E33: Vik Korrapati Is Building Vision AI the Slow Way. It's Working.

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Vik Korrapati, Co-founder & CTO of Moondream — an open-source vision language model that lets any developer build vision AI apps through prompting, no PhD required.

Vik shares what he's learned building Vision AI in the trenches:

• Why the benchmark everyone optimizes for is the wrong one
• How an unglamorous engineering philosophy beats flashy research breakthroughs
• Why his team rewrote the parts of the stack everyone else ignores
• The hallucination problem nobody in vision AI is talking about

If you've ever wondered what it really takes to get vision AI out of the demo and into production — Vik has the receipts.

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