Jason Mars

Co-founded by University of Michigan professors Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang, the Clarity Lab spun out into Clarity Lab Inc. to commercialize its open-source voice and vision platform, originally named Sirius and later renamed Lucida by Apple. The company now offers end-to-end AI solutions like the Gin deep learning appliance and a banking-specific assistant for BankJoy, addressing a two-order-of-magnitude scalability gap in mobile personal assistants. By leveraging GPUs and FPGAs to reduce algorithmic latency by roughly ten times, these technologies transition academic research into enterprise-grade products for intelligent automation.