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1 Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien 38:22
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Base. Rowan's favorite book: Outlive (Author: Peter Attia) (00:01) Introduction (01:09) The Flaws in Centralized Data Models (04:10) Mechanism of Knowledge Transfer and Expert Incentives (07:08) Supply, Demand, and Market Dynamics for Training Data (10:22) Chain of Thought Reasoning and 3D/4D Data Use Cases (12:22) Building the MVP: What Worked and What Didn’t (15:17) Acquiring the First Five Customers (17:59) What They Got Right and What They’d Change (20:15) How to Scale from Early Customers: Advice to Founders (22:02) Data Infrastructure Opportunities in 2025 (25:57) Designing AI-Native Databases (28:04) Biggest Startup Challenge: Messaging and Clarity (30:22) Future of Data Collection Mechanisms (2 to 5 Years Out) (32:07) Autonomous Vehicles and Demand for 4D Data (35:33) Emerging AI Use Cases: Memory, Wearables, and Robotics (36:19) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Rowan Stone: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-stone/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Converting Cameras into Autonomous AI Agents | Rish Gupta, CEO of Spot AI 38:50
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRish Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Spot AI, a video AI platform for the physical world. They've raised $93M from amazing investors such as Scale, Bessemer, and Qualcomm Ventures. Rish's favorite book: Atlas Shrugged (Author: Ayn Rand) (00:01) Introduction (00:32) Video-AI basics: ingesting camera feeds across diverse networks (02:42) Edge-vs-cloud trade-offs for compute, storage, and bandwidth (05:40) Mapping the sector: hardware waves to cloud cameras to pure-software layer (07:43) Founding insight: why Spot AI attacked the video layer now (11:35) Bare-bones MVP: two-page dashboard that unified camera access (15:34) First-10-customer lessons & pruning the ideal customer profile (ICP) (18:54) Go-to-market experiments: ICP variants, pain points, and channels (23:00) Early-team blueprint: engineering-heavy, founders run sales (24:03) Hardware stance: free IP cameras to simplify one-vendor buying (26:01) Biggest tech hurdle: supporting thousands of camera brands & configs (27:00) Sales challenge: outbound fatigue forces novel GTM motions (28:55) Future vision: each camera becomes an autonomous AI agent with a "job" (30:25) Key AI unlock: massive context windows enabling flow-state reasoning (32:14) Rapid-fire round -------- Where to find Rish Gupta: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/profilerish/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Are AI Phone Agents Ready for Prime Time? | Alex Levin, CEO of Regal 45:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAlex Levin is the cofounder and CEO of Regal, a platform for AI phone agents. They've raised $82M from amazing investors such as Emergence Capital. Alex's favorite book: The PayPal Wars (Author: Eric M. Jackson) (00:01) Introduction (02:37) Evolution of customer contact tools and legacy players (06:02) Launching Regal: Origin story and early challenges (08:41) MVP strategy and problems worth solving (11:46) Lessons from 0 to 10 customers: Growth mistakes and hiring (16:13) Ideal early-stage team construction and hiring philosophy (19:06) Sequencing hires as company scales (20:58) What makes a good investor and how to leverage them (25:42) Best and worst experiments while building Regal (29:04) Internal use of AI at Regal across teams (31:49) The future of AI phone agents and near-term blockers (34:13) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Alex Levin: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlevin1/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 What it Takes to Build a BI Platform | Colin Zima, CEO of Omni 40:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedColin Zima is the cofounder and CEO of Omni, a data platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the speed and freedom of SQL. They recently raised their $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth. He was previously the Chief Analytics Officer at Looker. Colin's favorite book: Blink (Author: Malcolm Gladwell) (00:01) Introduction (01:10) What Is a Data Model and Why It Matters (03:27) Gaps in the Modern Data Stack (05:38) The Staying Power of SQL (07:29) Origin Story: Why Omni Was Created (10:13) Lessons from Building the MVP (12:48) Go-to-Market Insights: Zero to Ten Customers (16:02) Founder-Led Sales and Marketing Tactics (18:58) Company Building: Recruiting and Product Challenges (21:34) Product Positioning in a Crowded Market (23:26) Design Philosophy in Enterprise Software (28:21) Omni's Tech Stack and Development Strategy (28:57) Real-World Use of AI Inside the Company (31:01) Future of Data Tooling and Role of AI (33:49) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Colin Zima: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinzima/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Building Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies | Alvaro Morales, CEO of Orb 38:21
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAlvaro Morales is the cofounder and CEO of Orb, a usage-based billing product for modern software companies. They've raised $44M to date from amazing investors such as Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock. Alvaro's favorite book: Conversation in the Cathedral (Author: Mario Vargas Llosa) (00:01) Introduction (00:35) What is Usage-Based Billing? (02:27) Challenges in Metering Usage (04:14) Examples of Consumption-Based Products (05:49) Tools for Usage Metering and Billing (09:08) Founding Story and Validation of Orb (12:11) Building the MVP for a Billing System (14:48) Acquiring the First 10 Customers (18:33) Scaling Sales & Marketing After Initial Traction (21:09) Building the Team & Ideal Candidate Profile (23:26) Technology Stack Behind Orb (25:55) Real-Time Analytics vs Streaming for Billing (27:18) Other Key Components of Orb's Solution (28:38) Why Incumbents Haven’t Solved This Problem (31:09) How Orb Uses AI Internally (32:53) Most Exciting AI Advancements for the Future (34:30) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Alvaro Morales: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaro-morales/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed and the first engineer at Rubrik. Jay's favorite book: The Truth Detector (Author: Jack Schafer) (00:01) Introduction (00:44) Overview of Legal AI and Industry Impact (03:53) Daily Operations in Plaintiff Law Firms (05:49) Identifying and Launching Eve's MVP (08:58) Framework for Building an Effective MVP (12:02) Acquiring Early Customers (Zero to Ten) (14:20) Scaling Beyond Early Customers: Growth Strategies (16:08) Encouraging Word-of-Mouth and Inbound Growth (18:21) Product Development and Customer Feedback Loops (20:27) Eve's Technology Stack and Internal AI Usage (22:16) Team Structure and Leadership Development (24:20) Role and Impact of Designers in Early Startups (27:15) Future Trends in Legal AI: Consolidation vs. Specialization (30:29) Exciting AI Advancements Relevant to Eve (31:58) Rapid Fire Questions -------- Where to find Jay Madheswaran: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayanth1/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase 45:37
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAnant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT. Anant's favorite book: The Singularity Is Near (Author: Ray Kurzweil) (00:07) Defining Unstructured Data (01:18) The Growth of Unstructured Data and Its Challenges (02:05) Evolution of Tools for Analyzing Unstructured Data (04:25) How Large Language Models (LLMs) Changed Data Processing (05:27) Do We Still Need ETL in the LLM Era? (06:05) Structured Queries vs. Direct Unstructured Querying (08:22) Applying LLMs in Enterprise Settings (09:34) Ensuring Accuracy in AI-Driven Data Analysis (11:29) SQL vs. AI-Driven Queries in Business Use Cases (13:48) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Enterprise AI (15:02) The Founding of Instabase and Its Early Vision (19:03) Building the MVP of Instabase (22:52) First 10 Customers: Lessons from Early Sales (26:01) Scaling Customer Acquisition: Experiments and Failures (30:35) When to Hire a Sales Team: Key Lessons (33:52) AI Adoption at Instabase for Internal Productivity (37:48) The Technology Stack Behind Instabase (42:36) Transition from OS-Based Architecture to LLM-Based System (43:45) Rapid Fire Questions -------- Where to find Anant Bhardwaj: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anantpb/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Building AI Agents That Actually Work | Malte Kosub, CEO of Parloa 33:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMalte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter. Malte's favorite book: The Qualified Sales Leader (Author: John McMahon) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) Overview of AI in Customer Support (01:33) The Current Landscape of AI Agents (02:46) Enterprise Adoption of AI Agents (04:16) The Founding Story of Parloa (06:25) Deciding What Goes into V1 of a Product (07:56) Achieving 99.9999% Accuracy in AI Agents (09:29) How to Identify Customer Needs for AI Products (10:55) Scaling from Early Customers to the Next 10 (12:41) Growth Experiments: What Worked and What Didn’t (14:42) Current State of Parloa: Capabilities and Scale (16:36) Structuring Teams for AI-First Companies (18:49) Technology Stack and Internal AI Use Cases (21:29) How to Pitch an AI Product to Enterprises (23:32) Essential Tools Used Inside the Company (25:41) AI’s Role in Daily Life and Workflows (27:54) The Future of AI Agents in Customer Support (28:37) Can AI Agents Fully Replace Human Agents? (29:05) Exciting AI Advancements Impacting Parloa (30:06) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Malte Kosub: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maltekosub/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-infinite X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First Generative AI Copilot for Lawyers | Scott Stevenson, CEO of Spellbook 44:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedScott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as Inovia, Bling, and Moxxie. Scott's favorite book: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) The basics of legal AI and its applications (02:57) How lawyers use AI for contract review and drafting (03:22) Inspiration from GitHub Copilot and AI’s role in legal work (04:19) AI in litigation vs. transactional legal work (06:37) Why AI adoption in legal work accelerated (07:07) The launch story of Spellbook (07:45) Finding the right problem to solve in legal tech (10:11) How GitHub Copilot influenced Spellbook’s early direction (11:42) Spellbook’s first prototype and early traction (13:11) The moment Spellbook realized it had product-market fit (14:31) Measuring actual product usage and customer adoption (15:27) Early learnings from new customers (17:59) Growth experiments: what worked and what failed (20:48) Discovering unexpected customer segments (22:50) Company building philosophy and structuring Spellbook (26:18) Avoiding over-optimization for structure in startups (30:21) How to decide what to ship in a startup (32:21) Pattern-matching vs. narrative reasoning in product development (35:39) Lessons from AI contract review and LLM usage (36:14) Rapid-fire round…
