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Collective Intelligence Community PodcastTimescale Product Lead on Databases, Postgres, and AI Applications - Avthar Sewrathan | Ep 21Avthar Sewrathan is currently product lead of AI for Timescale, a modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL. Prior to Timescale, he cofounded Afari inc, a decentralized social newtork, and founded Zayo, a social enterprise for for female students in developing countries. Timescale's mission is to serve developers as they create the next wave of computing. The Collective Intelligence Community Podcast by the GenAI Collective brings the brightest minds in AI to the table to discuss the field’s most pressing topics! Each interview provides a unique perspective on this industry, providing sharp insights and informed commentaries shared to our gr...2025-03-2731 min
Eye On A.I.#219 Avthar Sewrathan: How to Build Smarter AI Applications with PostgreSQLThis episode is sponsored by Netsuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, streamlining accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, and more. NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program. Head to https://netsuite.com/EYEONAI to know more. In this episode of the Eye on AI podcast, Avthar Sewrathan, Lead Technical Product Marketing Manager at Timescale joins Craig Smith to explore how Postgres is transforming AI development with cutting-edge tools and open-source innovation. With its robust, extensible framework, Postgres has become the go-to database for A...2024-11-1851 min
AI Engineering PodcastBuilding AI Systems on Postgres: An Inside Look at pgai VectorizerSummaryWith the growth of vector data as a core element of any AI application comes the need to keep those vectors up to date. When you go beyond prototypes and into production you will need a way to continue experimenting with new embedding models, chunking strategies, etc. You will also need a way to keep the embeddings up to date as your data changes. The team at Timescale created the pgai Vectorizer toolchain to let you manage that work in your Postgres database. In this episode Avthar Sewrathan explains how it works and how you can start using...2024-11-1153 min