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Oct 2023
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Bill Gurley and Sunny Madra talk open-so...

Jason Calacanis
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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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