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Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 53:49 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) And that's when suddenly they're like, okay, can I just put this into Excel because I'll answer it myself.
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 48:44 Florian Douetteau You have a new technology popping up, meaning every big conference would that be the one from Microsoft.
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
- ▶ 12:04 May Habib And a lot of times, and we almost always, you know, we're, we're not as big as Microsoft or OpenAI yet, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 May Habib Um, you know, like, we were very validated by a Microsoft paper that came out earlier this year, um, and they called, you know, their approach GraphRag, except they're using GPT-IV to build the graphs, and literally just adding that…
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 16:47 Nathan Benaich And then Microsoft is like in this constant, um, uh, I don't know, frenemy situationship with, with OpenAI, so they're probably not going to host it.
- ▶ 41:57 Nathan Benaich And sort of like these massive pseudo majority investments between like Microsoft and OpenAI or Anthropic and, um, and Amazon.
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
- ▶ 6:33 Matt Turck Revival of nuclear power with, you know, Microsoft entering into a deal with Constellation to revive Three Mile Island, which was the site of the last nuclear accident in the U.S., and then deals from, you know, Google and Amazon, so, you…
- ▶ 25:51 Matt Turck Uh, we were, you and I were looking, so, uh, Microsoft was saying, Hey, we're only two and a half years in, but our AI business is on track to surpass 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:14 Matt Turck So that could be the world of, uh, chat GPD on Azure.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 4:05 Erik Bernhardsson Like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 44:34 Jordan Tigani Like Mother Duck, I think we're playing in the, hey, we have a great, you know, query engine space, and you can hook us up to your BI tool, and we, we connect to, you know, you know, Tableau, and Power BI, and, ah, Omni, and, and preset,…
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 52:58 Clement Delangue So when you think about, about Microsoft, when you think about NVIDIA, uh, all, all these companies are, uh, massive customers of, of ours.
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 53:27 Richard Socher Um, they all care about accuracy, and they see the benefit of having a separate tool that isn't just, like, you could argue, like, well, you could kind of incorporate, uh, intelligence and knowledge, work, and so on into PowerPoint, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:40 Richard Socher And I'm sure Microsoft will incorporate some of, uh, AI into PowerPoint, into Word, into Excel, and so on.
- ▶ 53:40 Richard Socher And I'm sure Microsoft will incorporate some of, uh, AI into PowerPoint, into Word, into Excel, and so on.
- ▶ 53:40 Richard Socher And I'm sure Microsoft will incorporate some of, uh, AI into PowerPoint, into Word, into Excel, and so on. 2 times in the scene
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 51:04 Olivier Pomel Um, uh, bots, you know, in, whether it's the Google one, the Microsoft one, and, you know, you sort of try them, you force yourself to try them, and then you run out of ideas, you know, so you don't, you don't come back. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:29 Olivier Pomel For the, for the young people who listen, Clippy was the, uh, the, the Microsoft award.
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
- ▶ 10:27 Eric Glyman You know, we even do through productivity, through teams and Slack and approvals.
- ▶ 16:43 Eric Glyman Um, uh, we just open AI and Azure, uh, as well for some of our more AI, uh, oriented.
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 7:39 Matt Turck Oh, let's just, uh, bring in OpenAI, you know, on top of Azure or whatever to do this use cases versus, um, you know, let's play with open source, our own models, and, uh, how's the thinking evolving?
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 20:54 Azeem Azhar But what is Excel today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:22 Azeem Azhar And I say, this is not a technology that you can learn through PowerPoint that your juniors have presented to you, and you tick off.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 11:30 Aaron Katz And, uh, yeah, we then had to decide what cloud provider we were going to start with and we chose AWS and we then have subsequently deployed on GCP and we'll be deploying on Azure and launching that service in public bait in two weeks on
- ▶ 18:49 Aaron Katz So I think I mentioned Azure. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:52 Aaron Katz If you think about BI workloads, um, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, for example.
- ▶ 36:20 Aaron Katz Um, and, uh, yeah, you know, we'll be at Microsoft build, uh,
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
- ▶ 2:16 Matt Turck You were at Microsoft for a few years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Daniel Dines It's like Visual Studio or Eclipse or something.
- ▶ 1:09:04 Daniel Dines In Microsoft, I was working for SQL Server, which is really amazing database engine.
- ▶ 1:09:04 Daniel Dines In Microsoft, I was working for SQL Server, which is really amazing database engine.
- ▶ 1:09:40 Daniel Dines And then I took, you know, Microsoft Word license agreement, and then I had to copy it and transform it to build our first legal agreement.
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 5:29 Tomasz Tunguz You have Microsoft and Zoom and, and others on top.
- ▶ 12:47 Tomasz Tunguz Spiked almost 18 months before Google and Microsoft did, so they must have seen some of these inference workloads coming. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:27 Tomasz Tunguz So Microsoft and ServiceNow have said there's 50 to 75% increase in developer productivity.
- ▶ 35:59 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, it's just my hunch, but like the Google, Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 Matt Turck Um, what do you make of, uh, Microsoft, uh, fabric? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:18 Matt Turck Power BI.