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1 The Outer Loop of AI-Powered Coding | Merrill Lutsky, CEO of Graphite 41:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMerrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by amazing investors including Andreessen Horowitz. Merrill's favorite book: Never Split the Difference (Author: Chris Voss) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) Teaching AI to Understand Code (02:40) AI-Assisted Code Generation and Code Review (06:20) Current Landscape of AI-Assisted Code Review (09:04) Motivation Behind Launching Graphite (16:52) Landing the First Paying Users and Early Learnings (21:42) Growth Experiments: Wins and Misses (26:27) Current Scale of Graphite (29:12) Tech Stack Behind Graphite (33:12) Future of AI-Assisted Coding and Graphite’s Role (35:37) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Merrill Lutsky: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merrill-lutsky/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Behind the Scenes of AI Video | Amit Jain, founder of Luma AI 48:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, and AMD. He was previously at Apple where he worked on VisionPro. Amit's favorite book : Skunk Works (Authors: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) How Can AI Models Generate Realistic Videos (02:38) The Current Landscape of Video Generation (06:16) Teaching AI Models the Laws of Physics (09:47) Founding Luma: Deciding on the First Product Version (12:56) Validating Market Need & User Feedback (16:42) Key Learnings from Ray 1 Before Launching Ray 2 (21:24) Growth Hacks That Moved the Needle (24:27) From Zero Users to Today: The Growth Journey (27:53) Building a Community Around Luma (30:57) Luma’s Technology Stack & AI Infrastructure (36:42) Biggest Technical Challenges in Building Luma (39:24) The Future of Video Generation & AI's Role (41:54) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Amit Jain: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gravicle/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 X: https://x.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Building an AI-Powered Terminal | Zach Lloyd 38:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedZach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. He was previously the cofounder of SelfMade and the interim CTO of TIME. Zach's favorite book : The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Author: Leo Tolstoy) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Basics of the Terminal: What It Does and Why Developers Use It (01:48) Foundation of Warp: Addressing Terminal Shortcomings (05:00) Initial Feature Set: Building Warp’s Early Product (07:19) Product Iteration and Retaining Early Users (10:15) AI Integration in Warp: Initial Use Cases and Evolution (14:00) Technical Challenges: Building Warp in Rust (16:25) Feature Prioritization: Balancing Feedback and Vision (18:26) Warp's Tech Stack: Languages, Frameworks, and Tools (22:22) Cross-Platform Development Challenges (23:07) Importance of Design: Competitive Advantage in Dev Tools (26:10) Hiring for Design in Early-Stage Startups (30:22) Warp’s Vision for the Next Five Years (32:15) Lessons from Scaling Warp: Advice to Younger Self (34:02) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Zach Lloyd: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite finance book: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (Author: Walter Bagehot) (00:01) Introduction (00:46) Why Do Robots Need Insurance? (03:04) Challenges for Insurance Companies with Robot Liability (07:34) Risks of Autonomous Robots in Industrial vs. Domestic Settings (12:22) Cybersecurity and Hacking Risks in Robotics (15:41) Importance and Challenge of Historical Data in Robotics Insurance (18:52) Leveraging Telemetry Data for Risk Modeling (22:09) Creating a Functional Insurance Market for Robotics (26:42) Should Robots Be Independent Legal Entities? (28:34) Should Robots Buy Their Own Insurance? (32:30) Partnerships Between Insurers and Robotics Companies (37:11) Regulatory Framework for Robotics Insurance (38:57) Advice for Founders in Robotics Insurance (40:07) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Amias Gerety: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amias-gerety/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard. Jordan's favorite book : The Master and Margarita (Author: Mikhail Bulgakov) (00:01) Introduction (00:08) Founding of MotherDuck (01:12) The Philosophy of Shipping Products at MotherDuck (05:02) Founding Story and Identifying the Market Opportunity (10:57) Building the First Version and Overcoming Early Challenges (12:23) Validating Customer Needs and Asking the Right Questions (18:24) Deciding What Features to Prioritize and Exclude (21:30) Positioning a New Product in a Mature Market (27:36) Overcoming Challenges in Scaling MotherDuck (32:29) Measuring Success of New Features in Enterprise Products (36:20) Structuring the Organization for Effective Execution (41:09) Preparing MotherDuck for the AI Native Era (43:28) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Jordan Tigani: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets? 47:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite book : The Origin of Species (Author: Charles Darwin) (00:01) Introduction and Setting the Stage (00:29) The Status Quo: AI Agents and Online Purchases (02:20) The Current Payment Infrastructure Explained (04:42) Automation Today: Auto-Complete and Recurring Payments (06:09) Why AI Agents Need Dedicated Financial Infrastructure (08:29) Historical Examples: Auctions, Bots, and Payment Systems (09:32) Identifying and Verifying AI Agents in Commerce (11:59) Risks of Agentic Commerce: Lessons from Knight Capital (14:47) Stripe’s Role in Agent Payments: SDKs and Gaps (19:46) Opportunities for Startups in Agentic Frameworks (22:49) Challenges: Disputes, Chargebacks, and Reversals (26:32) Regulation and Governance in Agentic Payments (28:24) Building Merchant Trust in AI Transactions (30:11) Needs of AI Developers: Reliability in Transactions (33:04) The Future of Agentic Commerce and Microtransactions (35:42) Building Consumer Trust in Agentic Systems (38:45) Broader AI Applications in Finance (40:13) Rapid Fire -------- Where to find Amias Gerety: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amias-gerety/ -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Series B co-led by Cherryrock Capital and Emerson Collective along with participation from Greycroft, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bessemer Venture Partners. He has a masters degree from MIT and a PhD from Stanford. Cody's favorite books: - The Inner Game of Tennis (Author: W. Timonthy Gallwey) - Gettine More (Author: Stuart Diamond) (00:01) Introduction: Setting the Stage for Metadata (00:21) What is Metadata? Structure in Unstructured Data (01:37) Metadata in Real-World Visual Data Analysis (03:01) Automating Metadata Generation: Challenges and Approaches (06:57) Introduction to Multimodal AI: What and Why (11:25) Managing Trade-Offs in Multimodal AI Systems (13:31) Labeling Challenges in Multimodal Datasets (16:23) Characteristics of an Ideal Metadata Language (18:22) Linking Metadata Quality to Model Effectiveness (20:56) Measuring Efficiency of Metadata Extraction Engines (22:55) Role of Synthetic Data in Metadata and AI (25:30) Evolution of Data Labeling and Future of Metadata (27:27) Exciting Technological Advancements in AI (29:29) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics 37:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedGilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent funding round led by Khosla Ventures. She has degrees from MIT, CMU, and University of Washington. Gilwoo's favorite book : Masayoshi Son's 300-Year Plan (Author: Takashi Sugimoto) (00:01) Introduction (00:08) What is a Greenhouse? (01:08) Greenhouse Usage in Different Regions (02:45) Advantages and Challenges of Greenhouses (06:15) Crops Suitable for Greenhouses (08:23) Introduction to Autonomous Greenhouses (10:40) Technology Stack of Autonomous Greenhouses (12:17) Factors Affecting Crop Growth and Automation (14:00) Data Requirements for AI Models in Greenhouses (15:14) Upgrading Traditional Greenhouses to Autonomous (17:26) Tasks Managed by Robots in Greenhouses (18:45) Engineering Challenges in Robotics for Greenhouses (20:16) Future of Robotics in Greenhouses (21:39) Robotics Supply Chain and Standardization (23:23) Verticalized vs. General-Purpose Robots (27:16) Robotics Foundation Models (29:52) Economics of Autonomous Greenhouses (33:16) Future of Autonomous Farming (34:01) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Vivas Kumar is the cofounder and CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials product company focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%. They recently raised more than $80M in funding from Social Capital, General Motors, Alpha Wave Ventures, and others. Vivas's favorite book : Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Author: Nelson Mandela) (00:01) Introduction (02:25) How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work (04:56) Evolution of Battery Materials (06:46) Development of Lithium-Ion Battery Technology (08:10) Optimizing Battery Properties: Cost, Energy Density, and Cycle Life (10:52) Supply Chain of Battery Materials (13:16) From Lab to Production: Key Bottlenecks (15:26) Using AI to Accelerate Synthesis Design (18:18) Battery Cell Qualification: Process and Importance (20:13) Managing Risk in AI-Driven Battery Experiments (21:20) Data Generation for AI-Driven Battery Development (22:52) Challenges in