  . He works as AI advisor to AI Startups & Founders, VCs, MNCs in US, Europe & India. He mentors organizations across the entire AI lifecycle - from Strategy/use case to deployment.

•⁠ Recently he mentored a YC company build critical AI systems, further improved them to bring down the cost per min by 95% (half of human cost), demoed to Sam Altman & Vinod Khosla; leading to series B by Khosla Ventures.

•⁠ He ⁠led AI efforts at India’s earliest startup to be funded for its AI first approach (back in 2013), leading to acquisition, then IPO.

•⁠ He has been working in AI for the last 20 yrs. Incubated & led AI efforts & built AI systems in both startups (0-1, 1-n) & Fortune 50.

•⁠ ⁠He authored a major book in AI - endorsed by Top AI Leaders including those from CMU, UCSD, DeepMind, Google AI, MSR, Spotify, Meta YC startups like Airbnb & SharpestMinds to name a few [https://www.practicalnlp.ai/testimoni...].

•⁠ ⁠The book is already translated in 5 languages, 225+ citations, used by 50+ universities globally for their AI curriculum.

•⁠ In his career he has incubated & led multiple AI teams of size 5-100 across geographies. ⁠He now uses that learnings to advise & guide GCCs in setting up AI CoE (Center of Excellence)

More about Anuj:   / anujgupta-82  

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