Preamble, Inc., a technology start-up company pioneering a SaaS-based product introducing safety and ethical values for all AI platforms, has established its headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. Current investors in Preamble include Trousdale Ventures and MetaPlanet.
Founded in 2020, Preamble originated as a virtual company during the COVID pandemic and currently has a staff of 12. It is seeking to hire additional engineers in Pittsburgh and chose the city for its access to tech talent and continued growth of AI-focused operations located in the region. The team includes global technology experts who bring security technology and AI experience from major technology companies and leading academic institutions.
“ChatGPT has exploded into mainstream usage so quickly that developers and users alike are behind in deploying the technology with the proper safety, security, and ethics controls. We are bringing our safety products to the market at the right time, and to our knowledge, we are still the only company offering AI safety as a service. The overwhelming participation in Pause Giant AI Experiments highlights the crucial and timely need for independent safety controls for AI systems,” said Jeremy McHugh, CEO and co-founder of Preamble. McHugh is a Pittsburgh native, Air Force veteran, doctoral candidate, and Penn State graduate.
Additional Preamble co-founders are Jonathan Cefalu, Chief Product Officer, a Forbes “30 Under 30” inventor of Snapchat Spectacles (sold to Snapchat), and Stanford University graduate; Dr. Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Chief Research Officer, Assistant Professor in AI at MIT, Founding member of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at Berkeley; Leyla Hujer, Chief Technology Officer, formerly a tech lead at Facebook and part of the core team who developed a mobile speech translation company (sold to Facebook).
Preamble recently filed for its second and third patents related to prompt injection mitigations and generative AI brand safety controls. It is raising capital to get its products to market to protect a wide range of current and emerging risks of generative AI across enterprises.
Preamble is poised to tackle critical problems in AI safety that will be essential for the mainstream adoption of advanced AI. Given the void in commercialized safety measures for AI, its first major partners will be able to shape the industry standard.
“As we close our next fundraising round in the next 30 days, we are focused on several key priorities. We’re continuing to build our product and hire top talent. We’re also exploring new opportunities for collaboration and partnership to help us scale and protect more users,” added McHugh.
Visit Preamble at https://www.preamble.com/.