Manufacturing Large-Scale Batteries (25:02) Current Limitations in Battery Materials Development (26:39) Next-Generation Battery Materials in the Pipeline (27:50) Advancements in Battery Technology Beyond Materials (29:52) Advice for New Founders in the Battery Industry (31:42) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others. Alan's favorite book : 1984 (Author: George Orwell) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models (01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understanding (03:54) Emotion Detection in Voice AI Models (04:33) Training Models to Recognize Human Emotion in Speech (07:19) Cultural Variations in Emotional Expressions (09:00) Semantic Space Theory in Emotion Recognition (12:11) Limitations of Basic Emotion Categories (15:50) Recognizing Blended Emotional States (20:15) Objectivity in Emotion Science (24:37) Practical Aspects of Deploying Voice AI Systems (28:17) Real-Time System Constraints and Latency (31:30) Advancements in Voice AI Models (32:54) Rapid-Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Digital Replicas That Can Have Real Conversations 37:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Scale VP. Hassaan's favorite book: Go Like Hell (Author: A. J. Baime) (00:01) Introduction (00:38) Overview of AI in video generation (01:44) AI models used in video generation (03:35) Capturing intricate facial movements in real-time (06:46) Data capture and 3D modeling from basic video input (09:01) Explanation of neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting (10:14) Capturing facial expressions for video generation (15:22) Temporal coherence in video generation (18:05) Challenges in conversational video, including lip-syncing and emotion alignment (20:38) Inference challenges in conversational video (22:47) Bottlenecks in the pipeline: LLMs and time-to-first-token (26:58) Multimodal models and trade-offs (27:36) Advice for founders running API businesses (30:04) Pitfalls to avoid in API businesses (32:15) Technological breakthroughs in AI (34:10) Rapid-fire round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Alex Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda, a streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. They've raised more than $165M in funding from investors such as Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Concord Systems. (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Defining Streaming Data (04:14) Evolution of Streaming Data Systems Over the Last 10 Years (09:10) Introduction to Sovereign AI (14:14) How Sovereign AI Works in Practice (19:51) Infrastructure Needed for Sovereign AI (23:48) Sensitive Workloads in Enterprise AI (28:01) Foundation Models and Streaming Data (32:41) Breakthroughs in AI Related to Streaming Data (34:39) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Alex Gallego: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergallego -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Will Lu is the cofounder and CTO of Orby AI, an AI platform to automate people's repetitive tasks. He was previously the Head of Engineering at Google and a Systems Software Engineer at Nvidia. Will's favorite book : Beyond Enterpreneurship (Authors: Jim Collins and William Lazier) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) History of RPA (01:04) Building Blocks of RPA (02:34) Drawbacks of Traditional RPA (05:06) Introduction to AI-Native RPA (06:38) Advantages of AI-Native RPA (08:14) Defining Generative Process Automation (GPA) (10:15) Explanation of Large Action Models (11:47) Role of AI Agents in Process Automation (13:11) Data for Building Large Action Models (14:44) Benchmarking Large Action Models (15:53) Risk Mitigation in AI-Native RPA (17:44) Changing Roles in the RPA Industry (19:14) Adoption of Agent Technologies (21:03) ROI Measurement in AI-Native RPA (23:05) Explainability in AI Systems (24:25) Fast Adoption Teams in Enterprises (25:15) Handling Unstructured Data (26:12) Digital Organizations and Future Automation (27:09) Exciting AI Breakthroughs (28:03) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion, and more. He was previously the CTO of Splunk, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Cisco for $28 billion. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Yahoo for 14 years. Tim's favorite book : Infinite Jest (Author: David Foster Wallace) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Evolution of Databases (03:17) Enduring Business Models in Data Management (04:41) Challenges and Trade-offs in Database Choices (06:20) Modern Database Architecture (09:06) Separation of Storage and Compute (10:35) Role of Indexing in LLM Applications (13:20) Handling Different Types of Data in Databases (14:50) Distributed Databases Explained (16:20) Real-time Data Handling and Requirements (18:53) Architecting Data Infrastructure for AI (21:29) ETL in Modern Data Infrastructure (24:53) AI's Role in Database Optimization (27:17) Network Architecture (30:13) Hardware Improvements and Database Performance (33:35) Technological Breakthroughs and Investment Opportunities (35:11) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Breaking New Ground With Collaborative Robots 49:22
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedBrad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They've raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. He was previously the CTO of Scale AI. Prior to that, he was the VP of Robotics at Amazon. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT. Brad's favorite book : Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Author: Virginia Lee Burton) (00:00) Introduction (02:11) Collaborative Robots Explained (05:17) Building Blocks in Robotics (11:01) Architecture of a Cobot (14:12) Safety in Industrial Settings (18:08) Sensors in Cobots (20:20) Power Consumption and Optimization (23:31) Zonal Compute Architecture (26:34) AI Models for Task Planning (30:32) Reasoning and Human Interaction (35:00) Simulation to Real-World Deployment (38:49) Multi-Robot Coordination (41:57) Technological Breakthroughs in Robotics (45:29) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Mehul Nariyawala is the cofounder of Matic where they are building the world's most advanced floor cleaning robots. He was previously the cofounder of Flutter, which was acquired by Google. During his career, he has held roles at Google, Like.com, and Salesforce. Mehul's favorite books: - The Martian (Author: Andy Weir) - Lyndon Johnson series (Author: Robert Caro) - Shoe Dog (Author: Phil Knight) - The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes) (00:00) Introduction and Core Technologies (01:26) The Evolution of Floor Cleaning Robots (09:42) Constantly Updating Maps for Optimal Cleaning (12:53) Differentiating Between Known and Unknown Objects (16:03) On-Device Processing for Privacy and Energy Efficiency (22:31) Data Collection and Privacy in Home Robotics (24:32) Reducing Noise in Home Robots (30:04) The Importance of Simplicity in AI Products (32:17) Overlooked Trends in Robotics: The Rise of Rust (40:51) Challenges and Opportunities in the Commoditization of Consumer AI -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 How to extract intelligence from speech data with AI 44:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKrish Ramineni is the cofounder and CEO of Fireflies, an AI meeting assistant that takes notes, transcribes, and analyzes all your meetings. It's used across 300,000 organizations around the world with 70% of the Fortune 500 companies using it. He was previously the cofounder of Rumblii and was at Microsoft working on customer voice analytics. Krish's favorite book : Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Author: Jack Weatherford) (00:04) Introduction (00:11) State of Play in Voice AI Today (01:26) User Perception Shift in Voice AI (01:59) Evolution of Speech to Text Technology (04:05) Extracting Intelligence from Audio Files (07:22) Impact of New Technology on Semantic Parsing (12:46) Modern Capabilities and Gaps in Intent Recognition (17:23) Advances in Speech Generation and Processing (20:58) Role of Reinforcement Learning in Voice AI (24:05) Handling Low Resource Languages with Transfer Learning (28:32) Lessons from Building and Shipping Voice AI Products (35:10) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Surge Biswas is the cofounder and CEO of Nabla Bio, an AI platform to enable precise drug design and high-throughput measurement of drug properties. They recently raised $26M Series A led by Radical Ventures. He has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from Harvard University. Surge's favorite book : Permutation City (Author: Greg Egan) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Generative AI in Drug Design (01:19) Traditional vs. AI-driven Drug Discovery (03:42) Designing Antibodies (05:06) Therapeutic Antibodies Design Process (07:39) Data Sets for AI in Drug Discovery (10:48) High Throughput Measurement in Drug Discovery (13:14) Setting Up High Throughput Screening Assays (18:46) Multiplexed Screens in Drug Discovery (21:55) Protein Characterization Techniques (24:33) Protein-Protein Interactions (28:12) AI in Protein Characterization (30:55) Technological Breakthroughs in AI and Bio (32:36) Rapid Fire Round (36:27) Conclusion -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 The Long Tail of AI: Understanding and Resolving Edge Cases 37:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMichael Kohen is the founder and CEO of SparkAI, a platform that delivers real-time resolutions to longtail AI exceptions in production. SparkAI was acquired by John Deere. He was previously the cofounder of Wonder. He has also held roles at Zoox and Hero. And he got his bachelors degree from Harvard University. Michael's favorite book : Star Maker (Author: Olaf Stapledon) (00:00) Introduction and Definition of AI Edge Cases (02:24) Examples of Edge Cases in Everyday Life (03:09) Importance of Edge Cases in Various Industries (04:09) Challenges in Resolving Edge Cases (08:53) The Potential of Reinforcement Learning in Addressing Edge Cases (10:48) Continuous Updating and Retraining of AI Models (29:28) Lessons Learned in Handling Edge Cases (31:39) Exciting AI Breakthroughs in Hardware Development (36:18) Advice for Founders: Focus on Creating Value for Customers -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 How Symbolic AI is Transforming Critical Infrastructure 38:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedEric Daimler is the cofounder and CEO of Conexus AI, a data management platform that provides composable