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#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle

Jul 22, 2024

CEO and co-founder of Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash, and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins, discuss the future of AI, challenges for AI businesses, executive hiring, open vs. closed AI, Nvidia GPUs, creating vs. capturing value, AI research, crypto-AI connection, and strategic planning for uncertain futures.

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Quick takeaways

Choosing a career aligned with passions is crucial for self-actualization.

Building an effective executive team requires a careful selection process.

Investing time in recruiting for executive roles shapes company culture and success.

Deep dives

Importance of Self-Actualization and Career Choices

Choosing a career path that aligns with one's passions and goals is crucial for self-actualization. The podcast emphasizes the significance of being able to step away from a job that may not be the right fit and pursue something fulfilling. It highlights the importance of making choices that align with personal aspirations.

Intro

2min

Building an Executive Team and Setting Company Culture in a Startup Environment

2min

Journey to Together AI

4min

Investing in AI Infrastructure: Together AI Platform and Industry Trends

14min

Balancing Growth and Uncertainty in a Dynamic Market

6min

Navigating the Intersection of Research and Innovation in AI Computing Business

14min

Journey from Napster to Founding Topsy

9min

Future Plans and Growth of a Tech Company

3min

Guests: Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Together AI; and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins

No one knows for sure whether the future of AI will be driven more by research labs and AI-native companies, or by enterprises applying the technology to their own data sets. But one thing is for sure, says Together AI CEO and co-founder Vipul Ved Prakash: It’s going to be a lot bigger. “If you look at the next 10 years or the next 20 years, we are doing maybe 0.1 percent of [the] AI that we’ll be doing 10 years from now.”

In this episode, Vipul, Bucky, and Joubin discuss startup table stakes, Tri Dao, tentpole features, open-source AI, non-financial investors, Meta Llama, deep learning researchers, WeWork, “Attention is All You Need,” create vs. capture, Databricks, Docker, scaling laws, Ilya Sutskever, IRC, and Jordan Ritter and Napster.

Chapters:

(00:53) - Executive hiring
(04:40) - How Vipul and Bucky met
(06:54) - Six years at Apple
(08:19) - Together and the AI landscape
(12:47) - Apple’s deal with OpenAI
(14:27) - Open vs. closed AI
(17:32) - Nvidia GPUs and capital expenditures
(22:48) - Fame and reputation
(24:17) - Planning for an uncertain future
(27:00) - Stress and attention
(30:18) - AI research
(34:58) - Challenges for AI businesses
(39:02) - Frequent disagreements
(43:05) - Vipul’s first startups, Cloudmark and Topsy
(47:55) - Taking time off
(50:09) - The crypto-AI connection
(53:20) - Who Together AI is hiring
(54:37) - What “grit” means to Vipul

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This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

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Grit

#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Importance of Self-Actualization and Career Choices

Challenges in Hiring Executive Teams

Strategic Focus on Executive Team Building

Balancing Recruitment Efforts for Executive Roles

Significance of Research in Company Strategy

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts