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Sep 2023

25 m

AI Revolution: Food Fights in the Enterp...

Andreessen Horowitz

About this episode

Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, explain the data wars happening inside and outside enterprises and how they could impact the evolution of LLMs.

[0:59] Why is it so hard for enterprises to adopt AI?
[3:29] Data wars
[4:49] Big vs. small LLMs
[8:35] Finetuning
[14:14] Open source AI
[18:13] Benchmarks
[19:51] Why Ali isn't afraid of AI

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, recorded August 2023 at a live event in San Francisco. The series features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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