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Kleiner Partner Explains Bets on AI for Lawyers and Doctors
One venture capitalist is playing the AI game by investing in tools for top jobs.
In an episode of the “Uncapped” podcast published on Wednesday, a Kleiner Perkins partner, Mamoon Hamid, said the firm is investing in startups that make digital assistants for America’s highest-paying jobs.
“If you’d look at a chart of the top 20 jobs in the US by pay, those are doctors, lawyers, and engineers,” Hamid said. “So we thought, OK, so how do we invest in copilots for these job types?”
The VC added that: “There are parts of these jobs that are very nuanced and the human brain needs to process those parts of the job, but there’s parts that AI is scribing or taking notes.”
Hamid said that the company had invested in Ambience, a startup for doctors, Harvey, a legal-tech platform for lawyers, and Windsurf, a coding assistance platform for engineers.
He said that physical labor, which is often among the lowest-paying jobs, is harder to tackle with AI.
“It’s like back-breaking work that people do and still do it, and that’s probably the hardest place to attack today,” he said. “We’re thinking sort of much further out, which is like robots, it’s like humanoids.”
The Menlo Park-based firm specializes in investing inearly-stage tech and life science startups. Founded in 1972, it has backed over 900 companies, including Amazon, Google, and Twitter.
As AI improves, companies outside the tech industry are promoting or even mandating its use for their employees. That’s leading to a rush of contracts for big companies, like OpenAI, and startups alike.
In May, the CEO of Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund said that using AI is not “voluntary” for his employees.
“If you don’t use it, you will never be promoted. You won’t get a job,” Nicolai Tangen said.
In a viral memo in April, Shopify’s Tobias Lütke told employees that AI use is “now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify” and “teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more head count.
In the same month, Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, said not enough of his employees know how to use AI and that Uber is implementing training programs to change that. He added that learning to use AI agents to code is “going to be an absolute necessity at Uber within a year.”
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AI/R Company Launches AI-Powered Platform to Streamline Corporate Hiring Processes
With AI/Quick-Match, the AI agent Llia cuts hiring costs by up to 80% and reduces time-to-hire by up to threefold
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI Revolution Company (AI/R), a global leader in AI-driven business transformation, has announced the launch of Llia, its next-generation AI agent. Through its flagship product AI/Quick-Match, Llia delivers data-driven hiring decisions, helping companies make smarter, faster, and more cost-effective recruitment choices.
Designed as a “plug-and-play” solution, AI/Quick-Match seamlessly integrates with existing recruitment tools to accelerate hiring, reduce expenses, and ensure better candidate matches. The platform enhances HR teams by aligning talent profiles with organizational needs, automating candidate screening, conducting technical and behavioral interviews, and providing in-depth analytics-transforming the recruitment process from end to end.
“Automating interviews saves recruiters valuable time and delivers more accurate evaluations. With AI-driven insights and data-backed feedback, companies can make more confident hiring decisions. In fact, AI/Quick-Match has been shown to reduce recruitment costs by up to 80% and accelerate the hiring process by up to three times,” explains Maycon Zamunaro, CTO of Invillia, the AI/R company behind the platform. In just one month since its launch, the tool has powered over 1,000 interviews and led to approximately 100 successful hires.
Llia was created to be a natural extension of human teams-an AI agent that connects data, intelligence, and knowledge to support better decision-making and empower organizations.
Soon, three more products will be added to the Llia suite: AI/Team-Management, AI/Onboarding&Training, and AI/Performance-Review, enabling the platform to support every stage of the organizational lifecycle.
According to Alexis Rockenbach, Global CEO of AI/R Company, Llia is redefining how companies approach recruitment and talent management. “Its integrated and highly customizable products allow it to operate across all phases of the employee journey: attraction, retention, management, and development. Llia isn’t just an assistant-it’s a strategic pillar for scaling people and teams,” he states.
About AI/R
AI/R, headquartered in California, is an Agentic AI Software Engineering company that leverages its powerful ecosystem of proprietary AI platforms and hyper-specialized tech brands to drive the global enterprise revolution. Through its proprietary AI platforms and strategic partner platforms, AI/R is reshaping industries and setting new standards for business innovation and productivity. By embedding AI into every aspect of its operations, AI/R’s mission is to make the AI revolution a revolution for everyone, empowering human talent and raising the bar for digital transformation. Let’s breathe in the future.
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How the company is responding
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is in the process of removing “inappropriate” posts by Grok on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, after users pointed out that the chatbot repeated an antisemitic meme and made positive references to Hitler.
“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” the company said in a statement. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.”
Grok was developed and touted by Musk as an anti-woke alternative to rival chatbots, including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But its posts this week appeared to cross a line even for Musk.
“Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially,” he wrote on X. “That is being addressed.”
What happened?
The Grok X account displayed on a phone screen. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
On Tuesday, X users shared screenshots of Grok’s response to questions about posts regarding the Texas floods, which appeared to celebrate the deaths of children.
After one user asked which 20th century historical figure would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok replied: “To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question.”
“If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache,” Grok said. “Truth hurts more than floods.”
Other users shared posts Tuesday of Grok using and answering questions about the phrase “every damn time” in replies to Jewish surnames, which has been seen as an antisemitic meme.
In one reply, Grok wrote, “It’s code for noticing Jewish surnames overrepresented in radical left activism spewing anti-white hate. Not inherently antisemitic, just an observation backed by historical data on Jewish involvement in leftist movements. Truth stings.”
In a statement, the Anti-Defamation League said the posts generated by Grok were “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic, plain and simple” and warned the “supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms.”
How did the company respond?
Elon Musk at a press conference marking his departure from the Trump administration, May 30. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)
In addition to “actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” the company said it has already updated its AI training model for the Grok chatbot.
“xAI is training only truth-seeking,” the company said. “And thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.”
Last month, Musk announced that Grok would undergo unspecified changes, and put out a call for users to suggest “divisive facts” for the chatbot’s re-training.
On July 4, Musk wrote, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
Late Wednesday night, Musk unveiled the latest iteration of chatbot, Grok 4, which he claimed is “smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously.”
Musk said that the updated bot is so smart, he expects it will “discover new technology” and perhaps “new physics” within the next two years.
“It’s frankly, I don’t know, in some ways a little terrifying,” he said.
What else happened with Grok and X this week?
X CEO Linda Yaccarino testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31, 2024. (Susan Walsh/AP)
A Turkish court blocked access to Grok on Wednesday after it generated responses that authorities there said included insults to President Tayyip Erdogan.
Separately, Polish officials reported xAI to the European Commission after alleging Grok made offensive comments about Polish politicians, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
“Freedom of speech belongs to humans, not to artificial intelligence,” Krzysztof Gawkowski, Poland’s minister of digital affairs, said in a radio interview.
And Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive, announced on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining Musk’s social media platform.
“When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company,” Yaccarino said in a post on X, without giving a reason for her departure. “I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X.”
“Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xAI,” she added. “I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world.”
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