Naming Decision and Developer Resources

Jacob and Pat sit down with LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu to discuss his motivations for building LlamaIndex, thoughts on building enterprise-ready LLM applications and agents, and when fine-tuning makes sense.

0:00 intro

1:02 the evolution of LlamaIndex

3:48 apps being built with LlamaIndex

6:39 making agents more effective

12:58 retrieval augmented generation

16:49 what’s the right level of abstraction for LlamaIndex?

19:42 balancing reasoning and knowledge

30:46 storage for embeddings

36:03 underutilized features of LlamaIndex

40:38 over-hyped/under-hyped

With your co-hosts:

@ericabrescia

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)

@patrickachase

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn

@jacobeffron

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

@jordan_segall

- Partner at Redpoint