Richard Socher
Founder of AIX Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2020 - Current
We are building a productivity engine based on up-to-date web data, the most accurate citations, the latest LLMs, your own files and custom agents doing your searches and knowledge work for you. Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/youdotcom
You.com is an AI chatbot and search engine that uses LLM to deliver personalized responses to queries with human-like replies.
Raised $95,000,000.00 from Georgian, SBVA, Day One Ventures, Alumni Ventures, DuckDuckGo, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures.
Founder
2021
https://www.aixventures.com/
Chief Scientist, EVP
2016 - 2020
I lead teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, CRM search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. Small subset of products: chat bots/case classification for improved customer service, intelligent search for CRM, voice technology platform, sales opportunity scoring, prediction builder, and many others.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Adjunct Professor
2017 - 2017
Taught http://cs224n.stanford.edu the fall quarter of 2017
Visiting Lecturer
2015 - 2017
Winter quarters of 2015 and 2016: Teaching CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: http://cs224d.stanford.edu/ Winter quarter of 2017: Co-teaching CS224n, http://cs224n.stanford.edu
Founder and CEO
2014 - 2016
Breakthrough Artificial Intelligence for Everyone See www.metamind.io
PhD Student
2009 - 2014
Advisors: Chris Manning and Andrew Ng I enjoy research in deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. I was supported by the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship from 2012-2014.
Intern
2012 - 2012
Research Assistant
2007 - 2007
Education
PhD
2009 - 2014