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Build an agent with taste. Give @Jason a reason to write a check. 💰
Excited to invest $25,000 in the winner of the @Qloo hackathon on @devpost!
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Excited to invest $25,000 in the winner of the @Qloo hackathon on @devpost!
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AI agents can reason, plan & execute. The next frontier is judgment: what to choose, and why. Join the Qloo Agentic Hackathon. Ground your agent in Qloo’s knowledge graph, taste models and cultural inference - and build something that makes genuinely useful, personalized decisions about the world. 🤖 💰 $25K in cash prizes (more to come!) 📅 Deadline: Oct 30 🌍 Online + open worldwide qloo.devpost.com We can't wait to see what you all come up with!!
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Gartner® has recognized Qloo in the top tier of its AI Vendor Race research. Of 33 companies profiled, Qloo is one of just two positioned in the upper-right segment of the Set Diamonds category. As AI moves from answering questions to taking action, grounding matters more than ever.
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What if AI could know what you like without needing to know who you are? Qloo CEO & Founder Alex Elias discusses Privacy First AI, on-device personalization, and the future of recommendations on a recent episode of This Week in AI, hosted by @Jason.
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This mimics the popular "How it works" style on X. What does it mean to truly understand a location? Most data stops at the city level. Qloo goes deeper. We’re talking Level 7 geohash precision—down to the specific street corner. 📍 Here’s how we’re mapping global culture: 1/ The Macro View: Zoom out to see cultural affinities across entire continents. 🌍 2/ The Hyper-Local: Zoom in to see what music, brands, and movies resonate with people on a single block in Manhattan. 3/ The "So What?": Brands can now match their billboards to the exact taste of the people walking past them. All in milliseconds. All with zero PII. The future of geospatial intelligence is here.
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Check out our CEO's participation This Week in AI
The era of the Copilot is over. OpenClaw is here. But what are its limitations? @Jason sat down with three AI CEO's: @Mitesh711 (Positron AI), @ape (Qloo), and @ChKashifAli (TaxGPT) to discuss: 00:00 Welcome to This Week in AI! 03:17 How are CEO’s using OpenClaw? 19:09 Automating the "Great Hiring Hiatus” 27:11 Saving Independent Film with AI Extras 33:04 Solving the Global Accounting Crisis 36:04 The $1 Million One-Person Tax Advisory 43:05 Demo: The Autonomous Content Clipper 1:10:23 Micro-Agents vs. "Ultron” We are currently at AO21 or 21 days after we first used OpenClaw
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Qloo is an AI-powered cultural intelligence platform that decodes and predicts human preferences across music, fashion, food, travel, and more—helping brands personalize experiences without compromising privacy. By leveraging its massive Taste AI™ database of over 3.7 billion lifestyle entities and 10 trillion anonymized data points, Qloo enables companies to understand and anticipate consumer tastes with precision and compliance. In this episode, we speak with Ian Cook, the Senior Vice President of AI at @Qloo. Qloo is a company that uses AI to map cultural interests and consumer tastes, creating a “vibe map” that helps businesses understand and predict consumer behavior. The discussion covers how AI has transformed cultural understanding, Qloo’s unique approach to personalization, and the surprising insights their AI has uncovered. We also explore the future of AI, its impact on various industries, and the qualities needed for modern leadership in tech. The conversation highlights the importance of trust, collaboration, and inquisitiveness in building successful teams.
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We’re excited to announce the winners of the Qloo LLM Hackathon! From 2,893 global participants, four projects stood out: • 1st Place: GeoTaste – $10,000 • Honorable Mentions: Alloy, Resonance AI, Zesty – $5,000 each See all projects: qloo-hackathon.devpost.com/p… #Hackathon #CulturalIntelligence #AIInnovation #LLM #Qloo
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Big news: Qloo is now the official data provider for Barça Vision. @FCBarcelona is using our Taste AI™ to tap into real cultural preferences—music, food, film, fashion—to better understand fans worldwide and personalize their experience. More here: prnewswire.com/news-releases… #BarçaVision #AI #CulturalIntelligence #FanEngagement #Qloo
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My portfolio company @Qloo is hosting a sick global hackathon on @devpost's community of developers (I'm an investor in Devpost too!!!) They're offering a $25,000 prize to the winner... and I'm going to invest $25,000 into my favorite startup there as a sweetener! [ see link below ]
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Barça Vision se alía con Qloo como proveedor oficial de datos para impulsar el crecimiento global con inteligencia artificial 🔗 Los detalles: barca.link/kwlv50WkpVi
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The Qloo LLM Hackathon is live! Build with your preferred LLM & Qloo’s API — the world’s richest cultural interest graph $10K – Grand Prize (1) $5K – Runner-Ups (3) Judges: Jason Calacanis, Nicole Seligman, Todd Boehly & more Join now → qloo-hackathon.devpost.com/
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Exciting to see our CTO, Michael Diolosa, featured in Tech Brew, sharing his thoughts on the evolving landscape of AI regulation. At Qloo, we’ve always been committed to AI that enhances the human experience—purpose-built and designed with people in mind. With California’s new AI regulation on the horizon, we believe in logical, sensible approaches that prioritize safety while enabling innovation. Check out the full article for more on this important conversation: emergingtechbrew.com/stories…
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