This episode is a throwback featuring an AI Stack panel discussion from season 4 with Mikiko Bazeley, Head of MLOps at Featureform; Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate; and Tuana Celik, Developer Advocate at deepset.
In this episode, Mikiko, Zain, and Tuana discuss what open source data means to them, how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem, and how jobs will need to evolve with the AI-native stack. Tune in to see if any of their projections have come into fruition.

Open Source Data

<a href="https://cdn.sanity.io/files/bbnkhnhl/production/c5b7697e70a0f88bbdb4bad1da36711c3faec5ae.pdf">The full transcript can be found here.</a>
Guest Quotes
&ldquo;We're almost part of a fancy new AI robot kitchen that you'd find in Tokyo, in some ways. I see a virtual feature store as, yes, you can have a bunch of your ingredients tossed into a closet. Or, what you can do is you can essentially have a nice way to organize them. You can have a way to label them, to capture information.&rdquo; &ndash; Mikiko Bazeley
&ldquo;I really like that analogy as well. I like how Mikiko put it where a vector search engine is really extracting value from what you've already got. [...] So where I see vector search engines, really, is if we think of these embedding providers as the translators to take all of our unstructured data and bring it into vector space into a common machine language, vector search engines are essentially the workhorses that allow us to compute and search over these objects in vectorized format. They're essentially the calculators of the AI stack.&rdquo; &ndash; Zain Hasan
&ldquo;Haystack, I would really position as the kitchen. I need Mikiko to bring the apples. I need Zain to bring the pears. I need Hugging Face or OpenAI to bring the oranges to make a good fruit salad. But, Haystack will provide the spoons and the pans and the knives to make that into something that works together.&rdquo; &ndash; Tuana Celik
Episode Timestamps
(02:58): What open source data means to the panelists
(09:11): What interested the panelists about AI/ML
(24:10): Mikiko explains Featureform
(27:00): Zain explains Weaviate

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Season 5 · Episode 10.5

Throwback: The AI-Native Stack with Mikiko Bazeley, Zain Hasan, and Tuana Celik

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Mikiko Bazeley, Zain Hasan, and Tuana Celik

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