Founded & Funded Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
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Jun 12, 2024 
Dev Rishi and Travis Addair, co-founders of Predibase, discuss their AI platform for developers, LoRA Land collection, and commercializing open-source projects. They highlight the challenges in AI infrastructure, the importance of fine-tuning smaller AI models, and the future outlook for Predibase. They also share advice for first-time founders in the AI space.
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Founding Through Open Source
- Predibase was founded from an open-source AI project called Ludwig by Uber AI researchers aiming to make deep learning accessible.
- Dev Rishi joined later as a product expert, skeptical but convinced after seeing their vision and open-source progress.
ML Convergence Enables Accessibility
- There was convergence in data infrastructure and model architectures making fine-tuning simpler and accessible beyond data scientists.
- Predibase's bet was training or fine-tuning models on proprietary data would become a one-click operation focusing on business use cases.
Vision Constant, Tactics Evolve
- Predibase's vision stayed consistent but market tactics shifted drastically with LLMs becoming central.
- They pivoted from targeting analysts to developers, focusing on fine-tuning and serving large language models effectively.