In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Naveen Rao, VP of GenAI at Databricks. Naveen is a serial entrepreneur who established the first AI chip company, which he sold to Intel in 2016. He then founded MosaicML in 2020, which was acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion last year.
During the episode, he shares:
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[00:00] Up next:
[00:51] Episode introduction
[01:40] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform
[02:06] Naveen's Introduction
[05:17] Naveen's experience scaling AI products
[06:52] Why we need to scale AI
[11:40] MosaicML's jobs to be done
[14:09] Why did MosaicML team up with Databricks?
[18:24] LLMs 101
[24:47] The economics of training AI models
[28:11] Training a new model vs. adapting a general model
[30:51] The shelf life of AI models
[34:33] A look into DSPy
[41:11] The challenges of DSPy
[43:59] Techniques and architectures that excite Naveen
[47:58] Advice for teams building with AI
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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Hamza Choudery Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.
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