Why the future of intelligence is both open and closed. Baseten’s Mudith Jayasekara and Charlie O'Neill

About this episode

This week Kate hands over the mic to Saron Berhane, who leads Blackbird's deep tech programme. She was recently in San Francisco and sat down with two Australians who had to move to the Bay Area to do the sort of work they wanted to do. Which is both their personal experience and one of their main arguments in this episode. Australia's problem in AI isn't compute. It's that the smartest people here go into quant trading or get on a plane, and nobody has built them a reason to stay. Baseten is where they landed. It's an AI infrastructure and production-grade inference platform, the layer that lets engineering teams deploy, scale and optimise machine learning models. Sydneysider Tuhin…