Mosaic ML Chief Scientist Jonathan Frankle, Thursday Nights in AI
Outset Capital's Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht interview MosaicML's (now Databricks) Chief Scientist, Jonathan Frankle. Special thanks to Astro Mechanica (https://astromecha.co/) for hosting us at their office!
This fireside chat is part of our 'Thursday Nights in AI" series, co-hosted by Outset Capital and Imbue.
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About Outset: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners investing in AI, deeptech, and the future of work. We back companies at the outset and love to be the first check in.
About Imbue: Imbue is an AI research company aiming to rekindle the dream of the personal computer—by creating practical AI agents that can accomplish larger goals and safely work for us in the real world.
About Jonathan Frankle: http://www.jfrankle.com/
00:00 Intro
01:46 About Jonathan
04:05 Jonathan on getting a copy of his diploma from MIT
04:57 MosaicML Acquisition
06:06 Why Jonathan wants to build more LLMs and compete with major players
07:29 On keeping models open-source
12:12 How open-source models get compute resource
14:18 On open-source datasets
16:39 More on MosaicML Acquisition
17:56 Jonathan on the current status of the AI world
19:44 More on MosaicML's acquisition
21:05 On AI Policy
27:51 Jonathan's advice for founders who want to get involved in AI policy
29:00 Q & A
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