A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most important companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory. Hear from founders like Jack Dorsey of Block, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, and Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe about how they navigated the challenges and opportunities that defined their stories. Hosted by Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital.

The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.

Crucible Moments will be back shortly with season 2. You’ll hear from the founders of YouTube, DoorDash, Reddit, and more. In the meantime, we’d love to introduce you to a new original podcast, Training Data, where Sequoia partners learn from builders, researchers and founders who are defining the technology wave of the future: AI. The following conversation with Harrison Chase of LangChain is all about the future of AI agents—why they’re suddenly seeing a step change in performance, and why they’re key to the promise of AI.  
 
Follow Training Data wherever you listen to podcasts, and keep an eye out for Season 2 of Crucible Moments, coming soon. 
 
LangChain’s Harrison Chase on Building the Orchestration Layer for AI Agents 
Hosted by: Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital 
 
Mentioned:  
 
 
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models, the first cognitive architecture for agents 
 
 
SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering, small-model open-source software engineering agent from researchers at Princeton 
 
 
Devin, autonomous software engineering from Cognition 
 
 
V0: Generative UI agent from Vercel 
 
 
GPT Researcher, a research agent  
 
 
Language Model Cascades: 2022 paper by Google Brain and now OpenAI researcher David Dohan that was influential for Harrison in developing LangChain 
 
 
Transcript: https://www.sequoiacap.com/podcast/training-data-harrison-chase/

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