Bill Gurley and Sunny Madra talk open-source vs. proprietary AI | E1825
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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
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(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
(46:56) Jason and Sunny demo Meta AI on WhatsApp
(50:44) FTX and the SBF trial
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| 0:00.0 | You don't want any one party controlling a platform technology. |
| 0:04.0 | You want it to be open source, you want closed source solutions, |
| 0:06.7 | private company solutions, open source solutions. |
| 0:08.6 | You want a range of opportunities. |
| 0:11.9 | And remember the last time we had some founders say, trust me, |
| 0:15.8 | I'll get us some regulation. |
| 0:17.4 | That was SBF. |
| 0:18.7 | And he was going to be the one who got us |
| 0:23.5 | federal regulation for crypto. |
| 0:25.3 | And he's on trial. |
| 0:26.5 | That's a very moment for a bunch of Michigan. |
| 0:30.1 | This week in startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Marketing. |
| 0:34.7 | To redeem a $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, |
| 0:39.4 | go to LinkedIn.com slash this week in startups. |
| 0:43.9 | Vanta, compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker |
| 0:47.8 | for startups to win new business. |
| 0:49.9 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
| 0:53.8 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time. |
| 0:58.0 | Advanta.com slash twist and CLA. |
| 1:03.2 | Innovation takes balance. |
| 1:05.4 | CLA's CPAs, consultants and wealth advisors |
| 1:09.3 | can help you get from startup to where you want to end up. |
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