and machine-verifiable data integration. He was previously an assistant dean and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding partner of Hg Analytics and managing director at Skilled Science. He was also the White House Presidential Innovation Fellow for Machine Intelligence and Robotics. Eric's favorite book : ReCulturing (Author: Melissa Daimler) (00:00) Understanding Symbolic AI (02:42) Symbolic AI mirrors biological intelligence (06:01) Category Theory (08:42) Comparing Symbolic AI and Probabilistic AI (11:22) Symbolic Generative AI (14:19) Implementing Symbolic AI (18:25) Symbolic Reasoning (21:24) Explainability (24:39) Neuro Symbolic AI (26:41) The Future of Symbolic AI (30:43) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 AI Disruption: Startups vs Incumbents in the Tech Stack 46:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedEdward Suh is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. He was previously at Goodwater Capital and Redpoint Ventures. He has bachelors and masters degree from Stanford specializing in AI. Edward's favorite book : Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger) (00:00) Introduction and Investing Framework (06:02) Cold Emailing and Honest Feedback (13:23) Biases and Opportunities in the VC Ecosystem (20:47) Disruption and Ownership in the AI Tech Stack (24:15) Robotic Process Automation and AI Agents (26:08) Consumer AI Opportunities (30:00) Unlocking Opportunities in EdTech (33:11) Technological Breakthroughs in AI (35:04) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Unpacking AI Startups: Metrics, Playbooks, and the Future 33:09
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJulia Klein is a partner at March Capital, a growth-stage VC firm. Prior to this, she was the cofounder and CEO of CareerPeer. She has an MBA from Harvard. Julia's favorite books: - Brandon Sanderson's books - The Nightingale (Author: Kristin Hannah) - Crime and Punishment (Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky) - The Will of the Many (Author: James Islington) (00:00) Introduction (00:07) What Sets an AI Startup Apart (05:14) The Rise of Generative AI (08:00) AI and Digital Biology (08:38) Opportunities in Computer Vision (12:02) The Potential of Synthetic Data (13:55) Metrics and Challenges for AI Startups (19:27) Important Metrics for Growth Stage AI Startups (25:12) Exciting Technological Breakthroughs in AI (27:41) Future Opportunities for AI Founders (29:28) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Anand Kannappan is the cofounder and CEO of Patronus AI, an automated AI evaluation and security company. They have raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, and Fortune 500 executives. He was previously at Meta and Vertis. He was also the cofounder of Kyber Technologies, which was a service to systematically predict market events using AI and remote sensing data. It evolved into a futures quant hedge fund managing $15M for partners. Anand's favorite book : Harry Potter series (Author: JK Rowling) (00:00) Introduction and Common Failure Modes of Large Language Models (03:02) Challenges of Automated Evaluation in AI Models (06:08) The Importance of Fine-Tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation (09:02) Addressing Copyright Detection in Language Models (11:51) The Liability of Companies Using AI Models (15:02) Advancements in Multimodal Models and State Space Models (20:48) The Role of Fine-Tuning in the Evolution of Language Models (23:51) The Significance of Adversarial Testing in AI (25:56) The Role of Retrieval Augmented Generation in AI (28:05) The Need for Continuous Function Optimization in Prompting (29:02) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Camilo Acosta is a GP at Perceptive VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in AI-first companies across the US and Latin America. He was previously a product lead at Meta. Prior to that, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pay By Group. Camilo's favorite book : The Power Law (Author: Sebastian Mallaby) (00:00) Introduction (00:29) Key Factors for AI Startup Success (01:23) Disruptive Opportunities for Startups in the AI Tech Stack (03:15) Challenges and Opportunities in AI Hardware (04:15) Assessing Ambitious Hardware Opportunities (05:23) Promising Trends in Verticalized AI Applications (06:21) Impactful AI Applications in Healthcare and Education (08:11) Modes and Building an Edge in AI Startups (09:10) The Importance of Truth Seeking and Paranoia in Founders (11:13) Overlooked Opportunities in AI, Particularly Computer Vision (13:26) Traits of Successful AI Startup Founders (15:46) Balancing Coachability and Self-Reliance in Founders (20:43) Personalized Compute Devices and the Future of Hardware (22:34) Infusing AI into Venture and Private Equity Workflows (25:34) Exciting Breakthroughs and Seed Fundable Opportunities in AI (27:44) The Future of AI Investing and the Role of Founders (29:48) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 AI's Role In Physics, Chemistry, and Beyond 39:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAnima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech. Her work developing novel AI algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI, including scientific simulations, weather forecasting, autonomous drone flights, and drug design. She has received best paper awards at venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. She holds degrees from the IIT Madras and Cornell University. She has conducted postdoctoral research at MIT. She was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director at Nvidia. Anima's favorite book : Hyperspace (Author: Michio Kaku) (00:00) Introduction (00:10) The Impact of AI on Science (02:25) AI Disrupting Physics (03:02) Challenges in Fluid Dynamics (06:21) Achieving Orders of Magnitude Speedup (10:43) AI Discovering New Laws of Physics (11:45) Complexity of Fluid Dynamics (15:54) Simulating Physical Phenomena with AI (22:23) AI for Drones in Strong Winds (25:16) Optimizing Experiments with AI (28:19) AI in Quantum Chemistry (32:38) Technological Breakthroughs in AI (33:23) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Greenoaks and General Catalyst. He was previously at Nuro. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT. Varun's favorite book : The Idea Factory (Author: Jon Gertner) (00:00) Introduction and State of Play (03:03) What Generative AI Can Do Well (06:10) Introduction to Codeium (08:53) Handling Different Programming Languages (11:26) Model Architectures and Optimization (13:27) Interpreting and Trusting AI Decisions (18:33) Security and Privacy Considerations (20:07) Impact on Software Quality and Developers (21:50) Potential Obsolescence of Programming Languages (23:39) Handling Edge Cases (26:07) The Biggest Impact of Generative AI for Coding (28:27) Technological Breakthroughs in Generative AI (29:30) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Rajat Bhageria is the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, where they are building robots that can do the work of assembly line cooks in commercial kitchens. He's also the cofounder and managing partner of Prototype Capital, a pre-seed VC fund. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of ThirdEye, which got acquired in 2017. He has been a writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Huffington Post. Rajat's favorite book : Steve Jobs (Author: Walter Isaacson) (00:00) Fundamentals of Robotics and AI (01:44) Sensors in the Kitchen (03:18) Motion Control in the Kitchen (07:15) Introduction to Chef Robotics (10:15) Designing Robotic Grippers for the Kitchen (14:01) Computer Vision in the Kitchen (24:31) The Power of Marrying Software and Hardware (28:00) Energy Consumption in Robotics (32:18) User Experience in Robotics (36:32) Technological Breakthroughs and Future of Robotics (41:28) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Jonathan Godwin is the cofounder and CEO of Orbital Materials, where they're using Generative AI to develop a pipeline of new materials for carbon removal and energy transition. He was previously a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. Jonathan's favorite book : The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes) (00:07) The Process of Discovering New Materials (04:20) Building the Foundation Model (06:42) The Impact of Google's GNoME Project (08:49) Adding Materials to the Pipeline (11:08) Computational Screening and AI (13:43) Material Structures and Properties (18:41) Material Formation and Degradation (20:47) Materials for Carbon Removal and Energy Transition (23:44) Ensuring Material Safety (27:13) Exciting New Materials (28:07) Breakthroughs in Material Science (30:09) The Future of AI in Materials Discovery (34:07) Rapid Fire Round -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Sergiy Nesterenko is the cofounder and CEO of Quilter, an AI platform to automate circuit board layout. He was previously at SpaceX for 5 years and he has a degree from UC Berkeley. They just announced their $10M Series A round led by Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley's most storied VC firms. (00:07) What is a PCB and its role in electronic devices (01:30) Examples of PCBs in everyday life (04:47) Manual components of the PCB design process (06:26) Introduction to Quilter and its automation of PCB layout (07:46) What can be automated in PCB layout design (08:44) Challenges in PCB layout design (10:12) The role of AI in automating PCB layout design (12:25) Criteria for PCB design and material selection (14:38) Thermal management in PCB design (15:05) Ensuring signal integrity in PCB design (19:44) The use of AI in PCB design (20:08) The future of AI in PCB design (22:07) The importance of material selection in PCB design (23:32) The importance of thermal management in PCB design (24:11) Ensuring signal integrity in densely packed PCBs (26:59) The potential impact of AI on the PCB design process (28:47) The importance of aesthetics in PCB design (29:14) The potential obsolescence of human designers in PCB design (30:26) Exciting innovations in PCB design (34:42) The need for systematic access to PCB design information (36:30) Rapid Fire Round Sergiy's favorite book: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Author: J. R. R. Tolkien) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Ari Morcos is the cofounder and CEO of Datology, an automated data curation platform. He was previously an AI research scientist at Meta and DeepMind. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard. (00:07) Data Curation and its Importance (03:29) Assessing Data Quality (06:50) Challenges in Data Curation (13:27) Types of Data to Remove (19:33) Relationship Between Data Size and Model Size (23:22) Choosing the Optimal Subset of Data (26:23) The Future of Data Curation (31:29) Impact on Data Management Service Providers (36:19) Rapid Fire Round Ari's favorite books: - The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes) - The Cosmere Series (Author: Brandon Sanderson) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Modifying Speech Accents In Real Time With AI 34:34
