the barrier to entry for training good embedding models is 100x lower than for training good LLMs – requires significantly less compute, expertise, and data. seems like a good area for building a business
STARTUPS
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BedtimestoryAI Going Full-Time: AI Startup Growth
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Love this, we’re planning on going Full-time on @BedtimestoryAI too. Time is just ripe
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Responsible AI Challenges: Costs and Ethics for Startups
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Auxane hints at challenges startups could face in pursuing Responsible AI including high costs and self-regulation complexities. Startups need to grasp their product's specificities, ethical boundaries, and societal impact for genuine responsibility.
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Book Value Limitations for Software Company Valuations
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The book value for a software company (assets minus liabilities equals equity) will almost always fall far short of the true economic value, and nobody would use that for e.g. investing decisions in a small company, but it is “just real enough” to quickly handwave away a request.
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Hacking Non-Technical Systems: Immigration Status State Machine
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(For a number of years I thought “If I ever have to answer YC’s question about hacking a non-technical system I will pull out the published specs for the state machine that is Japanese immigration statuses and show how Bingo Card Creator satisfies all three prongs of the test.”)
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Build instead of speculate: focus on creating value
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Spend less time speculating about what other people are doing and go build something people will love. Not much value in being distracted.
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Building Amazing Products for Developers via API
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+1 to what @TheRealAdamG said, would love to sync and hear more about your perspective here. Myself, and many others, spend our entire waking days thinking about how to make an amazing product for developers via our API. My goal is to see developers succeed in building great
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Poe Launches Creator Monetization Hackathon at AGI House
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To celebrate the launch of Poe creator monetization, we are hosting a hackathon at AGI House next Saturday. There will be one track for prompt engineering (no code) and another for coding. The Poe team will be present and we'll have some guest speakers. Details in the next tweet!
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Building AI Community in Barcelona: Startup Ecosystem Growth
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Watching the sunset from our new roof terrace If you’re in Barcelona, let’s meet up. Goal is to get the AI scene here all fired up. No better time to build than now.
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Proactive Leaders Drive AI Progress Forward
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People like me and my colleagues don't "wait" for progress to be made.
We make the progress happen.
