
I sat down with Jerry Liu, the founder of LLamaIndex, the leading data framework for building LLM applications. Jerry shares his views on the future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), his experience building a company in a fast-paced and competitive sector, and much more.
Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:28 - Inception of Llama Index 2:34 - Advice on high velocity projects 3:45 - Unlocking value from datasources 5:22 - Interesting projects harnessing RAG 6:29 - AI Agents 8:00 - Future of RAG pipelines & large context windows 11:05 - Advantages of Llama Index 12:25 - ML/AI breakthroughs 2017 to today 15:05 - Research vs production 17:10 - The 1-Person Billion Dollar Company 21:00 - Competitive environment in AI ecosystem 23:08 - Changing definition of open source AI 26:53 - AGI