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Published · transcript-backedWilliam Beauchamp: evaluation
26 Jan 2025 Latent Space Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chai AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
“The surprising thing, like the most surprising thing, what doesn't work is almost everything doesn't work.”
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- William Beauchamp
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- 26 Jan 2025
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…Not to, you know, I'm just kind of curious what's working right now versus what surprisingly doesn't work. Oh, there's a long, long list of surprising stuff that doesn't work. Yeah. The surprising thing, like the most surprising thing, what doesn't work is almost everything doesn't work. That's what's surprising. And I'll give you an example. So like a year and a half ago, I was working at a company, we were super excited by audio. I was like, audio is going to be the next killer feature, we have to get in the app. And I want to be the first. So everything Chai does, I want us to be the first. We may not be the company that's strongest at execution, but we can always be the most innovative. Interesting. Right? So we can... You're pretty strong at execution.…
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