The use cases for generative AI are still being ironed out amid a plethora of new tools hitting the market. It’s not totally clear what can actually provide value to everyday work — but there are certainly some early signals of adoption.
That was our takeaway after speaking with Seattle founders and investors at the AI2 Incubator‘s annual summer party on Thursday evening.
The BBQ bash, hosted by the Seattle-based firm that invests and incubates AI-focused startups, was the perfect place to get a pulse on popular AI apps and services that folks are using.
Many were quick to mention a favorite tool that was saving time or helping boost knowledge. Their answers spanned biotech, marketing, coding, and more. Read on for their thoughts.
Stack AI. “I use it to ask questions for diligence purposes and then build investment memos. You can have it access your knowledge base, and add datasets. Then you can have it access external data and combine all that to either answer direct questions or create an output. It’s been really helpful.” — Morgan Blumberg, principal at M13
Claude. “As a user, Claude has been fantastic. To be able to contextualize a document, and not only ask questions in retrieval way but to get meaning of the central idea of a document, Claude is just so accurate.” — Martín Ramírez, CEO and co-founder at Signify
Superbio.AI. “I don’t use it for my day-to-day work, but I’ve used it for fun projects. Superbio has built these wrappers around neural networks, where you just upload your data and you can then go in and have it train your neural networks.” — Nermeeta Dhillon, applied machine learning scientist at Wayfinder Biosciences
Microsoft [GitHub] Copilot. “It just helps developers code faster. You can write more code and improve productivity. It’s been cool to see the product improve over time.” — Lekshmi Venu, CEO at MajorBoost
Blaze.AI. “It’s a content marketing engine. It’s really good at creating a lot of content.” — T.A. McCann, managing director at Pioneer Square Labs
Learning new investment areas. “It’s just using the new tools in AI to help do some of your initial set of understanding a new area. When an entrepreneur comes to us with an area we haven’t explored yet, you can use a large language model to explore what that is — it’s a really useful tool.” — Jenny Cronin, principal at Ai2 Incubator
Claude. “I’m an everyday user of Claude. Everything from specing out new products, doing analysis, writing out different strategies — literally use it all day.” — Diego Oppenheimer, partner at Factory
HuggingFace. We train models on a lot of data and with HuggingFace you can store large-scale datasets, public or private, for free.” — Vik Korrapati, stealth startup co-founder
Internal knowledge base. “We are building an app that uses WhatsApp, Make.com, and OpenAI to allow our members to ask questions of our data. For example, all of our policies and procedures — our members can ask WhatsApp.” Dave Parker, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization
ChatGPT. “I use it for a lot of event stuff that I do — for event invites or emails, it can summarize.” — Minh Le, managing director of venture banking at Stifel Bank
Protein design. “I’m a chemical engineer, so using AI to look at different molecules for protein design has been extremely useful in helping predict how that protein model is going to react to different solvents and different situations, from drug use to making it into a protein-based polymer system.” — Mary O’Kelly Boit, scientist consultant
Still exploring. “For my personal life, I’ve been using ChatGPT and Perplexity to figure out which is going to give the better answer for my wife. She’s always asking me to look stuff up. For work, I’m just exploring, trying to see what will move the dial.” — William Zee, principal at Catalyzt
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