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Alex Shan may not have been old enough to legally buy alcohol in 2023, but he was still old enough to start his own company and join the AI boom.Shan was 20 when he was first introduced to James Alcorn, an investment partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, through a fellow Stanford University classmate. Shan, who started college at 16, had studied new ways to evaluate and monitor the performance of AI models at the prestigious Natural Language Processing Group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laborat

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