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We can’t think of a more Latent-Space-y way to end 2023 than with a mega episode featuring many old and new friends recapping their biggest news, achievements, and themes and memes of the year!
We previously covered the Best Papers of NeurIPS 2023, but the other part of NeurIPS being an industry friendly conference is all the startups that show up to hire and promote their latest and greatest products and papers! As a startup-friendly podcast, we of course were ready with our mics to talk to everyone we could track down1.
In lieu of an extended preamble, we encourage you to listen and click through all the interviews and show notes, all of which have been curated to match the references mentioned in the episode.
Timestamps & Show Notes
• [00:01:26] Jonathan Frankle - Chief Scientist, MosaicML/Databricks
see also the Mosaic/MPT-7B episode
• [00:22:11] Lin Qiao - CEO, Fireworks AI
• [00:38:24] Aman Sanger - CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)
• [00:51:14] Aravind Srinivas - CEO, Perplexity
• [01:04:26] Will Bryk - CEO, Metaphor
• [01:12:49] Jeremy Howard - CEO, Answer.ai
• [01:37:13] Joel Hestness - Principal Scientist, Cerebras
• [01:56:34] Jason Corso - CEO, Voxel51
• [02:02:39] Brandon Duderstadt - CEO, Nomic.ai
• [02:12:39] Luca Antiga - CTO, Lightning.ai
• [02:29:46] Jay Alammar - Engineering Fellow, Cohere
Notable misses we still hope to make happen eventually: Together, Character, Midjourney, Mistral, Weights & Biases, Huggingface, Stability, Eleuther. And basically every BigCorp we talked to including Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple declined to speak on the record without PR clearance.