Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Sujith Ravi is the founder and CEO of SliceX AI, a platform that allows you to train and deploy AI models across devices and use cases. Previously, he founded and headed multiple ML teams at Google AI and Amazon Alexa. It spanned conversational AI, graph & deep learning, and on-device machine learning technologies. These products are used by billions of people in Search, Ads, Assistant, Gmail, Photos, Android, Cloud, and YouTube. At Google, he invented ML technologies like Smart Reply for conversational AI; Web and Image Search; On-Device ML in Android and Assistant; Neural Structured Learning in TensorFlow; Learn2 Compress for Google Cloud; and TensorFlow Lite for edge devices.   In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How to build ML products - How to deploy ML on edge devices - Key constraints of on-device ML - AI-powered content generation -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Nathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. He is the coauthor of State of AI report, an annual report that analyses the most interesting developments in AI. He has degrees from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How he got into VC - How he evaluates AI startups - His decision making framework for investments - His views on generative AI - Legal and copyright issues - Creating business value with AI - Future trends in the AI market -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Rob Toews is a partner at Radical Ventures, a VC firm that invests in world's leading AI startups. Rob leads their investment efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was previously at Highland Capital focusing on AI investments. He was in an operational role at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle company that got acquired by Amazon for $1.3B. He is an AI columnist at Forbes. He has a bachelors degree from Stanford. And an MBA and JD from Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How he got into VC - How he evaluates AI startups - His decision making framework for investments - The business of AI - Generative AI, Large language models, Robotics, and MLOps - Future trends in AI -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Helen and Dave Edwards are serial entrepreneurs. As a husband and wife team, they have built 5 companies together. They're currently the founders of Sonder Studio, a company focused on helping humans succeed in the digital age. In 2017, they sold their AI market research firm Intelligentsia to Atlantic Media. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - human centered design - working as a husband and wife team - how to bring AI into a business - company building - building AI products -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Mihail Eric is the founder of Pametan Data Innovation, a consultancy firm that helps companies deliver machine learning and data-driven solutions to their hardest problems with a special focus on NLP, recommendation systems, tabular data, and computer vision. He's also the founder of Confetti AI, the premier educational platform for practitioners learning the skills to succeed in their machine learning and data science careers. It was recently acquired by Towards AI. He has helped start teams at RideOS and Amazon Alexa. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What is a prompt and why does it have to be engineered - The role of signifiers - The problem of repetitive loops - LLMs - Analogies - Few shot and zero shot prompting - Biases - Security issues in LLMs --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Debarghya Das is the founding engineer at Glean. It's an enterprise search startup that recently raised at a billion dollar valuation from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Lightspeed. He has previously held roles at Google and Facebook where he worked on their search products. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Key takeaways from being on the founding team - The 0-1 phase of building products - Working with early customers - Opportunities for future search products - Search quality - Developing good product sense - Infusing intelligence into products --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Andy Petrella is the cofounder of Kensu, a data observability solution that offers companies the opportunity to monitor their data usage. He is the creator of Spark Notebook, an open-source software for data engineers and scientists using Spark and Scala. He is the author of the book Fundamentals of Data Observability. He has built a fantastic career in data over the last 16 years. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - data observability - being a founder - being an author - creating open source software - Kensu's unique approach "Data Observability Driven Development" -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Krishna Gade is the cofounder and CEO of Fiddler AI. They provide an explainable monitoring solution for production AI systems. Fiddler has been featured on Forbes AI 50 startups in 2020 and was awarded Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum. He has previously held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, Twitter, Pinterest, and Meta.  In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - model monitoring - explainability - what they are building at Fiddler - how they got their first 5 customers - key takeaways on company building - how to maintain product discipline in enterprise SaaS -------- Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Greg Tapper is the cofounder and CEO of PatternAI. They provide conversation intelligence for the enterprise. He was previously the founder and CEO of New Global, which he successfully sold to a large company after running it for 11 years. He's been a management consultant, most recently at McKinsey. He has degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - conversation intelligence - being a second time founder - what they are building at PatternAI - how they got their first 5 customers - how to choose your customers in the early days - how to maintain product discipline as you scale a company --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 

Ala Shaabana is the cofounder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized machine learning network. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously held roles at Instacart and VMware.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- Shortcomings of centralized AI- How to decentralize AI research- Incentivized computer networks- What they're building at Bittensor- Putting AI on the blockchain- Decentralized governance--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.comWebsite: http://prateekj.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19