Welcome to the Generation AI Podcast. Whether you are a pioneer in this emerging ecosystem of LLMs and generative AI or are struggling to keep up, this is the place for you. On this show, we dive into the practical and theoretical applications of generative AI with a mission to strip out the hype and deliver helpful dialog from those best positioned to guide us through this vast ecosystem shift.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Amr Awadallah. Amr is the CEO and cofounder of Vectara which is using the latest advances in Large Language Models, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval. 

Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Before that, he co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and spent 11 years as global CTO.

He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! Amr received his Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University and his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.