The future of enterprise search and AI-powered work productivity with Glean’s Arvind Jain | E1916
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Todays show:
Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason to discuss how his startup is building the future of AI-Powered enterprise search (2:35). The two also discuss Google Gemini (42:45), Open-Source vs Closed models (45:17), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Glean’s Arvind Jain joins Jason
(2:35) Glean’s beachhead market and primary focus
(5:13) Glean’s approach to data confidentiality
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(13:13) Competition against native tools and building language models in SaaS companies
(17:00) Glean’s approach to permissions
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(25:23) Compliance and the "CEO God Mode" feature
(29:28) Potential of productivity software, and people analytics in tech businesses
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(40:04) Impact of AI on business models
(42:45) Arvind’s thoughts on Google Gemini
(45:17) Open source vs closed models in AI development and the progress of OpenAI
(47:49) AGI and the limitations and potential of AI as an assistant
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