Daniel First @DanielFirstAx
Founder @ Axion. AI, philosophy, society axionray.com New York, USA Joined June 2017-
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Axion Ray is proud to be named one of the top startups driving innovation in dual-use technology by the Silicon Valley Defense Group in their 2025 report, #NatSec100. https://www.natsec100. We're proud to be building technology for critical domains, like defense.
@BessemerVP new Vertical AI report this week, on AxionRay - “The meteoric rise of [Vertical AI] businesses…provide unprecedented value: AI facilitates work that was previously impossible to achieve. Axion Ray helps manufacturers by analyzing large volumes of product data.”
Proud to be featured in Bessemer's 2024 State of the Cloud "With early startup leaders such as...Axion...growing at impressive clips…we predict we will see at least five Vertical AI Centaurs ($100M+ ARR) emerge within the next two to three years."
Proud to be featured in Bessemer's 2024 State of the Cloud "With early startup leaders such as...Axion...growing at impressive clips…we predict we will see at least five Vertical AI Centaurs ($100M+ ARR) emerge within the next two to three years."
If you’re in NY, this is an amazing company to join — very strong growth and an obvious why now
If you’re in NY, this is an amazing company to join — very strong growth and an obvious why now
This week, I shared the @axion_ray mission of proactive intelligence at the @foundersysk meetup, where the New York engineering & AI startup community came together. It was a great opportunity to connect with entrepreneurial operators & engineering talent and discuss our vision…
On Tuesday, we proudly announced our Series A funding. This investment will fuel our mission to empower manufacturers worldwide to detect, investigate, and resolve emerging product issues. Read more about our mission in our recent blog by @DanielFirstAx axionray.com/introducing-ax…
I often say we like to back teams building important products. @axion_ray is a great example. Congrats to @DanielFirstAx & team, and welcome @BessemerVP techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/axi…
Axion Ray secures $17.5M in Series A funding, led by @BessemerVP & backed by @RTX_News. This funding will propel our mission to empower manufacturers with an AI observability command center, enabling them to detect and resolve quality issues axionray.com/fundraise-anno…
🎉Join us for our very first Founders You Should Know showcase in NY on March 27th, cohosted with @usv and @ShineCapitalNYC. Come meet some of the best founders in NY: - Mike Shebat from Traba (@mike_sheb, @Traba_Work) - Akshat Bubna from Modal (@AkshatBubna, @modal_labs) -…
A concept I can't stop thinking about: Shoshin. Shoshin is a Zen Buddhist idea that means "the beginner's mind." Here's how I think about it: (you may want to bookmark this for later) Over the course of your life to date, you have filled your mind with an endless array of…
even the forest fires decided it was time to leave sf and come to new york
Looking forward to being a part of this panel discussion at #FieldServicePalmSprings 2023 next week with @DanielFirstAx and @RebeccaTrachten of @axion_ray
We’re thrilled to announce our $7.5M seed round led by @amplovc and co-led by @InspiredCap . @Boeing , TVP, and others participated in the round. @TechCrunch 's @ron_miller connected with Founder & CEO @DanielFirstAx get the full story. Read more: techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/axi…
The countdown begins 10 days until #FieldServiceMedical 2023! Don’t miss @DanielFirstAx, Axion Ray's Founder & CEO, speak alongside Michael McCarthy from @baxter_intl. You’ll learn about proactive #AI and how to stay ahead of #quality issues.
Machine learning models with similar performance on the same task are called a Rashomon set. How do we deal with the fact that models in the Rashomon set might have different decision making mechanisms? Which one is the correct model? mlnar.com/rashomon-sets.…
Super stoked to see @fiddlerlabs data scientists partnering with Captum and @FacebookAI teams and taking the platform closer to the PyTorch community! #ExplainableAI #PyTorch #Captum
Super stoked to see @fiddlerlabs data scientists partnering with Captum and @FacebookAI teams and taking the platform closer to the PyTorch community! #ExplainableAI #PyTorch #Captum
Very excited to share our new paper "Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases"! We describe an approach to convert a deep model into an equivalent symbolic equation. Blog/code: astroautomata.com/paper/symbolic… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2006.11287 Thread👇 1/n
We’ve launched The Protocol Series, an exploration of how we have scaled our expertise to create an engine for collaboration, learning and continual improvement.
Our debiasing algorithm guarantees fairness.
Our debiasing algorithm guarantees fairness.

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