- ▶ 37:32 Tomasz Tunguz You look at what Teams and Zoom, that whole dynamic, I think something very similar will happen to data.
- ▶ 42:00 Tomasz Tunguz And an individual marketing analyst who wants to define a particular kind of cost of customer acquisition can use an Excel-like UI to do that.
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
- ▶ 10:37 Matt Turck You know, this emerging, um, uh, business models around that, uh, whether that's, uh, selling through Azure, uh, or, you know, services on, uh, for, for, for self-hosted on-prem kind of versions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Matt Turck You could very much argue that, um, the storage layer of an AWS versus a GCP versus an Azure, uh, is entirely not differentiated.
- ▶ 21:47 Matt Turck And we're like talking about Lama three a second ago, but there's also the, the Microsoft, um, uh, you know, speaking images, uh, thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:39 Matt Turck Is that, you know, Microsoft
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 2:29 Benedict Evans You know, you unbundle the incumbent, you change the model, you peel something out of Salesforce or Oracle or Excel, you work out your go to market.
- ▶ 9:19 Benedict Evans And I think you could say the same about if you hit file new in Excel, you get all these templates. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 Benedict Evans It's like trying to build, it's like trying to build Gmail with access.
- ▶ 16:54 Benedict Evans So there will be generative AI capabilities inside stuff from Google and Microsoft and Oracle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Benedict Evans It's radically easy to deploy software because you don't have to go and install a Windows, an app on every Windows PC in the company and put it in the company's data center.
AI's Killing Marketing. Ecosystem-Led Grow is the Future | Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam
How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- ▶ 17:48 Des Traynor Yeah, and like Microsoft and Google have been helping us out a lot by like running all these ads and doing all these launches to sort of say, hey, bots aren't shit anymore, you know.
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 11:52 Tristan Handy Like, I don't believe that we're going back to Oracle and Microsoft in 2000 and everybody's just going to buy all their stuff from one vendor.
- ▶ 15:56 Matt Turck So you mentioned, you know, we're not going to all go back to Microsoft, but, um, you know, if you look at players and like the, the key, uh, sort of central repositories like the, you know, snowflakes and the data breaks, like that, there…
- ▶ 17:02 Tristan Handy AWS and, and, uh, and Azure and Google kind of sit at the top of this food chain and then people like me and George just get to figure out what everybody else above us is doing.
How Moody’s Analytics Is Using AI to Transform Credit Risk | Cristina Pieretti & Yimei Fan
- ▶ 11:55 Cristina Pieretti Ah, we did go with, you know, in our testing, and, and also we have an alliance with Microsoft that it's, it's very public. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Yimei Fan This is not Microsoft co-pilot.
- ▶ 16:29 Yimei Fan One thing that we noticed people started using a lot, ah, we launched back, um, on Slack, then on Teams app, then Web UI.
- ▶ 17:27 Cristina Pieretti Well, I would say I would start with, with, ah, two of the biggest, so we did, ah, we have an, ah, strategic alliance with Microsoft, right, where we, ah, part of it is we are using, as I mentioned before, ah, OpenAI, but we're also, for…
- ▶ 17:27 Cristina Pieretti Well, I would say I would start with, with, ah, two of the biggest, so we did, ah, we have an, ah, strategic alliance with Microsoft, right, where we, ah, part of it is we are using, as I mentioned before, ah, OpenAI, but we're also, for…
AI vs. Call Centers: ASAPP CEO Gustavo Sapoznik on the Future of Customer Service
- ▶ 8:41 Gustavo Sapoznik So transcribe is speech recognition, and it's primarily speech recognition for the contact center, which has very, very different acoustic properties than general purpose speech recognition like you can buy from Google or Microsoft or…
Adobe’s AI Revolution: Scott Belsky on Firefly, Photoshop & the Future of Creativity
- ▶ 0:09 Matt Turck When people think about huge public companies making big bets on AI, people tend to think of NVIDIA, maybe Microsoft, but I think that the world is very quickly waking up to the fact that Adobe has been doing incredible work at the…
- ▶ 15:03 Scott Belsky So for the example of LLMs, I mean, we have a great relationship with Microsoft and with OpenAI and with NVIDIA and with Google, and we have a number of partnerships leveraging some of their stuff.
AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
- ▶ 14:38 Akilesh Bapu So at any given point, if Google releases a new version of its video model, um, we, the, the bandit will automatically learn whether or not it should be using that instead of Microsoft's or Amazon's, um, or whether it should keep using it.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 13:41 Aravind Srinivas Mike's CTO, my co-founder, his first job was in Microsoft Bing, and, and my other co-founder, um, he, he had basically built all the ranking systems at Quora.
- ▶ 21:23 Matt Turck How does Perplexity AI certainly differ from those of Google and Microsoft?
- ▶ 33:16 Aravind Srinivas There was a being initially, or yeah, we start, we started with being, I think like, um, we are not, uh, fully independent of, you know, other people's indexes and you're building your own, right?
