Salt AI

Founded in 2023 by MySpace veterans Aber Whitcomb and Jim Benedetto, Salt AI is a Los Angeles-based company that has developed an AI workflow orchestration platform. Whitcomb, now CEO, and Benedetto, CTO, bring extensive experience from scaling technologies at MySpace and Jam City, applying a similar scalability mindset to the artificial intelligence sector. The company secured $3 million in a seed funding round led by Morpheus Ventures, with participation from Struck Capital and Irregular Expressions, to accelerate the development of its platform and expand its market presence.

Salt AI provides a unified, cloud-based environment designed to make AI development accessible to both technical and non-technical users. Its platform features a visual, drag-and-drop interface for creating complex AI workflows, complemented by full-code capabilities for developers. This approach fosters real-time collaboration among diverse teams, including engineers, scientists, and executives. The core of the business is to bridge the gap between AI experimentation and practical, scalable deployment, allowing users to move from concept to production quickly. The business model appears to be a monthly software license offering, with contract structures that vary based on the number and complexity of workflows a customer requires.

The platform serves various industries but has a pronounced focus on the life sciences sector. It enables organizations in this field to accelerate drug discovery, clinical trial analysis, and manufacturing by providing access to optimized, best-of-breed AI models. For instance, Salt AI has demonstrated the ability to run the AlphaFold2 protein folding model at 22 times the speed of commercially available versions. Beyond life sciences, the platform supports use cases in e-commerce and gaming and offers tools for content generation, data processing, and creating AI-powered agents and workflows. It integrates with major large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI and Gemini, diffusion models for image generation, and over 30 enterprise data sources. The infrastructure is built for scale, featuring dynamic GPU autoscaling to manage computational resources and costs efficiently.

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