Sharon Zhou

VP of AI, AMD · 1 appearance on the record.

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After completing her CS Ph.D. under Andrew Ng and teaching generative AI at Stanford and Coursera, Sharon Zhou co-founded Lamini, an enterprise LLM platform. In mid-2025, she and members of her team joined AMD, where she leads AI research and the development of domain-specific AI agents.

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Zhou: Public training data for LLMs is running out

“Yeah, I think even just zooming back out at a technical level, I think actually public data is running out for all, all of what LLMs can take advantage of.”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 4:38 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

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Zhou: Domain experts, not AI researchers, will drive top models

“However, I believe that, and this is based on my experience training these models, it's actually the domain experts will be driving the best models out there. It won't be people like me who can actually do all the model training, et cetera.”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 6:23 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

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Zhou: Best LLMs of the next wave will be enterprise models

“So actually the next frontier for LLMs is in enterprises, and I believe the best LLMs for this next, next wave essentially will be enterprise LLMs.”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 4:49 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

Insight

Zhou: ML benchmark accuracy fails in production without low API latency

“In machine learning, you know, a lot of AI people are like, yeah, we push the performance of this model, and we define performance as accuracy or, you know, accuracy along these, like, general benchmarks. Maybe it's sixth grade science questions or something. …”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 16:04 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

Insight

Zhou: Prompting Midjourney images matters more than writing blog posts

“And so we found that just spending some time on mid journey was worth more than spending time on the blog posts. In any single way, like hands down, just like spend a few extra minutes here, prompt engineering or really just like generating an image of your ch…”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 23:20 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

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Zhou: Adding images drove a 10x increase in marketing engagement

“I think one thing that, you know, we were analyzing our data when it came to all our marketing blog posts or like tweets, everything going out, and there was a 10 X increase in anything with an image, right?”

Sharon Zhou Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 23:02 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini	Dec 8, 2023	6m

Sharon Zhou

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