- ▶ 47:47 unnamed speaker Um, it seems like NVIDIA and Microsoft selected CoreWeave, and partly NVIDIA likes CoreWeave because they don't make any of their own silicon, you know, so that we, they can, tomorrow you could get 10,000 GPUs running instantly.
- ▶ 49:03 Aravind Srinivas I think for the cloud, you can use AWS or Azure. 3 times in the scene
Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
- ▶ 3:30 Mathew Lodge If you, if you look at some of Microsoft's own statistics for Copilot about sort of acceptance rates by developers, they've done some work looking at exactly how many suggestions out of Copilot are, are taken by developer, how many ones…
Guardrails AI: The Playbook for Safer, Hallucination-Free LLMs — Shreya Rajpal Explains
- ▶ 43:53 Shreya Rajpal Uh, I do think the, the OGs in the space where like Microsoft's, uh, you know, 3 times in the scene
Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare
- ▶ 25:18 Munjal Shah Somebody's got to build Excel on top of it.
Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
- ▶ 5:29 Richard Socher That idea got copied many, many times by basically a bunch of, you know, the biggest companies, uh, Bing and others, uh, copied by a bunch of other small startups also, um, throughout this year.
- ▶ 9:23 Richard Socher Um, that was eventually copied, and Bing also has that feature now, uh, within Bing.com. 2 times in the scene
Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
- ▶ 10:48 Victor Riparbelli You know, if you visualize it as like PowerPoint, two point zero, instead of thinking of this as like Adobe Premiere, visual effects, cool Hollywood things, then I think that's the best way to understand why the product is powerful, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Victor Riparbelli So you're making a video to someone who has to understand something, learn something, and you want to do that in a better way than just sending them a long word document. 2 times in the scene
Building LlamaIndex: Jerry Liu on Scaling Retrieval-Augmented AI
The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- ▶ 8:04 Florian Douetteau Uh, pick around to actually correct your data a little bit like you would do row by row in Excel, but actually the way you do it is by actually adding rules.
- ▶ 18:09 Florian Douetteau And so you, you see this switch actually in the market where people are having very typically a master or an engineering degree that we are using Excel a lot in order to
Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
- ▶ 10:14 Jeff Huber You've all used Excel.
AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
- ▶ 7:03 George Sivulka A really similar analog to what Hebbia does, um, actually harkens back to Excel in 1985. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 George Sivulka In the same way where that would be kind of, you know, crazy to be like fine tuning Microsoft Word, um, we, we've tried to build these things in a way that's very easy to, to use for anything.
- ▶ 10:01 George Sivulka Honestly, we spent a very long time trying to find the perfect market niche, you know, our equivalent to fixed income, where Excel in, in, like, the span of 18 months took over 90% of the fixed income industry, and, like, everyone was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 George Sivulka Um, I care that when my children are in sixth grade, and they're in computer science class, in their system tray, they have to learn how to use Google Chrome, how to use, you know, Microsoft Excel, and how to use Hebbia.
- ▶ 27:10 George Sivulka Started to use Heavya to prototype those applications, and to really quickly do a POC, just as you could prototype a database in Excel, or a database table, rather, in Excel.
- ▶ 30:55 George Sivulka So whereas, you could say, hey, I could do my bookkeeping in Excel, or I could, you know, do it in some specialized accounting software.
LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
- ▶ 0:52 Amr Awadallah Uh, and you give them all of the PowerPoint decks that you have received.
- ▶ 4:51 Amr Awadallah Uh, that content could be text documents, could be JSON, XML, PowerPoint, Excel, you name it.
- ▶ 4:51 Amr Awadallah Uh, that content could be text documents, could be JSON, XML, PowerPoint, Excel, you name it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Amr Awadallah It's very similar to Bing chat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:38 Amr Awadallah Like you would ask people about Bing.
- ▶ 11:57 Amr Awadallah Bing chat. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:37 Amr Awadallah Uh, from, from SharePoint and then you assemble them all in a nice UI across your organization.
- ▶ 19:03 Amr Awadallah It is, but we also have, uh, reference open source implementations for how to do a, uh, answer service, just like Bing chat, how to do a conversational bot that converses with the data, how to do a semantic matching for triggering alerts…
The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape
- ▶ 13:59 Matt Turck Developed at Google, and the irony is that Google is playing catch-up to Microsoft and OpenAI right now because OpenAI accelerated the development of a technology that was actually created by Google. 2 times in the scene
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 0:41 Dimitri Sirota And that requires a way to look across, especially in the cloud, you know, hundreds of possible varieties of data sets from, you know, um, um, document DBs to, I saw your investor in Cockroach to everything that's possible in, uh, AWS,…
- ▶ 2:37 Dimitri Sirota So that could be exchange server. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Dimitri Sirota It could be a SQL server from Oracle or Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:43 Dimitri Sirota It could be a SQL server from Oracle or Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:46 Dimitri Sirota Uh, and that was kind of like maybe SharePoint, but that's kind of it, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:41 Dimitri Sirota So one thing to understand is while we started cloud native and AWS, we very quickly kind of realized that we needed to make the cloud runnable in GCP and Azure and in a private cloud, but also even in a, in a, uh, legacy data center.