Vector databases x Vertical AI | Andre Zayarni (cofounder/CEO of Qdrant) and Karthik Dinakar (cofounder/CTO of Pienso)

Andre Zayarni is the cofounder and CEO of Qdrant, an open-source vector database company. He was previously the CTO of MoBerries building a next generation HR product based on AI and Real-time. He's been building software products for 20+ years. 

Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any coding. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from MIT. He has held roles at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, and Deutsche Bank.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Why do we need vector databases?
- What type of applications need a vector database?
- When choosing a vector database, what characteristics should a developer look for?
- What are the building blocks of generative AI applications?
- What can LLMs do well and where are the gaps?
- What LLM applications are being built in the enterprise?
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- What's the importance of vector databases in vertical AI?

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