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedOfer Ronen is the CEO of Tomato.ai, an AI platform to soften speech accents of people as they speak. He was previously at Google where he built Contact Center AI products. Prior to this, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pulse.io and Sendori. (00:26) Accent Modification in Real Time (02:21) Training Data for AI Models (04:14) Overview of Tomato AI (05:36) Challenges in Modifying Speech Accents (07:17) Role of Phonetics and Linguistics (08:19) Handling Intonation and Subtleties in Different Languages (09:36) Advances in AI for Speech Modification (11:21) Addressing Societal Bias and Ethical Considerations (13:08) Expanding Accent Modification to Different Accents (14:20) Deployment on Mobile Devices and Computational Requirements (16:02) Disclosure Policy for Accent Modification (17:59) Future Applications of Speech Modification (19:48) Ripe Areas for Innovation in Contact Center AI (22:28) Impact of Generative AI on Speech Modification (24:53) Demonstrating Success in Contact Center AI (27:06) Future of AI and Speech Modification (28:37) Rapid Fire Round Ofer's favorite book : Life 3.0 (Author: Max Tegmark) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Itamar Arel is the CEO of Tenyx, where they are building intelligent voice AI agents. He was previously the founder of Apprente and Binatix. He was previously a visiting associate professor at Stanford. (00:22) State of Play in Voice AI (02:21) Modern Voice Agents (04:01) Building Voice AI Models (05:48) The Role of Developers (08:28) Introduction to Tenyx (09:52) Innovative Use Cases of Voice AI (15:20) Challenges in Voice AI (19:18) Scaling Voice AI Across Languages (21:45) Combating Misinformation in Voice AI (24:17) Voice AI and Human Creativity (26:49) Sensitive Use Cases of Voice AI (28:48) Voice AI in the Military (30:32) AI-Generated Voice and Disclosure (32:28) Future of Voice AI (34:04) Rapid Fire Round Itamar's favorite book: Consciousness and the Brain (Author: Stanislas Dehaene) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Apoorv Agrawal is a partner at Altimeter, a tech-focused crossover firm with investments in iconic companies such as Snowflake, Twilio, UiPath, Uber, Okta, Roblox, HubSpot, GitLab, and more. He focuses on software and AI investments. He was previously an investor at Softbank and Steadview. Prior to this, he was building AI software at Rocket Fuel and Palantir as an engineer. He continues to code to this day and has built AltimeterGPT to augment their research efforts. He has a bachelors in computer science and an MBA from Stanford. (00:33) The Rise of MANG VC (03:01) Capital Deployed by MANG VC (04:27) Impact of ChatGPT on Investment Strategies (07:16) The "Round Trip" Effect (10:05) Legality and Market Distortion (12:19) Margin Profiles of AI Businesses (15:28) Valuing Modern AI Businesses (18:30) Market Distortions and Downstream Effects (21:56) Considerations for Raising Capital from MANG VC (26:19) Role of MANG VC in the Next Two Years (35:02) Rapid Fire Round Apoorv's favorite book : Man's Search for Meaning (Author: Viktor Frankl) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Atif Rafiq is the cofounder and CEO of Ritual, a software app to speed up innovation and move ideas to action. He has held C-suite roles at McDonald's, Volvo, and MGM Resorts. He was previously the cofounder/CEO of Covigna, which is a content management software provider. He's the author of the book Decision Sprint, which was featured on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list. (00:08) Defining the Future of Work (02:06) Skills for an AI-First Workplace (05:46) Evolution of Education Systems (08:24) Impact of AI on Skilled Professionals (10:30) Remote Work Effectiveness (12:47) Equipping Teams with AI Knowledge (15:46) Career Pivots towards AI (17:49) Practical Steps for Problem Solving (20:12) Value of AI Certifications (21:27) Introduction to Ritual (23:18) Surprising Discoveries with Ritual (26:17) The Future Workplace (29:09) Rapid Fire Round Atif's favorite book: Thinking, Fast and Slow (Author: Daniel Kahneman) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Curtis Northcutt is the cofounder and CEO of Cleanlab, a data curation platform for LLMs. They have raised $30M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo, Databricks, and TQ. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of ChipBrain. He has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. (00:07) Data Curation in the Context of LLMs (01:14) Connection between Language Models and Computer Science (03:14) Importance of Data Curation for LLMs (04:06) Challenges in Data Curation for LLMs (06:09) Confident Learning and its Concept (09:42) CleanLab and its Role (12:42) Role of Open Source Datasets and Tooling (15:08) Balancing Data and Privacy in Regulated Industries (17:25) Feasibility of Federated Learning (20:35) Decentralized Compute and Aggregating Compute Clusters (25:19) Determining Model Size for Data Representation (27:09) Advice for ML Engineers in Handling Data Curation (30:20) Rapid Fire Round Curtis's favorite book : The Bible (in the context of marketing) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
John Dulin is the founder and CEO of Modern Intelligence, where they are building AI foundation models for defense. He was previously at Numerai and Freenome. (00:00) Introduction (00:08) The State of AI in Defense (03:17) AI Impact on Tactics in Conflicts (09:24) Real-Time Threat Assessment (18:21) Naval Operations and Maritime Surveillance (22:28) Startups and Maritime Technologies (25:58) Naval Dominance and Global Power (31:20) Multi-Intelligence in Defense (35:20) The AI Arms Race and the Future of Defense (38:59) Rapid Fire Round John's favorite book : Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Talia Goldberg is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses on consumer internet, software, and AI. She became the youngest elected partner in firm history. Bessemer is a VC firm with a long and storied history with investments in companies like Twilio, Shopify, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitch, and many more. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Why is consumer the biggest beneficiary of AI - AI is generating massive consumer surplus - Why is RLHF only a secondary moat - Distribution tactics for consumer AI: virality via social proof, the Etsy effect, building for niche communities, standing on the shoulder of giants, "first order irrational, second order rational" - Conversion tactics for consumer AI: entertainment as conversion, community-driven conversion, gambling psychology - What does 2024 look like for AI startups and VCs Talia's favorite book : Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Dan Caron is the founder and CEO of Health Universe, where they are building an open source collaboration platform for health AI. He was previously the founder and CTO of Dark Pilot. Prior to that, he was the founder and COO of RxREVU. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - State of play in Health AI - Why open source in Health AI - The founding of Health Universe - Potential risks of using open source in healthcare - Regulatory environment - Open source vs commercial healthcare - Impact of the open source approach on healthcare providers and global healthcare disparities - The future of open source in Health AI Dan's favorite book : Build (Author: Tony Fadell) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Jo Varshney is the founder and CEO of VeriSIM Life, an AI-driven bio-simulation platform that enables pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug development. She has a PhD in Comparative Oncology and Genomics. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - State of play in AI-powered drug discovery - Why is it so difficult to know which drug candidates to pursue? - The founding of VeriSIM Life - Role of AI in drug formulation - Role of AI in drug repurposing - Role of AI in drug-drug interaction - How does AI help in evaluating potential toxic effects of a drug candidate? - What should ML developers know about biochemistry? And about biochemists? - Determing the efficacy - De Novo drug design - Patient stratification - The future of AI powered drug discovery Jo's favorite book: Built to Last (Author: Jim Collins) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Mark Gabel is the cofounder and CEO of Laredo Labs, where they are building an AI agent for software engineers. He was previously the Chief Scientist at Viv Labs and an assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Current state of generative AI in software development - Solver agent - Characteristics of a good AI assistant - Context awareness - Tradeoff between ease of generation and software quality - The role of programming languages - Future of Generative AI in software engineering Mark's favorite books: - Gödel, Escher, Bach (Author: Douglas Hofstadter) - On Food and Cooking (Author: Harold McGee) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Jae Lee is the cofounder and CEO of Twelve Labs, where they are building video understanding infrastructure to help developers build programs that can see, hear, and understand the world. He was previously the Lead Data Scientist at the Ministry of National Defense in South Korea. He has a bachelors in computer science from UC Berkeley. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is multimodal video understanding - State of play in multimodal video - The founding of Twelve Labs - The launch of Pegasus-1 - Four core principles: Efficient Long-form Video Processing, Multimodal Understanding, Video-native Embeddings, Deep Alignment between Video and Language Embeddings - Differences between multimodal vs traditional video analysis - In what ways can malicious actors misuse this technology? - The future of multimodal video understanding Jae's favorite books: - Deep Learning (Authors: Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville) - The Giving Tree (Author: Shel Silverstein) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Max Grigorev has been building ML products for a long time. He has worked underwater autonomy and has spent time at Google, Airbnb, and Teralytics. