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Amr Awadallah claims Vectara has solved the LLM hallucination problem
“I mean, you do have a human in the loop, so you can still qualify it, but we want it to be minimized to zero, and that's the problem that we solved.”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 2:47 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
Disclosure
Vectara is avoiding enterprise search sales during the economic downturn
“That's number 11 on the CIO list of things to spend on. I'm not going to go after that during an economic downturn.”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 18:43 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
Insight
DIY modular vector stacks face scale and latency issues in production
“And actually for prototyping, it's great to use that. Now get that into production at scale. And that's when you're going to start running into hiccups in terms of scalability cost wise, scalability performance wise on the ingest side, and then on the query ru…”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 23:13 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
Disclosure
Vectara's sentence encoder processed Vietnamese despite it being excluded from training
“So we just trained a new model, a fresher version that we're working on right now on about 30 languages and Vietnamese was not one of them. And it's still figured out how to go from Vietnamese too.”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 9:11 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
Disclosure
Awadallah: Vectara provides ChatGPT for proprietary enterprise data
“So what we do is ChatGPT for your own data.”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 0:34 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
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