Jose Plehn, BrightQuery, on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy

Jose Plehn, founder and CEO of BrightQuery, founder of OpenData.org, and a board member of the AI Alliance, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. BrightQuery tracks the five pillars of the economy, companies, legal entities, locations, addresses, and people, in a legal view from filings and a business view from the open web: over three hundred million businesses, five hundred million places, and a billion people in the world's largest entity graph, which it is open-sourcing as a gold-standard directory for entity resolution. Reliable AI is grounded in permanent, immutable IDs and checked by a factual shield that verifies claims against a hundred thousand trusted sources with confidence scores rather than promising zero hallucination. He asks others to contribute their own ID systems, and expects a hyper-personalized AI companion whose confidential knowledge of us lives locally on a device.