Chroma CEO Jeff Huber on Vector Databases, Multimodal Embeddings & Building an AI Startup

On today’s episode we talk with Jeff Huber, the CEO and Co-founder of Chroma. We talk about what sets Chroma apart from its competitors, new developments in AI technology, and advice for listeners who want to get started in AI.

0:00 intro
1:02 starting chroma
6:08 vector databases
10:03 interesting use cases for vector databases
13:14 what sets chroma apart?
23:00 unresolved questions in LLMs
32:45 multiple agents vs. one agent to rule them all
34:50 chroma’s future
38:00 embedding models
43:00 over-hyped/under-hyped
44:30 AI regulation
48:42 is it too late to get into AI?

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
@jordan_segall
- Partner at Redpoint

[natedavis]

What a great ep to land on. Just discovered this show. And first comment? Lol

He dropped so much specific articulated knowledge. Is Jeff on social media?