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Office Hours with Baris Gultekin: The Era of Enterprise AI is Here

Episode Summary

Join us in discussion with Baris Gultekin, Head of AI at Snowflake, about the rapidly evolving AI stack.

Episode Notes

01:26 Journey to Snowflake

02:32 Snowflake and AI

06:43 Choosing your model

07:44 Snowflake & OS

09:43 Innovations to reduce training data size

10:59 From large to small models

13:14 Snowflake and agentic systems

15:50 AI & data security

17:17 Access control layer

18:14 Embedded applications

19:55 Data sharing

21:37 Snowflake training & inference

23:12 Data reshaping

24:40 Structured versus unstructured model inputs

25:24 Models providing the mean v. exceptions

27:19 Vector databases

30:33 Summary