Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Executive Order on AI, Open Source AI | Douwe Kiela, cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Douwe Kiela is the cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI, where they are building the next generation of foundation models that provide fully customizable, trustworthy, and privacy-aware AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford. He was previously the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a research scientist at Meta. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Open source vs closed source AI
- White House's Executive Order on AI
- Enterprise needs when it comes to LLMs
- The founding of Contextual AI
- What does RAG 2.0 look like for LLMs
- Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models
- Do Big tech companies have an unassailable lead in AI?
- Size of the data vs size of the model. What is more important and why?
- How will the AI compute market shape up?
Douwe's favorite books:
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Author: J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Author: Alexandre Dumas)
- Amp It Up (Author: Frank Slootman)
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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