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is underwater autonomy - State of play in underwater robotics - Challenges of underwater operations - Differences between underwater vs land robotics - Unexplored opportunities in underwater autonomy - Regulatory hurdles - Future of underwater autonomy Max's favorite books: - Dune (Author: Frank Herbert) - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Author: Christopher Bishop) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Sam Lessin is a GP at Slow Ventures, an early-stage VC firm based out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York. In the last decade, they have invested in the earliest rounds of over 500 companies including Solana, Robinhood, Venmo, Airtable, Slack, Front, Allbirds, Postmates, and more. He's the cofounder of Fin. He was VP of Product Management at Meta. He has a degree from Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI technology is great, but AI investing is not a good idea. Why? - Why is AI just an extending innovation as opposed to a platform shift? - Why can't $100B platform wins be manufactured? - Do AI startups have moats? - AI moment vs cloud computing moment - AI regulation - Seed equity "killing fields" - Meaningful AI use cases Sam's deck : https://docsend.com/view/e6nd457kgbg8zich Sam's favorite book : The Lessons of History (Authors: Will and Ariel Durant) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Tristan Zajonc is the cofounder and CEO of Continual, a developer platform for generative AI applications. He previously cofounded Sense, which was a platform for data science and machine learning. It got acquired by Cloudera in 2016. He spent 3 years at Cloudera building ML software. He has a PhD from Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI as an interface to the world - Tech stack of the future - The founding of Continual - AI product delivery avenues (cloud, on prem, model hubs, packaged solutions) - Traditional MLOps vs LLMOps - Open source AI - AI compute market Tristan's favorite book : Suburban Nation (Authors: Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Martice Nicks III is the cofounder and CTO of Danti, a search engine for exploring the extensive collections of Earth observation data available today. He was previously at Orbital Insights, Maxar Technologies, and other companies working on geospatial data. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is Earth observation data - Where does the data come from - The founding of Danti - Use cases of Earth Observation data - How do you index this data and make it searchable - gSEARCH challenge - What AI tools are being built for defense purposes Martice's favorite books: - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Author: Stephen R. Covey) - Dresden Files (Author: Jim Butcher) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
Nicolas Tilmans is the cofounder and CEO of Anagenex, an AI-powered drug discovery platform. They have raised $37M in funding so far from investors such as Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Air Street, Menlo, and Catalio. He was previously the VP of Engineering at Lumiata. He has a PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What are small molecule drugs and why are they challenging to develop - The founding of Anagenex - Data generation engine - DNA Encoded Libraries (DELs) - Affinity Selected Mass Spectrometry - Identifying the right targets - What's next for AI-infused drug discovery Nicolas's favorite books: - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Author: Gabrielle Zevin) - Letters by Abraham Lincoln (Author: Abraham Lincoln) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Evolution of intelligence, Digital life, AGI | Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy 30:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedFlo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, where they are building a personal AI assistant. He was previously the founder and CEO of Teamflow. Prior to that, he was at Uber where he led the development of Uber Works and JUMP Starter. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Evolution of intelligence - The dawn of digital life - Artificial General Intelligence - White House's Executive Order on AI - The founding of Lindy AI - Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models - Nvidia's position in the AI ecosystem, its strengths and weaknesses - Building AI agents Flo's favorite book : Atlas Shrugged (Author: Ayn Rand) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Thoughts on OpenAI DevDay announcements | Vikram Sreekanti, cofounder and CEO of RunLLM 33:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedVikram Sreekanti is the cofounder and CEO of RunLLM, a developer platform for the LLM stack. They have raised funding from investors such as Redpoint and Essence. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - OpenAI DevDay announcements - Are long context windows useful? - Open source AI - The founding of RunLLM - Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models - Why is OpenAI too cheap to beat? - Nvidia's strengths and potential weaknesses Vikram's favorite book : Slaughterhouse-Five (Author: Kurt Vonnegut) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Executive Order on AI, Open Source AI | Douwe Kiela, cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI 41:41
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDouwe Kiela is the cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI, where they are building the next generation of foundation models that provide fully customizable, trustworthy, and privacy-aware AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford. He was previously the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a research scientist at Meta. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Open source vs closed source AI - White House's Executive Order on AI - Enterprise needs when it comes to LLMs - The founding of Contextual AI - What does RAG 2.0 look like for LLMs - Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models - Do Big tech companies have an unassailable lead in AI? - Size of the data vs size of the model. What is more important and why? - How will the AI compute market shape up? Douwe's favorite books: - The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Author: J.R.R. Tolkien) - The Count of Monte Cristo (Author: Alexandre Dumas) - Amp It Up (Author: Frank Slootman) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 AI compute market, LLM infrastructure, Industrial AI | Ville Tuulos, cofounder and CEO of Outerbounds 38:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedVille Tuulos is the cofounder and CEO of Outerbounds, a platform to develop and deploy production-grade AI applications. They have raised $24M in funding so far from investors such as Foundation, Amplify, and Greenoaks. He was previously at Netflix and AdRoll. Prior to that, he was the cofounder of Bitdeli. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Origin of the open source framework Metaflow - The founding of Outerbounds - AI compute clusters - Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models - Training compute-optimal LLMs - Industrial AI - Multimodal AI - Building LLMs through experimentation - How will the AI compute market shape up (chips, cloud services, infrastructure platforms) Ville's favorite book : Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Author: Richard Feynman) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Prateek talks about Nvidia's new AI agent that can train robots 25:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about Nvidia's new AI agent called Eureka. It can train robots to do all sorts of complex tasks. Large language models like GPT-4 are really good at making plans and decisions for certain tasks. But when it comes to teaching robots to do complicated physical stuff, like spinning a pen around their fingers, they've been a bit clumsy. That's where Eureka comes in. Eureka takes the best parts of LLMs and uses them to create a reward system for teaching robots. Blog post: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/10/20/eureka-robotics-research/ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12931 Code: https://github.com/eureka-research/Eureka -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
1 Prateek talks about Generative AI in Biology 27:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 13 areas in Biology where Generative AI is going to make a big impact: 1. Drug discovery 2. Protein design 3. Synthetic data generation 4. Discovering gene regulatory networks 5. Metagenomics 6. Ecology 7. Drug repurposing 8. Genome assembly 9. Disease prediction and diagnosis 10. Single-cell transcriptonomics 11. Evolutionary biology 12. Protein-Protein interaction 13. Personalized medicine -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about LLMs learning to represent space and time 23:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about LLMs learning to represent space and time. Here's the paper where the authors have discussed it in detail: https://browse.arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02207.pdf -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about the Reversal Curse of LLMs 18:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about the Reversal Curse phenomenon in LLMs. Here's the paper where the authors have discussed it in detail: https://owainevans.github.io/reversal_curse.pdf -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Generative AI x Synthetic data | Ali Golshan, cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI 42:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAli Golshan is the cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI, a synthetic data platform for ML developers. They have raised $65M in funding so far from investors such as Greylock and Anthos. He was previously the cofounder of StackRox, which was acquired by Red Hat for about $450M. Prior to that, he was the cofounder of Cyphort, which was acquired by Juniper Networks. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - The need for synthetic data - Techniques to generate synthetic data - How can AI enhance the synthetic data generation process - Computational irreducibility - Differential privacy - Measuring the performance of the engine that generates synthetic data Ali's favorite books: - The Order of Time (Author: Carlo Rovelli) - The Coddling of the American Mind (Authors: Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Programmatic AI data development, Multimodal AI, False dichotomy of fine-tuning vs RAG, Compute-optimal LLMs | Alex Ratner, CEO of Snorkel AI 51:11
