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After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
By Paul Sawers
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond a mere chatbot, making decisions and taking actions on people’s behalf. Some might help you do your online shopping; others might make factories more efficient — at varying degrees of autonomy.
It’s against such a backdrop that fledgling AI startup Across AI is coming out of stealth to develop a “dynamic memory system” for complex enterprise workflows. And it’s spearheaded by a founder who relatively recently sold his previous startup to IBM...
He joined up with Dr. Niloufar Salehi (pictured above, left) and Dr. Afshin Nikzad (pictured above, right), renowned professors from UC Berkeley and Stanford University, respectively, who have carried out research on ways to improve the efficacy of AI systems in “high-stakes” settings...
Niloufar Salehi is an assistant professor in the School of Information.
