In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery sits with Tomasz Tunguz, Founder and General Partner at Theory Ventures. Tomasz brings a valuable 10,000-foot view of the AI space, drawing from his 16 years of experience as a VC and previous work building machine learning systems at Google.

During the episode, Tomasz discusses:

The modern data stack for LLMs,
The significance of human evaluations,
How to Identify high-value use cases for businesses,
Midjourney's successful distribution strategy,
And much more!

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[00:00] Up next:

[00:57] Episode introduction

[01:59] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[02:24] Tomasz's introduction

[03:47] The two waves of AI

[06:09] The modern data stack for LLMs

[11:27] The golden set of evaluations

[15:39] Why you need human evaluations

[17:27] Don't write off LLMs

[21:04] Identifying high-value AI use cases for your business

[25:30] The top industries LLMs will disrupt

[26:52] Advice for incumbents to win the AI race

[33:05] Advice for AI startups to disrupt industries

[34:31] The innovation equation

[37:16] Midjourney's successful distribution strategy

[39:15] Will AI move beyond non-determinism?

[43:21] The future relationship between AI and professionals

[48:05] How to keep up with AI developments

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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Where to find Tomasz Tunguz:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasztunguz/
X: https://x.com/ttunguz

Learn more about Theory Ventures:

Website: https://theory.ventures
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theory-ventures/
X: https://x.com/theoryvc

Where to find Haroon Choudery:

Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haroonchoudery/
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Learn more about Autoblocks:

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