The podcast where Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs. Each episode dives deep into a specific topic in AI. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.
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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 Streami…
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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 …
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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 …
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Breaking New Ground With Collaborative Robots
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Brad 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 …
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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 (Aut…
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How to extract intelligence from speech data with AI
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Krish 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. Kris…
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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) …
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The Long Tail of AI: Understanding and Resolving Edge Cases
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Michael 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 …
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How Symbolic AI is Transforming Critical Infrastructure
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Eric 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…
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AI Disruption: Startups vs Incumbents in the Tech Stack
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Edward 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 Framew…
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Unpacking AI Startups: Metrics, Playbooks, and the Future
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Julia 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)…
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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 systemat…
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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 Fact…
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AI's Role In Physics, Chemistry, and Beyond
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Anima 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-B…
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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…
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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 Fo…
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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 Dis…
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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 …
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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) Relation…
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Modifying Speech Accents In Real Time With AI
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Ofer 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 (0…
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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 …
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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 a…
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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 S…
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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 Lan…
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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…
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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 co…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 epi…
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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…
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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 Met…
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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 …
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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 - W…
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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…
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Evolution of intelligence, Digital life, AGI | Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy
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Flo 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 - A…
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Thoughts on OpenAI DevDay announcements | Vikram Sreekanti, cofounder and CEO of RunLLM
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Vikram 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…
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Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Executive Order on AI, Open Source AI | Douwe Kiela, cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI
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Douwe 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 Sci…
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AI compute market, LLM infrastructure, Industrial AI | Ville Tuulos, cofounder and CEO of Outerbounds
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Ville 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 topi…
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Prateek talks about Nvidia's new AI agent that can train robots
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In 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 finge…
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Prateek talks about Generative AI in Biology
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In 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 tran…
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Prateek talks about LLMs learning to represent space and time
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In 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.co…
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Prateek talks about the Reversal Curse of LLMs
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In 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.co…
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Generative AI x Synthetic data | Ali Golshan, cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI
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Ali 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 …
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Programmatic AI data development, Multimodal AI, False dichotomy of fine-tuning vs RAG, Compute-optimal LLMs | Alex Ratner, CEO of Snorkel AI
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Alex 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 f…
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Generative AI x Privacy | Riddhiman Das, CEO of TripleBlind
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Riddhiman 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, Chie…
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Prateek talks about AI infrastructure ideas and categories
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In 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 framew…
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AI coprocessor for data, Relational knowledge graphs | Molham Aref, CEO of RelationalAI
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Molham 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 gra…
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Prateek talks about 8 strategies to speed up ML on different hardware platforms
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In 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…
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Object store for AI workloads | Anand Babu Periasamy, cofounder and CEO of MinIO
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Anand 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 Dock…
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