William Beauchamp, Founder of two $100M+ companies, Chai Research and Seamless Capital, discusses the future of AI models and the differences between search engine and reasoning engine approaches. They explore language as a representation of thought space and the challenges of scaling a software engineering team. The connection between risk-taking and creativity in building an AI startup is highlighted, along with the value of fine-tuning in language models and potential for federating access to copyright content.
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Fine-tuning language models, prompt engineering, and instruction training optimize language model performance.
The value in language models lies in curated and fine-tuned data, and a market for data retrieval may emerge.
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Building Language Models and the Power of Fine-tuning
The guest discusses the importance of fine-tuning language models to improve their performance. He emphasizes that increasing the size of the model alone does not necessarily lead to better results. Fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, prompt engineering, and instruction training are key factors in optimizing the performance of language models. He also highlights that small teams of specialized researchers and data scientists can create models that outperform larger monolithic companies, and this distributed approach to model development can be leveraged to build an exceptional language model.
The Value of Data and the Future Market for Retrieval
The guest argues that the true value in language models lies in the curation and fine-tuning of data, rather than simply having a large corpus of random text. He explains that fine-tuning models with the right parameters, regularization, epochs, and optimizer is where the real value is added. He also suggests that in the future, there may be a market for data retrieval, where companies like the New York Times can make money by providing up-to-date data feeds to language model providers. He emphasizes the importance of separating timely information, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning in order to recognize and reward the true value contributors.
Challenges in Hiring and Building an Efficient Team
The guest shares his perspective on building a talented team and achieving high talent density. He highlights the challenges and complexities that arise as teams grow and the importance of maintaining efficiency. He discusses the exponential increase in friction when adding people to a team and emphasizes the need for discipline in hiring to avoid negative consequences. He believes that having a small team of dedicated, creative, and intelligent individuals who can work well together offers more leverage and value than adding average engineers to the team.
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William Beauchamp is the founder of two $100M+ companies - Chai Research, an AI startup, and Seamless Capital, a hedge fund based in Cambridge, UK.
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