Chip Huyen
Author & Researcher @ Voltron Data
Author of AI Engineering (O'Reilly, 2025). Previously at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI, Netflix.
βAl Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix), covering AI product work, product design, and engineering tradeoffs.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Voltron Data | VP of AI & Open Source Software | ~2023-present |
| Claypot AI (acquired by Voltron Data) | Co-Founder | ~2022-~2023 |
| Snorkel AI | ML Engineer | ~2020-~2022 |
| NVIDIA | Core Developer (NeMo) | ~2019-~2020 |
| Stanford University | Lecturer (ML Systems Design) | ~2018-~2020 |
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βSo the vast majority of time, we don't touch on pre-training model. As users, we don't use it at all.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βYeah. So I think it's general, it's a way of learning. It's training is [inaudible 00:18:33] learning and whether it learn from human feedback or AI feedback or verifiable rewards, I think I say it's ...β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βI didn't work with them. This is more like a friend company.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βYeah, so they give half of the entire company but half of each bucket. Yeah.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βAnd then they observe the difference in productivity.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βYeah, I didn't get into the mechanics of it, but I was like, "I respect you for doing a randomized trial on that."β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βIt's not that large. It's about maybe 30 to maybe 40. Yeah.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βYeah. So I don't know what's the process I was thinking about, yeah.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βI'm shocked that we don't have better voice assistant at home yet. I think I have been testing out a bunch, honestly. I keep hoping, oh my God, that could be the one and then I know how many of them I...β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βOH, I would love to see that. I'm very bullish on using AI, just create micro tools. It's just something just make your life a bit easier.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βYeah, always. No, no, no. It depends on how hard the questions are.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
βIt's called From Third to First World. Actually, I think I have it somewhere here. Yeah.β
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)