EP 79 - The State of AI: GPT-4, Google I/O, Generative AI Startups with Naveen Rao, VP of Generative AI at Databricks
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Show notes:
(0:00) Naveen’s background
(5:32) Where Generative AI is today
(8:00) ChatGPT-4o and Google I/O announcements were NOT fundamental shifts
(9:38) Has generative AI scaling hit a wall?
(16:34) AI pretraining difficulties
(22:49) General AI vs. specialized AI
(25:55) Biggest opportunities for generative AI startups
(29:15) AI hardware landscape
(33:23) How open source AI companies can compete with closed models like OpenAI?
(38:59) Why Naveen doesn’t use AI in his home
(40:22) Is open-sourcing AI dangerous?
(43:46) Advice for founders
(47:00) Naveen sold to Intel too early
(51:09) The pace of AI innovation
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