The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
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Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alexander Rinke
8 februari 2024 · 36 min
Last week, we sat down with Alex Rinke (https://twitter.com/alexanderrinke), Co-founder & Co-CEO of Celonis, to explore how AI and automation are transforming business operations at large enterprises. Lees meer
Celonis is the pioneer of "process mining" - the technology that uses graph databases, AI, and automation to analyze processes, find inefficiencies and their root causes, and solve them.
Most recently valued at $13B, Celonis is one of the most valuable startups globally. But Alexander and his two co-founders started Celonis while still in college on a $15,000 budget.
In this conversation, we talked about the early days of Celonis, how Alex acquired his first enterprise clients without inside industry connections, how Celonis navigates go-to-market for a product with an expansive scope, and much more.
CELONIS
Website - https://www.celonis.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Celonis
Alex Rinke (Co-Founder & Co-CEO):
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexanderrinke
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-rinke-10733061/
DATA DRIVEN NYC
This episode of the MAD Podcast was recorded live at Data Driven NYC, an event series organized by FirstMark Capital. The events are free and held monthly in New York, currently with the support of Foursquare.
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00:00 - Intro
02:02 - What is Process Mining?
05:20 - How Celonis got started
07:42 - “We had our first prototype in three weeks”
09:36 - Pivotal partnership with ACP
12:12 - How did Celonis find product-market-people fit?
14:14 - Penetrating the global market
16:19 - Technical deep dive into the Celonis’ product
19:29 - Celonis finds process gaps completely automatically
21:15 - Who is the average user of Celonis inside companies?
22:11 - How Celonis uses Generative AI
24:54 - Acquisition of Symbio
25:56 - How to keep the fire of innovation inside the tea…
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Nomic: Truly open AI
1 februari 2024 · 42 min
We are so excited today to be joined by Brandon Duderstadt, CEO + Cofounder, and Zach Nussbaum, Machine Learning Engineer, from Nomic AI. They discuss how Nomic AI is building tools like Atlas + GPT4all that enable everyone to interact with AI scale datasets and run models on consumer computers - and - stay tuned for an exciting announcement about their newest product release later in the podcast. Lees meer
Thanks for joining us for the first episode of Season 2 of the MAD Podcast. We will be back to our regular weekly schedule with new conversations with leaders in the Machine Learning, AI and data landscape. If you like this show, you can find the video recording of this episode -- along with many, many more -- on the Data Driven NYC channel on YouTube.
NOMIC AI
www.nomic.ai
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www.linkedin.com/in/bstadt/
www.linkedin.com/in/zach-nussbaum/
FIRSTMARK
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Matt Turck (Managing Director)
www.linkedin.com/in/turck/
twitter.com/mattturck
Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel
FirstMark Capital Eventbrite
0:46 - What is Nomic AI & how it got started
5:57 - Building GPT4ALL
7:23 - Running LLMs on a personal computer
16:00 - Nomic Atlas
21:33 - Launching Nomic Embed
28:10 The Importance of Data in AI
31:10 - Benchmarking LLMs
32:56 - The Future of Nomic AI
36: 22 - Building an AI Startup in New York
39:10 - Nomic AI is hiring
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Poolside: AI for Software Development with CTO Eiso Kant
20 december 2023 · 45 min
Today, we’re thrilled to be joined by Eiso Kant, CTO + Co-Founder of Poolside, the buzzy new AI tool for software development. Eiso and Matt talk about Poolside’s foundational model, the critical role of data quality in AI, the importance of controlling all levels of the stack and the merits of building a global AI company out of Europe, and more. Lees meer
Thank you to everyone who has joined us for Season 1 of the MAD Podcast. We will be taking a short break for the winter holidays and will be back with an exciting new lineup of great speakers for Season 2 on Wednesdays in January. If you like this show, you can find the video recording of this episode -- along with many more -- on the Data Driven NYC channel on YouTube. Important links are in the show notes below.
