We were inspired by the success of GitHub Copilot, which demonstrated that useful AI products could be created, motivating us to pursue our own ambitious ideas in AI.

We brought in customers early to test our product, which helped change the minds of skeptical team members when they saw real-time reactions from users.

I started this project because I wanted a test bed to experiment with AI agents, as I noticed that agents were the most important aspect for our customers at Anthropic.

Instead of managing creatives directly, I decided to develop an AI-powered product to empower creators and automate content creation, alleviating their pain points.

We realized that the existing AI models were not sufficient for our needs, prompting us to develop our own models to enhance product quality.

I initially aimed to start a robotics company, believing it would be the first successful business built on deep learning, but I ended up at OpenAI to learn from smart people and gain expertise in deep learning.

I'm super excited about AI; that's the reason why I started developing software.

We created AI Foundry to help people build their own AIs, providing the necessary tooling and expertise to turn their ideas into AI services.

Convincing employees to embrace the shift towards AI was challenging, especially when the company was already performing well with a 70-80% growth rate and $15-$20 million in ARR.