"It's rare that your esoteric, impossible-to-pronounce, decade-long research project becomes a technology so crucial to national security that the President of the United States calls it out from the White House. But that's exactly what happened to Dr. Eric Wengrowski, the CEO of Steg AI. Wengrowski spent nearly a decade of his life advancing steganography, a deeply-technical method for tracking images as they travel through the machinery of the modern Internet, as the focus of his PHD at Rutgers University."
"After earning his degree, Wengrowki and a team of co-founders rolled his tech into a small startup. For several years, the company grew, but mostly toiled away in relative obscurity. Then, AI image generators exploded into the public's consciousness. And for Wengrowski and Steg's team, everything blew up. Durable Marks I met Wengrowski during the pandemic, when we both volunteered to help a media industry trade group rapidly pivot its yearly in-person conference to a Zoom format."
Dr. Eric Wengrowski spent nearly a decade advancing steganography, a technical method for tracking images as they travel through the Internet, as the focus of his PhD at Rutgers University. After earning his degree, Wengrowski and a team of co-founders rolled the technology into a small startup, Steg AI, which grew for several years but largely operated in relative obscurity. The emergence and public surge of AI image generators dramatically increased demand for image-tracking capabilities, propelling the company into prominence and making its technology significant for national security, even attracting mention by the President. The pandemic led to a personal meeting while volunteering to convert a conference to Zoom.
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