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The Times Tech Podcast

Sima.ai's Krishna Rangasayee: “Plumbers of the AI age”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Krishna Rangasayee, founder and CEO of Sima.ai, to talk about why we need to remake the tech infrastructure for the AI age (5:10), what the “edge” is (8:30), why he started the company (11:00), the problem with the cloud (15:00), developing a new architecture (19:00), growing up in India (20:45), coming to Mississippi (25:20), starting the company at age 50 (30:00), why being the boss has been so challenging (34:40), the future (37:00), and why AI is like teenage sex (41:00).



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0:00.0

Yeah, technology. What is it all about? I grew up watching the man on the moon. I watched

0:08.8

JFK speeches. And so to me, the only place to really scale my professional ambitions was in Silicon Valley.

0:16.6

And you had that sense as a kid or as a teenager? And absolutely.

0:25.6

And so I still remember playing the We Choose to Go to the Moon speech. I was 11 or 12 years old and I watched it over and over and over again.

0:30.9

Because this wasn't necessarily a country, but it was a state of mind where anything could be possible.

0:53.0

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley. How is everybody doing?

0:54.4

I'm doing fabulously.

0:55.9

I'm just back from week off all as well.

0:57.5

I'm feeling energized.

0:59.5

And this week, we are back to talk about AI because, well, you know, it's 2023.

1:05.4

But we're going to dive into a different part of the story.

1:08.2

So if you believe as many AI utopians out here in these parts do, that we're on the

1:15.5

cusp of a new era of humanity, that we are entering the AI age, which in practical terms

1:21.1

would mean we are going to be surrounded and served by machines that are going to be doing

1:27.4

a ton of stuff for us from self-driving

1:30.2

cars to personal robots.

1:31.8

Of course, Elon Musk is saying his, you know, Tesla bot, whatever you're going to call it,

1:35.7

is going to be bigger than the car.

1:37.3

It's going to change the world, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1:39.2

Virtual assistance, the like, you know the story.

1:42.9

If you believe that that is going to happen and going to scale to the planet, to all of our

1:48.7

many billions, it will also require a fundamental remaking of the hardware and software

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