Patrick and Jacob sit down with Alexandru Costin, the VP of Generative AI and Sensei at Adobe, and discuss how Adobe’s early projects with generative AI in 2019 helped them move quickly upon the release of LLMs and diffusion models. Before leading Adobe’s generative AI efforts he founded InterAKT, a web development company, and led Adobe Romania for 10 years.

00:00 intro

01:44 Adobe Romania and background

02:26 AI projects at Adobe

10:03 incorporating AI into existing products

16:34 educating Adobe’s user base

25:13 avoiding copyright issues with Ai-generated content

32:12 using customer feedback

40:30 what is the right way to structure an AI team?

45:11 pricing AI products

48:00 the future of Adobe

With your co-hosts: 

@jasoncwarner 

- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical 

@ericabrescia 

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) 

@patrickachase 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn 

@jacobeffron 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health 

@jordan_segall 

- Partner at Redpoint