The podcast where Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders, VCs, and practitioners. Each episode dives deep into a specific topic to explore how to build ML products, how to use Data to fuel those products, and how those products achieve the goal of AI. You can subscribe to Prateek's weekly newsletter that explores the intersection of AI and Startups: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
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AI's Role In Physics, Chemistry, and Beyond
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Anima Anandkumar is the 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 H…
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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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AI assistant for software development | Eran Yahav, cofounder and CTO of Tabnine
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Eran 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 …
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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/prat…
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No-Code Generative AI, Domain specific LLMs, AI experimentation | Karthik Dinakar, cofounder and CTO of Pienso
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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: - Tech stack of Generative AI …
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Prateek talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop
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In 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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Compute layer for data, Vector search, AI infrastructure | Venkat Venkataramani, cofounder and CEO of Rockset
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Venkat 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 …
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Prateek talks about Geometric Deep Learning
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In 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 Twitt…
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Speeding up Generative AI models | Luis Ceze, cofounder and CEO of OctoML
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Luis 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 ep…
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Prateek talks about 9 steps to do customer discovery for AI products
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Doing 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…
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Vector databases x Vertical AI | Andre Zayarni (cofounder/CEO of Qdrant) and Karthik Dinakar (cofounder/CTO of Pienso)
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Andre 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 te…
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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/prateekvj…
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AI x DevOps, Open source AI, Data infrastructure | Timothy Chen, General Partner at Essence VC
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Timothy 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…
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Prateek talks about 11 things to keep in mind for software engineers to get into AI
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AI 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…
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Generative AI stack, Android moment of AI, Data infrastructure | Jon Turow, Partner at Madrona
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Jon 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 f…
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