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAlex Ratner is the CEO of Snorkel AI, a platform that provides programmatic data labeling and foundation models to enable companies to build AI applications. They've raised $135M so far from amazing investors such as Addition, Greylock, Google Ventures, and Lightspeed. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of SiftPage. He has a bachelors degree from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Making AI data development first-class and programmatic - The data-centric step for every model-centric step - False dichotomy of fine tuning vs RAG - Foundation model dynamics: winner take all vs diverse models - Training compute-optimal LLMs - Designing multimodal datasets (DataComp) - Distilling Step-by-Step - 'GPT-You' for every enterprise Alex's favorite books : Foundation series books (Author: Isaac Asimov) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Generative AI x Privacy | Riddhiman Das, CEO of TripleBlind 38:43
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedRiddhiman Das is the CEO of TripleBlind, a privacy platform for AI. They have raised $32M in funding, with their most recent round led by General Catalyst. He was previously the Head of International Technology Investments at Ant Financial, which is Alibaba's financial services arm. He was the Product Architect at Zoloz, Chairman at Laplacian, Chief Data Offier at mySideWalk, and CTO of Galleon Labs. He has received the 2013 White House Champions of Change from President Barack Obama. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Attack surface of an AI application - What are the ways in which privacy can be compromised during training and deployment of AI models - Role based access control for Generative AI applications - Data leakage in Generative AI applications - Characteristics of a good privacy product - How is TripleBlind used in healthcare and financial sectors Riddhiman's favorite book : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Author: Jules Verne) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about AI infrastructure ideas and categories 31:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about AI infrastructure ideas and categories including: Model infrastructure: - Compute hardware - ML frameworks - Foundation model providers - Distributed model training - Model deployment - Building and serving verticalized models - Streaming ML models - Monitoring and logging - Experimentation framework - On-device applications - Orchestration platform - Latency - User feedback loop Data infrastructure: - Storage hardware - Data acquisition - Databases - Data labeling - Cataloging product usage data - Privacy and security - Backup and redundancy systems -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 AI coprocessor for data, Relational knowledge graphs | Molham Aref, CEO of RelationalAI 43:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMolham Aref is the CEO of RelationalAI, an AI coprocessor for the data cloud. They have raised $122M in funding from the likes of Tiger Global, Madrona, Addition, and Menlo Ventures. He is a serial enterpreneur and has been the CEO of LogicBlox, Predictix, and Optimi. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Relational knowledge graphs - Knowledge graphs for AI-driven applications - What is an AI coprocessor - Graph analytics - Interaction between ML infrastructure and knowledge graph infrastructure - Data infrastructure for AI compute Molham's favorite book : The Datapreneurs (Author: Bob Muglia) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about 8 strategies to speed up ML on different hardware platforms 18:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about: - why do we care about this problem - who needs it - how does it work - list of 8 strategies to speed up ML -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Object store for AI workloads | Anand Babu Periasamy, cofounder and CEO of MinIO 40:29
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAnand Babu "AB" Periasamy is the cofounder and CEO of MinIO, a high performance object storage for AI that's built for large scale workloads. They have raised $126M in funding from the likes of General Catalyst, Softbank, Intel Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. It's the world's fastest growing object storage company with more than 1 billion Docker pulls and more than 35K stars on GitHub. He's also an angel investor with investments in companies like H2O.ai, Isovalent, Starburst, Postman, and many more. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Gluster, which got acquired by Red Hat. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Why is storage important for AI workflows - What are the characteristics of a good data storage product - Repatriation of data from public cloud to on-prem - Running ML experiments in parallel - AI compute offerings from data infrastructure providers - Making data infrastructure faster and cheaper AB's favorite book: An Awesome Book! (Author: Dallas Clayton) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 AI assistant for software development | Eran Yahav, cofounder and CTO of Tabnine 39:34
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedEran Yahav is the cofounder and CTO of Tabnine, an AI assistant that developers can use to build software faster. He's a professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and was previously a researcher at IBM. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Tasks in software development - What tasks are likely to benefit from LLMs - The launch of Tabnine Chat - Characteristics of a good AI coding assistant - Making AI coding assistants context-aware - Generic LLMs vs domain specific LLMs - AI copilot for devops work Eran's favorite book : Catch-22 (Author: Joseph Heller) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about: - why do we need data orchestration - what exactly is it - how does it work - where is it used in the real world - market landscape of tools -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 No-Code Generative AI, Domain specific LLMs, AI experimentation | Karthik Dinakar, cofounder and CTO of Pienso 40:19
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKarthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Tech stack of Generative AI applications - Problem with general purpose LLMs - Training LLMs on my own data - Making LLMs faster and cheaper - Shortage of AI compute - Context windows - Pursuit of AGI Karthik's favorite books: - Introduction to Algorithms (Authors: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein) - Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (Author: Seymour Peypert) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop 16:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop when they build products. -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Compute layer for data, Vector search, AI infrastructure | Venkat Venkataramani, cofounder and CEO of Rockset 43:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedVenkat Venkataramani is the cofounder and CEO of Rockset, a real-time search and analytics database built for the cloud. They've raised more than $60M in funding from the likes of Greylock and Sequoia. He was previously at Meta for 8 years and Oracle for 5.5 years. He has spent his entire life building data products, so he has a ton of insights on this topic. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Separation of storage and compute - Isolating compute for ingest and query - Converged Index - Vector search - Stream Processing Systems vs Real-Time Analytics Databases - Data infra for AI applications - Bringing compute to data Venkat's favorite books: - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Author: Douglas Adams) - The Three-Body Problem (Author: Liu Cixin) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about Geometric Deep Learning 15:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about: - The concept of Geometric Deep Learning - Why do we need it - How does it work - Where is it used in the real world -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Speeding up Generative AI models | Luis Ceze, cofounder and CEO of OctoML 39:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLuis Ceze is the cofounder and CEO of OctoML, a platform that offers compute infrastructure to fine-tune, run, and scale your AI models. He's a professor at University of Washington and a venture partner at Madrona. He was previously the cofounder of Corensic. He has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - OctoAI product announcement - How to make LLMs faster and cheaper - Training your own LLMs - The perceived shortage of AI compute - Enterprise spend on AI compute - Applications being built using OctoML - Domain specific models Luis's favorite books: - Thinking, Fast and Slow (Author: Daniel Kahneman) - Blindness (Author: Jose Saramago) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about 9 steps to do customer discovery for AI products 16:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDoing customer discovery is a critical skill that founders need to develop in the early stages of their AI startup's journey. In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 9 steps to do customer discovery for AI products. -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Vector databases x Vertical AI | Andre Zayarni (cofounder/CEO of Qdrant) and Karthik Dinakar (cofounder/CTO of Pienso) 28:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAndre Zayarni is the cofounder and CEO of Qdrant, an open-source vector database company. He was previously the CTO of MoBerries building a next generation HR product based on AI and Real-time. He's been building software products for 20+ years. Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Why do we need vector databases? - What type of applications need a vector database? - When choosing a vector database, what characteristics should a developer look for? - What are the building blocks of generative AI applications? - What can LLMs do well and where are the gaps? - What LLM applications are being built in the enterprise? - Retrieval Augmented Generation - What's the importance of vector databases in vertical AI? -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about why we need Federated Learning, how it works, and where it's used in the real world. -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 AI x DevOps, Open source AI, Data infrastructure | Timothy Chen, General Partner at Essence VC 1:01:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTimothy Chen is the founder and general partner at Essence Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in data infrastructure and developer tools. Prior to Essence, he was the SVP of Engineering at Cosmos, a popular open source blockchain SDK. He cofounded Hyperpilot with Stanford Professor Christos Kozyrakis to disrupt the enterprise infrastructure space, which later exited to Cloudera. He was an early employee at Mesosphere and CloudFoundry. He is also active in the open source space as an Apache member. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Using LLMs for devops work - Open source AI - How to spot open source investment opportunities - Data infrastructure opportunities - AI infrastructure opportunities - Security and privacy Timothy's favorite book: Behind The Cloud (Author: Marc Benioff) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Prateek talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI 18:48
