Infrastructure

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses working with cloud providers as frenemies, and building consumer services for Southeast Asia at Grab.

Hadrian CEO Chris Power, Marc Andreessen, and others discuss the state of aerospace and defense manufacturing, and the opportunities that lie in modernizing it.

Practical models for builders on how to decentralize web3, from 'full' to 'open' decentralization (including IP), as well as NFTs and tokenization protocols

The Defense Department would benefit from a new category of data rights for software. The current approach is incompatible with modern software practices.

To truly augment human intelligence, we need to look beyond prompt-hacking and fine-tuning. Instead we need to design new workflows for powerful AI models.

Thanks to a set of new AI models, we have the tools to reimagine common workflows, processes and user experiences. Here are some ideas for how that might look.

Richard Socher discusses advances in NLP, and how the experience for AI startups has changed since the early days of deep learning.

Fivetran CEO George Fraser discusses the lack of software libraries for SQL, and how enabling them through a platform like dbt could change data analysis.

Effectively building and buying software means understanding that most developers work with legacy code, slow processes, and a mishmash of frameworks.

How startups and smaller entities can take advantage of large foundation models, like GPT-3 and BERT, to kickstart their AI and machine learning efforts.