Munjal Shah, co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, discusses the company's focus on building a safe large language model for healthcare. He emphasizes a clinician-driven approach to safety, involving extensive testing by medical professionals, and introduces the Polaris architecture, which uses redundant supervisor models to override the primary model and prevent unsafe outputs. Munjal also touches on "empathy inference," explaining how Hippocratic AI designs its models to be empathetic by giving them infinite time, focus, and continuity in conversations. He shares advice for entrepreneurs, highlighting the importance of pursuing big ideas and choosing investors who support a safety-first approach, aligning with the company's core values.
