No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Launching AI products with Braintrust’s CEO Ankur Goyal
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Oct 8, 2024 
Ankur Goyal, the founder and CEO of Braintrust and former VP of Engineering at SingleStore, discusses the fascinating dynamics of AI development. He highlights trends in AI tooling and the rise of open-source models, emphasizing their slow adoption in enterprises. Ankur also shares insights on building resilient AI products, the importance of a startup’s early customer base, and the evolving role of CEOs in tech—balancing coding with leadership. His perspective on the future of AI integration is equally intriguing and thought-provoking.
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Braintrust Origin
- Ankur Goyal's experience building internal AI tooling at Empira and Figma revealed a consistent need across companies.
- This led to the creation of Braintrust, a platform for building AI applications.
Demand for Braintrust
- Early Braintrust customers, surprisingly, didn't want it open-sourced, showing strong demand for a paid solution.
- They recognized the difficulty of evals and the need for standardized AI practices across organizations.
AI Adoption Trends
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely adopted, used in about 50% of production AI use cases observed by Braintrust.
- Fine-tuning, though initially popular, has been largely replaced by instruction tuning due to cost and complexity.