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Show Notes:
[00:38:00] Introducing Eiso Kant, Co-founder and CTO of the AI startup, Poolside;
[00:39:16] Eiso's Background; his journey, from starting as a young programmer to founding several companies, including Source{d}, a pioneer in applying deep learning to software source code;
[00:40:33] Formation of Poolside; the collaboration between Eiso and his co-founder, Jason Warner, who was previously the CTO of GitHub and VC with Redpoint Ventures;
[00:42:14] Poolside's Vision and potential to improve software development;
[00:47:17] Narrowing Vision to Product Development; the importance of sequence in a company's growth, focusing on AI pair programming assistants as a start, moving towards a more autonomous future;
[00:50:32] Initial Product Focus, user base, and approach to providing a vertically integrated AI stack for developers;
[00:53:05] Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback;
[01:02:29] Data Handling and Synthetic Data Generation; the importance of data quality and Poolside's strategy for generating and refining training data;
[01:12:05] En…
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ASAPP: Generative AI for Contact Centers with CEO Gustavo Sapoznik
13 december 2023 · 33 min
Today, we’re joined by Gustavo Sapoznik, Founder and CEO of ASAPP, the generative AI platform transforming contact centers. Matt + Gustavo discuss the magnitude of challenges to overcome in this market, how their AI tech is designed to help humans, the reason smart people should choose working at a startup over Big Tech, and more. Lees meer
This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly and are free and open to everyone. And as always, if you enjoy the MAD podcast, please subscribe and feel free to leave us a comment or rating.
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asapp.com
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Show Notes:
[00:00:45] Introducing Gustavo Sapoznik, Founder & CEO of ASAPP, a unicorn AI startup based in New York;
[00:01:00] How ASAPP started with a mission to “end bad customer service” after a frustrating phone call Mr. Sapoznik had with his cable provider;
[00:02:44] ASAPP’s product philosophy and how the customer service is a three-legged stool with companies, customers, and agents;
[00:05:11] How ASAPP automates what they can and augments the rest to make agents more productive;
[00:07:12] The evolution of ASAPP’s offerings including how ASAPP technology makes agents more productive;
[00:9:16] How ASAPP’s technology reduces response times and improves quality for agents by including transcription, auto complete, and real-time scoring of interactions for quality assurance;
[00:13:49] How ASAPP has evolved since 2014; their research-first approach, building in-house AI capabilities, training their own models, and their recent exploration of using open-source checkpoints;
[00:15:05] How Mr. Sapoznik hired the guy who ran all NLP research at Google;
[00:16:04] How cost, latency, and accuracy in their AI models differentiate ASAPP from com…
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Scott Belsky: AI & Creativity
6 december 2023 · 29 min
Today, we’re excited to chat with Scott Belsky - author, entrepreneur, investor and Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe. Matt + Scott discuss the impact of AI on creative work, how Adobe is incorporating AI across their products, and what the future creative tools landscape might look like. Lees meer
This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly and are free and open to everyone. And as always, if you enjoy the MAD podcast, please subscribe and leave us a comment.
Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel
FirstMark Capital Eventbrite
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Implications, by Scott Belsky
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Show Notes:
[00:53] How Adobe uses AI to enhance user experience, streamline onboarding and automate tasks across their product suite;
[01:30] How AI impacts Adobe's business, making creative processes accessible with features like the context bar in Photoshop;
[02:13] Firefly's journey: internal decisions, training challenges, and a commitment to using licensed material for ethical AI;
[03:58] Moral considerations in Firefly's development: the decision to use licensed material, commercial viability, and addressing user comparisons;
[05:52] Adobe's homegrown approach to generative AI models: in-house development and partnerships for specific capabilities like LLM;
[06:08] Adobe Sensei's 10-year evolution: developing AI technologies, the non-profit Content Authenticity Initiative, and content credentials establishing asset provenance;
[09:17] Adobe's new AI advancements: Firefly Image Model 2, Generative Match, and the vector model for illustration;
[11:16] Firefly Editor's revolutionary image editing: dynamically generating pixels, real-time object manipulation, and Adobe's commitment to pushing technological boundaries;
[12:41] Rapid integration of AI features: Firefly models and pla…
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Glean AI: The ML-Powered Accounting Solution with CEO Howard Katzenberg
29 november 2023 · 25 min
Today, we’re joined by Howard Katzenberg, CEO of Glean AI, a machine learning powered accounts payable platform. Matt + Howard discuss Glean’s founding story, how Glean helps CFOs make insight driven choices, and more. Lees meer
This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly and are free and open to everyone. And as always, if you enjoy the MAD podcast, please subscribe and leave us a comment.
Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel
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twitter.com/mattturck
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Shownotes:
[00:00:35] Howard's background;
[00:01:15] Challenges with manual FP&A;
[00:02:54] Approval Process gap realization and opportunity for Glean AI;
[00:04:40] How Glean AI is like “bill.com with a brain”;
[00:05:06] Enhanced functionalities beyond basic AP automation;
[00:06:32] Glean AI’s Inception and AI Models;
[00:07:54] Why Glean AI is unique;
[00:08:25] The evolution of Glean AI’s ML stack;
[00:10:44] Defensibility and how Glean AI offers vendor pricing insights to its network;
[00:12:23] Success stories and customer value;
[00:14:47] Future plans for Glean AI;
[00:16:39] Navigating industry and technical expertise;
[00:18:41] Audience Q&A
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Humanloop: LLM Collaboration and Optimization with CEO Raza Habib
22 november 2023 · 35 min
Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop, the platform for LLM collaboration and evaluation. Matt and Raza cover how to understand and optimize model performance, lessons learned about model evaluation and feedback, and explore the future of model fine-tuning. Lees meer
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humanloop.com
Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel
twitter.com/mattturck
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Shownotes:
[00:00:47] How Humanloop helps product and engineering teams build reliable applications on top of large language models by providing tools to find, manage, and version prompts;
[00:03:05] Where Humanloop fits into the MAD landscape as LM / LLM Ops;
[00:02:40] The challenges of evaluating and monitoring LLM;
[00:03:40] Why evaluating LLMs and generative AI is subjective given its stochastic attributes;
[00:04:40] Why evaluation is important during development and production stages of LLMs to make informed design decisions, and how that challenge evolves In production to monitoring system behavior;
[00:05:40] The need for regression testing with LLMs;
[00:06:10] How Humanloop makes it easy for users to capture feedback including Implicit signals of user satisfaction, such as post-interaction actions and edits to generated content;
[00:07:40] Why and how Humanloop uses guardrails in the app to ensure effective LLM use and implementation;
[00:08:38] Why using an LLM as part of the evaluation process can introduce additional uncertainty and noise; with turtles all the way down;
[00:09:40] How evaluators on Humanloop are restricted to binary yes-or-no style questions or numerical scores to maintain reliability with LLMs in production.
[00:10:40] Why a new set of tools were needed to monitor and observe LLM performance;
[00:11:40] How Humanloop’s interactive environment allows users to find and fix bugs in a prompt, including logs to support issue identification, and then run what-if style analysis by changing the prompt or information retrieval …
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DeepScribe: The AI-Powered Medical Scribe with CEO Akilesh Bapu
15 november 2023 · 34 min
Today we're joined by Akilesh Bapu, CEO and Founder of DeepScribe, the platform using AI and Natural Language Processing to doctor/ patient transcripts. Matt and Akilesh go into DeepScribe's clinical use cases, supervised vs. unsupervised learning, and how critical it still is to have a human in the loop in a medical setting. Lees meer
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Lamini: Fine-Tuning LLMs for The Enterprise with CEO Sharon Zhou
8 november 2023 · 44 min
Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Sharon Zhou, CEO of Lamini, an LLM platform for the enterprise. Matt and Sharon go over the battle between prompting and fine-tuning, how the Lamini platform enables fine-tuning to be done "one billion times faster", and their recently-announced "LLM Super-station" in partnership with AMD. Lees meer
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Perplexity AI: The AI-Powered Answer Engine with CEO Aravind Srinivas
1 november 2023 · 41 min
Today we're joined by Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, a chatbot-style AI conversational engine that directly answers users' questions with sources and citations. Matt & Aravind discuss Perplexity's founding story, the platform itself, and more. Lees meer
This session was recorded live at a recent Data Driven NYC, our in-person, monthly event series. If you are ever in New York, you can find us on Eventbrite by searching for "FirstMark Capital". Events run monthly and are free and open to everyone. And as always, if you enjoy the MAD podcast, please subscribe and feel free to leave us a comment or rating.
