
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi · 2025-11-06 · 48 min
Brian Moore is CEO of Voxel51, a data infra platform for visual AI. They most recently raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer. Brian's favorite books: Trillion Dollar Coach (Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle) (00:01) Introduction and setup (00:22) Defining visual AI - beyond traditional computer vision (02:14) Why visual data is so hard to manage (04:17) Common “gotchas” in image and video datasets (06:43) Is it a data problem or a model problem? (09:41) The importance of edge cases and scenario analysis (10:46) Coverage and handling rare events in datasets (13:35) Using synthetic data and foundation models to fill data gaps (14:25) The origin story of Voxel51 and the birth of FiftyOne (17:56) Open source strategy and community growth (19:31) Handling massive visual datasets - storage best practices (22:03) Cost vs.