Alessio Fanelli: belief

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…Yeah. And obviously Toby German, but moved to Canada as well. Yes. Like this is like import that, uh, that, that is an interesting, um, talent move. I think. I would love to get from you. Definition of Turbo puffer, because I think you could be a Vector db, which is maybe a bad word now in some circles, you could be a search engine. It’s like, let, let’s just start there and then we’ll maybe run through the history of how you got to this point. For sure. Yeah. So Turbo Puffer is at this point in time, a search engine, right? We do full text search and we do vector search, and that’s really what we’re specialized in. If you’re trying to do much more than that, like then this might not be the right place yet, but Turbo Buffer is all about search. The other way that I think about it is that we can take all of the world’s knowledge, all of the exabytes and exabytes of data that there is, and we can use those tokens to train a model, but we can’t compress all of that into a few terabytes of weights, right? Compress into a few terabytes of weights, how to reason with the world, how to make sense of the knowledge. But we have to somehow connect it to something externally that actually holds that like in full fidelity and truth. Um, and that’s the thing that we intend to become. Right? That’s like a very holier than now kind of phrasing, right? But being the search engine for unstructured, unstructured data is the focus of turbo puffer at this point in time.…

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