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Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge
25 oktober 2023 · 46 min
Today we're joined by Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diffblue, an AI platform that uses reinforcement learning to autonomously test software. We chat about the "AI for code" landscape, the Diffblue platform, and why prompt engineering is not a thing.
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Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu
18 oktober 2023 · 45 min
Today we're joined by Nancy Xu, AI Investor and CEO and Founder of Moonhub AI, the AI recruiting platform helping companies shorten and speed up the recruiting process while also helping employers reach a more diverse pool of candidates. We dive into how the Moonhub platform operates, Nancy's thoughts on opportunities for AI startups, her journey as an investor, and interesting projects she has her eye on. Lees meer
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Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu
11 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Today we're joined by Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder of Dust, a startup building Secure AI assistants for the enterprise. We dive into Stanislas's journey to founding Dust including his experience at Open AI, the path to generative AI adoption in the enterprise, and the rise of the French AI ecosystem. Lees meer
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Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu
4 oktober 2023 · 45 min
Today we're joined by Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, an independent research company developing AI agents with general intelligence, fresh off the announcement of their $200M Series B round of financing. We talk about Kanjun's journey, Imbue's vision and the future of AI agents. Lees meer
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Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal
27 september 2023 · 52 min
Today we're joined by Shreya Rajpal, Co-founder & CEO of Guardrails AI for a conversation on the Guardrails platform, mitigating AI hallucinations and the role fine tuning and retrieval augmented generation play in that.
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AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen
20 september 2023 · 52 min
Today we are joined by Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, for a conversation about AI 21's origin story, their differentiated approach to AI, and their ambitious platform and applications.
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AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science
13 september 2023 · 40 min
Today we are excited to welcome Carly Taylor for a broad discussion covering the numerous ways she's ingrained in the AI & data world including AI at Activision’s Call of Duty franchise, consulting at Rebel Data Science and being a prominent voice for data science on social media. Lees meer
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Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic
6 september 2023 · 46 min
We're joined by Milos Rusic, CEO & Co-founder of deepset AI for a conversation on deepset's origin story as a bootstrapped company, a deep dive into the Haystack open source project and deepset's Cloud platform, and emerging applications for NLP and LLMs in the enterprise. Lees meer
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BigID: Data Visibility & Control with CEO Dimitri Sirota
30 augustus 2023 · 33 min
Dimitri Sirota, Co-Founder and CEO of BigID, which has raised $280+ to date, joins us for a chat about the importance and complexities around knowing and controlling your enterprise data.
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Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah
23 augustus 2023 · 49 min
Today we are diving into the world of generative AI in Healthcare with CEO and Co-founder of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah. In this episode Matt and Munjal discuss the vision for Hippocratic AI, and the unique challenges and opportunities of deploying generative AI in the world of healthcare. Lees meer
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You.com: An AI Chatbot to Search The Web with CEO Richard Socher
16 augustus 2023 · 47 min
This week’s guest is top AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor Richard Socher, CEO of AI search engine You.com. In this conversation, we go behind the scenes and discuss some core design principles and building blocks of the You.com platform, as well as its market positioning. We close the discussion with Richard’s investment thesis and approach in the fast moving AI market Lees meer
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Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald
9 augustus 2023 · 52 min
Today we have the pleasure of talking to Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights and Biases for a conversation about Lukas' entrepreneurial journey building two companies in the MLOps space, the current capabilities of the Weights & Biases platform, lessons learned on the Go to Market front, and more! Lees meer
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Cockroach Labs: A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival with CEO Spencer Kimball
2 augustus 2023 · 44 min
Relational databases, data cloud's effect on infrastructure, serverless databases, and GTM strategies: Matt Turck and CockroachDB's Spencer Kimball cover it all in today's episode.