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAI has been attracting talent from many different sectors. In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI. -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Generative AI stack, Android moment of AI, Data infrastructure | Jon Turow, Partner at Madrona 41:11
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJon Turow is a partner at Madrona, a VC firm that has invested in amazing companies like OctoML, HighSpot, Fixie, Clari, Runway, UiPath, and many more. He holds 26 patents! Most recently, he led the product teams for AWS Computer Vision AI services, including Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition. He wrote the original product and business plans for AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass, which extend AWS services to run locally on edge devices. Prior to Amazon, he co-founded a cloud telephony startup. He holds a bachelor's from Wharton and an MBA from Kellogg. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - The Generative AI stack - Application frameworks for developers - Using a combination of multiple foundation models - Data tooling for AI applications - Making LLMs faster/better/cheaper - The Android moment of AI - Open source AI opportunities - AI copilots for software development - What use cases within AI infrastructure are exciting to you Jon's favorite book: Night Flight (Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 AI x Robotics | Sam Baker, investor at Scale Venture Partners 38:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSam Baker is an investor at Scale Venture Partners, a VC firm that has invested in amazing companies such as HubSpot, DocuSign, Box, Bill.com, Root Insurance, and many more. He was named to Business Insider's list of Rising Stars in Venture Capital. Prior to joining Scale, he was a Growth Manager at Tilt.com that was acquired by Airbnb. Before that, he worked at Box. He began his career at Glouston Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on private equity and venture capital secondaries. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Robotics use cases in the warehouse, what functions can be automated - Why is the focus shifting to platforms - Why is the supply chain industry defined by exception handling and what can be done to address it - Collaboration between humans and machines - Robotics in the construction industry - Robotics in the restaurant industry - Startup trends within AI + robotics Sam's favorite books: - Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (Author: Howard Schultz) - Hatching Twitter (Author: Nick Bilton) - Endurance (Author: Alfred Lansing) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 LLM-infused search, Why LLMs hallucinate, Grounded Generation | Amr Awadallah, cofounder and CEO of Vectara 49:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAmr Awadallah is the founder and CEO of Vectara, an LLM-powered search company that enables customers to understand exactly what their users are asking. They just announced that they've raised a $28.5 Million round led by Race Capital. He was previously the founder of Cloudera, which went IPO and then was acquired for $5.3 Billion. He has held roles at Google Cloud, Yahoo, Nortel, and HP Labs before this. He has a Phd from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How search engines work - Generative AI conversational search - Hallucination problem in LLMs - Grounded Generation - Fine tuning vs In-context learning - Typical use cases within enterprise search - Generative AI companies he's excited about Amr's favorite book: Sapiens (Author: Yuval Noah Harari) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Training your own LLM, Domain specific models | Naveen Rao, cofounder and CEO of MosaicML 30:22
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedNaveen Rao is the cofounder and CEO of MosaicML, a platform that enables you to train and deploy large AI models on your data in your secure environment. They've raised funding from amazing investors such as Lux Capital, Data Collective, and Maverick Ventures. Prior to this, he was the cofounder of Nervana. It got acquired by Intel for $408M. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - AI compute workloads - Compute platform for training and inference - How to train your own LLM - Ways to reduce the cost of training AI models - Advantages of training domain specific models - In-context learning - Context windows of LLMs - Moat of AI-infused businesses Naveen's favorite book : The Righteous Mind (Author: Jonathan Haidt) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Lessons from a $130M acquisition, ML model deployment for data scientists, Discovering product-market fit | Harry Glaser, cofounder and CEO of Modelbit 40:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHarry Glaser is the cofounder and CEO of Modelbit, a platform for data scientists to deploy machine learning models. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of Periscope Data, which raised more than $50M in funding from investors such as Bessemer, Threshold, Susa, and others. Periscope got acquired for $130M by SiSense. Prior to that, he was a product manager at Google. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key learnings from Periscope - What experiments did he run at Periscope during the product-market fit discovery phase - How to hire executives - Motivation behind launching Modelbit - How is Modelbit being used today - Content marketing for developer tooling companies - Top 2-3 favorite use cases for Modelbit Harry's favorite books: Two books by Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains Of The Day, Never Let Me Go -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 LLM Agents, Few-Shot Learning | Matt Welsh, cofounder and CEO of Fixie 37:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMatt Welsh is the cofounder and CEO of Fixie, an automation platform for LLMs. It allows developers to build natural language agents that connect to your data, talk to APIs, and solve complex problems. They've raised $17M from investors such as Redpoint, Madrona, Zetta, SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, and more. He has previously held roles at OctoML, Apple, Xnor, and Google. He was a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - LLMs as the new computational engine - What can LLMs do well and where are the gaps - Fine-tuning vs In-context learning - Smart Agents - Few shot learning - Use cases of Fixie Matt's favorite book : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Author: Michael Chabon) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 AutoGPT, LLMs for developers, Context windows | Aditya Naganath, Investor at Kleiner Perkins 34:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAditya Naganath is an investor at Kleiner Perkins, a legendary VC firm with investments in companies such as Google, Amazon, Spotify, Doordash, Slack, Intuit, UiPath, Figma, and many more. Prior to this, he was a product manager at Google focusing on growth initiatives for the SMB monetization team within emerging markets. He has previously been in technical roles at Palantir, Twitter, and Nextdoor. He earned a patent during his time at Twitter for a technical analytics product he co-created. And he has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Uses of AutoGPT - How to intervene when AutoGPT gets stuck and how to provide feedback - ChatGPT Plugins - Generative AI in the enterprise - Context windows of LLMs - What new emergent properties can be uncovered if LLMs can reason over larger context windows - LLMs for developers - AI landscape and investment opportunities Aditya's favorite book: Factfulness (Author: Hans Rosling) -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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1 Elad Gil on Generative AI Opportunities, AI Agents, AI Market Structure, and LLM-infused products 29:39
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedElad Gil is an entrepreneur, operator, and and investor. He has invested in and advised companies such as AirBnB, Stripe, Figma, Airtable, Samsara, Coinbase, Flexport, Gitlab, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Pinterest, Rippling, and many more. He was the cofounder and Chairman at Color Genomics. Prior to that, was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. He was the cofouder and CEO MixerLabs, which got acquired by Twitter. He has held roles at Google and McKinsey. He has a PhD from MIT. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How will the AI market structure evolve? - What products can startups build to make LLMs faster/better/cheaper? - How is Generative AI being used in the enterprise today? - How are customers spending money for AI-related work? - What is AutoGPT and how can businesses use it? - What AI copilot products can be built? - How are LLMs being used for software development? - How will the AI infrastructure market shape up? - Building a moat for AI-infused businesses - Open source opportunities in AI - What's the state of play in the AI application market? -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi…
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