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6 Mar 2024 Latent Space Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI

“Maybe I'll put it like, actually I will de-emphasize the investing bit and just more as a potential customer.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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commitment
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6 Mar 2024
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Latent Space

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…I think at that point you would be investing in them for their expertise of one kind. So if they've been at a large company, but they've been doing amazing work, you would be thinking about it as what these people bring to the table is that they're really good at like GPU programming or understanding the complexity of serving models once it hits a certain scale. You know, various expertise like from the infra and AI and GPUs point of view. What you would obviously want to figure out is whether their understanding of the external markets is clear, whether they know and understand how to think about running a business, understanding how to be disciplined about making money or, you know, various things like that. Maybe I'll put it like, actually I will de-emphasize the investing bit and just more as a potential customer. Oh, okay. Like, it's more okay, you know, you have PyTorch gods, of course. Like, what else should I know? I mean, I would not care about who's building something. If I'm trying to be a customer, I would care about whether...…

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