Ep 14: Chroma CEO Jeff Huber on Vector Databases, Multimodal Embeddings & Building an AI Startup
On today’s episode we talk with Jeff Huber, the CEO and Co-founder of Chroma. We talk about what sets Chroma apart from its competitors, new developments in AI technology, and advice for listeners who want to get started in AI.
Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron · Jeff Huber, Erica Brescia, Jordan Segall
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Show Notes
On today’s episode we talk with Jeff Huber, the CEO and Co-founder of Chroma. We talk about what sets Chroma apart from its competitors, new developments in AI technology, and advice for listeners who want to get started in AI.
0:00 intro
1:02 starting chroma
6:08 vector databases
10:03 interesting use cases for vector databases
13:14 what sets chroma apart?
23:00 unresolved questions in LLMs
32:45 multiple agents vs. one agent to rule them all
34:50 chroma’s future
38:00 embedding models
43:00 over-hyped/under-hyped
44:30 AI regulation
48:42 is it too late to get into AI?
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