Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
The best place to find out how AI builders build. The host Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs on this podcast. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.
Building the Android for Robots | Jan Liphardt, founder of OpenMind
Jan Liphardt is the founder of OpenMind, where they're building an operating system for intelligent machines. He is an associate professor at Stanford and was previously an associate professor at UC Berkeley. He got his PhD from University of Cambridge.
Jan's favorite books: The Little Prince (Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
00:01 — Introduction
00:32 — Gap Between Movie Robots and Real-World Robotics
02:35 — Vision for a New Robotics OS
07:14 — Robotics OS Stack Breakdown
11:01 — Biggest Technical Challenges in Robotics
15:06 — Data Volume, Processing, and Cloud vs. Local
19:09 — Shared Intelligence Layer: What is Fabric?
23:15 — Filtering Good vs. Bad Idea...
AI Infra for Long Context Model Training | Anna Patterson, founder of Ceramic AI
Anna Patterson is the cofounder of Ceramic, an AI infrastructure platform for large scale model training. They raised their seed round led by NEA along with amazing investors such as Lukas Biewald, Laszlo Bock, Sean Carey, Jeff Hammerbacher, Ankit Jain, Seval Oz, Joanna Rees, Gokul Rajaram, and Ram Sriram. She was previously the founder and managing partner at Gradient Ventures. She was the VP Engineering at Google for 14 years.Â
Anna's favorite book: Books she reads with her daughters as part of their family book club
(00:01) Introduction & AI Infra 101
(01:11) Budget Breakdown: Training vs Inference
(02:16) M...
Building an AI+Data Startup Studio | Tom Chavez, cofounder of super{set}
Tom Chavez is the cofounder of super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data and AI startups. Prior to this, he was the CEO and co-founder of Krux, a martech platform acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Before Krux, he was the CEO and co-founder of Rapt, a provider of software for media monetization acquired by Microsoft in 2008. He went to Harvard for undergrad and Stanford for his PhD.
Tom's favorite book: The Three Musketeers (Author: Alexandre Dumas)
(00:01) Origin Story and Starting Superset
(02:58) How Superset Evaluates Ideas and Risk
(06:24) What Is a...
Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien
Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Base.
Rowan's favorite book: Outlive (Author: Peter Attia)
(00:01) Introduction
(01:09) The Flaws in Centralized Data Models
(04:10) Mechanism of Knowledge Transfer and Expert Incentives
(07:08) Supply, Demand, and Market Dynamics for Training Data
(10:22) Chain of Thought Reasoning and 3D/4D Data Use Cases
(12:22) Building the MVP: What Worked and What Didn’t
(15:17) Acquiring the Fi...
Converting Cameras into Autonomous AI Agents | Rish Gupta, CEO of Spot AI
Rish Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Spot AI, a video AI platform for the physical world. They've raised $93M from amazing investors such as Scale, Bessemer, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Rish's favorite book: Atlas Shrugged (Author: Ayn Rand)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:32) Video-AI basics: ingesting camera feeds across diverse networks ​
(02:42) Edge-vs-cloud trade-offs for compute, storage, and bandwidth ​
(05:40) Mapping the sector: hardware waves to cloud cameras to pure-software layer ​
(07:43) Founding insight: why Spot AI attacked the video layer now ​
(11:35) Bare-bones MVP: two-page dashboard that unified camera access ​
(15:34) First-10-customer lessons & pruning the ideal cust...
Are AI Phone Agents Ready for Prime Time? | Alex Levin, CEO of Regal
Alex Levin is the cofounder and CEO of Regal, a platform for AI phone agents. They've raised $82M from amazing investors such as Emergence Capital.
Alex's favorite book: The PayPal Wars (Author: Eric M. Jackson)
(00:01) Introduction
(02:37) Evolution of customer contact tools and legacy players
(06:02) Launching Regal: Origin story and early challenges
(08:41) MVP strategy and problems worth solving
(11:46) Lessons from 0 to 10 customers: Growth mistakes and hiring
(16:13) Ideal early-stage team construction and hiring philosophy
(19:06) Sequencing hires as company scales
(20:58) What makes a good investor and how to leverage them
(25:42...
What it Takes to Build a BI Platform | Colin Zima, CEO of Omni
Colin Zima is the cofounder and CEO of Omni, a data platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the speed and freedom of SQL. They recently raised their $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth. He was previously the Chief Analytics Officer at Looker.
