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Marc McQuade is a co-founder and the CEO of Arcee AI. With a long career including work at Roboflow and Hugging Face, he co-founded Arcee to be a platform that provides enterprise businesses with SLMs — small, specialized, secure, and scalable language models — trained using their own data.John Villa is a tech investor focusing on early-stage companies. He is currently the CEO of Meridian Street Holdings X LLC, an investment holdings company that works with companies from initial contact to closing and growth. John is an investor in Arcee AI.

Today on the podcast we discuss:

1. Guest Intros

- Marc McQuade (0:40) - John Villa (3:40)

2. Background on Arcee AI

- Why did Marc help to build Arcee AI? (6:39) - How did Marc and John get connected? (12:21) - What does Arcee AI do? (16:56) - Who is the target audience and what are the use cases? (19:38) - Has the pitch for the company shifted since the start? (23:41) - What were some early challenges in funding the company? (34:28) - What is the focus for Arcee currently? (37:38) - What is important about the work they are doing at Arcee AI? (40:03)

3. Who is Benefitting Most at the Current Moment in AI? (26:31)

4. What is RAG? (30:36)

5. The Future for Arcee AI (44:33)