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Chip Huyen

Author & Researcher @ Voltron Data

Author of AI Engineering (O'Reilly, 2025). Previously at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI, Netflix.

β€œAl Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix), covering AI product work, product design, and engineering tradeoffs.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Voltron DataVP of AI & Open Source Software~2023-present
Claypot AI (acquired by Voltron Data)Co-Founder~2022-~2023
Snorkel AIML Engineer~2020-~2022
NVIDIACore Developer (NeMo)~2019-~2020
Stanford UniversityLecturer (ML Systems Design)~2018-~2020

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β€œSo the vast majority of time, we don't touch on pre-training model. As users, we don't use it at all.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

14:06
β€œYeah. 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 ...”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

18:29
β€œI didn't work with them. This is more like a friend company.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

48:05
β€œYeah, so they give half of the entire company but half of each bucket. Yeah.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

48:14
β€œAnd then they observe the difference in productivity.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

48:19
β€œYeah, I didn't get into the mechanics of it, but I was like, "I respect you for doing a randomized trial on that."”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

48:31
β€œIt's not that large. It's about maybe 30 to maybe 40. Yeah.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

48:38
β€œYeah. So I don't know what's the process I was thinking about, yeah.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

50:57
β€œI'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...”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

1:05:36
β€œOH, 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.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

1:11:33
β€œYeah, always. No, no, no. It depends on how hard the questions are.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

1:11:54
β€œIt's called From Third to First World. Actually, I think I have it somewhere here. Yeah.”
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Chip Huyen

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

1:14:15