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Alex Wang Is Taking AI Out of the Demo and Into the Lab
After two decades helping enterprise technologies find their market, NobleAI's CEO is betting that scientific AI wins only when chemists and engineers can understand it, check it and use it in the flow of real work.
Articul8 AI
Articul8 AI is a Santa Clara-based enterprise generative AI company, spun out of Intel in January 2024, that builds domain-specific GenAI systems for regulated and mission-critical industries such as energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, aerospace, and financial services. Its flagship ModelMesh platform acts as an autonomous 'agent of agents' that orchestrates specialized models on a customer's own data with full auditability and security. The company reached a valuation above $500 million within two years of launch and serves customers including Hitachi Energy, Franklin Templeton, AWS, and Intel.
Brain Co.
Brain Co. is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that deploys production-ready AI applications for the world's most complex, regulated industries - from government and healthcare to hospitality, energy, and supply chain. Founded by a constellation of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Elad Gil and Dan Ashton, and backed by an elite roster of investors including Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy, Brain Co. raised a $30M Series A in September 2025. Its core technology converts dense regulatory documents into executable rules engines that make AI decisions auditable and compliant - so that governments can permit faster, hospitals can care better, and supply chains can run leaner.
Dan Ashton
Dan Ashton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brain Co., a San Francisco-based AI company that builds applied intelligence platforms for the world's most complex institutions - from government permit offices to hospital systems. He brought his AI startup Serene AI into Brain Co.'s orbit and now leads a company backed by $30M in Series A funding from Elad Gil, Affinity Partners, Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy. Before Brain Co., he was an early operator at three unicorns - Opendoor, Faire, and Clubhouse - and a McKinsey consultant before that. Brain Co. has already deployed AI that unlocks $375M annually in permitting value and mitigated $100M+ in supply chain losses.