Colin's favorite book: Blink (Author: Malcolm Gladwell)
(00:01) Introduction
(01:10) What Is a Data Model and Why It Matters
(03:27) Gaps in the Modern Data Stack
(05:38) The Staying Power of SQL
(07:29) Origin Story: Why Omni Was Created
(10:13) Lessons from Building the MVP
(12:48) Go-to-Market Insights...
Building Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies | Alvaro Morales, CEO of Orb
Alvaro Morales is the cofounder and CEO of Orb, a usage-based billing product for modern software companies. They've raised $44M to date from amazing investors such as Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock.Â
Alvaro's favorite book: Conversation in the Cathedral (Author: Mario Vargas Llosa)
(00:01) IntroductionÂ
(00:35) What is Usage-Based Billing?
(02:27) Challenges in Metering Usage
(04:14) Examples of Consumption-Based Products
(05:49) Tools for Usage Metering and Billing
(09:08) Founding Story and Validation of Orb
(12:11) Building the MVP for a Billing System
(14:48) Acquiring the First 10 Customers
(18:33) Scaling Sales & Marketing After Initial Traction
(21:09) Building th...
Turning Legal Services to APIs | Jay Madheswaran, CEO of Eve
Jay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed and the first engineer at Rubrik.
Jay's favorite book: The Truth Detector (Author: Jack Schafer)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:44) Overview of Legal AI and Industry Impact
(03:53) Daily Operations in Plaintiff Law Firms
(05:49) Identifying and Launching Eve's MVP
(08:58) Framework for Building an Effective MVP
(12:02) Acquiring Early Customers (Zero to Ten)
(14:20) Scaling Beyond Early Customers: Growth...
Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT.Â
Anant's favorite book: The Singularity Is Near (Author: Ray Kurzweil)
(00:07) Defining Unstructured Data
(01:18) The Growth of Unstructured Data and Its Challenges
(02:05) Evolution of Tools for Analyzing Unstructured Data
(04:25) How Large Language Models (LLMs) Changed Data Processing
(05:27) Do We Still Need ETL in the LLM Era?
(06:05) Structured Queries vs. Direct Unstructured Querying
Building AI Agents That Actually Work | Malte Kosub, CEO of Parloa
Malte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter.
Malte's favorite book: The Qualified Sales Leader (Author: John McMahon)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:26) Overview of AI in Customer Support
(01:33) The Current Landscape of AI Agents
(02:46) Enterprise Adoption of AI Agents
(04:16) The Founding Story of Parloa
(06:25) Deciding What Goes into V1 of a Product
(07:56) Achieving 99.9999% Accuracy in AI Agents
(09:29) How to Identify Customer Needs for AI Products
(10:55) Scaling from Early Customers to the Next 10
(12:41...
3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First Generative AI Copilot for Lawyers | Scott Stevenson, CEO of Spellbook
Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as Inovia, Bling, and Moxxie.Â
Scott's favorite book: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:06) The basics of legal AI and its applications
(02:57) How lawyers use AI for contract review and drafting
(03:22) Inspiration from GitHub Copilot and AI’s role in legal work
(04:19) AI in litigation vs. transactional legal work
(06:37) Why...
The Outer Loop of AI-Powered Coding | Merrill Lutsky, CEO of Graphite
Merrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by amazing investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
Merrill's favorite book: Never Split the Difference (Author: Chris Voss)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:06) Teaching AI to Understand Code
(02:40) AI-Assisted Code Generation and Code Review
(06:20) Current Landscape of AI-Assisted Code Review
(09:04) Motivation Behind Launching Graphite
(16:52) Landing the First Paying Users and Early Learnings
(21:42) Growth Experiments: Wins and Misses
(26:27) Current Scale of Graphite
(29:12) Tech Stack Behind Graphite
(33:12) Future of AI-Assisted...
Behind the Scenes of AI Video | Amit Jain, founder of Luma AI
Amit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, and AMD. He was previously at Apple where he worked on VisionPro.
Amit's favorite book: Skunk Works (Authors: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:26) How Can AI Models Generate Realistic Videos
(02:38) The Current Landscape of Video Generation
(06:16) Teaching AI Models the Laws of Physics
(09:47) Founding Luma: Deciding on the First Product Version
(12:56) Validating Market Need & User Feedback
(16:42) Key Learnings from Ray 1 Before Launching...
Building an AI-Powered Terminal | Zach Lloyd
Zach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. He was previously the cofounder of SelfMade and the interim CTO of TIME.
