Thursday Nights in AI

At this Thursday Nights in AI, hosts Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht discussed the future of robotics and computer vision, and the role of AI in the space. Special thanks to Respell for hosting us in their wonderful office! Michelle is the CEO and founder of Medra. Medra is at the forefront of laboratory automation, leveraging state-of-the-art robotics and computer vision technologies to streamline we...

At this Thursday Nights in AI, hosts Ali Rohde and Kanjun Qiu discussed selling AI to Fortune 500 companies, data-centric versus model-centric AI, flashy demos versus actual production value, and more with Alex Ratner, co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI believes that AI teams can get better results faster by replacing highly manual data annotation with programmatic approaches that more e...

We’re talking about the Rise of the AI Engineer with @swyx, host of the Latent Space podcast, and one of the most in-the-weeds commentators on the companies, papers, and trends rising and falling in AI, every single week.

On this special edition of Thursday Nights in AI, we chatted with three open-source leaders building in AI: Harrison Chase of LangChain, Brian S. Raymond of Unstructured.io , and Anton Troynikov of Chroma. ---------------- About Harrison: Harrison Chase is the co-founder and CEO of LangChain, a company formed around the open-source Python/Typescript packages that aim to make it easy to develop Lan...

Season One of Thursday Nights in AI is in the books. Catch our conversation with Jeff Huber and Anton Troynikov, Cofounders of Chroma, on open-source, embedding databases, building developer love, and where their product goes from here. Season two here we come! This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Imbue and sponsored by WndrCo....

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview Glean CEO Arvind Jain. Special thanks to Volley for welcoming us to their beautiful HQ! This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Imbue and sponsored by WndrCo. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset Capital: Outset Cap...

​ About Jim:  Jim Fan is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA AI. His mission is to build generally capable AI agents with applications to game AI, robotics, and software automation. His research spans foundation models, multimodal AI, reinforcement learning, and open-ended learning. Jim obtained his Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, advised by Prof. Fei-Fei Li. His work...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde interview @imbue_ai co-founders, Kanjun Qiu & Josh Albrecht. This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital, Imbue, and WndrCo. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Kanjun Qiu interview @anyscale CEO, Robert Nishihara. This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Imbue. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners investing in AI...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview LlamaIndex CEO, Jerry Liu. This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Imbue. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners investing in AI, d...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview Replit CEO, Amjad Masad. Special thanks to Notion for hosting us at their beautiful office! This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Generally Intelligent. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda.. . About Outset: Outset Capital is led...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview Pilot CEO, Waseem Daher. Special thanks to Pilot for hosting us at their office! This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Generally Intelligent. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursda... About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohd...

Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Kanjun Qiu interview Dropbox CEO Drew Houston. This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Generally Intelligent. Join our upcoming events! Full list here: https://www.outsetcapital.com/thursday-nights-in-ai About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitio...

Outset Capital General Partners Ali Rohde and Kanjun Qiu interviewed Notion AI lead Linus Lee. In this podcast they talked about: Notion AI  — lessons learned from the roll out of the product so far Prompt engineering, including how Notion AI handles prompting for the different languages the product supports The optimal UI for AI Linus' journey to working at Notion The need to be thoughtful bu...

This past week, Jonathan Frankle joined our recurring “Thursday Night’s in AI” fireside series to discuss his role as Chief Scientist at MosaicML, the company’s recent acquisition by Databricks, and his candid thoughts on building LLMs, open source vs. closed, and AI policy development.

As part of our recurring "Thursday Night's in AI" fireside series , we had the chance to interview Aravind Srinivas about his journey building Perplexity AI. Aravind founded Perplexity in 2022 with the mission to combine the reasoning power of LLMs with databases and search indexes to create a "conversational answer engine" that provides factual answers with citations to qu...