Arvind Jain on Building Glean and the Future of Enterprise AI
From Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI by Lukas Biewald
August 5, 2025 · 44 min · Season 1 · Episode 129
About this episode
Lukas Biewald interviews Arvind Jain about Glean's evolution and the future of enterprise AI.
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald sits down with Arvind Jain, CEO and founder of Glean. They discuss Glean's evolution from solving enterprise search to building agentic AI tools that understand internal knowledge and workflows. Arvind shares how his early use of transformer models in 2019 laid the foundation for Glean’s success, well before the term "generative AI" was mainstream. They explore the technical and organizational challenges behind enterprise LLMs—including security, hallucination suppression—and when it makes sense to fine-tune models. Arvind also reflects on his previous startup Rubrik and explains how Glean’s AI platform aims to reshape how teams operate, from personalized agents to ever-fresh internal documentation. Follow Arvind Jain: https://x.com/jainarvind Follow Weights & Biases: https://x.com/weights_biases Timestamps: [00:01:00] What Glean is and how it works [00:02:39] Starting Glean before the LLM boom [00:04:10] Using transformers early in enterprise search [00:06:48] Semantic search vs. generative answers [00:08:13] When to fine-tune vs. use out-of-box models [00:12:38] The value of small, purpose-trained models [00:13:04]…
People in this episode
Host: Lukas Biewald
Guest: Arvind Jain
Topics covered
- enterprise AI
- transformer models
- LLMs
- AI tools
- enterprise search
- documentation
Keywords
- Glean
- enterprise AI
- transformer models
- LLMs
- AI tools
- documentation
- Rubrik
- semantic search
- generative answers
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Glean, Rubrik, Weights & Biases
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