Vasanth Mohan, SambaNova, on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy

Vasanth Mohan, who leads developer relations and product marketing at SambaNova, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. SambaNova has built purpose-built AI chips since 2017 and launched SambaCloud a year earlier; his highlight is watching developers build coding, consumer, and creative applications on it. Reliable AI means systems, agents, and applications that are robust and accurate, not just models: because models hallucinate, define contained problems and give agents just enough access to the right tools to solve them, the theme of his AI By the Bay talk. The stack runs from chiplets and hardware up to frameworks, with interoperable slots at every layer; at the bottom SambaNova focuses on energy-efficient inference for a power-starved world.