Ep 16: VP of Generative AI at Adobe Alexandru Costin on The Future of Content Creation

Patrick and Jacob sit down with Alexandru Costin, the VP of Generative AI and Sensei at Adobe, and discuss how Adobe’s early projects with generative AI in 2019 helped them move quickly upon the release of LLMs and diffusion models. Before leading Adobe’s generative AI efforts he founded InterAKT, a web development company, and led Adobe Romania for 10 years.

00:00 intro
01:44 Adobe Romania and background
02:26 AI projects at Adobe
10:03 incorporating AI into existing products
16:34 educating Adobe’s user base
25:13 avoiding copyright issues with Ai-generated content
32:12 using customer feedback
40:30 what is the right way to structure an AI team?
45:11 pricing AI products
48:00 the future of Adobe

With your co-hosts:
@jasoncwarner
- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical
@ericabrescia
- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase
- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn
@jacobeffron
- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
@jordan_segall
- Partner at Redpoint

Jacob is an AI investor at Redpoint Ventures. He's led Redpoint's investments in companies like Abridge, Physical Intelligence & Legora. Follow Jacob on Twitter (@jacobeffron).

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