Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

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 - Artificial General Intelligence - White House'...

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 - The founding of RunLLM - Large foundation model...

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 Science from the University of Cambridge. In this epi...

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 topics including: - Origin of the open source framewor...

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 fingers, they've been a bit clumsy. That&apos...

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 transcriptonomics 11. Evolutionary biology 12. Protein...

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.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19  Twitter: ht...

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.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19  Twitter: https...

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 Networks. In this episode, we cover a range of top...

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 from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford. In this...

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, Chief Data Offier at mySideWalk, and CTO of Galle...

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 framework - On-device applications - Orchestration platf...

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 graphs - Knowledge graphs for AI-driven applications...

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://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

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 Docker pulls and more than 35...

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 development - What tasks are likely to benefi...

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/prateek-joshi-91047b19  Twitter: https://twitter.com...

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 applications - Problem with general purpose LLMs -...

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 

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 this topic. In this episode, we cover a range...

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  Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

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 episode, we cover a range of topics including:...

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: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi...

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 text data into insights without requiring any...

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/prateekvjoshi