Achieving Compliance and Exploring Advanced AI Models

This chapter delves into the significance of SOC2 compliance for SaaS companies and how tools like Vanta can simplify the process. It also explores the impact of advanced AI models, particularly multimodal AI like ChatGPT-4, on competition within the tech sector.

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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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(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

(21:37) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

(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