Max is the CEO and co-founder of Nixtla, where he is developing highly accurate forecasting models using time series data and deep learning techniques, which developers can use to build their own pipelines. Max is a self-taught programmer and researcher with a lot of prior experience building things from scratch.
00:00:50 Introduction
00:01:26 Entry point in AI
00:04:25 Origins of Nixtla
00:07:30 Idea to product
00:11:21 Behavioral economics & psychology to time series prediction
00:16:00 Landscape of time series prediction
00:26:10 Foundation models in time series
00:29:15 Building TimeGPT
00:31:36 Numbers and GPT models
00:34:35 Generalization to real world datasets
00:38:10 Math reasoning with LLMs
00:40:48 Neural Hierarchical Interpolation for Time Series Forecasting
00:47:15 TimeGPT applications
00:52:20 Pros and Cons of open-source in AI
00:57:20 Insights from building AI products
01:02:15 Tips to researchers & hype vs reality of AI
More about Max: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mergenthaler/
and Nixtla: https://www.nixtla.io/
Check out TimeGPT: https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla
About the Host:
Jay is a PhD student at Arizona State University working on improving AI for medical diagnosis and prognosis.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahjay22/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaygshah22
Homepage: https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/ for any queries.
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