Alex Ratner is the CEO of Snorkel AI, a platform that provides programmatic data labeling and foundation models to enable companies to build AI applications. They've raised $135M so far from amazing investors such as Addition, Greylock, Google Ventures, and Lightspeed. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of SiftPage. He has a bachelors degree from Harvard and a PhD from Stanford. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Making AI data development first-class and programmatic - The data-centric step for every model-centric step - False dichotomy of fine tuning vs RAG - Foundation model dynamics: winner take all vs diverse models - Training compute-optimal LLMs - Designing multimodal datasets (DataComp) - Distilling Step-by-Step - 'GPT-You' for every enterprise Alex's favorite books: Foundation series books (Author: Isaac Asimov)--------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 

Riddhiman Das is the CEO of TripleBlind, a privacy platform for AI. They have raised $32M in funding, with their most recent round led by General Catalyst. He was previously the Head of International Technology Investments at Ant Financial, which is Alibaba's financial services arm. He was the Product Architect at Zoloz, Chairman at Laplacian, Chief Data Offier at mySideWalk, and CTO of Galleon Labs. He has received the 2013 White House Champions of Change from President Barack Obama. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Attack surface of an AI application - What are the ways in which privacy can be compromised during training and deployment of AI models - Role based access control for Generative AI applications - Data leakage in Generative AI applications - Characteristics of a good privacy product - How is TripleBlind used in healthcare and financial sectors Riddhiman's favorite book: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Author: Jules Verne)--------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 AI infrastructure ideas and categories including: Model infrastructure: - Compute hardware - ML frameworks - Foundation model providers - Distributed model training - Model deployment - Building and serving verticalized models - Streaming ML models - Monitoring and logging - Experimentation framework - On-device applications - Orchestration platform - Latency - User feedback loopData infrastructure:  - Storage hardware - Data acquisition - Databases - Data labeling - Cataloging product usage data - Privacy and security - Backup and redundancy systems --------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 

Molham Aref is the CEO of RelationalAI, an AI coprocessor for the data cloud. They have raised $122M in funding from the likes of Tiger Global, Madrona, Addition, and Menlo Ventures. He is a serial enterpreneur and has been the CEO of LogicBlox, Predictix, and Optimi.In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - Relational knowledge graphs - Knowledge graphs for AI-driven applications - What is an AI coprocessor - Graph analytics - Interaction between ML infrastructure and knowledge graph infrastructure - Data infrastructure for AI compute Molham's favorite book: The Datapreneurs (Author: Bob Muglia)--------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 do we care about this problem- who needs it- how does it work- list of 8 strategies to speed up ML--------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