Zach's favorite book: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Author: Leo Tolstoy)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Basics of the Terminal: What It Does and Why Developers Use It
(01:48) Foundation of Warp: Addressing Terminal Shortcomings
(05:00) Initial Feature Set: Building Warp’s Early Product
(07:19) Product Iteration and Retaining Early Users
(10:15) AI Integration in Wa...
When Robots Go Haywire, Who Picks Up The Tab? | Amias Gerety
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard.
Amias's favorite finance book:
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (Author: Walter Bagehot)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:46) Why Do Robots Need Insurance?
(03:04) Challenges for Insurance Companies with Robot Liability
(07:34) Risks of Autonomous Robots in Industrial vs. Domestic Settings
(12:22) Cybersecurity and Hacking Risks in Robotics
(15:41) Importance and Challenge of Historical Data in Robotics Insurance<...
Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company
Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard.Â
Jordan's favorite book: The Master and Margarita (Author: Mikhail Bulgakov)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:08) Founding of MotherDuck
(01:12) The Philosophy of Shipping Products at MotherDuck
(05:02) Founding Story and Identifying the Market Opportunity
(10:57) Building the F...
AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets?
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard.
Amias's favorite book: The Origin of Species (Author: Charles Darwin)
(00:01) Introduction and Setting the Stage
(00:29) The Status Quo: AI Agents and Online Purchases
(02:20) The Current Payment Infrastructure Explained
(04:42) Automation Today: Auto-Complete and Recurring Payments
(06:09) Why AI Agents Need Dedicated Financial Infrastructure
(08:29) Historical Examples: Auctions, Bots, and Payment Systems
(09:32) Identifying and Verifying AI Agents in...
Decoding Metadata in AI
Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Series B co-led by Cherryrock Capital and Emerson Collective along with participation from Greycroft, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bessemer Venture Partners. He has a masters degree from MIT and a PhD from Stanford.
Cody's favorite books:
- The Inner Game of Tennis (Author: W. Timonthy Gallwey)
- Gettine More (Author: Stuart Diamond)
(00:01) Introduction: Setting the Stage for Metadata
(00:21) What is Metadata? Structure in Unstructured Data
(01:37...
Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics
Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent funding round led by Khosla Ventures. She has degrees from MIT, CMU, and University of Washington.
Gilwoo's favorite book: Masayoshi Son's 300-Year Plan (Author: Takashi Sugimoto)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:08) What is a Greenhouse?
(01:08) Greenhouse Usage in Different Regions
(02:45) Advantages and Challenges of Greenhouses
(06:15) Crops Suitable for Greenhouses
(08:23) Introduction to Autonomous Greenhouses
(10:40) Technology Stack of Autonomous Greenhouses
(12:17) Factors...
Developing Battery Materials with AI
Vivas Kumar is the cofounder and CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials product company focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%. They recently raised more than $80M in funding from Social Capital, General Motors, Alpha Wave Ventures, and others.
Vivas's favorite book: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Author: Nelson Mandela)
(00:01) Introduction
(02:25) How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work
(04:56) Evolution of Battery Materials
(06:46) Development of Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
(08:10) Optimizing Battery Properties: Cost, Energy Density, and Cycle Life
(10:52) Supply Chain of Battery Materials<...
Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models
Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others.
Alan's favorite book: 1984 (Author: George Orwell)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models
(01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understanding
(03:54) Emotion Detection in Voice AI Models
(04:33) Training Models to Recognize Human Emotion in Speech
(07:19) Cultural Variations in Emotional Expressions
(09:00) Semantic Space Theory in Emotion Recognition
(12:11) Limitations of Basic Emotion Categories
(15:50) Recognizing Blended Emotional...
Digital Replicas That Can Have Real Conversations
Hassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Scale VP.
Hassaan's favorite book: Go Like Hell (Author: A. J. Baime)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:38) Overview of AI in video generation
(01:44) AI models used in video generation
(03:35) Capturing intricate facial movements in real-time
(06:46) Data capture and 3D modeling from basic video input
(09:01) Explanation of neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting
(10:14) Capturing facial expressions for video generation
(15:22) Temporal coherence in...
Sovereign AI
Alex Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda, a streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. They've raised more than $165M in funding from investors such as Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Concord Systems.
(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Defining Streaming Data
(04:14) Evolution of Streaming Data Systems Over the Last 10 Years
(09:10) Introduction to Sovereign AI
(14:14) How Sovereign AI Works in Practice
(19:51) Infrastructure Needed for Sovereign AI
(23:48) Sensitive Workloads in Enterprise AI
(28:01) Foundation Models and Streaming Data
(32:41) Breakthroughs in AI Related to Streaming Data<...
