Ep 5: You.com CEO Richard Socher on The Future of Search, Open Source Models and AGI

Jacob and Erica sit down with You.com CEO and former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher to discuss building a new search engine and the future of search, his predictions on when open source models will catch up to GPT-4, AGI and more.

(1:29) - Richard's career moves and what motivated them

(6:44) - More about You.com and the ethos behind the company

(9:47) - How You.com integrates 3rd-party apps

(13:30) - Richard's thoughts on the future of AI

(23:19) - The role of academia in the world of AI going forward

(27:30) - Things in AI that Richard is excited about

(31:53) - Quickfire Round

 

With your co-hosts:

@jasoncwarner

- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical

@ericabrescia

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)

@patrickachase

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn

@jacobeffron

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

Jacob is an AI investor at Redpoint Ventures. He's led Redpoint's investments in companies like Abridge, Physical Intelligence & Legora. Follow Jacob on Twitter (@jacobeffron).

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