No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal

Today on No Priors, Elad is joined by Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust. Braintrust enables companies like Notion, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, and Vercel to deploy AI solutions at scale by efficiently evaluating and managing complex, non-deterministic AI applications. Ankur shares his insights into emerging trends in the use of AI tooling and coding languages, the rise of open-source, and the future of data infrastructure. Ankur also reflects on building resilient AI products, his philosophy on coding as a CEO, and the importance of a startup’s initial customer base. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Ankrgyl Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Ankur’s path to Braintrust 3:05 Braintrust’s solution 5:46 AI tooling trends 7:58 Instruction tuning vs. fine-tuning 8:57 Open-source AI adoption 10:42 Future of data infrastructure and synthetic data 14:45 Designing technical interviews 18:04 Rethinking agent-based approaches 19:34 Building out an AI team 23:35 Typescript as the language of AI 25:12 The shift away from using frameworks 26:02 Vendor consolidation among enterprises 27:16 Coding as a CEO 30:16 Collaborating with customers 33:00 Future of Braintrust and evals

Elad GilhostAnkur GoyalguestSarah Guohost

Oct 8, 202438mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: October 8, 2024
Duration: 38m
Channel: No Priors
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Today on No Priors, Elad is joined by Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust. Braintrust enables companies like Notion, Airtable, Instacart, Zapier, and Vercel to deploy AI solutions at scale by efficiently evaluating and managing complex, non-deterministic AI applications. Ankur shares his insights into emerging trends in the use of AI tooling and coding languages, the rise of open-source, and the future of data infrastructure. Ankur also reflects on building resilient AI products, his philosophy on coding as a CEO, and the importance of a startup’s initial customer base. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Ankrgyl Show Notes: 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Ankur’s path to Braintrust 3:05 Braintrust’s solution 5:46 AI tooling trends 7:58 Instruction tuning vs. fine-tuning 8:57 Open-source AI adoption 10:42 Future of data infrastructure and synthetic data 14:45 Designing technical interviews 18:04 Rethinking agent-based approaches 19:34 Building out an AI team 23:35 Typescript as the language of AI 25:12 The shift away from using frameworks 26:02 Vendor consolidation among enterprises 27:16 Coding as a CEO 30:16 Collaborating with customers 33:00 Future of Braintrust and evals

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Elad Gil
host
Ankur Goyal
guest
Sarah Guo
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Elad Gil and Ankur Goyal, No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal explores braintrust CEO Explains Enterprise AI Evals, Data, Teams, and Tooling Ankur Goyal, CEO of Braintrust, describes how the company evolved from internal tooling into an enterprise platform for AI evals, observability, and prompt development, now used by leading AI-forward companies like Notion, Airtable, and Zapier.

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