Amr Awadallah is the founder and CEO of Vectara, an LLM-powered search company that enables customers to understand exactly what their users are asking. They just announced that they've raised a $28.5 Million round led by Race Capital. He was previously the founder of Cloudera, which went IPO and then was acquired for $5.3 Billion. He has held roles at Google Cloud, Yahoo, Nortel, and HP Labs before this. He has a Phd from Stanford.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How search engines work
- Generative AI conversational search
- Hallucination problem in LLMs
- Grounded Generation
- Fine tuning vs In-context learning
- Typical use cases within enterprise search
- Generative AI companies he's excited about

Amr's favorite book: Sapiens (Author: Yuval Noah Harari)

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