Large Action Models
Will Lu is the cofounder and CTO of Orby AI, an AI platform to automate people's repetitive tasks. He was previously the Head of Engineering at Google and a Systems Software Engineer at Nvidia.
Will's favorite book: Beyond Enterpreneurship (Authors: Jim Collins and William Lazier)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) History of RPA
(01:04) Building Blocks of RPA
(02:34) Drawbacks of Traditional RPA
(05:06) Introduction to AI-Native RPA
(06:38) Advantages of AI-Native RPA
(08:14) Defining Generative Process Automation (GPA)
(10:15) Explanation of Large Action Models
(11:47) Role of AI Agents in Process Automation
(13:11...
Databases for AI Workloads
Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion, and more. He was previously the CTO of Splunk, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Cisco for $28 billion. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Yahoo for 14 years.
Tim's favorite book: Infinite Jest (Author: David Foster Wallace)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Evolution of Databases
(03:17) Enduring Business Models in Data Management
(04:41) Challenges and Trade-offs in Database Choices
(06:20) Modern Database Architecture
(09:06) Separation...
Breaking New Ground With Collaborative Robots
Brad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They've raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. He was previously the CTO of Scale AI. Prior to that, he was the VP of Robotics at Amazon. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.
Brad's favorite book: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Author: Virginia Lee Burton)
(00:00) Introduction
(02:11) Collaborative Robots Explained
(05:17) Building Blocks in Robotics
(11:01) Architecture of a Cobot<...
Building Floor Cleaning Robots
Mehul Nariyawala is the cofounder of Matic where they are building the world's most advanced floor cleaning robots. He was previously the cofounder of Flutter, which was acquired by Google. During his career, he has held roles at Google, Like.com, and Salesforce.Â
Mehul's favorite books:
- The Martian (Author: Andy Weir)
- Lyndon Johnson series (Author: Robert Caro)
- Shoe Dog (Author: Phil Knight)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes)
(00:00) Introduction and Core Technologies
(01:26) The Evolution of Floor Cleaning Robots
(09:42) C...
How to extract intelligence from speech data with AI
Krish Ramineni is the cofounder and CEO of Fireflies, an AI meeting assistant that takes notes, transcribes, and analyzes all your meetings. It's used across 300,000 organizations around the world with 70% of the Fortune 500 companies using it. He was previously the cofounder of Rumblii and was at Microsoft working on customer voice analytics.
Krish's favorite book: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Author: Jack Weatherford)
(00:04) Introduction
(00:11) State of Play in Voice AI Today
(01:26) User Perception Shift in Voice AI
(01:59) Evolution of Speech to Text Technology
(04:05...
Designing Antibodies with AI
Surge Biswas is the cofounder and CEO of Nabla Bio, an AI platform to enable precise drug design and high-throughput measurement of drug properties. They recently raised $26M Series A led by Radical Ventures. He has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from Harvard University.
Surge's favorite book: Permutation City (Author: Greg Egan)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:07) Generative AI in Drug Design
(01:19) Traditional vs. AI-driven Drug Discovery
(03:42) Designing Antibodies
(05:06) Therapeutic Antibodies Design Process
(07:39) Data Sets for AI in Drug Discovery
(10:48) High Throughput Measurement in Drug Discovery
(13:14...
The Long Tail of AI: Understanding and Resolving Edge Cases
Michael Kohen is the founder and CEO of SparkAI, a platform that delivers real-time resolutions to longtail AI exceptions in production. SparkAI was acquired by John Deere. He was previously the cofounder of Wonder. He has also held roles at Zoox and Hero. And he got his bachelors degree from Harvard University.
Michael's favorite book: Star Maker (Author: Olaf Stapledon)
(00:00) Introduction and Definition of AI Edge Cases
(02:24) Examples of Edge Cases in Everyday Life
(03:09) Importance of Edge Cases in Various Industries
(04:09) Challenges in Resolving Edge Cases
(08:53) The...
How Symbolic AI is Transforming Critical Infrastructure
Eric Daimler is the cofounder and CEO of Conexus AI, a data management platform that provides composable and machine-verifiable data integration. He was previously an assistant dean and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding partner of Hg Analytics and managing director at Skilled Science. He was also the White House Presidential Innovation Fellow for Machine Intelligence and Robotics.
