Hammad Bashir

Hammad Bashir, the CTO of Chroma and an expert in vector search systems, dives into the nuances of building modern search infrastructures for AI. He discusses the importance of a unified API for local and distributed systems, the evolution from local prototyping to production workflows, and the challenges of managing principled data in machine learning. Hammad also explores the implications of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in AI systems, as well as trends towards faster models and iterative search driven by LLMs.