Thomas Abend: VITAS, AI Assistants, Startups, and Overcoming Crisis

Thomas Abend is the Co-Founder and CEO of VITAS. We talk about his journey to machine learning, starting a startup, navigating crisis, and the future of AI.

VITAS offers an AI-powered, customizable phone assistant that automates customer calls and is much more powerful and pleasant to talk to than usual interactive voice response systems.

https://www.vitas.ai/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-abend/ 

Local Optimum is a podcast about AI, machine learning, data, and their applications in various fields such as business, science or manufacturing. Your host is Lukas Spranger, experienced software engineer and data scientist who is working as a machine learning tech lead.


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