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Vise's two co-founders, both 23, launch 'hard reset' -- still with $78 million and a six-year runway -- to no-'hallucination' AI business model where RIAs can opt out of artificial intelligence

The two co-founders in New York City spawned magical thinking about AI, but hard experience means they are the clear-eyed ones now, they say

Author Oisin Breen May 23, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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Runik Mehrotra (left) and Samir Vasavada: We've spent a ton of time with these things … [to] verify they don't hallucinate, telling you things that are completely wrong.
Brooke Southall and Keith Girard contributed to the editing of this article.


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