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Today’s show:
Bill Gurley and Sunny Madra join Jason to discuss open-source AI vs. proprietary AI (1:12), friends and foes of open-source AI (5:42), and strategic choices companies make between open and closed approaches (9:48). Then, Sunny demos more AI tools (22:45), and much more!
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(1:12) Bill Gurley joins to break down open-source vs. proprietary AI
(5:42) Friends and foes of open-source AI
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(9:48) Strategic choices companies make between open and closed approaches
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(22:45) Sunny demos LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
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(31:00) Sunny breaks down parameter models
(38:56) Companies manufacturing their own chips
(42:26) Sunny demos Mistral AI
(46:56) Jason and Sunny demo Meta AI on WhatsApp
(50:44) FTX and the SBF trial
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