Welcome to AI in the Real World! I'm Andrew Han, a partner at Foundation Capital, and I'll be your host today. I work closely with technical founders who are building software to solve hard, valuable problems.
I'm excited to chat with Darius Lam, founder and CEO of NEX, a recent addition to our portfolio. Darius was previously head of product for computer vision at Cerebras, another Foundation Capital company that's building wafer-scale chips for AI workloads.
Today, Darius develops state-of-the-art multimodal foundation models at NEX. Our conversation explores the ins and outs of creating these models, including training efficiency, output controllability, and the last mile of AI deployment. I also get Darius's take on the evolution of open source AI and what every AI founder should know before they write their first line of code.
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