S11 E7: The 90-Minute Daily Engagement Phenomenon: Redefining Multimodal Conversational AI to Cure the Loneliness Epidemic with Artem Rodichev, Founder & CEO of Ex-Human

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jul 8, 2025 · 28m

Artem Rodichev was born and raised in Kazakhstan, surrounded by the mountains. He loves hiking, and pretty much all outdoor activities. He jokes that he was raised by computers, as he was always playing games, trying to learn hacking, and more. He has always be interested in stories, in particular science fiction. He read a lot of books and watched movies, being fascinated with plots around empathetic AI like Blade Runner and Joy. These movies sparked his motivation to move forward to bringing this world to life.

Artem spent several years building a Core AI stack at Replica. What he noticed…