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Interview 17 of 213:29 PM · Moscone West

Tarini Padmanabhuni

Founder & CEO, Detectif.ai

The world's fastest deepfake detector.

The full conversation

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The short version

2:00 · Tarini's answers, condensed.

Clips

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The world's fastest deepfake detector

“So we build foundation models for deepfake detection. We're independently benchmarked as the world's fastest deepfake detector. And we also beat some pretty huge incumbents on accuracy and like you can see some stats the…”

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She said no to NVIDIA

“Tell me a little bit more about that moment where you are either out of a job, or what's that moment like where you thought to yourself, I want to take the lead to actually build this? Yeah, I mean, I got an offer from N…”

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Beat incumbents that raised hundreds of millions

“I mean, we've literally beaten incumbents that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in accuracy and latency. We're number one. So I think we're the best in the world. I don't think there's any need to use an exter…”

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Just take the leap

“You know, I think just take the leap, man. Like that's what I did. It's worked out amazingly for me. I don't think I'd be doing anything else. So if you have that feeling, just don't do anything else. Just do this becaus…”

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Be the best. Revenue follows.

“I think with problems like these, you kind of just have to be the best, because that's the benchmark. If you're good at it, your product has to be solid, and then post that if everything that's revenue and all of that ju…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

Detectif.ai team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026Detectif.ai team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026