Trustwise, an enabler of generative AI application performance and risk management, announced its official launch, the release of its Optimize:ai product, and $4 million in seed financing.
Led by Hitachi Ventures with participation from Firestreak Ventures and Grit Ventures, this investment round will “enable the company to speed up the development of cost and risk optimized generative AI prototypes for various industries, accelerate its go-to-market and partnership strategy, and further its research initiatives.”
Trustwise Optimize:ai is a generative AI application performance and risk management solution that provides developers “with an API to eliminate risks and reduce the growing costs associated with deploying large language models (LLMs) in high-stakes enterprise environments.”
By rigorously red teaming and optimizing generative AI workloads using its advanced APIs, datasets, and AI safety and alignment controls, Trustwise safeguards enterprises “from potential AI failures and excessive costs.”
Optimize:ai aligns with major AI standards and regulations, “including the European Union AI Act, NIST AI RMF 1.0, Responsible AI Institute RAISE Safety and Alignment Benchmarks, and SCI ISO software carbon intensity standard.”
Gayathri Radhakrishnan, partner at Hitachi Ventures said:
“Enterprise leaders face a double-edged sword in AI strategy: while promising next-level innovation and productivity gains, LLMs also bring significant safety risks, cost burdens, and environmental impacts. Trustwise’s experienced and world-class team is set to provide the much-needed generative AI optimization capabilities that will enable developers to create safe, efficient, and high-performing AI systems.”
Generative AI systems too often produce inaccurate results, “do not adhere to internal and external policies and regulations, and are costly and energy inefficient, with many instances of companies facing legal repercussions.”
Hallucinations and sensitive data leakage significantly “erode user trust in AI systems, which is crucial for widespread adoption. According to GitHub’s Hallucinations Leaderboard, popular LLMs like GPT-4, Llama, Gemini, and Claude hallucinate between 3% and 8.5% of the time when summarizing text.”
Businesses are recognizing the potential of this technology, but they’re also “cautious about the costs. AI cost worries have surged 14x in the past year according to a study by Lucidworks.”
A University of Massachusetts Amherst study found “that training a common large AI model can emit more than 626,000 pounds (284 metric tons) of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car, including its manufacturing.”
Manoj Saxena, CEO and founder of Trustwise said:
“At Trustwise, we understand the challenges enterprises face with generative AI, including safety risks, high costs, and environmental impacts. For example, compared to a traditional Google search, a ChatGPT query costs around 36 times more, uses 1000 times more energy, and has safety issues like hallucinations and data leakage. After nearly two years of co-development with clients in highly regulated industries, the launch of Optimize:ai makes AI safe, compliant, and economically and environmentally viable.”
Trustwise Optimize:ai cuts AI costs and risks by up to 15x. In current customer deployments, it achieved 80% reduction in LLM and compute costs, a 64% decrease in carbon footprint, and detected 40% more AI safety and alignment issues than other vendors on the market.
Matthew Barker, head of AI research and development at Trustwise said:
“With Optimize:ai, we’ve developed a cutting-edge optimization solution that not only significantly reduces operational costs and carbon emissions but also enhances the safety and alignment of AI systems. Our team is dedicated to continuously applying state-of-the-art AI technologies to ensure they are safe, economically and environmentally sustainable, setting new industry standards in the process.”