Matt Van Itallie is the founder and CEO of Sema. Prior to this, they were the Vice President of Customer Support and Customer Operations at Social Solutions.
AI-Driven Code: Navigating Due Diligence & Transparency in MLOps // MLOps Podcast #275 with Matt van Itallie, Founder and CEO of Sema.
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Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of Sema, discusses how comprehensive codebase evaluations play a crucial role in MLOps and technical due diligence. He highlights the impact of Generative AI on code transparency and explains the Generative AI Bill of Materials (GBOM), which helps identify and manage risks in AI-generated code. This talk offers practical insights for technical and non-technical audiences, showing how proper diligence can enhance value and mitigate risks in machine learning operations.
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Matt Van Itallie is the Founder and CEO of Sema. He and his team have developed Comprehensive Codebase Scans, the most thorough and easily understandable assessment of a codebase and engineering organization. These scans are crucial for private equity and venture capital firms looking to make informed investment decisions. Sema has evaluated code within organizations that have a collective value of over $1 trillion. In 2023, Sema served 7 of the 9 largest global investors, along with market-leading strategic investors, private equity, and venture capital firms, providing them with critical insights.
In addition, Sema is at the forefront of Generative AI Code Transparency, which measures how much code created by GenAI is in a codebase. They are the inventors behind the Generative AI Bill of Materials (GBOM), an essential resource for investors to understand and mitigate risks associated with AI-generated code.
Before founding Sema, Matt was a Private Equity operating executive and a management consultant at McKinsey. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has had some interesting adventures, like hiking a third of the Appalachian Trail and biking from Boston to Seattle.
Full bio: https://alistar.fm/bio/matt-van-itallie
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