Amr Awadallah 🤖
@awadallah
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Founder/CEO of @Vectara (Trusted GenAI for the Enterprise). Founder/ex-CTO @Cloudera , ex-VP at Yahoo & Google. PhD EE Stanford. IG, FB, LI: @awadallah .
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I recently appeared on
@cgtnamerica
's The Heat show to discuss AI trends. I highlighted the importance of "trusted" generative AI systems and Vectara's commitment to challenging hallucinations to deliver reliable solutions for regulated industries.📊 Below is a small clip from
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I was only gone for 1 week (attending
#LEAP23
), but for them it is like I was gone for years. Their unconditional love for another species is truly miraculous, we are their entire world and they want nothing in return.
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I live by this advice: "Your time is limited (on this Earth) so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
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أنا فخور جدا و في منتهى السعادة أن أكون واحد من ال10 المميزين الذين تم اختيارهم للحصول على الجنسية السعودية. أنا الآن سعودي أمريكي مصري 😀. شكرا للسعوديه لهذا الشرف 🙏🙏🙏
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Truly enjoyed chatting w/
@CadeMetz
&
@nicoagrant
for their
@nytimes
article about how
@OpenAI
's
#chatgpt
& search
#AI
innovations could threaten
@Google
's search dominance. At
@vectara
we aim to give all organizations easy access to amazing
#neuralsearch
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Their older brother (a
#munchkin
). Expresses love in a much more subtle way, can also be moody sometimes.
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(plz retweet) Today we launched my new startup Vectara & announced the general availability of our easy-to-use API-first
#NeuralSearch
as a service. It comes with 15,000 queries/month for free. I invite you to learn more and signup for the free offering at
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Super pumped to start as VP of Developer Relations
@googlecloud
covering world wide cloud products. That includes
#compute
,
#storage
,
#databases
,
#artificialintelligence
,
#BigQuery
, maps platform, office suite,
#Anthos
,
#VisionAI
,
#Firebase
, full list at:
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Truly enjoyed chatting w/
@byJuliaLove
for her Bloomberg article about how a handful of startups founded by Google alumni are aiming to reimagine search for the
#AI
age (
@vectara
included, our goal is to democratize such capabilities for all orgs).
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It truly pains me to see how many amazing entrepreneurs full of potential never make the jump of starting their company, or joining a young startup, because their significant other isn't entrepreneurial & prefers they stay locked up in a mediocre but comfortable job at a big co.
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@TakehimhomeF
She is a
#pomsky
(Pomeranian Husky mix, stays this mini size, she is 2.5 years old). The white one is pure
#maltese
, and she is 6 years old. Both are sweethearts.
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Yesterday I got my first
@Waymo
fully autonomous ride in San Francisco. No driver whatsoever, just the ghost in the shell. We passed through
#Chinatown
with pedestrians doing random walks all over, it performed flawlessly
#ai
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For my Arab followers (plz rt): interview that I did in Jordan last August about
#Entrepreneurship
tips+tricks and the 5 key ingredients required to recreate a Silicon Valley ecosystem. Thanks Rajae Sahouri for hosting me on The Straight Up Start Up.
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We (
@vectara
), plus
@Neeva
,
@perplexity_ai
,
@YouSearchEngine
,
@bing
, and
@kagihq
are all working on reinventing legacy keyword
#search
using retrieval
#LLMs
to be about answers versus a list of links. Help us pick a good name for such a new engine (instead of
#SearchEngine
):
Answer Engine
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Response Engine
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Meaning Engine
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Action Engine
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Super proud & happy to share that I am now officially Saudi Arabian, American, and Egyptian. I was selected by Saudi Arabia, among 10 other luminaries, & granted citizenship to this amazing country:
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Proud dad moment: Immensely proud of my son, Ahmed Awadallah, for having his first paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023 workshop for ML & the Physical Sciences.
Title: "Detection and Segmentation of Ice Blocks in Europa's Chaos Terrain Using Mask R-CNN".
