Vikram Sreekanti is the cofounder and CEO of RunLLM, a developer platform for the LLM stack. They have raised funding from investors such as Redpoint and Essence. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- OpenAI DevDay announcements
- Are long context windows useful?
- Open source AI
- The founding of RunLLM
- Large foundation models vs smaller specialist models
- Why is OpenAI too cheap to beat?
- Nvidia's strengths and potential weaknesses

Vikram's favorite book: Slaughterhouse-Five (Author: Kurt Vonnegut) 

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