LLM models

also referred to as: lm

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2023 by Richard Socher · across every show →

Everything said about LLM models, oldest first

Aug 18, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: Base LLMs will become commoditized like databases
“And I think it won't matter that much which database you use, just like it won't matter that much, which LM you use, but it matters what you do with it, how you tune it what kind of training data you add onto it to fine tune it.”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 26:31 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 18, 2023 bearish
Insight
Socher: LLMs are inherently ill-suited for numerical financial forecasting
“Like an LM won't be as good in doing a financial forecast because that's not what they're trained on. Like LM's help a ton for all things, natural language, because they understand so much about natural language and will have so much world knowledge, but that …”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 27:14 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 18, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Socher: You.com runs its own language model in production
“Certainly like u.com we partner with different providers, but we also have our own LM running in production already.”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 30:04 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abrahami: Standard LLMs lack technical capability for astrophysics research
“You cannot do research on, on astrophysics with LM. They don't have the capacity for that. It's not what they do. You're gonna, they might answer you, but they don't run the models, the simulation, the background.”
Avishai Abrahami Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 46:47 Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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