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Ada: AI-First Customer Service with CEO Mike Murchison
26 juli 2023 · 47 min
Today we're joined by Mike Murchison, Co-Founder & CEO of AI-native customer service platform Ada, for a talk about about the Ada platform, reinventing customer service in the age of Generative AI, and how AI should be onboarded and trained like an employee. Lees meer
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Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli
19 juli 2023 · 44 min
Today we're joined by Victor Riparbelli, CEO of the generative AI video platform Synthesia that just last month hit a $1B valuation after raising their Series C funding round. Matt and Victor go into the Synthesia platform, what it takes to build a successful AI company, and dive into the ethics of generative AI videos. Lees meer
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LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu
12 juli 2023 · 41 min
This week we're joined by Jerry Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of LlamaIndex, a startup that offers a data framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models, for a conversation about the emerging Generative AI infrastructure stack, how startup founders navigate a field as new and fast paced as Generative AI, and more. Lees meer
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Dataiku: The Single Platform for Everyday AI with CEO Florian Douetteau
5 juli 2023 · 49 min
Today we're joined by Florian Douetteau, CEO and Co-Founder of Dataiku, for a conversation about the Dataiku platform, emerging use cases for Generative AI in the enterprise and some leadership lessons learned along the way. Lees meer
You can find Florian's essay, The Children of AI, here: https://children-of-ai.florian-douetteau.com
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Chroma: Programmable AI-Native Databases with Co-Founder Jeff Huber
28 juni 2023 · 26 min
We're joined by Jeff Huber, Co-founder of Chroma, for a chat on open-source AI-native databases.
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Hebbia: Saving Smart People from Mundane Tasks with CEO George Sivulka
21 juni 2023 · 23 min
Today we sit down with George Sivulka, CEO of the AI productivity tool, Hebbia, for a conversation on generative AI in fintech & government how how Hebbia keeps "smart people from doing stupid tasks" in fintech & government.
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How Data Happened - A Conversation with Chris Wiggins, Author and Chief Data Officer at The New York Times
14 juni 2023 · 23 min
New York Times Chief Data Officer and Author of "How Data Happened" joins us for a conversation on the multifaceted impact data has had on our society.
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Notion: An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Head of Data Daniel Sternberg
7 juni 2023 · 29 min
Today we're joined by Daniel Sternberg, Head of Data at Notion, for a conversation on the release of Notion AI and the infrastructure and processes needed to launch and integrate an AI product.
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Pinecone: Long Term Memory for AI with CEO Edo Liberty
31 mei 2023 · 27 min
This week we welcome Edo Liberty, Founder & CEO of Pinecone, the vector database that receives 10,000+ sign-ups a day.
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Vectara: LLM Powered Search with CEO Amr Awadallah
24 mei 2023 · 28 min
Today we're joined by the "Godfather of Cloud Computing" Amr Awadallah for a conversation on LLM powered search, AI hallucinations, and more.
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Amplify Partners: AI Investing and the Startup Landscape with General Partner Sarah Catanzaro
17 mei 2023 · 32 min
We're joined by Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners and one of the leading investors in AI, ML, and data to talk about the startup landscape, LLMs, and more.
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Assembly AI: Generative AI for Speech Recognition with CEO Dylan Fox
10 mei 2023 · 27 min
AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox joined FirstMark Managing Partner, Matt Turck for Data Driven NYC! AssemblyAI is the fastest way to build with AI for audio. With a simple API, get access to production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech. AssemblyAI has raised $63M+. Lees meer
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Lightning AI: Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch with CEO William Falcon
3 mei 2023 · 28 min
William Falcon, Founder of Lightning AI joins Matt Turck for a conversation on pytorch, LLaMAs, the future of large language models, and more.