The Importance of Pre-Trained Models

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The history of this, it gets a bit more of an academic topic than this more applied conversation but I think the history of it is quite interesting to folks. The information has written some stuff on this but it hasn't been done in proper narrative history fashion that acquired so good at it. We were going to do OpenAI this season and then we were like, I don't know what we can add the history is being written in real time but you're right. I think you got to do the work.

How do you build defensible business value in an era when, as AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli said on our last ACQ2 episode, the “cost of intelligence is going to zero”? Longtime friend of the show Jake Saper and his partners at Emergence Capital have been refining their thesis for this brave new world of Generative AI in B2B, and we sit down with him to discuss. We cover topics including:

When do exactly correct answers matter, and when do they not?
When are human-in-the-loop systems necessary?
When do startups have an advantage vs. incumbents, and vice-versa?
Where can companies capture value on a durable basis?
When do you need proprietary data in order to be defensible?

Whether you’re building or investing in existing businesses from the “pre-AI” era or brand new startups that are native to GPT, this episode has plenty of takeaways you should consider. Tune in!

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