Prashanth Rao, LanceDB, on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy

Prashanth Rao, AI engineer at LanceDB, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. The highlight of his years in AI is open-source work that means something to people and the feedback of the community. Because AI is non-deterministic, reliability means production systems that produce consistent results and handle failures gracefully, with maturing tooling such as observability and guardrails around the models. He expects the stack to rest on open formats, data and table formats especially, with innovation in storage as AI generates data at a breakneck pace.