I sat down with Jerry Liu, the founder of LLamaIndex, the leading data framework for building LLM applications. Jerry shares his views on the future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), his experience building a company in a fast-paced and competitive sector, and much more.
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Inception of Llama Index
2:34 - Advice on high velocity projects
3:45 - Unlocking value from datasources
5:22 - Interesting projects harnessing RAG
6:29 - AI Agents
8:00 - Future of RAG pipelines & large context windows
11:05 - Advantages of Llama Index
12:25 - ML/AI breakthroughs 2017 to today
15:05 - Research vs production
17:10 - The 1-Person Billion Dollar Company
21:00 - Competitive environment in AI ecosystem
23:08 - Changing definition of open source AI