Abstract:
The complex icy
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I am still in complete shock. If you know me then please say something in this thread. I could use some love right about now tbh. 🙏
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#LLM
#hallucination
was made for
#AprilFools
day, here are a couple from
@OpenAI
#ChatGPT
v4,
@bing
chat,
@Google
#Bard
&
@AnthropicAI
#Claude
, feel free to add your own below:
Breaking News: US President Announces Decision to Abolish Time Zones
In a surprising move, the
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Just another day at work! selfie with Vint Cerf (
@vgcerf
). Vint is one of the true fathers of the Internet. He co-developed the TCP/IP protocol, without which you wouldn't be seeing this photo right now. Read more about him here:
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This just happened yesterday evening, I am still in complete shock. I admire every single person I worked with at Google & truly believed in their mission "universal information access shall set all of our brains free". Speechless.
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I want to share some exciting news about a new company that I am starting :) listen to the video message to find out more.
#artificialintelligence
#semanticsearch
#meaningengine
#databrain
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A very rare photo for when
@Cloudera
started in fall of 2008. From left to right: me,
@matei_zaharia
,
@mikeolson
,
@hackingdata
. Matei was our first intern at Cloudera 🙂 We were exhausted after a long day of assembling IKEA desks (hence the mountain of boxes behind us).
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This week I graduated from "
#Noogler
" orientation. That is the affectionate term used for New
#Googlers
in their first few months. At graduation ceremony Nooglers receive a hat with a propeller on top of it ☺️
#google
#googlecloud
#teampixel
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To my
@google
colleagues: I enjoyed working with all of you & hope our paths cross again. FYI, my people manager rating from couple of months ago was 100% & my manager wrote: "Amr is a strong leader, we are thrilled he is part of our team. Showing great care for his organization"
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The magic of
#genai
. What a time to be alive, only the beginning.
@alighodsi
@EMostaque
@databricks
@StabilityAI
@vectara
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@carenstarlin1
Indeed
#pets
help to significantly calm and destress us by inducing release of
#oxytocin
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Today I had the pleasure of getting breakfast with
@emostaque
founder CEO of
@stabilityai
(creators of
@stablediffusion
). Emad has a truly ambitious vision of delivering actually Open AI to the entire world in a very collaborative fashion.
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Press release is out, tomorrow (Fri)
@Cloudera
debuts as a publicly trading company under ticker $CLDR, details at
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#welfie
from today's first all hands for the newly combined
@cloudera
+
@hortonworks
team. In front you see the new leadership team (including two foreheads) and almost 800+ bay area employees in background. We had 3000+ employees watching from 42 offices …
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Your prayers for my dad plz, we recently discovered that he has lung cancer 😢 He just started the chemo/radiation therapy & we hope to eliminate the cancer over next 6 months. I am currently with him in
#Egypt
.
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My mom just did an MRI scan in Egypt. The full cost (without health insurance) was just US$70 !!! Why do we charge so much for MRI scans here in the US? and everything else tbh, such a racket.
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Many of you asked what was the impetus for me to write the “We are one” essay, I share that here. Thanks to all of you for the outpouring of love over the last week. Full video at: & txt at: (
@Google
@googlecloud
#israel
#palestine
)
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I just learned that my beloved dad passed away 😢, total shock/surprise and most likely due to a super rapid covid attack. We just celebrated his birthday over zoom last weekend. I am flying to Cairo now for burial. ربنا يرحمه ويغفر له ويدخله فسيح جناته. الرجاء الدعاء لابي 🙏
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Today I had the pleasure to meet
@AndrewYNg
in person for the first time. We are both recording a documentary on how
#genai
is revolutionizing the Information Economy. Turns out we are also neighbours, Vectara is at 295 Page Mill Rd, and AI Fund is at 195 Page Mill, Palo Alto.
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We open sourced this today: vectara-answer is a React project that provides a configurable conversational search user interface. With it end users can ask questions of your data and get back accurate, dependable answers.
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@sama
I used it last week to help me debate with a friend about the USA's human rights / torture / assassination track record compared to other countries. I asked it to help me make the arguments polite and balanced, it literally changed my friends views. Truly amazing.
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Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 is allocating 50x that much.
