Insights from AI-driven “virtual canvassing” at superhuman scale — Some of you may know that at Amplify.ai we recently achieved a major milestone for Conversational AI, reaching 10 billion engagements with a half a billion people (while amassing one of the world’s largest and most valuable conversational datasets). …

At Amplify.ai, we know we’re not a household name (yet), and that we share the field of Conversational AI with many other companies. So today, we are proud to announce a major milestone that puts us in a really interesting leadership position, with our Conversational AI platform having reached over…

Exciting times at the intersection of VR, music, and visual effects As a passionate, long-time believer in the potential of virtual reality and someone who worked on VRML at Silicon Graphics in the ’90s, I was really excited to get to dive back into the world of interactive 3D graphics these past two years at my own virtual reality startup, Ethereal…

It was the month of November 1994, and my mission was clear: create and launch the first hardware + software web product line, putting Silicon Graphics (SGI) into the leadership position of a market about to explode. Based on what I learned in Chicago, I believed that if we launched…

It was October 1994, and a startup still called Mosaic Communications had just launched the beta of its “Netscape” browser (press release) with a completely radical pricing strategy: free. It’s hard to explain now just how electrifying that release was, other than to say that for many of us, the…