The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916 This Week in Startups

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Todays show:

Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason to discuss how his startup is building the future of AI-Powered enterprise search (2:35). The two also discuss Google Gemini (42:45), Open-Source vs Closed models (45:17), and much more!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason

(2:35) Glean’s beachhead market and primary focus

(5:13) Glean’s approach to data confidentiality

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(13:13) Competition against native tools and building language models in SaaS companies

(17:00) Glean’s approach to permissions

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(25:23) Compliance and the "CEO God Mode" feature

(29:28) Potential of productivity software, and people analytics in tech businesses

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(40:04) Impact of AI on business models

(42:45) Arvind’s thoughts on Google Gemini

(45:17) Open source vs closed models in AI development and the progress of OpenAI

(47:49) AGI and the limitations and potential of AI as an assistant

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