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Super happy to join the Board of Directors of
@Lucidya
in
#SaudiArabia
. They are truly leveraging
#AI
in a way that allows their customers to extract actionable insights from the mountains of user interaction data they are collecting. They are killing it right now sales wise :)
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What is Automation of Decisions? This is a brief snippet from a talk I gave at
#stratadata
last year addressing that question. It isn't about replicating human intelligence, it is about repeating our decisions at scale.
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All of us at
@vectara
are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Dr. Simon Hughes (44). He joined our AI team 5 months ago. In loving memory of Simon we are renaming HEM to be the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model. Deepest condolences to his family🖤
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"Prompt Engineering" is a temporary job, enjoy some cash from it, but know that it will be obsolete by the end of this year. I acknowledge I am biased as I find it insulting to call it engineering in the first place. Language to
#GenAI
translator is probably a better label.
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Another tech celebrity I met at Google this week is Eric Brewer (
@eric_brewer
). Eric is most famous for formulating the CAP theorem. He is VP of Infrastructure & Eng Fellow
@Google
, Professor
@Berkeley
, and an Entrepreneur (founded Inktomi which Yahoo! a…
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Congrats to my first born (Ahmed,
@cleopatrasdiary
) for graduating from
@uofwa
with a . degree in
#particlephysics
. We are 25% done, 3 more kiddos to go 😀🙏
#in
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Hey
@realDonaldTrump
, if u do become
@POTUS
, my company sells software than can track scary Muslims like me!
#TIC
Donald Trump said tonight he’d implement a database system tracking all Muslims in the United States – including...
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Can't answer questions about
@cloudera
for next few weeks, instead please read the S1, all answers there:
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@edmondo_po
lol, not yet. That said, I am a doner/supporter of
@earthspecies
(
@aza
), they are working on research to figure out exactly that problem between humans and many different kinds of animals. Read this article about them:
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Last Thu night in Berkeley we had the farewell/retirement dinner for
@mikeolson
. It was bitter sweet, many laughs, shaking voices & tears while recalling his amazing legacy creating
@cloudera
. We can't thank you enough Mike, Cloudera will definitely not be the same without u 🙏😢
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Tomorrow is first day of
#Ramadan
, so happy Ramadan. Here is a nice poem that Claude (from
@AnthropicAI
) wrote:
"Ramadan, the holy month, Of fasting, prayer and contemplation.
No food or drink from dawn till dusk, A time of patience and devotion.
The daily fast is a sacrifice,
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Hey
@elonmusk
&
@realGeorgeHotz
here is a
@twitter
search demo based on
@POTUS45
's tweet archive. Our search is intent based, it is real time, it is planet scale, and multilingual. We are ready to immediately roll this out for Twitter (see part2 in thread for cross language demo)
Search within Twitter reminds me of Infoseek in ‘98! That will also get a lot better pronto.
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#zurich
#switzerland
quick 2 day pit stop for
@vectara
customer meetings, weather was stunning. Omw back to Bay Area and sad to miss Züri Fäscht happening this weekend
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@PaulNew84089062
You don't have to respect the person to value their advice. Afterall, our constitution was written by slave owners, yet it is a work of genius.
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@QuarkWilliams
@fermatslibrary
Most layman "guesses" are that a lot more than 23 people are needed to get a 50% probability of a match given there is 365 days per year, hence the paradox.
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🚀 Introducing the world's first LLM with 0% hallucinations and 100% answer rate - nhLLM! Revolutionizing RAG & setting new standards in AI accuracy. Open source & built on our latest models, it's not just a game-changer; it's the future.
#AI
#GenAI
#nhLLM
#Hallucination
🤖💡
To
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Last week I had the honor to meet
@amasad
founder/CEO of
@Replit
at
#cerebralvalley
#aisummit
organized by
@EricNewcomer
. Amjad is a proud Palestinian American.
@replit
is truly changing the world, they leverage
#genai
to allow any of us to become 10x developers. 👏👍💯🚀
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@cloudera
(contd) come. Tomorrow I am super jazzed to start at
@googlecloud
as VP of developer relations. (Photo above is when we were building our Ikea desks for Cloudera's first office in Burlingame).
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Milestone achieved 😁 We now have
@cloudera
print ads in airports. This one is in
#Newark
Liberty, it says "Data Everywhere? We got you" to indicate that Cloudera
#Datawarehouse
works anywhere on any
#data
.
