@ape

Qloo - Founder

 New York, NY
tastedive.com/ape
Joined March 2011
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@jason
@JasonOct 6
Excited to invest $25,000 in the winner of the @Qloo hackathon on @devpost!
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Qloo
@QlooSep 30
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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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@QlooSep 17
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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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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Barça Vision selects @Qloo as official data provider to boost global growth through artificial intelligence fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news…

Barça Vision selects Qloo as official data provider to boost global growth through artificial...

The collaboration with Qloo will enable Barça Vision to deepen its understanding of fans and launch hyper-personalized digital initiatives to strengthen engagement with its global fanbase and unlock...

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Many thanks @Jason!! 🙏
@jason
@Jason10 Jul 2025
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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Alex Elias retweeted
@jason
@Jason10 Jul 2025
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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Alex Elias retweeted
@jason
@Jason10 Jul 2025
qloo-hackathon.devpost.com/

Qloo LLM Hackathon

Join Qloo’s first global hackathon, a month-long event inviting developers, builders, and creatives to explore what’s possible at the intersection of LLMs and Qloo’s API.

qloo-hackathon.devpost.com
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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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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@Qloo1 Jul 2025
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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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@Qloo30 Apr 2024
We're thrilled to share that Qloo was featured on Bloomberg TV's "The Close" this past Friday! Our CEO @ape's segment begins at 1:16:24. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Watch 'AI Craze' Powers Best Week in 2024 | Bloomberg Markets: The Close 04/26/2024 - Bloomberg

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Annex Wealth’s Brian...

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Alex Elias (@ape), CEO & Founder of @Qloo, joined us on the SourceForge Podcast to discuss AI and how AI can be used to predict and decode consumer taste. Qloo is a taste AI company that offers a unique and privacy-centric solution for understanding consumer taste across various industries, and discusses the evolution of Qloo and the AI industry.
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Qloo raises $25M to predict your favorite movies, TV shows and more tcrn.ch/3wm9YEW
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Fascinating episode with @ape of @Qloo Their "Cultural AI" gives a *clue* to what consumers want Developers integrate Qloo's prediction engine with a single line of code answering questions like "What movies do people who wear Supreme in Paris like?" full chat w/ @jason 👇

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Absolute relentless legend. Thankful to have crossed paths. 🙏 nytimes.com/2021/12/09/arts/…

Barry Harris, Pianist and Devoted Scholar of Bebop, Dies at 91 (Published 2021)

For decades, he performed, taught and toured with unflagging devotion. He also helped to lay the foundation for the widespread academic study of jazz.

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Quarantine culture report: Louis Armstrong is trending. Billie Eilish is not f-st.co/qpQhrUS
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Alex Elias retweeted
TasteDive
@tastedive19 Mar 2020
Many thanks for sharing @Jason, and so glad to have you on TasteDive we’re huge fans over here!!!
@jason
@Jason19 Mar 2020
some of my favorite podcasts tastedive.com/jason/my-favor… [ still building out ]
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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@Qloo12 Mar 2019
#Qloo is proud to announce our @SXSW Hackathon with @UMG! Participants will compete to make the best use of our cross-domain API. Winners will receive a cash prize and one year of enterprise access to Qloo! #SXSW #UMG prnewswire.com/news-releases…

Qloo, the Leading AI Platform for Culture and Taste, to Participate in Universal Music Group...

/PRNewswire/ -- Qloo, the leading artificial intelligence platform for culture and taste, is joining Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading...

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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@Qloo14 Feb 2019
“TasteDive does for millions of individuals what Qloo has been doing for brands for years – using AI to make better decisions about culture and taste.” Alex Elias @ape via @anthonyha of @TechCrunch #TasteDive #Qloo techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/ql…

Qloo acquires cultural recommendation service TasteDive | TechCrunch

Qloo announced this morning that it has acquired TasteDive. The two companies sound pretty similar — according to the announcement, Qloo is "the leading

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Alex Elias retweeted
Qloo
@Qloo22 Jun 2018
Op-Ed from @Qloo ‘s very own @ape on the power of Cultural AI for powering nuanced inferences while fundamentally respecting people’s privacy. Via @IBDinvestors investors.com/politics/comme…

AI And Blockchain Can Get Rid Of Marketing's 'Creep Factor'

Consumers don't like it when brands stalk them and pinpoint who they are. Eventually, blockchain will give consumers full sovereignty over their data.

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