MAIHEM (YC W24)

MAIHEM (YC W24) creates AI agents that continuously test your LLM applications. It automates AI quality assurance, ensuring AI performance and safety from development all the way to deployment. LLMs, unlike traditional software that offers a handful of expected outcomes, are unpredictable and can produce thousands of unique responses, introducing numerous potential points of failure. MAIHEM enables companies to: • Simulate thousands of users to test LLM applications before they go live. • Evaluate LLM applications with custom performance and risk metrics. • Improve and fine-tune LLM applications with hyper-realistic simulated data. Max Ahrens, with his PhD in Natural Language Processing from Oxford University, and Eduardo Candela, who holds a PhD in AI Safety from Imperial College London and an MSc in AI from MIT, teamed up to launch MAIHEM. Together, they're on a mission to make AI reliable, safe, and perform better. They're transferring their proprietary research on AI safety for self-driving cars to LLM applications and are using their previous experience at McKinsey and Tesla to empower organizations innovating with AI. Congrats to the team on the launch!

Excited to co-host the next edition of the Trustworthy AI Futures Series (London chapter) together with Ashyana-Jasmine Kachra and Krittika D'Silva, PhD! This series brings together leading practitioners, researchers, developers, and policy experts in the space of AI safety and trustworthy AI. Join us for an informal yet insightful discussion as we delve into the implications of the recently enacted EU AI Act. This event aims to explore how this landmark legislation impacts various stakeholders, including researchers, AI model providers, and deployers, with a focus on understanding the broader existential and practical effects on AI development and deployment. Is regulation the right approach to address societal risks stemming from AI? Where does the EU AI Act miss its purpose? Where does it not go far enough? What alternatives to regulation exist? We are keeping the attendance list small to focus on facilitating meaningful and high-quality discussions. Chatham House rules apply. A few spots are still available. Please register here if you'd like to join us: https://lu.ma/p16ld7d9

🤖 Excited to speak with Iman Oubou and Steffen Braun from impactAI in their webinar on automatic quality and security testing for AI products. Learn more about this field and how we at MAIHEM (YC W24) are tackling these problems. 📅 This Wednesday, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST. ❗ Register here to attend: https://lnkd.in/eSEV3Gdv

🎙️ 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗔𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀, 𝗖𝗼-𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗛𝗘𝗠 📅 On July 31, we're hosting a live conversation with Max Ahrens, Co-Founder and CEO of MAIHEM (YC W24), a Y Combinator-backed developer of AI agents which can test the quality and safety of other AI products. 👨💻 Max holds a PhD and Postdoc in NLP from University of Oxford. He’s also held positions with the The Alan Turing Institute and the British Ministry of Defence. With Max we will discuss the specific methods of testing advanced AI systems to ensure they function as intended in diverse real-world scenarios. 🤖 We’ll get Max’s thoughts on recent breakthroughs in Automated Quality Assurance and what they realistically mean for enterprises. It's also a great opportunity to discuss the growing importance of “Red-Teaming AI Systems” (how the process works, what it improves), and the overall complexities of stress-testing advanced AI applications. 💻 Join us for an insightful webinar on testing advanced AI systems. Ensure your spot by subscribing now! Steffen Braun, Iman Oubou, KI group HQ, KI challengers, KI performance GmbH, KI professionals GmbH, Y Combinator, Moonfire, 2100 Ventures

AI represents a paradigm shift in enterprise software. As the traditional software development cycle breaks down with LLMs, companies are going to need entire new platforms to deploy AI safely into production. Why? AI and LLMs in particular represent a fundamental change on how software works. Traditional software is deterministic and rule-based, meaning a specific input will reliably produce the same output every time. However, AI, and AI Agents are non-deterministic, meaning they can produce different outputs even with small changes in input or configuration. Traditional software development cycles don't work with AI Agents. Everything from design, to development, quality assurance and maintenance needs to be re-built for this new TYPE of software. This is a massive challenge for SaaS companies that spent years building legacy automation, only to see their entire roadmap and product become obsolete with the introduction of LLMs. Millions in R&D investments are going to zero, creating a massive opportunity for leaner and faster startups building from scratch. There is no better example than traditional chatbots and AI Agents. The difference might be non-obvious today, and it seems that every chatbot company can quickly pivot to AI. This is bullshit. Here are my thoughts on why I believe businesses will need entire new platforms to deploy AI: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWqQFT4A #aiagents #ai #b2bsaas #chatbots #openai #b2bai MAIHEM (YC W24)

I'm excited to talk about AI at London Tech Week. Join me for a week of innovation, investment, and inspiration. With 90+ countries represented and a brand new venue at Olympia, this is where the tech ecosystem meets.💡 #AI #MeetatLondonTechWeek #LTW #LTW2024 Informa Tech

It's a great day to announce our most recent investment in MAIHEM (YC W24)! MAIHEM creates AI agents that continuously test AI products, such as conversational AI chat- and voice bots. They help companies improve and stress-test their AI products – automating quality assurance, red-teaming, and customer experience optimization. The PhD holding co-founders of MAIHEM, have combined their extensive expertise in AI and technology. Max, the CEO, holds a PhD and Postdoc in Natural Language Processing from the University of Oxford and has consulted for McKinsey on digitization strategies. Eduardo, the CTO, has a background as a Technical Program Manager at Tesla and a Data Scientist at the Bosch Center for AI, with a PhD in AI Safety for Autonomous Vehicles from Imperial College London. Thanks for bringing us along the for your journey! Max Ahrens Eduardo Candela #BackedBySingularityCapital #investment #portco #venturecapital #vc