LLMs

Two ways for an AI company to protect itself from competition: (a) depend not just on AI but also deep domain knowledge about a particular field, (b) have a very close relationship with the end users.

“I think a lot of people obviously want to talk about the sexy kind of new consumer applications. I would tell you that I think that the earliest and most significant effect that AI is going to have on our company is actually going to be as it relates to our developer productivity. Some of the tools that we’re seeing are going to allow our devs to... See more

pair-preference-model-LLaMA3-8B by RLHFlow: Really strong reward model, trained to take in two inputs at once, which is the top open reward model on RewardBench (beating one of Cohere’s).

DeepSeek-V2 by deepseek-ai (21B active, 236B total param.): Another strong MoE base model from the DeepSeek team. Some people are questioning the very high MMLU... See more

The Gemini API context caching feature is designed to reduce the cost of requests that contain repeat content with high input token counts.

When to use context caching

Context caching is particularly well suited to scenarios where a substantial initial context is referenced repeatedly by shorter requests. Consider using context caching for use cases... See more

Generative AI can automate simple tasks

By automating simpler, tedious tasks (generating boilerplate code, fixing linter errors, generating unit tests, etc.), generative AI can help engineers focus on more complex tasks.

Generative AI can improve quality & reliability

Since generative AI models are trained on large codebases, they have the potential... See more

Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.

All information tools have to give users some... See more