Marqo co-founder & CTO Jesse Clark, on the winners and losers of AI, searching the way we think, lessons from Amazon + Stitch Fix, defining 'developer first' and so much more

Searching the way we think with Jesse Clark, co-founder of Marqo

✅Lessons from working at Stitch Fix and Amazon

✅What it means to be truly “developer first”

✅The decision to make Marqo open source

✅Who will be the winners and losers of the AI revolution

Marqo is building a revolutionary framework that provides search functionality to developers, allowing their applications to search anything - text, images, video, audio - with human-like understanding. Marqo makes it possible to do things that were hard or impossible with keyword search, and is poised to completely reshape how we search.

Episode Highlights from Jesse:

“The amount of data is increasing exponentially. A lot of it is unstructured, it’s messy. We’re going to need to be able to search this data, machines will need to be able to search it.”

“We’ve got this tagline: search the way you think. You’re able to communicate very fluently, have it understand, and retrieve really relevant results.”

“Nothing exists today without open source. There’s certainly that somewhat altruistic motivation to give something back after being such a beneficiary. But it’s also just a very good way to get feedback and iterate very fast.”

“We’ve already seen the commoditisation of a lot of these technologies around LLMs. We’ve been very cautious about where we invest on that, because a lot of it is very hard to defend, it becomes commoditised. It’s a race to the bottom and the companies just become marketing companies basically. That’s fine, but that’s not necessarily what we want to do.”

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