1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Power story is a very complex story. As you were talking about your training, I was thinking about my engineering training and one of my favorite courses at MIT was Anant Agarwal’s VLSI design course. That is actually very automatable, right? Now you train AI to do chip design, and AI can design

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So let me double click down on the second one. I will come to the picks and shovels in a moment, but my observation is that to build a vertical application on top of an LLM, you obviously need to train in domain specific data. Now, there is a benefit to kind of

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Sramana Mitra: All right, let’s discuss the second example. Ashmeet Sidana: Sure, another example I’m very proud of is a company called Robust Intelligence. Again, I was the first investor and they did a good job. CEO Yaron Singer, PhD from Berkeley, was at Harvard when he observed the hallucination problems with the development and

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Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of the students of these 10K students on your platform are performing at high levels? Josh Jones: Let me, tell you our latest number. I think it is 581 in the last semester. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. And they all have internships?