
About this episode
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 23 features our friend Francisco Ferreira, Founder and CEO of Datalinks, a company that is laser-focused on bringing human understanding to the core of the data and AI value chains.
Prior to founding Datalinks, Francisco spent 9 years at Palantir. At Palantir, he architected and created the product and infrastructure group for Skywise, the world’s biggest aviation platform, growing it from 3 airlines to 100+. He went on to create the Developer Relations groups and co-led Channel partners. Before Palantir, he had a multi-year stint at eBay.
This episode focuses on:
→ Francisco’s journey from Palantir to DataLinks
→ Large scale integrations and how to do them successfully
→ Why a clean ontology matters and how to build reusable components
→ What Datalinks is working on, including AI-generated ontologies
→ Enhanced search/retrieval across complex data relationships
→ The AI Bubble
→ AI model benchmarks and the pressures to align to them
→ Frontier models, open-source, small language models
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Datalinks
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Website: https://datalinks.com/
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CodeStrap
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