Leveraging Unique Strengths for Founders in the AI Landscape

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 framework Metaflow
- The founding of Outerbounds
- AI compute clusters
- Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models
- Training compute-optimal LLMs
- Industrial AI
- Multimodal AI
- Building LLMs through experimentation
- How will the AI compute market shape up (chips, cloud services, infrastructure platforms)

Ville's favorite book: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Author: Richard Feynman)

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