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AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
FromNo Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
AI Agents That Reason and Code with Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
FromNo Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Nov 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The future of tech is 25-person companies powered by AI agents that help us accomplish our larger goals. Imbue is working on building AI agents that reason, code and generally make our lives easier. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with co-founders Kanjun Qiu (CEO) and Josh Albrecht (CTO) to discuss how they define reasoning, the spectrum of specialized and generalized agents, and the path to improved agent performance. Plus, what’s behind their $200M Series B fundraise.
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and co-founder of Imbue. Kanjun is also a partner at angel fund Outset Capital, where she invests in promising pre-seed companies. Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup backed by YC and DFJ. She was previously Chief of Staff to Drew Houston at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company from 300 employees to 1200.
Josh Albrecht is the CTO and co-founder of Imbue. He also invests in other founders via his fund, Outset Capital. He has published machine learning papers as an academic researcher; founded an AI recruiting company that went through YC and a 3D injection molding software company that was acquired; helped build Addepar as an early engineer; and served as a Thiel Fellow mentor. He started programming as a kid and began working professionally as a software engineer in high school.
Show Links:
Kanjun’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar
Josh’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar
Imbue raises $200M to build AI systems that can reason and code
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Show Notes:
(00:00) - Introduction to Imbue
(04:55) - The Spectrum of Agent Tasks
(08:43) - Specialization and Generalization With Agents
(13:03) - Code and Language in AI Agents
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and co-founder of Imbue. Kanjun is also a partner at angel fund Outset Capital, where she invests in promising pre-seed companies. Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup backed by YC and DFJ. She was previously Chief of Staff to Drew Houston at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company from 300 employees to 1200.
Josh Albrecht is the CTO and co-founder of Imbue. He also invests in other founders via his fund, Outset Capital. He has published machine learning papers as an academic researcher; founded an AI recruiting company that went through YC and a 3D injection molding software company that was acquired; helped build Addepar as an early engineer; and served as a Thiel Fellow mentor. He started programming as a kid and began working professionally as a software engineer in high school.
Show Links:
Kanjun’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar
Josh’s LinkedIn | Website | Google Scholar
Imbue raises $200M to build AI systems that can reason and code
Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com
Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Kanjun | @JoshAlbrecht
Show Notes:
(00:00) - Introduction to Imbue
(04:55) - The Spectrum of Agent Tasks
(08:43) - Specialization and Generalization With Agents
(13:03) - Code and Language in AI Agents
Released:
Nov 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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This is “No Priors”: AI is transforming our future, but what does that really mean? In ten years, will humans be forced to please our AGI overlords or will we have unlocked unlimited capacity for human potential? That's why Sarah Guo and Elad Gil started this new podcast, named No Priors. In each episode, Sarah and Elad talk with the leading engineers, researchers and founders in AI, across the stack. We'll talk about the technical state of the art, how that impacts business, and get them to predict what's next. by No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups