Michael Maximilien on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy
Michael Maximilien, Dr. Max, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. After a long career at IBM Research, including the AI for Quantum group, he has left to found his own AI company; his PhD twenty years ago was on AI agents. What he is proudest of is weave-cli, the open-source tool he presented at the conference, which standardizes vector-database management across development, test, and production and lets you experiment with embeddings, chunking, and search parameters across databases so RAG agents give predictable answers. Reliability is predictability; next come better data, secure protocols such as MCP's added security, and eventually a reputation system for agents modeled on eBay's. His own stack moved from Python to Go on the back end and TypeScript on the front end.