Douwe Kiela is the cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI, where they are building the next generation of foundation models that provide fully customizable, trustworthy, and privacy-aware AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford. He was previously the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a research scientist at Meta. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Open source vs closed source AI
- White House's Executive Order on AI
- Enterprise needs when it comes to LLMs
- The founding of Contextual AI
- What does RAG 2.0 look like for LLMs
- Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models
- Do Big tech companies have an unassailable lead in AI?
- Size of the data vs size of the model. What is more important and why?
- How will the AI compute market shape up?

Douwe's favorite books:
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Author: J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Author: Alexandre Dumas)
- Amp It Up (Author: Frank Slootman)

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