The Czech startup Filuta AI has a drive. It was co-founded by Filip Dvořák, who lived in the US for years, worked for Google and Microsoft, among others, has several doctoral degrees, and is now working on his project focused on artificial intelligence. He is developing his composite AI platform to help find and solve problems of all kinds in companies. Imagine the enormous amount of data that flows daily through a company – from IT to internal processes to cybersecurity. This is where Filuta AI comes in with its solution to detect any error in the system and find its optimal solution and setup.
Filuta AI boasts strategic partnerships with major institutions in the US and EU, with 13 confirmed investments and more in the pipeline. They have won the aiplan4eu challenge in Horizon, are incubated in the CzechInvest Agency’s Technology Incubation Program, and have received support from the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. And that is just the beginning.
We sat down with co-founder Filip and asked him how it all started, why he came back to Czechia, or what they are working on in the Technology Incubation Program.
1) Filip, can you tell us what exactly Filuta AI does and how it uses AI?
Filuta is building a platform to develop and maintain the lifecycle of operationalized composite AI. Composite here means that we are composing together a wide range of different types of AI models, such as symbolic, planning, scheduling, language, and predictive models. Operationalization means that the composition of models is wrapped by an executive layer that executes the decisions based on the composition directly in the external world.
2) You have secured several investments, with more on the horizon. Where are investments helping you most?
The Investments help us to increase our internal R&D capacity, which now stands at over 30 people, 125 years of experience in AI research, 119 years in software development, and 11 PhDs in AI and mathematics. Globally, the race is on to dominate the composite AI platform, and Filuta is one of the early movers.
3) In addition to the investments mentioned, you are also incubating in the Technology Incubation Program, which is funded by public money. How do you see the government’s support for startups? Why did you go for it?
We would like to see more government support for AI in academia and startups. Artificial Intelligence is likely to be the largest contributor of value to society over the next two decades and has been at the forefront of strategic technologies for over a decade, supporting which should be a key responsibility of government to maintain long-term competitiveness in a global context.
4) You are doing well. You have the investment, the experts, the pull. What are you going to achieve?
Filuta’s business is growing in both the European and US markets. We plan to triple our development capacity in Czechia next year, increase scale sales in the US market, expand our patent portfolio, and partner with global consulting firms.
5) And why did you move to Czechia and not stay in the USA, professionally and personally? What attracted you to come back here?
I was born and raised in Czech culture. In terms of compatibility in a relationship, having the same cultural background as a partner means much less friction, and the quality of life itself can be set to a level comparable to the Western world in Czechia. In terms of work, we now live in an era of technological dominance, where even from Czechia, a product of global impact can be developed, and Czechia has always been full of technically gifted creative people.
6) There is a lot of fear right now, both among people and in the media, about the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Do you ever encounter prejudice?
Fear of AI tends to be, at its core, a fear of the unknown, which is humanly natural but fortunately solvable through increased education about AI technologies, such as other imaginary bogeymen of our time like genetic engineering or microbiology.
Thank you so much!
Source: Filuta AI
