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Diego Oppenheimer

Co-Founder, Guardrails AI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Diego Oppenheimer co-founded and served as CEO of Algorithmia until its acquisition by DataRobot, where he served as Executive Vice President. He previously shipped data analytics products at Microsoft and later co-founded Guardrails AI.

12statements → 6claims → 1claims resolved → 3.75/5average certainty → 1.58/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Diego argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Oppenheimer: Algorithmia is likely the only serverless GPU provider
“We're probably the only product out there that does serverless over GPUs, and it's really important from a price and a performance perspective, but all the thing is that we actually do cross-cloud.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 19:12 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 26.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Diego Oppenheimer: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,082 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Diego Oppenheimer said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Oppenheimer: ML inference belongs to DevOps, not data scientists
“We think that the inference side of things is actually owned by DevOps and the infrastructure teams”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 6:51 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Oppenheimer: TensorFlow is open source, but scaling it is not
“TensorFlow is open source, but actually scaling it is not.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 3:48 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Opinion
Oppenheimer: AI and machine learning are the killer apps for serverless
“I actually think that AI and machine learning are the killer apps for serverless microservices.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 6:39 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Oppenheimer: Serverless AI architecture can cut infrastructure costs by up to 85%
“Using serverless, we can actually track as the demand comes in. We can use our load balancers to quickly initiate and replicate these models over the entire infrastructure, going up and down with the demand, allowing for savings of up to 85% of the infrastruct…”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 10:33 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Insight
Oppenheimer: Data is heavy and expensive to move, but compute is light and cheap
“So there's a design principle that we use, personally, at Algorithmia, which is data is heavy and expensive to move, but compute is light and cheap.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 11:40 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Oppenheimer: Algorithmia is likely the only serverless GPU provider
“We're probably the only product out there that does serverless over GPUs, and it's really important from a price and a performance perspective, but all the thing is that we actually do cross-cloud.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 19:12 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diego Oppenheimer states Algorithmia has 63,000 developers using its platform
“We have 63,000 developers that use our platform.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 2:09 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diego Oppenheimer claims Algorithmia manages over 50,000 functions simultaneously
“We're actually dealing with over 50,000 different functions at any given time that need to be able to deploy it and run on the infrastructure.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 2:33 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diego Oppenheimer states Algorithmia operates under 15 milliseconds of latency overhead
“We sit to a strict latency of under 15 milliseconds of overhead throughout an entire system.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 2:51 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Oppenheimer: Cloud providers earn over $1 per dollar Algorithmia makes
“For every dollar that we you know, that we make, the infrastructure provider under us is making more than that dollar.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 22:42 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Disclosure
Oppenheimer: Algorithmia co-sells products directly with AWS and Azure
“Some of them we actually do co-selling experiences with them where, you know, we're, you know, we're informing their sales forces to say, hey, this is a product that exists on AWS, this is a product that exists on Azure, And you can actually go ahead and use i…”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 23:15 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Disclosure
Algorithmia has raised about $13.5M with a team of 24 people
“So so we're based out of Seattle, headquartered in Seattle, have a small office here in New York. Team of 24 people at this point raised about 13 and a half million dollars. Our latest round was done by Google's AI fund.”
Diego Oppenheimer Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 21:42 Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Dr Mar 2, 2018 18m
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