🦄 Unicorner Startup of the Week:

Prompt AI

✍️ Notes from the Editors

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Even though it might sound foreign to you, computer vision is more involved in your life than you’d think.

A lot of apps you use daily employ some basic level of computer vision. The photo library on iOS can identify people, plants, pets, and landmarks. Some maps can use a video of your surroundings to identify where you are. The list goes on.

But Prompt AI is taking it to another level. Its team of Berkeley PhDs is building the next generation of AI-powered image search and categorization of your photos, all while prioritizing privacy.

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Bringing LLMs to your personal media

Prompt AI is a company focused on building solutions that bring large language models (LLMs) to everyday people. Its debut product, Prompt Photos, is an AI app enabling users to get more from their photos, with features such as AI-generated albums and searching capabilities that the team claims is much faster and more efficient than existing AI models.

🔗 Check it out: promptai.co

💰 Business Model

Prompt AI is currently focused on expanding the features of Prompt Photos, with the goal of implementing a freemium pricing structure. The company can also introduce enterprise solutions and new products in the future.

📈 Traction and Fundraising

• Raised $5 million seed round from investors including AIX Ventures and Abstract Ventures

• Has achieved notable adoption of and garnered 5-star reviews for Prompt Photos with minimal marketing efforts since its beta release three weeks ago

👫 Founders

• Tete Xiao, CEO: Previously Visiting Researcher @ Facebook, Artificial Intelligence PhD @ Berkeley

• Trevor Darrell, President: Currently Professor @ Berkeley EECS, Founding Co-Director @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research; Previously Professor @ MIT CS

• Seth Park, CTO: Previously Research @ Microsoft, Computer Science PhD @ Berkeley

• Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte, COO: Currently Computer Science and Applied Math, Applied Science and Tech PhD @ Berkeley

📖 Founder Story

Talk about a stacked founding team.

Long before AI was booming, Prompt AI’s founding team was pushing the boundaries of AI in Prof. Trevor Darrell’s lab at UC Berkeley. This is where the team met while working on their respective research projects. CEO Tete Xiao worked with Segment Anything at Meta and humanoid robotics, CTO Seth Park’s work encompasses generative models, and COO Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte works with 3D geometry and 3D vision.

In a sea of AI founders, we can’t think of a team that better demonstrates founder-market fit.

💼 Opportunities

• iOS Developer

🔮 Our Analysis

Despite there being a ton of image and language data everywhere in our lives, we have still yet to see language and vision come together in a meaningful way. Prompt AI’s impressive team has a vision (pun completely intended) to change that by bringing AI vision solutions to the masses. In theory, the team can actualize this mission, given its significant experience with combining vision and language in the lab. In practice, the team has demonstrated an ability to do this with Prompt Photos, its debut product that sees it bringing AI to personal photos. This feat is also an impressive accomplishment for the company because it has accomplished lightning-fast searches through existing photos in an efficient way—it’s solving a core challenge that will have to be overcome to enable real-time vision use cases. With continued development and growth, Prompt AI has the potential to become a leader in AI.

📚 Further Reading

• ChatGPT Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life [Wired]

• Prompt Photos [iOS App Store]

Written by the editors

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