Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, H2O.ai, is the leading AI Cloud company with a mission to democratise AI for everyone. Customers use the H2O AI Cloud to rapidly solve complex business problems and accelerate the discovery of new ideas.
H2O.ai is the trusted AI provider to more than 20,000 global organisations, millions of data scientists and over half of the Fortune 500.
Recently, the company has raised US$100 million in a Series E funding led by Australia’s largest bank, Customer Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). In total, H2O.ai has now raised over US$250 million and is valued at US$1.7 billion.
According to founder and CEO Sri Ambati, the strategic partnership will unleash a powerful wave of co-innovation and further democratise AI with trust and freedom.
During the conversation with Sri, he shares insights and talks about:
- The company and its history.
- What is AI Hybrid Cloud and the company’s mission of democratising AI mean for H2O.ai
- How customers use their products and solutions and what makes H2O.ai unique.
- The strategic partnership with CBA and what will the new collaboration with Commonwealth Bank provide for both H2O.ai and CBA.
- How AI is transforming industries globally and why AI is particularly important to the financial services sector.
- What companies in ASEAN who want to leverage of AI not only for data ownership but to extract valuable insights from it.
- H2O.ai has been actively engaging in Responsible AI and AI for Good initiatives.
- The key lessons he learnt during the journey since growing the company to unicorn status.
- Three things he has done right and also differently.
Guest: Sri Ambati, CEO and Co-founder of H2O.ai
Host: Brian Fernandez
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