"The first was in 2017. Corti was a seed inside Hyvi, a research team chasing what seemed impossible: streaming AI in real time, fast and accurate enough to augment professionals during live conversations. From the beginning, healthcare was the hardest, most meaningful test, where reliability meant life or death. The challenge grew when the founding team split over the company's future."
"After a surreal visit to what felt like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in Menlo Park and deciding it was wrong to sell to a big-tech player, two founders stepped away while Lars (Maaløe) and I doubled down on healthcare. By 2018, Hyvi had become Corti, focused on clinical-grade, low-latency AI. Many have faced the same trial: take the exit in front of you or commit to a harder path. The first big choice is rarely about technology; it is about conviction."
Corti began as Hyvi, a research seed pursuing real-time streaming AI capable of augmenting live conversations. Healthcare emerged as the most demanding domain because reliability could mean life or death. Founders split over strategic direction; two left while Lars (Maaløe) and another founder committed to clinical-grade, low-latency AI, and the company rebranded as Corti by 2018. By 2020, real-time models could predict and understand medical conversations with precision and the team prepared to offer an API. COVID accelerated demand for point solutions; Corti launched triage tools, clinical co-pilots, and AI scribes, and much of the technical team shifted to servicing deployments rather than building infrastructure.
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