In this episode of the Cognitive Revolution, join us as we dive into a compelling conversation with Josep M. Pujol, Chief of Search at Brave, about the complexities of developing a privacy-focused search engine. Explore how Brave maintains user data privacy while managing over 1 million searches per hour with an AI-powered system. Gain insights into the significance of human evaluation in AI and learn about the potential of the Brave Search API. Don't miss the shared Google collab notebook link in the show notes!
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:05:46) Brave
(00:07:52) How Brave collects data
(00:10:45) The problem is not the data
(00:14:02) How Brave builds its index
(00:16:36) PageRank
(00:21:07) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave
(00:23:14) Brave Search
(00:26:26) Hardware improvements
(00:28:33) Language models
(00:34:17) Noise reduction in vertical search
(00:36:50) Fine-tuning models
(00:43:09) Sponsors: Squad | Omneky
(00:44:55) Ensemble approach
(00:58:00) The future of the web
(01:03:30) The business side of this
(01:09:22) Brave Search users
(01:14:21) Brave Search API vs. Google
(01:20:00) Brave Search API Pricing
(01:23:26) Brave Search API Use Cases
