Hey everyone! I am SUPER EXCITED to share our new interview with Jason Liu! Jason is one of the world's rising stars in AI, and I am so proud to publish this podcast. It was jointly one of the most fun and technical podcasts we've done!
Jason has a very interesting background and positioning in the space of AI. I would say perhaps firstly, he is the creator of Instructor, one of the fastest growing LLM frameworks. Instructor leverages Pydantic type checking to achieve structured output parsing. This jointly cleans up code bases leveraging LLMs and prompting, as well as achieves tons of new functionality, especially applicable to RAG-based systems.
This is where Jason's background picks up in novelty, thanks to his experience at StitchFix, Jason has a ton of expertise in Recommendation systems and he describes in tremendous detail throughout the podcast how these lessons translate to RAG. Jason is currently working as an independent consultant at the forefront of bringing this technology to production software. Jason has also written many amazing blog posts on RAG, one of my favorite ones published on January 23rd, 2024 is "Embedding English Wikipedia in under 15 minutes" on modal.com, as well as his writings on https://jxnl.github.io/blog/.
Thank you so much Jason, one of my favorite Weaviate Podcast of all time!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=higlHgYDc5E
Spotify: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/NQPIpdHzbHb