Manasi Vartak

CEO/Founder of Verta (@VertaAI). Enabling intelligent products. PhD from @MIT_CSAIL on MLSys + DataVis. Formerly @Twitter, @Facebook, @Google, @Microsoft

[Kexin Rong @kexinrong]

📢 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 @ Georgia Tech! If you are interested in topics related to DB + AI (multimodal & vector databases, data management support for ML, etc.), apply and mention my name in your application: https://t.co/9PawuW0ZU5

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@Matthew_Perron Congratulations!

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@andy_pavlo @OtterTuneAI So sorry to hear. It’s an incredibly hard market right now with lots of strange things going on in M&A. You all built a great product and company regardless. The DB world very much still thinks you rock :)

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@jeremylewi @AnthropicAI @Azure @OpenAI We had to do a bunch of engineering work to work around the lack of SLOs and sometimes opaque error states

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@villageglobal @cloudera @VertaAI @mirandaconrado Thank you for the continued support from the earliest days!

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@herrod Thank you for the support from Day#1, couldn’t have done without it!

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

Excited to join forces with Cloudera to bring Enterprise AI to customers worldwide!

[Cloudera @cloudera]

We’re committed to making bold moves to provide our customers with the technologies they need to drive their data and AI initiatives. That’s why we’ve acquired @VertaAI's Operational AI platform. Learn more: https://t.co/X8aYevnO2I #TheDataPlatformforEnterpriseAI

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

I am excited to share that @cloudera today announced that it is acquiring the @VertaAI Operational AI Platform to bring trusted, hybrid AI to enterprises worldwide! We're excited to join Cloudera in this next step of the Verta journey. Read more here: https://t.co/2aOye6cJrY

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@Maggiemakar @UMichCSE @michigan_AI Congratulations!

[Felipe Maia Polo @felipemaiapolo]

tinyBenchmarks: Quick and cheap LLM evaluation!

We developed ways of making cheap and reliable LLM benchmarking reducing the need for computing up to 140x (e.g., in MMLU).

paper: https://t.co/CkdShZpgDg
GitHub repo: https://t.co/DUHNtwjILT

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[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

One of the most fun SIGMOD workshops IMO. Deadline in a month!

[Kexin Rong @kexinrong]

⏰One month until the HILDA deadline! Got some fun ideas about LLMs and other cool stuff? Let's hear 'em!

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@alexatallah We are building the @VertaAI GenAI Workbench to do this and let users run against their own datasets

[Verta @VertaAI]

We LOVE LLMs! ♥️

Check out our recent model roundup to see if your favorite made the list!

https://t.co/DNFdEZhPNT

[Verta @VertaAI]

What a week! We have loved watching what users are creating using our GenAI Workbench!

The support has been pouring in, and we are humbled and excited to see how much everyone is enjoying the myriad features that the Workbench brings to the table.

https://t.co/2SjztYSUXI

[Pete Skomoroch @peteskomoroch]

“If you are looking to evaluate OSS alternatives in light of the OpenAI news, feel free to reach out, happy to help quickly assess options and formulate an OSS Plan-B.” - @VertaAI https://t.co/uDx26BZsoe

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@oscar_moll_ Yeah, 75%+ of folks I speak to are building on OpenAI APIs and if that core foundation feels shaky, lots of folks are going to shut down initiatives as being "too risky" -- how can we be sure they will continue providing this service when they lost their CEO/Board Chair etc

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

Couldn't resist the meme! (Full disclosure: in time, I think open-source will be able to more than fill the gap, but OpenAI breakdown will likely be a big setback for the community in the short term)

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@oscar_moll_ I think it opens up lots of opportunities for startups / other incumbents, but all of it will take a long while to build/bring to market. For enterprises, this will likely spook them more than anything and AI adoption will definitely suffer in 2024 (because trust has been lost)

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@jmftrindade LOL, I think that was me too. Congratulations on the defense!!

[Manasi Vartak @DataCereal]

@dharmesh I saw very little about prompting and providing feedback to agents or generally refining quality. Any notes on how well that works?