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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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(0:00) Databricks’ Naveen Rao joins Alex Wilhelm
(8:54) Regulatory challenges and open-source AI
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(13:57) Meta's Llama models and reinforcement learning
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(20:55) Open vs. closed source AI models and advances
(28:09) Precision in AI and enterprise applications
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(52:08) Tech incumbents' evolution and AI competition
(54:55) AI model sizes and synthetic data quality
(57:29) AI inspiration from biology and future innovation
(1:03:06) Databricks' growth trajectory and potential IPO
(1:04:25) Elliot Easterling of bonbon joins TWIST for a Jam with JCal.
(1:05:16) Bonbon.tech and the rewards platform overview
(1:14:44) Gamification strategies and user engagement
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Link to Newsom vetoes SB 1047 article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9jwyr3kgeo
The short guide to understanding data intelligence from Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/blog/short-guide-understanding-data-intelligence
Mosaic AI Agent Framework post: https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-mosaic-ai-agent-framework-and-agent-evaluation
Data Intelligence Platform product tour: https://www.databricks.com/resources/demos/tours/horizontal/introducing-databricks-intelligence-platform?itm_data=demo_center
Mosaic AI new features and demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIBdCOj88E
Unity Catalog GitHub: https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog
“Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman summary on Medium - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/89308/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman/9780385676533
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| 0:00.0 | I'd have a lot of conversations with my internal team as well, like my co-founders, and the framework we used internally was, |
| 0:06.1 | which path allows us to influence the world more? |
| 0:10.0 | We are all academics, I care about this field, I care about technology. |
| 0:13.6 | We care very much about how AI is going to impact humanity. |
| 0:17.0 | There's a large component that's extremely mission driven here. |
| 0:20.1 | You know, I would say not all startups form that way, you know, if you have some sass startups that's building a cool little feature, you're really trying to like make money, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. I have no issue with it. I don't think you're really thinking about humanity so much and I'm not trying to beg you |
| 0:34.0 | be on a high horse or anything like that. I'm just trying to like really say like we cared about this and that's that was our initial |
| 0:40.0 | motivation. |
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| 1:26.8 | Hey everybody welcome back to this week in startups. My name is Alex and we have a very |
| 1:31.1 | very excellent episode coming your way. |
| 1:33.6 | Databrics as you know is one of the most valuable private market |
| 1:37.4 | technology companies in the world today. |
| 1:39.8 | It last raised 500 million dollars in a series I that gave it a valuation of around $43 billion. |
| 1:46.5 | But also in roughly the last year, the company bought Mosaic M.L. |
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