How I Built This: Exploring GenAI with the Co-Founder of Cartwheel

In this "How I Built This" series, AWS Utah will spotlight Andrew Carr, the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Cartwheel, a standout AI startup in Utah.

Cartwheel revolutionizes the field of digital animation through its innovative text-to-animation platform, enabling effortless creation of animations for videos, games, movies, advertisements, social media, or VR projects by simply typing descriptions.

Andrew Carr, a computational mathematician with extensive experience in machine learning and AI, leads Cartwheel. His technical journey began in applied mathematics and computer science, which paved the way to significant roles at major tech firms like Lyft, Google Brain, and OpenAI. At Lyft, he developed predictive models for autonomous vehicles, while at Google Brain, he explored self-supervised learning techniques for audio applications. His time at OpenAI was marked by his contributions to program synthesis and the development of datasets for AI models like Codex.

As the Chief Scientist at Cartwheel, Andrew employs AWS and Generative AI to enhance his platform, setting new industry standards in how animations are created and integrated into digital content. His approach leverages the computational efficiency of AWS to manage and scale the AI-driven processes that underpin Cartwheel's technology.

Beyond his corporate and academic endeavors, Andrew is deeply involved in the tech community. He contributes to open-source projects and engages with a broad network of developers and technology enthusiasts on GitHub. His portfolio reflects a broad array of projects that demonstrate his capability to innovate across different domains of machine learning and data science.

Andrew also shares his knowledge as a speaker and educator, particularly in competitive coding and machine learning, shaping future tech leaders and innovators.

For more insights into Andrew Carr and his groundbreaking work, you can explore his [GitHub](https://github.com/andrewnc) and [personal website](https://andrewnc.github.io/).