Kepler

How Kepler Built Verifiable AI for Financial Services — Vinoo Ganesh

How Kepler Built Verifiable AI for Financial Services — Vinoo Ganesh

Vinoo Ganesh, CEO of Kepler, discusses building verifiable AI for financial services. He argues that while LLMs are powerful probability machines, they are unreliable for deterministic financial tasks. Kepler's solution involves a deterministic substrate that wraps AI, based on three tenets: atomic provenance (AI references, not creates, numbers), scope determinism (AI decides what to compute, but deterministic tools perform the math), and derivation chains (traceable calculation paths for derived figures). This ensures numerical accuracy, verifiability, and traceability, moving beyond simple citations to true proof of work.

How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Kepler — Vinoo Ganesh

How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Kepler — Vinoo Ganesh

Vinoo Ganesh, formerly of Palantir, details how Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) functions as a critical product strategy rather than a sales role. He shares insights from Palantir's Foundry development, emphasizing how FDEs embed with customers to uncover true problems, observe user behavior, define a common linguistic ontology, and build production-ready solutions from temporary fixes, ultimately driving core product leverage.

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

Terence Tao uses the story of Kepler's discovery of planetary motion as an analogy for AI's role in science. He argues that AI excels at broad, high-temperature idea generation but requires a robust verification process to be useful. The bottleneck in science is shifting from hypothesis generation to verification and curation, a challenge current scientific structures are not equipped to handle. Tao foresees a future of human-AI collaboration where humans provide deep insights and AI explores the vast breadth of possibilities, ultimately making scientific papers richer but not necessarily deeper.