Inventing the Future of AI Applications: Applied Research in Machine Learning at AXL

AXL Labs is the technical arm of AXL, a Toronto-based venture studio that creates and launches companies focused on human-centric artificial intelligence (AI). Their main goal is to leverage human-computer interaction (HCI) and AI in designing and deploying end-to-end solutions for industry and academic applications. Organizations that partner with AXL typically have business problems where they don’t fully understand the breadth of the opportunity that a solution could provide. AXL conducts an opportunity analysis to determine high-impact business areas to develop a full-fledged solution that may alleviate these business problems. As the rapid development of AI technologies continues, organizations must determine how to best leverage and benefit from these models.
The internship is designed to tackle this challenge by building novel interactive systems that utilize advanced machine learning techniques and large language models (LLMs). This problem is particularly relevant to AXL as we aim to innovate in the AI sector, creating cutting-edge AI systems and building new spin-out companies that address market needs. In particular, the proposed project, designing a human-in-the-loop AI ingester for intaking startup ideas, such as pitch decks, founder interviews, and application forms, will aim to reduce the time taken for venture capital and investors to evaluate potential startup ideas, pair founders with potential products, and result in an accelerated feedback loop that can shorten the time it takes for a startup company to reach the broader market. We believe it is possible to create a modular prototype that can ingests the types of unstructured and semi-structured data, as described above, in a multi-modal system within the time proposed.

Faculty Supervisor:

Shurui Zhou

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Partner:

AXL

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

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