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Haize Labs
Haize Labs is a New York-based AI safety and reliability startup that automates the red-teaming, stress-testing, and evaluation of large language models. Founded in 2024 by a trio of Harvard-trained researchers, the company builds algorithms that hunt for the inputs that make AI models misbehave - jailbreaks, failure modes, and edge cases - so they can be fixed before real users find them. Its 'haizing suite' and multi-turn attack engine Cascade are used by frontier model labs including OpenAI and Anthropic, alongside enterprises like Deloitte and MongoDB.
Max Spero
Max Spero is the cofounder and CEO of Pangram Labs, a New York based startup building the most accurate AI-text detector on the market. A Stanford-trained machine learning engineer who worked at Google, Two Sigma, Yelp, and the self-driving company Nuro, Spero co-founded Pangram in 2023 with college dormmate Bradley Emi to draw a clean line between human and machine writing. His obsession is the false positive rate: he refused to ship at one wrong call in a hundred and pushed his team to one in ten thousand. Pangram now powers AI verification for journalism platforms, schools, and trust and safety teams, and raised about $4M in seed funding in 2025.