The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Todays show:
Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason to discuss how his startup is building the future of AI-Powered enterprise search (2:35). The two also discuss Google Gemini (42:45), Open-Source vs Closed models (45:17), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason
(2:35) Glean’s beachhead market and primary focus
(5:13) Glean’s approach to data confidentiality
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(13:13) Competition against native tools and building language models in SaaS companies
(17:00) Glean’s approach to permissions
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(25:23) Compliance and the "CEO God Mode" feature
(29:28) Potential of productivity software, and people analytics in tech businesses
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(40:04) Impact of AI on business models
(42:45) Arvind’s thoughts on Google Gemini
(45:17) Open source vs closed models in AI development and the progress of OpenAI
(47:49) AGI and the limitations and potential of AI as an assistant
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| 0:00.0 | who will be the best models and which will be the most market share? |
| 0:04.8 | These closed models or open source models? |
| 0:07.2 | I think in the future majority of AI work is going to be based on open source models. |
| 0:15.6 | You would say 80% of all AI inferencing |
| 0:19.5 | or like people building AI applications |
| 0:22.4 | is going to be based on open domain |
| 0:24.4 | models and like some some of those will be like fully like open domain some of them could be |
| 0:28.5 | open domain which are sort of supported by enterprises you know and and you know that's sort of like really how the industry has progressed over the last like two decades. |
| 0:39.0 | It's just really hard to beat open source. |
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| 1:26.0 | your personal and business taxes. Visit join Gelt.com slash twist now. |
| 1:31.5 | All right everybody welcome back to the program. |
| 1:34.0 | Today on the program we've got Arvin Jane. |
| 1:36.0 | He is from a company called Glean. |
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