Eric's favorite book: ReCulturing (Author: Melissa Daimler)
(00:00) Understanding Symbolic AI
(02:42) Symbolic AI mirrors biological intelligence
(06:01) Category Theory
(08:42) Comparing Symbolic AI and Probabilistic AI
(11:22) Symbolic Generative...
AI Disruption: Startups vs Incumbents in the Tech Stack
Edward Suh is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. He was previously at Goodwater Capital and Redpoint Ventures. He has bachelors and masters degree from Stanford specializing in AI.
Edward's favorite book: Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger)
(00:00) Introduction and Investing Framework
(06:02) Cold Emailing and Honest Feedback
(13:23) Biases and Opportunities in the VC Ecosystem
(20:47) Disruption and Ownership in the AI Tech Stack
(24:15) Robotic Process Automation and AI Agents
(26:08) Consumer AI Opportunities
(30:00) Unlocking Opportunities in EdTech
(33:11) Technological...
Unpacking AI Startups: Metrics, Playbooks, and the Future
Julia Klein is a partner at March Capital, a growth-stage VC firm. Prior to this, she was the cofounder and CEO of CareerPeer. She has an MBA from Harvard.
Julia's favorite books:
- Brandon Sanderson's books
- The Nightingale (Author: Kristin Hannah)
- Crime and Punishment (Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- The Will of the Many (Author: James Islington)
(00:00) Introduction
(00:07) What Sets an AI Startup Apart
(05:14) The Rise of Generative AI
(08:00) AI and Digital Biology
(08:38) Opportunities in Computer Vision
(12:02) The Potential of Synthetic...
Automated Evaluation of LLMs
Anand Kannappan is the cofounder and CEO of Patronus AI, an automated AI evaluation and security company. They have raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, and Fortune 500 executives. He was previously at Meta and Vertis. He was also the cofounder of Kyber Technologies, which was a service to systematically predict market events using AI and remote sensing data. It evolved into a futures quant hedge fund managing $15M for partners.
Anand's favorite book: Harry Potter series (Author: JK Rowling)
(00:00) Introduction and Common Failure Modes of...
Investing In AI-first Startups
Camilo Acosta is a GP at Perceptive VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in AI-first companies across the US and Latin America. He was previously a product lead at Meta. Prior to that, he was the cofounder and CEO of Pay By Group.
Camilo's favorite book: The Power Law (Author: Sebastian Mallaby)
(00:00) Introduction
(00:29) Key Factors for AI Startup Success
(01:23) Disruptive Opportunities for Startups in the AI Tech Stack
(03:15) Challenges and Opportunities in AI Hardware
(04:15) Assessing Ambitious Hardware Opportunities
(05:23) Promising Trends in Verticalized AI...
AI's Role In Physics, Chemistry, and Beyond
Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech. Her work developing novel AI algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI, including scientific simulations, weather forecasting, autonomous drone flights, and drug design. She has received best paper awards at venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. She holds degrees from the IIT Madras and Cornell University. She has conducted postdoctoral research at MIT. She was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director at Nvidia.
Anima's favorite book: Hyperspace (Author: Michio Kaku)
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Generative AI for Coding
Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Greenoaks and General Catalyst. He was previously at Nuro. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.
Varun's favorite book: The Idea Factory (Author: Jon Gertner)
(00:00) Introduction and State of Play
(03:03) What Generative AI Can Do Well
(06:10) Introduction to Codeium
(08:53) Handling Different Programming Languages
(11:26) Model Architectures and Optimization
(13:27) Interpreting and...
Building Robots That Can Cook
Rajat Bhageria is the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, where they are building robots that can do the work of assembly line cooks in commercial kitchens. He's also the cofounder and managing partner of Prototype Capital, a pre-seed VC fund. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of ThirdEye, which got acquired in 2017. He has been a writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Huffington Post.
Rajat's favorite book: Steve Jobs (Author: Walter Isaacson)
(00:00) Fundamentals of Robotics and AI
(01:44) Sensors in the Kitchen
(03:18) Motion Control in the Kitchen
(07:15) Introduction...
Discovering New Materials With AI
Jonathan Godwin is the cofounder and CEO of Orbital Materials, where they're using Generative AI to develop a pipeline of new materials for carbon removal and energy transition. He was previously a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind.
Jonathan's favorite book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes)
(00:07) The Process of Discovering New Materials
(04:20) Building the Foundation Model
(06:42) The Impact of Google's GNoME Project
(08:49) Adding Materials to the Pipeline
(11:08) Computational Screening and AI
(13:43) Material Structures and Properties
(18:41) Material Formation and Degradation
(20:47) Materials f...