Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty challenges AI’s raw intelligence myth at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
Liberty says AI needs more than language fluency or prediction to deliver real business value. It requires knowledge — proprietary data, domain expertise, and real-time retrieval. That combo powers task completion and accuracy.
His session debates why intelligence alone doesn’t cut it, and knowledge is the missing half. 
Liberty leads Pinecone, an AI infrastructure firm building vector databases. These allow real-time, large-scale AI applications with reliable memory and information retrieval.
Before Pinecone, Liberty ran Amazon AI Labs and AWS Research. He worked on SageMaker and OpenSearch, led Yahoo Research NYC, taught at Princeton and Tel Aviv University, and holds 75+ ML patents and papers.
The talk targets AI builders, tech leaders, and enterprise teams trying to make AI actually work.
Catch Liberty’s session October 27–29 at Moscone West, SF, during TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Watch the Disrupt agenda page for schedule updates.
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