Grit

#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle


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Guests: Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Together AI; and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins

No one knows for sure whether the future of AI will be driven more by research labs and AI-native companies, or by enterprises applying the technology to their own data sets. But one thing is for sure, says Together AI CEO and co-founder Vipul Ved Prakash: It’s going to be a lot bigger. “If you look at the next 10 years or the next 20 years, we are doing maybe 0.1 percent of [the] AI that we’ll be doing 10 years from now.” 

In this episode, Vipul, Bucky, and Joubin discuss startup table stakes, Tri Dao, tentpole features, open-source AI, non-financial investors, Meta Llama, deep learning researchers, WeWork, “Attention is All You Need,” create vs. capture, Databricks, Docker, scaling laws, Ilya Sutskever, IRC, and Jordan Ritter and Napster.

Chapters:

  • (00:53) - Executive hiring
  • (04:40) - How Vipul and Bucky met
  • (06:54) - Six years at Apple
  • (08:19) - Together and the AI landscape
  • (12:47) - Apple’s deal with OpenAI
  • (14:27) - Open vs. closed AI
  • (17:32) - Nvidia GPUs and capital expenditures
  • (22:48) - Fame and reputation
  • (24:17) - Planning for an uncertain future
  • (27:00) - Stress and attention
  • (30:18) - AI research
  • (34:58) - Challenges for AI businesses
  • (39:02) - Frequent disagreements
  • (43:05) - Vipul’s first startups, Cloudmark and Topsy
  • (47:55) - Taking time off
  • (50:09) - The crypto-AI connection
  • (53:20) - Who Together AI is hiring
  • (54:37) - What “grit” means to Vipul

  • Links:

    Connect with Vipul

    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn

    Connect with Bucky

    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn

    Connect with Joubin

    Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

    This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

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