Unsupervised Learning

Tome CEO Keith Peiris discusses disrupting PowerPoint, AI tourists, hardware costs, enterprise scale, pricing strategies, and over/under-hyped projects. Co-hosts provide insights on building enterprise products, model evaluation, and favorite Tome projects.

Jerry Liu, CEO of LlamaIndex, discusses building enterprise-ready LLM applications and agents. Topics include retrieval augmented generation, the right level of abstraction for LlamaIndex, and underutilized features. They also touch on the pros and cons of fine-tuning, encoding external data, and naming decisions.

Jordan and Erica sit down with Andriy Mulyar, Founder & CTO of Nomic AI, and discuss his motivation for creating GPT4ALL, the importance of data-centric AI, the use of LLMs in video games, and which technology companies are well positioned to “win” in the GenAI market long term. 0:00 intro0:59 getting into AI and meeting Brandon2:27 starting Nomic7:43 how people are using Atlas10:31 hallucinations in LLMs13:05 gpt4all17:25 building LLMs into video games26:31 where does Nomic go from here?37:39 Apple’s role in the LLM space38:57 Andriy’s thoughts on AGI40:41 over-hyped/under-hyped42:13 AI regulation going forward With your co-hosts: @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Alexandru Costin, the VP of Generative AI and Sensei at Adobe, and discuss how Adobe’s early projects with generative AI in 2019 helped them move quickly upon the release of LLMs and diffusion models. Before leading Adobe’s generative AI efforts he founded InterAKT, a web development company, and led Adobe Romania for 10 years. 00:00 intro01:44 Adobe Romania and background02:26 AI projects at Adobe10:03 incorporating AI into existing products16:34 educating Adobe’s user base25:13 avoiding copyright issues with Ai-generated content32:12 using customer feedback40:30 what is the right way to structure an AI team?45:11 pricing AI products48:00 the future of Adobe With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Alex Ratner, CEO of Snorkel AI, discusses the growth of Snorkel, importance of data development in AI, barriers to enterprise AI adoption, and the role of academia in AI progress. Topics include avoiding errors in pre-training, enterprise AI deployment challenges, future AI regulation, and over-hyped AI models.

On today’s episode we talk with Jeff Huber, the CEO and Co-founder of Chroma. We talk about what sets Chroma apart from its competitors, new developments in AI technology, and advice for listeners who want to get started in AI. 0:00 intro 1:02 starting chroma 6:08 vector databases 10:03 interesting use cases for vector databases 13:14 what sets chroma apart? 23:00 unresolved questions in LLMs 32:45 multiple agents vs. one agent to rule them all 34:50 chroma’s future 38:00 embedding models 43:00 over-hyped/under-hyped 44:30 AI regulation 48:42 is it too late to get into AI?  With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Jacob sits down with PathAI Ceo Dr. Andy Beck to discuss the state of AI adoption in diagnosis, why Path acquired their own lab, pathologists' jobs in the future and nailing GTM to reach a ~$1B valuation.  00:00 intro 01:01 pathology and AI 13:30 nailing go-to-market strategy 19:47 how pathology labs can go digital 25:36 regulatory frameworks and roadblocks 33:05 do improvements in foundation models impact PathAI? 36:26 standardizing diagnosis 40:05 how will the job of a pathologist change going forward? 42:35 NASH 47:30 working in Daphne Koller’s lab With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Jacob and Jordan sit down with EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki to discuss the future of open-source models, thought cloning, his work on GPT-J and more. 0:00 intro01:06 Aran’s background02:58 starting work on gpt-j05:49 gathering data for Lion and gpt-j08:51 history of EleutherAI11:16 open vs. closed-source models19:06 how will open-source models be used going forward21:33 thought cloning25:51 building AI models that understand video29:35 one model to rule them all31:58 influence of academia in the LLM space34:33 over-hyped/under-hyped38:01 Aran’s thoughts on AGI With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health@jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Tatsu Hashimoto, Professor of AI at Stanford, to discuss the incredible open source projects from his research group like Alpaca and AlpacaFarm, whether data, algorithms, fine-tuning or RLHF is most important for performance, if AI is liberal or conservative, and much more! (0:00) - intro(1:05) - journey to Stanford(2:50) - origins of Alpaca(6:08) - capabilities of the Alpaca model(16:39) - the future of AI(20:07) - AlpacaFarm(21:37) - how to improve language models(29:15) - do language models form opinions?(32:15) - how to solve bias in ai(34:18) - how does academia fit into the world of AI(42:01) - over-hyped/under-hyped(46:35) - questions Tatsu doesn’t have time for With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health@jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

Jacob sits down with Insitro CEO Daphne Koller to discuss founding Coursera, where and how ML can drive the most impact in drug development, and if foundation models can transform core drug discovery work and edtech.  (00:00) - intro (00:54) - Daphne’s journey (09:18) - AI and biology discovery (10:59) - insitro vs. traditional pharma (20:04) - phenotyping patients (26:01) - early mistakes (29:51) - the future of data (35:33) - partnering with larger pharma companies (38:17) - impact of LLMs on biopharma (44:04) - over-hyped/under-hyped  With your co-hosts: @jasoncwarner - Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health