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.

 

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

Jacob is an AI investor at Redpoint Ventures. He's led Redpoint's investments in companies like Abridge, Physical Intelligence & Legora. Follow Jacob on Twitter (@jacobeffron).

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