Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about:- why do we need data orchestration - what exactly is it- how does it work- where is it used in the real world- market landscape of tools --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Tech stack of Generative AI applications - Problem with general purpose LLMs - Training LLMs on my own data - Making LLMs faster and cheaper - Shortage of AI compute - Context windows - Pursuit of AGI Karthik's favorite books:  - Introduction to Algorithms (Authors: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein) - Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (Author: Seymour Peypert) --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop when they build products.--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Venkat Venkataramani is the cofounder and CEO of Rockset, a real-time search and analytics database built for the cloud. They've raised more than $60M in funding from the likes of Greylock and Sequoia. He was previously at Meta for 8 years and Oracle for 5.5 years. He has spent his entire life building data products, so he has a ton of insights on this topic. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Separation of storage and compute - Isolating compute for ingest and query - Converged Index - Vector search - Stream Processing Systems vs Real-Time Analytics Databases - Data infra for AI applications - Bringing compute to data Venkat's favorite books: - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Author: Douglas Adams)- The Three-Body Problem (Author: Liu Cixin)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about: - The concept of Geometric Deep Learning - Why do we need it - How does it work - Where is it used in the real world --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Luis Ceze is the cofounder and CEO of OctoML, a platform that offers compute infrastructure to fine-tune, run, and scale your AI models. He's a professor at University of Washington and a venture partner at Madrona. He was previously the cofounder of Corensic. He has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - OctoAI product announcement - How to make LLMs faster and cheaper - Training your own LLMs - The perceived shortage of AI compute - Enterprise spend on AI compute - Applications being built using OctoML - Domain specific models Luis's favorite books:- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Author: Daniel Kahneman)- Blindness (Author: Jose Saramago)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Doing customer discovery is a critical skill that founders need to develop in the early stages of their AI startup's journey. In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 9 steps to do customer discovery for AI products. --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Andre Zayarni is the cofounder and CEO of Qdrant, an open-source vector database company. He was previously the CTO of MoBerries building a next generation HR product based on AI and Real-time. He's been building software products for 20+ years.  Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Why do we need vector databases? - What type of applications need a vector database? - When choosing a vector database, what characteristics should a developer look for? - What are the building blocks of generative AI applications? - What can LLMs do well and where are the gaps? - What LLM applications are being built in the enterprise? - Retrieval Augmented Generation - What's the importance of vector databases in vertical AI? --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about why we need Federated Learning, how it works, and where it's used in the real world. --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

Timothy Chen is the founder and general partner at Essence Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in data infrastructure and developer tools. Prior to Essence, he was the SVP of Engineering at Cosmos, a popular open source blockchain SDK. He cofounded Hyperpilot with Stanford Professor Christos Kozyrakis to disrupt the enterprise infrastructure space, which later exited to Cloudera. He was an early employee at Mesosphere and CloudFoundry. He is also active in the open source space as an Apache member.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Using LLMs for devops work - Open source AI - How to spot open source investment opportunities - Data infrastructure opportunities - AI infrastructure opportunities - Security and privacy Timothy's favorite book: Behind The Cloud (Author: Marc Benioff)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi