Almost Human

What happens when AI actually runs the company? In this episode, Shai Wininger (co-founder of Lemonade) lays out a concrete framework for AI-native organizations: where agents are the default operators, humans are summoned only when needed, and companies evolve into self-improving systems. We explore what it actually means for “humans to become tools,” how AI systems decide when to escalate to hum...

MIT famously claims that 95% of AI projects fail, not because the models don’t work, but because organizations aren’t built for AI. In this episode of Almost Human, Shai Wininger, Co-Founder & President of Lemonade, explains how one of the most AI-native consumer companies rebuilt its product org, workflows, and technology stack to make AI work in production in one of the most regulated industries...

What does “Head of AI” actually mean inside a company like Monday.com and why are SMBs such an insane AI opportunity? In this episode, Eden talks with Assaf Elovic, Head of AI at Monday.com, about bringing a massive SaaS company from “almost no AI” to AI products that ship real value across millions of users. Assaf shares how his role evolved from a 0→1 “startup inside Monday” to building an inter...

What if video wasn’t a file you export, but a service that responds to every viewer in real time? In this episode, Eden Shochat talks with Lightricks co-founder & CEO Zeev Farbman about LTX 2, their real-time video diffusion model that runs on edge devices (phones and gaming GPUs) instead of giant cloud data centers. They break down: Why “every pixel is programmable” is the real story behind diffu...

Property management is a brutal business: low margins, endless paperwork, and human bottlenecks everywhere. So what happens when you give AI agents the keys? In this episode of Almost Human, Eden Shochat sits with Nir Hemed, co-founder and CTO of Daisy, a New York–based startup reimagining property management through AI. Nir reveals how Daisy built a team of ten autonomous agents - each with names...

Meta learning flips the script: you don’t win by hoarding the most data - you win by adapting the fastest. In this episode, Eden sits down with engineer and researcher Liran Tam to demystify meta learning for founders. We cover how to get real performance from tiny datasets, when to use adjacent tasks to supercharge learning, and why personalization and low-compute inference are perfect use cases....

Eden Shochat continues his conversation with Gilad Lotan, Head of AI/Data Science & Analytics at BuzzFeed, to unpack one of the most under-hyped ideas in AI: embeddings. Then, Eden puts Gilad in the hot seat with a rapid-fire round of questions.

Eden Shochat sits down with Gilad Lotan, Head of AI/Data Science & Analytics at BuzzFeed, to unpack the most under-hyped idea in AI: embeddings. Beyond “RAG” and chatbots, we get into how vectorizing content and users rewires recommendations, ad targeting, and even business models, without training your own foundation model or shipping another GPT wrapper.

AI talk is everywhere in Tel Aviv, but most of it? Noise. On Almost Human, Eden Shochat - Equal Partner at Aleph and a builder turned VC - cuts through the hype with sharp, first-principles takes on what’s actually transformative. Each week, Eden brings a builder’s lens and investor’s clarity to AI: what tools matter, which ideas are breaking through, and how they reshape life for startups, invest...