Max Ahrens
CEO & Co-Founder
MAIHEM
London, United Kingdom
Startup/Scaleup representative (MATCH.POINT)
Max is the cofounder & CEO of MAIHEM (Y Combinator W24). He did his PhD in AI at Oxford and previously worked at McKinsey.
My organisation
At MAIHEM, we create AI agents that continuously test AI products, such as conversational AI chat- and voicebots. We help companies improve and stress-test their AI products –automating quality assurance, red-teaming, and customer experience optimization. We are leveraging our PhDs (Oxford + Imperial College London) in LLMs and AI safety simulations for self-driving cars to develop our proprietary technology. We were part of the Y Combinator W24 batch and have started to partner with innovation leaders who are building products with conversational AI in customer support, sales, EdTech, and HealthTech.
About me
Max is the cofounder & CEO of MAIHEM (YC W24). MAIHEM creates AI agents that stress-test companies' AI products. Before founding MAIHEM, Max did his PhD and Postdoc in Natural Language Processing at the University of Oxford and worked as a research project leader with the Alan Turing Institute. Prior, Max worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Skills
- AI
- LLMs
- Natural language processing
- Machine Learning
- chatbots
- voicebots
- Conversational AI
- AI safety
- quality assurance
- red-teaming
- AI regulation compliance
Interests
- AI safety
- AI robustness
- enterprise AI solutions
- AGI
- Running
- tennis