Will 2025 be the year open-source LLMs catch up with their closed-source rivals? Will an established set of best practices for evaluating AI emerge?

This week on Chain of Thought, we break out the crystal ball and give our biggest AI predictions for 2025. Listen as Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and Head of Cohere for AI predicts a trend towards smaller, more optimized AI models; Craig Wiley, Senior Director of Product, Mosaic AI at Databricks, dives into the future of multimodal AI; and Galileo’s CEO, Vikram Chatterji, shares his predictions, including the rise of open-source LLMs.

Chapters:

00:00  Introduction

02:01  Vikram's top 3 predictions

06:19  AI and nuclear energy

08:30  Giving power back to the people

13:46  Craig's predictions

20:46 The "era of toolification"

30:38  Sara's predictions

35:07 AI safety

Show Notes:

• ⁠⁠Watch Productionize 2.0⁠⁠


• ⁠Check out Galileo⁠⁠

• Follow⁠ Sara Hooker


• Follow⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Craig Wiley


• Follow⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Vikram Chatterji