Jacob and Pat sit down with LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu to discuss his motivations for building LlamaIndex, thoughts on building enterprise-ready LLM applications and agents, and when fine-tuning makes sense.
0:00 intro
1:02 the evolution of LlamaIndex
3:48 apps being built with LlamaIndex
6:39 making agents more effective
12:58 retrieval augmented generation
16:49 what’s the right level of abstraction for LlamaIndex?
19:42 balancing reasoning and knowledge
30:46 storage for embeddings
36:03 underutilized features of LlamaIndex
40:38 over-hyped/under-hyped
With your co-hosts:
@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
@jordan_segall
