Episode 37 | Bob van Luijt | CEO @ Weaviate

Episode #37 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!

Today Chad is talking with Bob van Luijt, Founder and CEO at Weaviate, the premiere Open Source Vector Database company. Their conversation is wide ranging from Bob's background studying music composition at Berklee College of Music leading him to eventually decide that he should become a tech founder, to the early days and foundations of Weaviate and how he thinks the AI space will evolve to combat today's early problems of LLM hallucinations.

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Links mentioned in the episode:

History of Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/blog/history-of-weaviate

Bob's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_van_luijt_digital_technology_through_the_lens_of_language

University of Kent Meshcode Memory News Article: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/27956/a-new-theory-for-how-memories-are-stored-in-the-brain

Meshcode Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716664/

Antifragile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book)

Nearest Neighbor Benchmarks: https://ann-benchmarks.com/

OpenAI and Newscorp Licensing Deal: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/news-corp-openai-licensing-deal-1236013734/

DSPY self-improving pipelines: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03714