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25 Nov 2024 Latent Space Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI

“But I think you guys are one of the reasons I agreed to advise you. Because I think when you first met me, I was kind of dubious.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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commitment
Recorded
25 Nov 2024
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Latent Space

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…So we actually thought about that requirement. And it should be, at some point, we need to support that. Not initially. But that makes a lot of sense. Okay. So that was a fascinating overview of just the things that you're working on. First of all, I realized that... I don't know if I've ever given you this feedback. But I think you guys are one of the reasons I agreed to advise you. Because I think when you first met me, I was kind of dubious. I was like... Who are you? There's Replicate. There's Together. There's Laptop. There's a whole bunch of other players. You're in very, very competitive fields. Like, why will you win? And the reason I actually changed my mind was I saw you guys shipping. I think your surface area is very big. The team is not that big. No. We're only 40 people. Yeah. And now here you are trying to compete with OpenAI and everyone else. What is the secret? I think the team. The team is the secret.…

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