Leiden Resident Douwe Kiela Builds Successful AI Company in the US: 'Microsoft Is the Competitor, but Our Technology Is Better'

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Artificial intelligence (AI) was still unknown to many when Douwe Kiela dove into it with full conviction. At Facebook AI Research, he worked on a technique that makes AI bots smarter and more reliable and that now forms the basis for his one-and-a-half-year-old company Contextual AI. And the company has paid off for him so far: Kiela is the highest new entrant in the top 100 of young, self-made millionaires of business magazine Quote.