Prateek talks about Federated Learning

07/20/23 • 18 min

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

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.
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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

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AI x DevOps, Open source AI, Data infrastructure | Timothy Chen, General Partner at Essence VC

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)
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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

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Vector databases x Vertical AI | Andre Zayarni (cofounder/CEO of Qdrant) and Karthik Dinakar (cofounder/CTO of Pienso)

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?
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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