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High Agency is the podcast for AI builders. If you’re trying to understand how to successfully build AI products with Large Language Models and Generative AI then this podcast is made for you.

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From Fiction to Reality: AI-assisted Creative Writing

Sudowrite's founder James Yu discusses how AI is transforming creative writing, the challenges of building AI tools for fiction, and the future of human-AI collaboration in storytelling.

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Building the Nervous System for AI with Russ d'Sa from LiveKit

LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa discusses the challenges and opportunities in building real-time communication infrastructure for AI applications, sharing insights from working with OpenAI

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From PyTorch to Fireworks AI: Building AI Infrastructure with Lin Qiao

Lin Qiao, former PyTorch lead at Meta and current CEO of Fireworks AI, details insights on the evolution of AI frameworks, the challenges of optimizing inference for generative AI, the future of AI hardware, and open-source models.

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How Paras Jain is building the future of AI video creation

Paras Jain details why he chose academia over an offer from Tesla, and the research-minded approach that has lead to Genmo's rapid success in AI video generation.

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AI at Scale: Lessons from Gusto's $9.5 billion journey with Eddie Kim & Ali Rowghani

Eddie Kim details Gusto's GenAI integration in payroll/HR, exploring technical challenges, ethical considerations, and balancing automation with human oversight

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Building the first LLM-based search engine for developers with Michael Royzen

Michael shares insights from his journey in building the first LLM-based search engine for developers.

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Contrarian Guide to AI: Jason Liu on Betting Against Agents while Doubling Down on RAG & Fine-Tuning

Jason Liu shares his journey from traditional ML to LLMs and strategies for building valuable AI products.

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What comes after Open AI? Logan Kilpatrick on how you should prepare for the future of LLMs

Raza asks Logan what it was like joining OpenAI right as ChatGPT hit 1M users, plus what's new with Google Gemini.

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AI's Memory Upgrade: Max Rumpf on how to build advanced RAG systems

RAG has become core to building AI applications. An episode is full of technical detail and practical insights.

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Building AI Products at Scale: Lessons from Zapier's CEO

In this episode, Wade Foster shares Zapier's AI journey, insights from a hackathon, and the future of AI in work.

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Inventing the AI Engineer

It's been a year since Sean Wang penned the viral essay 'Rise of the AI Engineer' and we discuss how this new role has evolved.

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Building an AI coding assistant with Beyang Liu CTO of Sourcegraph

How to work around limited context windows in LLMs, and why embedding models aren’t always the answer.

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Evaluating LLMs the Right Way: Lessons from Hex's Journey

Bryan Bischof of Hex shares insights on deploying reliable AI assistants, evaluating LLMs, and Hex's unique framework for success.

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Building reliable AI agents with Cai GoGwilt CTO of Ironclad

Ironclad uses generative AI to negotiate 50% of contracts. CTO Cai GoGwilt explains how they achieved this.

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About the host

Name: Raza Habib

Role: Cofounder and CEO

Raza is the CEO and Cofounder at Humanloop. He was inspired to work on AI as “the most transformative technology in our lifetimes” after studying under Prof David Mackay while doing Physics at Cambridge. Raza was the founding engineer of Monolith AI – applying AI to mechanical engineering, and has built speech systems at Google AI. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from UCL.