Mainak Mazumdar

Pioneering Trust in AI

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

Amazing moments! Thanks to honorable @narendramodi and

@BradSmi @nikesharora @jayzscsler @bipulsinha @azavery @jpatel41 @htaneja @vkhosla @RajanAnandan

@OfficialINDIAai

[Krishna Gade @krishnagade]

It's a wrap from Delhi!

The past few days have been amazing, had the great honor to be at the Plenary when Prime Minister @narendramodi addressed world AI leaders. His message was simple and powerful: AI must scale responsibly and inclusively, not just quickly.

One research talk that really stayed with me was Prof. @SuryaGanguli's session on Digital Twins. The idea of building mirrored systems and feedback control loops for AI felt very aligned with what we’ve been building at @fiddler_ai: explainability, observability, and making AI systems accountable in real time.
As AI moves from models to autonomous agents, you need Visibility, Context, and Control.

Grateful to be part of these conversations at such an important moment for India and for AI globally. Some moments from our trip! cc @mainak

Dhanyawad India! 🇮🇳 🙏

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@martin_casado @NaveenGRao a faustian bargain

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@eladgil @varun_mathur True, but like Supreme Court judges, expected behavior is not guaranteed though.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@bznotes Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@marklevinshow AOL receives collect call Mark.

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@joybhattacharj @ChessbaseIndia Honest question: Is Chess a "sport'?

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@paulg Paul, you are missing out. Try Ghee instead of butter.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@faris Started with keywords/ search. disintermediation of media is likely outcome as agents orchestrate commerce.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@StevenBartlett @ericweinstein Eric has articulated this succintly.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

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[Fiddler AI @fiddler_ai]

Today, we’re excited to share that Fiddler AI has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by @CrowdStrike.

We started Fiddler to help businesses understand AI. Together with CrowdStrike, we intend to turn that understanding into the confidence to put AI to work across the enterprise.

To our customers, partners, and team: thank you for trusting us with important systems and shaping our work through your hardest production problems.

Read more from Krishna: https://t.co/YIDJkH2CPg

[Fiddler AI @fiddler_ai]

Today, we’re excited to share that Fiddler AI has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by @CrowdStrike.

We started Fiddler to help businesses understand AI. Together with CrowdStrike, we intend to turn that understanding into the confidence to put AI to work across the enterprise.

To our customers, partners, and team: thank you for trusting us with important systems and shaping our work through your hardest production problems.

Read more from Krishna: https://t.co/YIDJkH2CPg

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@hvgoenka Best to use Tesla FSD

[Krishna Gade @krishnagade]

More validation from our AI Science research on Evals:

• Small classifiers, adapted with either full fine-tuning or low-rank adaptation (LoRA), can outperform generalist models 10x their size.
• Generalist models retain a significant edge on inputs unlike the data the small classifiers were trained on.
• Training on post-verdict reasoning lets large teacher models produce superior student classifiers without the latency penalty that reasoning imposes at prediction time.

https://t.co/FyxeqHKBjV

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

Interesting and important!!

That said, evaluating synthetic data (subjects) using traditional survey research methods with all its well-known biases is inherently limiting.

Imagine if the timeline were flipped and survey science came *after* synthetic data. How would we use surveys to validate synthetics, rather than the other way around? Flipping that script might be the breakthrough we need.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@krishnagade Enjoy

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@fchollet Are you changing your mind or confirming

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@RamaswmySridhar True but I think their motivations might be different.

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@kevinweil @lightspeedvp Congratulations Kevin! 💪🏽

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@NaveenGRao @RichardSocher Love it! 💪🏽. More so because my speedy greyhound is named Flint!

[Mainak Mazumdar @mainak]

@dens @sriramk 🫡 from the Mayor of many locations (won the your covetet shirt!) . 🙏🏾

[Krishna Gade @krishnagade]

Today, we celebrated our 8th anniversary at @fiddler_ai, remembering some highlights from our journey from explaining machine learning models to building a control plane for AI agents. Our mission around building trust in AI has never been so important. Really grateful to all our employees, investors, customers and partners for being a part of this journey! More to come!