Joining ARC Prize How the cofounder of Zapier recruited me to run a $1M AI competition Welcome to the 2,450 people who have joined us since last post! If you aren’t subscribed, join 9,619 AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now "We gotta blow this up." That's what Mike Knoop (co-founder of Zapier) says to me in early 2024. "ARC-AGI, we gotta make it huge. It's too important." "Wait, ARC? What are you talking about?" I quickly reply. "It's the most important benchmark and unsolved...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Building a business around a commodity OpenAI's models are a commodity, now what? Welcome to the 296 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,939 AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now Large Language Models are becoming a commodity. We all know it. So if you’re a foundational model company, what do you do? You build a defensible business around your model. You build your moat. Google famously said they have no moat, “and neither does OpenAI.” But...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Conversational AI For Work ChatGPT over business data is a bigger deal than I thought Welcome to the 79 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,642 AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now Well, it happened. I accidentally became obsessed. Mark Erdmann (Co-Founder @ Pulley) told me they built a Q&A bot using Slack messages as their knowledge base. Once I heard this…it clicked. This makes so much sense for language models. Years of tribal knowledge at...
12 months ago • 2 min read
'Work' is whatever AI can't do Reaction to Sarah Tavel's blog post on LLMs + Work Welcome to the 107 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,563 AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now Sarah Tavel wrote a great blog post on selling ‘work’, not software. Sell outcomes, not seats. Source Her main argument is that “LLMs create an opportunity for startups to look beyond this way of thinking and discover surface area that previously was out of bounds for...
12 months ago • 3 min read
Jeremy Howard & OpenAI's Debacle Interview Recap + Microsoft's Perspective Welcome to the awesome people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,307 curious AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now I came over two pieces of AI content that, if I had your number, I would text you about. They are the types of niche content that are underrated from a share-to-value ratio. We're going to cover two items today: A recap of an interview with Jeremy Howard Behind...
about 1 year ago • 5 min read
Longer context, better retrieval? "Needle In A Haystack" Analysis With Large Context Models Welcome to the 155 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,034 fun AI fans. View this post online. Subscribe Now Picture this, I’m sitting at TheGP in San Francisco watching OpenAI’s Dev Day. Sam Altman just announced GPT-4 with 128K tokens of context. This means you can fit nearly 300 pages of text into a prompt. Every developer gets excited. No longer do they have...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
FullStackRetrieval.com My new home for retrieval related content Welcome to the 135 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,189 smart AI folks. View this post online. Subscribe Now The bottleneck is not GPT-4 GPT-4 is actually pretty smart, ask it to make a decision, and you’ll likely get the right answer. Give it a few examples of previous successful decisions and you’ll bump your accuracy even further. This led me to a realization, the limits of our...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Intercom's AI Product Strategy Lenny Rachitsky interview with Paul Adams recap Welcome to the 3,039 smart, curious AI folks. Not with the group yet? Subscribe here Subscribe Now Hey crew! I heard Lenny interview Paul Adams, Head Of Product @ Intercom on an awesome podcast and I had to tell you about it. I got up early, grabbed my cup of coffee, a notepad, and as the morning sun illuminated the steam rising from my cup, I listened to the sweet words of AI adoption. You see, this closely aligns...
over 1 year ago • 4 min read
Augmentation Before Replacement The mindset shift for your AI products Welcome to the 14 people who have joined us since last week! If you aren’t subscribed, join 3,033 smart, curious, AI folks by subscribing here Subscribe Now I found a way to help my business clients prioritize AI projects. But it was tough, the status quo way of thinking about AI is locked in hype. The claims are grand. My favorite one is Sundar Pichai saying that AI is “more profound than fire.” Crowds of AI builders have...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
