EPISODE · Jan 20, 2026 · 0 MIN
Use 2 AI Agents at Once | Amr Awadallah’s Secret to Avoid Hallucinations
from Mala's Podcast · host Mala Ramakrishnan
Amr Awadallah, Former Founder & CEO of Vectara, explains why he uses two AI agents in parallel, to compare results, catch hallucinations, and make better decisions.Amr shares a practical mindset for working with AI today: don’t treat it as magic. Learn the tools deeply, understand their limits, and use structure to get more reliable outcomes.A simple tactic with big implications for leaders, builders, and anyone working with AI systems.This clip was recorded at a recent Founders Creative AI Vibe-Coding Summit, 2025.______________________________________________About Amr AwadallahAmr Awadallah is a tech entrepreneur and AI builder with 30 years of experience across large-scale systems, big data, machine learning, and AI. Most recently, Amr was the founding CEO of Vectara, where he took the company from 0 to 1. He led the development of the Vectara Trusted Agent Operating System, raised $54M, earned Gartner recognition in two Emerging Market Quadrants, and built a high-performing team of ~50. Vectara’s open-weights hallucination detection model reached 5.5M downloads on Hugging Face.Previously, Amr served as VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud, was founder and global CTO of Cloudera, VP of Engineering at Yahoo!, and founder/CTO of Aptivia, later acquired by Yahoo.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and remains deeply involved in building practical, trustworthy AI systems.🔗 Connect with Amr Awadallah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/awadallah/______________________________________________👉 Stay in the loop and join us at future events: https://lu.ma/founderscreative📩 Reach out to us at [email protected]#AIVibeCoding #FoundersCreative #AILeadership #FutureOfWork #InsideTheRoom #AIProduct
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Amr Awadallah, Former Founder & CEO of Vectara, explains why he uses two AI agents in parallel, to compare results, catch hallucinations, and make better decisions.Amr shares a practical mindset for working with AI today: don’t treat it as magic. Learn the tools deeply, understand their limits, and use structure to get more reliable outcomes.A simple tactic with big implications for leaders, builders, and anyone working with AI systems.This clip was recorded at a recent Founders Creative AI Vibe-Coding Summit, 2025.______________________________________________About Amr AwadallahAmr Awadallah is a tech entrepreneur and AI builder with 30 years of experience across large-scale systems, big data, machine learning, and AI. Most recently, Amr was the founding CEO of Vectara, where he took the company from 0 to 1. He led the development of the Vectara Trusted Agent Operating System, raised $54M, earned Gartner recognition in two Emerging Market Quadrants, and built a high-performing team of ~50. Vectara’s open-weights hallucination detection model reached 5.5M downloads on Hugging Face.Previously, Amr served as VP of Developer Relations at Google Cloud, was founder and global CTO of Cloudera, VP of Engineering at Yahoo!, and founder/CTO of Aptivia, later acquired by Yahoo.He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and remains deeply involved in building practical, trustworthy AI systems.🔗 Connect with Amr Awadallah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/awadallah/______________________________________________👉 Stay in the loop and join us at future events: https://lu.ma/founderscreative📩 Reach out to us at [email protected]#AIVibeCoding #FoundersCreative #AILeadership #FutureOfWork #InsideTheRoom #AIProduct
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