Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an ...
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Being that it’s typically the largest room in the house, a garage is a home’s greatest asset when it comes to versatility and usefulness. Long gone are the days where garages were simply used to park cars and store junk, now they’re spaces for storage, hobbies, home businesses, and even more. Let Top Gun Garage transform your space into a masterpiece your neighbors will envy.
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Fireworks Founder Lin Qiao on How Fast Inference and Small Models Will Benefit Businesses
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In the first wave of the generative AI revolution, startups and enterprises built on top of the best closed-source models available, mostly from OpenAI. The AI customer journey moves from training to inference, and as these first products find PMF, many are hitting a wall on latency and cost. Fireworks Founder and CEO Lin Qiao led the PyTorch team …
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Building Copilot, and the the Future of Software Development
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GithHub invented collaborative coding and in the process changed how open source projects, startups and eventually enterprises write code. GitHub Copilot is the first blockbuster product built on top of OpenAI’s GPT models. It now accounts for more than 40 percent of GitHub revenue growth for an annual revenue run rate of $2 billion. Copilot itself…
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Meta’s Joe Spisak on Llama 3.1 405B and the Democratization of Frontier Models
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As head of Product Management for Generative AI at Meta, Joe Spisak leads the team behind Llama, which just released the new 3.1 405B model. We spoke with Joe just two days after the model’s release to ask what’s new, what it enables, and how Meta sees the role of open source in the AI ecosystem. Joe shares that where Llama 3.1 405B really focused …
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Getting AI to Do the Work of 700 Customer Service Reps
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In February, Sebastian Siemiatkowski boldly announced that Klarna’s new OpenAI-powered assistant handled two thirds of the Swedish fintech’s customer service chats in its first month. Not only were customer satisfaction metrics better, but by replacing 700 full-time contractors the bottom line impact is projected to be $40M. Since then, every compa…
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Reflection AI’s Misha Laskin on the AlphaGo Moment for LLMs
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LLMs are democratizing digital intelligence, but we’re all waiting for AI agents to take this to the next level by planning tasks and executing actions to actually transform the way we work and live our lives. Yet despite incredible hype around AI agents, we’re still far from that “tipping point” with best in class models today. As one measure: cod…
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on How Far Scaling Laws Will Extend
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The current LLM era is the result of scaling the size of models in successive waves (and the compute to train them). It is also the result of better-than-Moore’s-Law price vs performance ratios in each new generation of Nvidia GPUs. The largest platform companies are continuing to invest in scaling as the prime driver of AI innovation. Are they rig…
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Zapier’s Mike Knoop launches ARC Prize to Jumpstart New Ideas for AGI
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As impressive as LLMs are, the growing consensus is that language, scale and compute won’t get us to AGI. Although many AI benchmarks have quickly achieved human-level performance, there is one eval that has barely budged since it was created in 2019. Google researcher François Chollet wrote a paper that year defining intelligence as skill-acquisit…
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Factory’s Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes Unleash the Droids on Software Development
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Archimedes said that with a large enough lever, you can move the world. For decades, software engineering has been that lever. And now, AI is compounding that lever. How will we use AI to apply 100 or 1000x leverage to the greatest lever to move the world? Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, co-founders of Factory, have chosen to do things differently th…
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LangChain’s Harrison Chase on Building the Orchestration Layer for AI Agents
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Last year, AutoGPT and Baby AGI captured our imaginations—agents quickly became the buzzword of the day…and then things went quiet. AutoGPT and Baby AGI may have marked a peak in the hype cycle, but this year has seen a wave of agentic breakouts on the product side, from Klarna’s customer support AI to Cognition’s Devin, etc. Harrison Chase of Lang…
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Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sequoia Capital partners Sonya Huang and Pat Grady host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this…
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In this episode, Grady Harrison shares the top Gun Garage story along with glimpses in to future episodes. To learn more about Top Gun Garage: Call: 239-488-7000 Website: TopGun-Garage.com 15275 Collier Blvd Ste 201-2025 Naples, FL 34119By Grady Harrison
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