Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
The best place to find out how AI builders build. The host Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs on this podcast. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.
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Brian Moore is CEO of Voxel51, a data infra platform for visual AI. They most recently raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer. Brian"s favorite books: Trillion Dollar Coach (Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle) (00:01) Introduction and setup (00:22) Defining visual AI — beyond traditional compute
Carina Hong is CEO of Axiom Math, where they"re building a self-improving superintelligent reasoner, starting with an AI mathematician. She"s a Rhodes Scholar, first-gen college grad and mathematics prodigy who earned dual degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT in 3 years. And a joint JD/PhD at Stanford. They just
Mukund Jha is CEO of Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform. They"ve raised $23M from Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Together Fund, and Prosus. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Dunzo, a hugely popular ecommerce company in India. Mukund"s favorite books: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Author: Ben Horowitz) (0
Diffusion LLMs - The Fastest LLMs Ever Built | Stefano Ermon, cofounder of Inception Labs
Stefano Ermon is the cofounder of Inception Labs and an associate professor at Stanford. Inception is developing a new type of AI models called Diffusion LLMs. Stefano"s favorite book: If on a Winter"s Night a Traveler (Author: Italo Calvino) (00:01) Introduction (00:38) What are autoregressive LLMs and how do they wor
Idan Plotnik is the CEO of Apiiro, an application security platform built for the AI era. They"ve raised $135M in funding from investors like Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, and General Catalyst. Idan"s favorite books: Zero to IPO (Author: Frederic Kerrest) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) How LLMs Generate Code (02:11) Rise o
Astasia Myers is a GP at Felicis, an iconic VC firm with investments in companies like Shopify, Canva, Adyen, Notion, Mercor, Plaid, Supabase, Flexport, and more. Astasia"s favorite books: God"s Bankers (Author: Gerald Posner) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) Astasia’s Infra Thesis (03:59) Golden Age of Infra & Innovators