Andreessen Horowitz April 26, 2024
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty joins a16z’s Satish Talluri and Derrick Harris to discuss the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). He also shares insights and highlights from a decades-long career in machine learning, which includes stints running research teams at both Yahoo and Amazon Web Services.
Here are some highlights:
[9:42] “I’ll admit to being a snob and being part of the camp that was, to begin with, quite skeptical of deep learning. My roots are in theoretical machine learning and in theoretical CS, in general. So I was really trying to prove convergence and improve, asymptotic running times and really understand worst-case...