#in
#dataeverywhere
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I asked
@ClementDelangue
for a selfie, he said "sure, but only if you promise to post it on social media". He clearly doesn't know me well 😜 Catch
@ofermend
giving
@vectara
demo at
#WoodstockAI
showcase today (extra points if you can tell who photo bombed us by accident in the
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Short clip of
@furrier
interviewing me &
@edalbanese
on
@theCUBE
. We talked about how
#LLM
is a defining moment for applications & how consumer expectations are shifting towards apps that do what we mean for them to do (before we even ask). Full video at
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Why is my checkmark golden? I like it, but I am curious why is that the case?
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Last night I stopped by 1409 Chapin Ave in
#Burlingame
which was
@Cloudera
's first official HQ (however, our very first office was a borrowed conference room called Capone which AdMob let us stay in for a couple of weeks). Photo credit:
@luskiuski
#nos
…
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Kudos to
@cohere
's Command-R LLM for the impressive 3.7% hallucination rate, which beats much larger models like Lllama2 70B (5.1%), Claude3 Sonnet (6%), and Gemini Pro (4.8%). Full leaderboard on hugging face at:
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Thrilled to be listed among the Top 20 CEOs of Early-Stage AI Startups by
@AIMResearch
! A huge shoutout to the
@vectara
team whose tireless efforts make this possible. Here's to more innovation and growth!🚀
#AI
Check out the full list of top AI CEOs at:
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Today in
#hongkong
I got interviewed by
@Bloomberg
&
@cnbc
about how
@cloudera
is leading the
#machinelearning
/
#artificialintelligence
wave.
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We (
@vectara
) added two RAG templates for
@LangChainAI
, if you like us and find our stuff easy to use, then we would appreciate it if you vote for us by liking our templates (click the hearts). You will find the directory of templates here:
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Spartans unite. Great to meet
@RamaswmySridhar
(
@Neeva
) and
@AravSrinivas
(
@perplexity_ai
) at
#genai
happy hour hosted by
@BessemerVP
/
@foundersCC
. We are all working on evolving search engines into answer engines. Instead of query➡️list-of-results we provide prompt➡️answer.
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Today I donated to both & , they are local efforts in
#Israel
&
#Palestine
helping people overcome their fears to develop an understanding of what binds us despite ideological difference (after all our DNA is 99.9% *identical*)
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Yesterday in Riyadh I had the honor of meeting H.E. Abdullah Alswaha (minister of communications & IT, top) and H.E. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi (head of Data & Artificial Intelligence authority, bottom). Did you know that
#saudiarabia
has one of the most advance…
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Our largest
@Cloudera
sessions event to date, this is a
#welfie
(group
#selfie
) from my keynote earlier today
#Seoul
#clouderasesh
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Sincerest welcome to my
@hortonworks
colleagues, we are now officially all part of the newly combined
@cloudera
. Super excited about what our smarter & stronger team can accomplish to capture the market opportunity ahead of us.
#li
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I was asked to summarize: 1)
@Google
triggered me to do what I did via DEI/Leadership training, 2) they pulled rug from under my feet after I did, 3) "we are 1" core msg: we're born with only love in our ♥️s then we get corrupted, we've to catch that & fix it. I did, so can you.
Many of you asked what was the impetus for me to write the “We are one” essay, I share that here. Thanks to all of you for the outpouring of love over the last week. Full video at: & txt at: (
@Google
@googlecloud
#israel
#palestine
)
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#halloween
@cloudera
#thematrix
#morpheus
#redpill
or
#bluepill
? (red=reality, blue=happy dream)
#in
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One of the many amazing panoramic views from Cloudera's new office at 525 Market St in San Francisco (we are on the 30th & 31st floors). I now rank
@clouderabudview
#Budapest
as number 1 office (view wise), followed by
@cloudera
#SanFrancisco
then
#Singa
…
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This week I am making a full loop around the Earth. San Francisco -> New York -> Abu Dhabi -> Seoul -> San Francisco. Abu Dhabi is just transit, I gave a talk in NYC yesterday and then another talk in Seoul tomorrow.
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