Today we’re joined by Jabran Zahid, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research.
In our conversation with Jabran, we explore their recent endeavor into the complete mapping of which T-cells bind to which antigens through the Antigen Map Project. We discuss how Jabran’s background in astrophysics and cosmology has translated to his current work in immunology an ... Show More
Apr 30
How to Engineer AI Inference Systems with Philip Kiely - #766
In this episode, Philip Kiely, head of AI education at Baseten, joins us to unpack the fast-evolving discipline of inference engineering. We explore why inference has become the stickiest and most critical workload in AI, how it blends GPU programming, applied research, and large ... Show More
54m 51s
Apr 16
How Capital One Delivers Multi-Agent Systems with Rashmi Shetty - #765
In this episode, Rashmi Shetty, senior director of enterprise generative AI platform at Capital One, joins us to explore how the company is designing, deploying, and scaling multi-agent systems in a highly regulated environment. Rashmi walks us through Chat Concierge, a multi-age ... Show More
54m 18s
Mar 26
The Race to Production-Grade Diffusion LLMs with Stefano Ermon - #764
Today, we're joined by Stefano Ermon, associate professor at Stanford University and CEO of Inception Labs to discuss diffusion language models. We dig into how diffusion approaches—traditionally used for images—are being adapted for text and code generation, the technical challe ... Show More
1h 3m
Oct 2021
Drug resistant malaria found in East Africa
Since their discovery in the 1970s, artemisinin-based drugs have become the mainstay of treatment for malaria caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. Researchers have identified artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites in Southeast Asia since the early 2000s, but now, there ... Show More
1h 1m
Sep 2021
Uncontrolled Spread: Science, Policy, Institutions, Infrastructure
<p>There's no question technology played a huge role in the recent/current pandemic, including especially in the <a href="https://a16z.com/2020/08/14/vaccines-vaccinology-renaissance-covid-pandemic-beyond/" target="_blank">plug-and-play</a> engineering and incredibly fast develop ... Show More
56m 17s