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Nov 2023
30m 15s

The Worlds She Sees with Fei-Fei Li

Andreessen Horowitz, a16z Bio + Health
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Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande. 
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