#169: Can AI and Transformers Revolutionize the Supply Chain? Featuring Nisarg Mehta of Raft AI
Hosted by Santosh Sankar on October 18, 2023
Summary
During this episode, Santosh is joined by Nisarg Mehta, Co-Founder and CTO of Raft AI, a company that empowers freight forwarders to deliver more value to customers by automating the entire freight journey for complete transparency and control. Santosh and Nisarg discuss the background of Raft and their use of transformers in their product, the importance of observability and transparency in AI models, the need for deep domain understanding and access to primary data when deploying AI models, the holistic impact of AI on business, and more.
Show Notes
Highlights from their conversation include:
- Nisarg’s background and journey in founding Raft AI (1:20)
- The use of transformers in Raft (3:02)
- Delivering customer value with transformers (5:01)
- The impacts of AI and language models on supply chain (8:48)
- The movement of goods, money, and information (14:12)
- Revolutionizing supply chain with technology (15:32)
- Considerations for building an AI product (16:15)
- Final thoughts and takeaways (22:24)
Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.
Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/