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Mehrab Momin discusses the resurgence of AI and its applications in Houston's industries.
AI has been “old news” since the 1950s, but Mehrab Momin of aiCTO Services breaks down why it suddenly feels everywhere, how founders should actually think about AI (data first, buzzwords later), and why Houston’s physical-world industries might be the perfect playground for the next wave, from vision models to humanoid robots. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Show intro and guest setup 01:10 Fractional AI CTO explained 03:10 Early AI work and swarm intelligence 05:10 AI “flavors” from ML to deep learning 07:10 Transformers and the LLM leap 09:10 Where AI shows up in industry 12:00 Language, context, and why LLMs work 18:00 Energy AI applications and examples 19:30 Computer vision basics and VLMs 23:30 Open source models and fine-tuning 26:20 Houston vs Bay Area AI maturity 29:20 Solar, drones, and practical vision AI 31:00 Humanoid robots and…
People in this episode
Guest: Mehrab Momin
Topics covered
- AI in industry
- energy applications
- Houston startups
- machine learning
- humanoid robots
- edge computing
Keywords
- AI
- Houston
- machine learning
- humanoid robots
- energy applications
- edge computing
- computer vision
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: aiCTO Services
Products: AI, ML, deep learning, Transformers, LLM, computer vision, humanoid robots, edge computing, VLMs, solar
Books & works: collide.io
Places: Houston, Bay Area
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