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Alistair Pullen: recommendation

22 Aug 2024 Latent Space Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

“recommend it. Don't fly from London to San Francisco for two days.”

— Alistair Pullen

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Speaker
Alistair Pullen
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Claim type
recommendation
Recorded
22 Aug 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Hey, and today we're back in the studio. In person, after about three to four months in visa jail and travels and all other fun stuff that we talked about in the previous episode. But today we have a special guest, Ali Pullen from Cosign. Welcome. Hi, thanks for having me. We're very lucky to have you because you're on a two day trip to San Francisco. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I would not recommend it. Don't fly from London to San Francisco for two days. And you launched Genie on a plane. On plain Wi Fi, um, claiming state of the art in SuiteBench, which we're all going to talk about. I'm excited to dive into your whole journey, because it has been a journey. I've been lucky to be a small angel in part of that journey. And it's exciting to see that you're launching to such acclaim and, you know, such results. Um, so I'll go over your brief background, and then you can sort of fill in the blanks on what else people should know about you. You did your bachelor's in computer science at Exeter. And then you worked at a startup that got acquired into GoPuff and round about 2022, you started working on a stealth startup that became a YC startup. What's that? Yeah. So…

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