Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair

Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts Dev Rishi and Travis Addair, co-founders of 2023 IA40 Rising Star, Predibase. Predibase is a platform for developers to easily fine-tune and serve any open-source model. They recently released LoRA Land, a collection of 25 highly-performant open-source fine-tuned models, and launched open-source LoRA eXchange, or LoRAX, which allows users to pack hundreds of task-specific models into a single GPU. In this episode, Dev and Travis share their perspective on what it takes to commercialize open-source projects, how to build a product your customers actually want, and how to differentiate in a very noisy AI infrastructure market. This is a must-listen for anyone building an AI. Full Transcript: https://www.madrona.com/predibase-ai-open-source-commercialization Chapters (00:00) Introduction (01:29) The Founding Story of Predibase (04:03) Vision and Evolution of Predibase (06:23) Predibase's Response to the ChatGPT Hype (11:26) Commercializing Open-Source Projects (17:37) Bigger Isn't Always Better - LLMs (24:10) Challenges and Solutions in AI Infrastructure (30:47) Predibase's Unique Approach and Future Outlook (34:11) Over-Hyped vs. Under-Hyped in AI (38:37) Advice for First-Time Founders

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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their company for the long run. We invest in seed and Series A companies in the Pacific Northwest building across the information technology spectrum and in Acceleration (B and beyond) stage companies building with AI, regardless of geography.