{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fb2baceo.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Frobert-nishihara-Lup9AiMu","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"How to Power the AI Boom (Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder & CEO of Anyscale)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/172dabcc-5e24-4c3a-9533-d7e242f3ce97/a5a08bc9-371f-4702-ba30-d3141b677784/robert-nishihara-square.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"In this episode of B2BaCEO, I speak with Robert Nishihara, co-founder and CEO of Anyscale. Anyscale’s aspiration is to build the fastest, most cost-efficient infrastructure for running LLMs and AI workloads. When it is successful, Anyscale will be to the AI era what Microsoft was for the PC era: the underlying operating system on which all AI applications are developed and run.\n\nAnyscale is built on Ray, an open-source compute framework that Robert and his co-founders developed as PhD students at UC Berkeley. Under the guidance of Professor Ion Stoica, who also co-founded Conviva and Databricks, the team sought to make distributed computing broadly accessible. Anyscale was then launched as a fully managed platform for Ray, making even the toughest problems in distributed computing easy for developers to tackle. Today, Anyscale is a billion-dollar business powering mission-critical AI use cases at companies like Amazon, Cohere, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Visa.\n\nIf you’ve been a PhD student at UC Berkeley, created a popular open-source framework, and built a billion-dollar business on top of it, you’ve likely learned a thing or two along the way. Robert’s story offers valuable lessons for fellow founders and builders at all stages of the startup journey."}