They’re such a simple company yet so effective and solve such a big problem. At first glance, they’re responsible for connecting the external data to train AI, and you’re like why can’t companies just do that themselves. Well the thing is that for many of these new AI companies, making a significant investment for engineers to develop connections to so many sources of external data is expensive and very risky especially if they’re cash strapped. Why would you spend months and massive amounts of money to set one up yourself when you can reach out to Carbon and they can handle it for you? Even if you do set one up in-house, you might have to spend more to update it to all of the new programs that roll out from time to time. Kind of a no-brainer for me.

They emerged during a time when AI has been more prevalent than ever, and their mission to accelerate that process by allowing their customers to focus solely on the AI design by handling the data connector and training piece has probably made a significant impact on the industry that people might not realize.

As cliché as it might be, I think I like their team the most. From what I’ve seen, they are a relatively small but exceptional group of individuals who have made faster progress than probably an entire division at a larger company. They have rolled out updates several times a week, started bugfixing any issues we found within minutes, and have a great attitude growing and improving.