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Forbes Hosts Exclusive Event Celebrating The 2025 Forbes AI 50 List Makers, The AI Leaders Who Are Making A Significant Impact In The Industry
Forbes Hosts Exclusive Event Celebrating The 2025 Forbes AI 50 List Makers, The AI Leaders Who Are Making A Significant Impact In The Industry

Forbes

time11 hours ago

  • Business
  • Forbes

Forbes Hosts Exclusive Event Celebrating The 2025 Forbes AI 50 List Makers, The AI Leaders Who Are Making A Significant Impact In The Industry

Forbes AI 50 Celebration Kathleen Sheffer for Forbes Forbes hosted an exclusive Forbes AI 50 Celebration in San Francisco on June 23, 2025, convening leaders from across the AI landscape to celebrate the Forbes 2025 AI 50 honorees. Forbes' AI 50 list spotlights the most promising privately-held companies applying artificial intelligence to solve real-world challenges. The invite-only AI 50 event featured insights from visionary founders and rising stars leading the AI revolution—from foundational models and enterprise platforms to breakthrough innovations shaping the future. The event kicked off with welcome remarks from Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer at Forbes, who honored this year's cohort of AI 50 list makers and the fast-growing AI industry. 'I'm an AI optimist, and Forbes is an AI optimist, but it's because we're betting on all of you [Forbes AI 50 list makers]...so that's the conversation we want to have today.' Saluting the AI 50 list makers, Lane added: 'This is an amazing list because if you look at history and assembly lines, mainframe computers, mobile, and smartphones – you didn't know you were in that incredible era of societal and business change until you look back and realize that. This is the first time you can look at it and say you know in real time you are creating societal and disruptive change.' Randall Lane's Welcome Remarks at Forbes' AI 50 Celebration Kathleen Sheffer Photography He later introduced a panel that was moderated by Forbes' senior technology writer Richard Nieva and featured Eleanor Lightbody, CEO at Luminance , Ce Zhang, Cofounder & CTO at Together AI and Zachary Lipton, Cofounder & CTO at Abridge. The conversation ' AI Today And Tomorrow: A Conversation With AI 50 Honorees ,' took a closer look at how we are using AI today, and discussed AI infrastructure, consolidation and competition, and fundraising. Each panelist touched on how AI is affecting each of their respective industries and the strategies that are being used to introduce it. Abridge's Zachary Lipton discussed his company's healthcare AI technology that has been integrated into Kaiser Permanente for the last year. Lipton shared that technology has historically been imposed on care providers rather than asked for, however Abridge has had a different experience. He added that the company considers how to explain the technology to people in a way that is going to complement them in their work flows so they do not think the technology will replace them in their roles as doctors or nurses. Eleanor Lightbody leads the legal AI company Luminance and reflected on her optimistic approach to AI as she sees her company opening up legal advice to those that may not have had access to it in the past, and different opportunities for junior lawyers. '[Regarding] the future of law and in-house legal professions, I think you're going to start to see that paralegals will be spending much less time on repetitive work churning, and they'll be your data analysts, they'll be the people at the core of the business who are almost your conductor.' Together AI's Ce Zhang is building the bridge between AI and companies by helping them build their AI infrastructure and accelerating their path to innovation, saying 'Essentially we try to help them optimize cost and performance to get all the infrastructure requirements and all the concerns about infrastructure out of their way so that they can actually build their business and we deal with the infrastructure.' He later added, 'We are really excited to help many of our customers to actually navigate the whole [AI] frontier and hopefully they can focus their efforts on actually building the application that's going to change society.' 'At Together AI, we're building cloud infrastructure for pioneers pushing the frontier of AI — and we were excited to join Forbes and several of our customers and partners at the AI 50 dinner,' said Ce Zhang, CTO at Together AI. 'It was a pleasure connecting with other Forbes AI 50 award winners, and we look forward to helping them develop breakthrough AI models and agentic applications.' From L to R: Richard Nieva, Ce Zhang, Zachary Lipton and Eleanor Lightbody Kathleen Sheffer Photography The event closed out with a celebratory toast from Lane, setting the stage for future Forbes AI events to come. Forbes is committed to continue spotlighting the key players who are leading in AI and hosting discussions that will help the industry prepare and embrace what's to come. In September, Forbes will be hosting its 2025 Under 30 Summit in Columbus, which will convene the world's top young leaders, founders and creators for four days of connecting, learning, teaching and building. As a part of the Summit's programming, for the first time ever, Forbes will be featuring a dedicated AI track focused on conversations about the space from leading AI voices such as May Habib, Founder & CEO of AI company Writer. The Under 30 Summit stage will serve as the launchpad for today's AI leaders, convening several Forbes communities to ignite conversations and inform each other on the future of AI. The Forbes AI 50 Celebration was presented by Together AI. For more information on the 2025 Forbes AI 50 Celebration, click here. To join the conversation on social, use #ForbesAI50. Media Contact: Feryal Nawaz, fnawaz@

NTL Again Sets Record, With 6,000 Attendees And 65% Jump In Betting at Philadelphia Cup Event at Parx
NTL Again Sets Record, With 6,000 Attendees And 65% Jump In Betting at Philadelphia Cup Event at Parx

Business Wire

time18-06-2025

  • Sport
  • Business Wire

NTL Again Sets Record, With 6,000 Attendees And 65% Jump In Betting at Philadelphia Cup Event at Parx

BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The National Thoroughbred League (NTL) continued its record-breaking 2025 campaign with Sunday's Philadelphia Cup at Parx Racing, drawing more than 6,000 fans, an NTL record, and generating a $1.55 daily million handle—a 65% increase over last year's Father's Day card at Parx. The event, hosted by the Philadelphia Stallions, co-owned by local icon Julius 'Dr. J' Erving, demonstrates the what's the 'NTL Effect'—a measurable and unbroken surge in attendance, engagement, and betting whenever the league rolls into town. 'The mission of the NTL has always been to turn horse racing into a major-league, fan-focused team sport,' said Randall Lane, co-founder of the National Thoroughbred League. 'The fact that 6,000 people came out on a cold, rainy day demonstrates the power and resiliency of this concept.' The California Shamrocks won the Philadelphia Cup in a nail-biter, courtesy of a surge in the final race, with the top four teams finishing within 2 points of each other. The New York Knights remain in first place overall at the midpoint of the league's third season. Numerous celebrities attended the weekend festivities, including Erving, Philadelphia Eagles legends Seth Joyner and Hollis Thomas, Hall of Fame jockey Jose Santos and Jarobi White, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member of A Tribe Called Quest. The event featured multiple musical acts, a dedicated VIP section, celebrity meet-and-greets and special activities for families, including pony rides. The NTL now sets its sights on the next stop: St. Louis on July 19, as the league seeks to continue its 'NTL Effect' streak of larger crowds and surges in wagering. For more information on the NTL and upcoming events, visit

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