Howie Xu, Guest Lecturer, Stanford First, we have our guest, Howie. Howie is a seasoned technology veteran in Silicon Valley, with a career that began by founding VMware's networking division, now a multi-billion-dollar revenue business. His diverse experience spans founding startups, holding executive positions at industry-leading companies, serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Greylock Partners, and mentoring and teaching at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University and leading B2B accelerator Alchemist. Howie has recently started a YouTube channel, "Byte into Future." Make sure to subscribe now, as he will host some amazing entrepreneurs and do live streaming from the iconic New York Stock Exchange floor in just two weeks. Yangqing Jia, Cofounder and CEO, Lepton.ai Next, I'm pleased to introduce Yangqing, the founder and CEO of Lepton.AI, one of the top-performing generative AI infrastructure service platforms. Remarkably, using Lepton's infrastructure, Yangqing developed a large language model-based search engine with just 500 lines of code in less than a week, which he then open-sourced (and sparked a debate with the CEO of perplexity.ai). Prior to Lepton, Yangqing was a Vice President at Alibaba and the Director of AI Infrastructure at Facebook. There, he created Caffe2 and co-led the development of PyTorch, which has become the most popular machine learning framework. Zhongjie(Jay) Wu, Cofounder and CTO, OpusClip Jay is Cofounder and CTO of OpusClip. His startup pivoted from a streaming tool to the current AI Video clipping product in 2023 and launched in June that year. In less than a year, OpusClip is reaching 15M Annual Recurring Revenue and is growing fast. (If you are familiar with startups, you should know how crazy that growth is.) I am a heavy user of OpusClip myself and love the product. Before that, Jay was an engineering manager at Airbnb and Engineer at Linkedin with a broad spectrum of engineering practices. Jason Hu, Founding Engineer, Martian Last but not least, we have Jason, the founding engineer at Martian, a fast-growing LLM router launched last year. Martian router is about selecting the best AI solution for your tasks, and is already adopted by developers from over 300 companies, including OpenAI and Amazon. Before Martian, Jason did research at the Chicago Human+AI Lab and ByteDance. He leads one of the largest AI communities in the Bay Area, aligns.ai, with speakers and community members from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Stanford, and more. Tonight, we will focus our talk on product development with GenAI. We all know that GenAI is going to be disruptive, but it can only disrupt through products. We have a forty minute panel discussion, followed by 20 minutes of live Q&A from the audience. Questions Is building GenAI products fundamentally different? Is adoption faster than mobile adoption? Is the cost manageable? Is it going down? Are we in a S curve, and if so, what stage are we in? Will the adoption of AGI be a centralized process or a distributed effort? Open Source models vs. closed source models What role will smaller players and middleware companies play in this process? How is it going to impact big tech companies like FAANG? Is it going to make them more dominant? Hot take — is Perplexity.ai a hype or a true demand? What are the top three challenges of GenAI we need to solve for this year and next year? ──────────────────────────────────── 嘉宾 / Guest:贾扬清(Yangqing Jia) PyTorch创始人之一,前Meta Director,阿里VP,Lepton AI创始人 @ Lepton AI 更多嘉宾访谈:https://www.lizheng.ai/guests 加入课代表社区:https://www.superlinear.academy ────────────────────────────────────