Founding, Funding, and the Future of MLOps // Mihail Eric // #200

Jan 2, 2024

Guest Mihail Eric, co-founder of Storia AI, discusses the significance of human sentiment in an AI-driven era. They explore the evolution and impact of image generation models, the challenges of MLOps, and the importance of developer-friendly APIs. They also discuss fundraising struggles, the need for solid foundations in image generation, and the vision of creating generalized building blocks for different industries.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Discussion on Nutrition, Diets, and Personal Eating Habits

01:53 • 2min

Appreciating the Changing Seasons and Warm Wool Sweaters

03:37 • 2min

Struggle and Resilience in Fundraising

05:32 • 18min

The Importance of Developer-Friendly APIs and Models

23:12 • 11min

Challenges and Tribal Knowledge with MLOps

34:07 • 18min

Building Generalizable Building Blocks and the Difference Between MLOps and LLMOps

51:48 • 6min

Mihail Eric is an engineer, researcher, and educator who has helped start teams at innovative organizations such as Amazon Alexa and RideOS.

Mihail is a cofounder of Storia AI where they build an AI-powered creative assistant for fast and delightful image and video generation.

MLOps podcast #200 with Mihail Eric, Co-founder of Storia AI, Founding, Funding, and the Future of MLOps. // Abstract Demetrios and Mihail journey deep into the significance of human sentiment in an increasingly AI-driven era, the perils and promises of conversational AI, and the evolution and impact of image generation models. Delve into the world of MLOps versus LLMOps, offering clarifying perspectives on how the core concerns and technology persist, even amidst an evolving tech landscape with new buzzwords making waves. Mihail generously provides an inside look at his AI tool and its wide range of applications across various industries, offering insights on interesting niche-specific verticals and unexpected use cases. // Bio Mihail is a co-CEO of Storia AI, an early-stage startup building an AI-powered creative assistant for video production. He has over a decade of experience researching and engineering AI systems at scale. Previously he built the first deep-learning dialogue systems at the Stanford NLP group. He was also a founding member of Amazon Alexa’s first special projects team where he built the organization’s earliest large language models. Mihail is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Confetti AI, a machine-learning education company that he led until its acquisition in 2022. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Website: www.mihaileric.com

https://www.storia.ai/ ⁠ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Mihail on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaileric/ Timestamps: [00:00] Spotify playlist [02:08] How to live a longer healthier life [03:43] Absurd sweater collection [06:03] The catch-up episode [08:10] MLOps versus LLMOps [13:27] AI apps mixing visuals and text [16:00] Founder dating [16:54] Stable diffusion and difficulties with Mid Journey [23:12] Stripe developer experience [25:04] APIs and Model Providers [27:33] Host stable diffusion on AWS [34:07] AI Creativity: Prompt Experimentation [35:45] AI Challenges and Solutions [39:51] AI Hype Frustration [44:31] AI Impact on Hollywood [48:11] AI Impact on Filmmaking [51:48] Generalizable Tool for Verticals [52:49] MLOps versus LLMOps [56:42] Wrap up