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This Week in Startups

Open-source vs. "ClosedAI," demoing new AI tools & more with Sunny Madra & Vinny Lingham | E1742

May 16, 2023

Sunny Madra, Co-founder of Definitive Intelligence, and Vinny Lingham, Founder of Weight Room, dive into the latest AI innovations. They demonstrate new AI tools like ChatPDF and discuss the implications of open-source versus proprietary AI systems. The duo predicts a future where every major company will deploy customized large language models, shaping business practices. They also critique Google Bard's performance against open-source alternatives, highlighting the need for contextual data in optimizing AI insights.

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Platforms Adding Transcript Features Quickly and Startups Need to Adapt

The Anxiety of Developers in Today's Easy Access AI World

GPUs vs TPUs and the Rise of Open Source Models

The AI's role in identifying critical orders in a company

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Intro

5min

2.

Startup Surge in the UAE

7min

3.

Harnessing AI and Collaborative Tools for Startup Success

5min

4.

The Limitations of AI in Organizational Context

4min

5.

The Future of Business in the Age of AI and LLMs

5min

6.

Navigating AI Resources for Success

10min

7.

Navigating the AI Arms Race: Community, Branding, and Capital Connections

4min

8.

The Open-Source AI Revolution

11min

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Playful Ticket Competition Among Friends

2min

10.

AI vs. Traditional Search: Unpacking Performance

16min

Sunny and Vinny are back to demo some new AI tools (14:08), discuss open-source vs. "ClosedAI" (38:45), and more!

(0:00) Jason kicks off the show

(1:31) Jason's trip to the UAE and Abu Dhabi's 30-year investment horizon

(12:39) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://miro.com/startups

(14:08) Sunny demos ChatPDF and LLMs' future in the workforce

(24:23) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist

(25:41) Google's new universal translator

(30:11) What is Hugging Face?

(37:26) iConnections - Get 20% off iConnections Miami 2024 event at http://iconnections.io/twist

(38:45) Open-source vs. "ClosedAI" and the race to build AI hardware

(48:28) Comparing Google Bard to ChatGPT

(1:01:13) Google's vision for Gmail and AWS's partnership with Hugging Face

FOLLOW Vinny: https://twitter.com/VinnyLingham

FOLLOW Sunny: https://twitter.com/sundeep

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Links:

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

https://www.chatpdf.com

https://huggingface.co/espnet/kan-bayashi_ljspeech_vits

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