Kieran Browne
Co-Founder & CTO at Springboards
Kieran Browne is co-founder and chief technology officer of Springboards, a Melbourne AI platform built with ex-agency strategists Pip Bingemann and Amy Tucker to help creative teams explore more directions without losing craft. He leads development of Flint, Springboards' own model for creative divergence, and is building out an AI research team combining several leading models. Springboards has been adopted by more than 120 advertising agencies globally and has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Blackbird Ventures. Browne holds a PhD in machine learning and was experimenting with AI tools at Google before they became widely available. He spoke about the company's approach on In The Blink Of AI.
Career
- Now Co-Founder & CTO · Springboards
- Earlier Ex-Google (machine learning) · Google
Sources: springboards.ai
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of How Springboards Built an AI Model That Actually Thinks Differently you want.
- 2:22 Introducing Flint and the convergence problem in AI models
- 4:50 Why Springboards is uniquely positioned to solve creative AI
- 7:30 What entropy actually means in language models
- 9:44 Real examples: random cars, pizza toppings, and where to holiday
- 12:36 Why this matters for the advertising industry (and everyone else)
- 15:29 Inside Flint: how to fine-tune a model for divergence
- 18:38 Doubling the score on Novelty Bench (and what that even means)
- 23:35 Try Flint yourself: who it's for and how to access it
- 26:10 Cognitive atrophy, taste, and keeping humans in the creative loop
- 35:04 Choosing a tech provider as an early-stage AI startup
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