Florian Wolf

LOCATION

Munich, Germany

PROFESSION

Founder and CEO

About

Florian is founder and CEO at Mergeflow. At Mergeflow, he is responsible for company strategy and product design. Previously, Florian developed analytics software for institutional investors. Before that, he was a Research Associate in Computer Science and Genetics at the University of Cambridge. Florian has a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from MIT. Some of Florian's work at MIT was funded by DARPA. Florian is a member of the Global Panel at MIT Technology Review.

Latest Posts

Applying large-scale language models outside language: Examples from materials discovery, cybersecurity, and building management

You've probably heard about the amazing capabilities of some recent AI models, such as GPT, AI21, or BLOOM. Perhaps you use one of these models yourself. Either directly, or through another product like Wordtune, YouWrite, Jasper – or ChatGPT. It turns out that while these models are trained on language data, they can be used for other applications as well. In my latest article, you can read more about applications in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and even building management.

How to spot emerging technology innovation at public companies

How can you spot emerging technology innovation at public companies? And how could you scale this up, so that you could track not just a handful but hundreds or even thousands of companies? For this article, I analyzed more than 650,000 financial news to find out.

How successful innovators beat "not invented here" syndrome: A real-life example

Our very first customer at Mergeflow was very good at beating "not invented here" syndrome. He was a very accomplished science entrepreneur. A physics PhD by training, his career spanned semiconductor research, leading a new business unit, and commercializing a whole range of technologies into successful spinoff companies. In this article I describe the hands-on methods he used to beat "not invented here" syndrome in his organization.

Welding: What's new? And what does it have to do with going to the Moon?

When you ask people to name a few cutting-edge technologies, they’ll probably mention artificial intelligence, quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, perhaps synthetic biology… but probably not welding. But while welding usually doesn’t make front page headlines, it has many interesting facets. It involves materials science, robotics, metallurgy, and, yes, machine learning. And you need welding for making all kinds of things: buildings, for example; bicycles, ships, aircraft, cars, kitchenware, power plants, turbines, body implants, textiles–and rockets.

What is green steel, and why is it important?

Meet companies and researchers working on making steel with renewable energy and fewer emissions.