The New Language Model Stack

3. Companies want to customize language models to their unique context.

4. Today, the stack for LLM APIs can feel separate from the custom model training stack, but these are blending together over time.

7. Language model applications will become increasingly

multi-modal.

6. Language models need to become more trustworthy (output quality, data privacy, security) for full adoption.

5. The stack is becoming increasingly developer-friendly.

1. Nearly every company in the Sequoia network is building language models into their products.

2. The new stack for these applications centers on language model APIs, retrieval, and orchestration, but open source usage is also growing.