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Analysing Chat GPT-5
We looked a lot at how GPD5 would impact our users before we decided okay let's put this into the product and we looked at how long time it took to get responses. We looked at our quantitative evals and then we just vibe checked it in many different ways and what we concluded was that it's often times too ambitious for our users and that's why we decided hey this is very smart so let's give it to all our users and see what they tell us in terms of what's good and what's bad. What we found was that for the u ...
Jason's Advice to Founders
I've done several B2B plus AI deals in the last 18 months that I love that will do great. And the advice I give to all those founders is don't expect any money. 80% of the folks I can refer you to are not going to take your meeting.It's a reality. ...
Why LLMs are like Power Plants
Infrastructure Importance - Countries benefit from having infrastructure within their borders [1] - Power plants, such as nuclear and water power plants, are considered beneficial infrastructure [1] Language Models as Infrastructure - Language models are viewed as similar to infrastructure [1]
Why Every Country Needs Their Own LLM
Having a language model that speaks the the language of your country is like building infrastructure for the people of your country. And I think just using a model that is built by China or built within America might not set your country and your economy up as well as having a model that is understands the context built in that language in that dialect in like you know has has the cultural fluency needed to empower the people of the country. So I think that's like a good idea.what that ends up looking like ...
Non-US Tech is Winning?
I think us being Canadian is an asset. There's a lot of companies in Canada and around the world that are interested in working with non-American tech companies. You know, over the past few years, America has shown that they're willing to like turn off access to tech based on political reasons, right.We've seen connections between American tech and the American government is like less clear as time goes on. What does that mean. It means that Trump influences US tech companies.Seems to be. Yeah. It was like ...
Sam Altman’s Disservice to AI
I don't think Sam Alden has done a service to the world by talking about how close AGI is. I think he has made several predictions now that are wrong and that were obviously wrong at the time he made them. >> I think AI will probably lead to the end of the world.>> You know, he's made illusions to things. He did a world tour where he spoke to every major leader the world over to tell them, hey, this technology is going to poses an existential threat. And I think that was academically disingenuous and I thin ...
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice
I don't think Sam Alden has done a service to the world by talking about how close AGI is. I think he has made several predictions now that are wrong and that were obviously wrong at the time he made them. I think AI will probably lead to the end of the world. You know, he's made illusions to things. He did a world tour where he spoke to every major leader the world over to tell them, hey, this technology is going to poses an existential threat. And I think that was academically disingenuous and I think did ...
Why founders shouldn't optimize for culture 🙅‍♂️
The only thing that matters for culture is growth, like business growth. Because for a business that's growing at like an amazing clip, it's always going to have cultural sort of issues that, you know, make it kind of suck to like work there. But everybody's okay with that and leaned in because they see a path for themselves because what they're solving for will be more comp, more career progression, bigger scope, manage a team.they have a line of sight towards that. But then if you don't have enough growth ...
#1 reason hiring managers f**k up 📉⁠
I think the most common way that I see hiring managers screw up hiring is over delegation which then is compounded by the fact that they have like muddy thinking. They don't know what they want and they haven't taken the time to like really sus that out. So then you think you're hiring a recruiter and it's the recruiter's job to like hire for you, but the recruiter doesn't really get what you want because you don't know what you want.And so the best hires will come from like super active involvement by the ...
These roles get fired most often 👀
The three roles that I see that get fired over and over are CPO, CMO, and head of talent. They typically have 1 and a half to twoyear stints and then they like move on to their next thing, you know, sort of like quietly and discreetly. Most folks don't understand that they were fired, but when you're in the senior leadership team, you do.Why does that happen. I think it's very similar to the same deal of like any mishhire. It's muddy thinking.Like founders vaguely know what they want. ...