Delangue: Using AI APIs Is Like Building Websites on Squarespace
Clément Delangue · Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 12, 2023 · at 16:18
Clem Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face. He compares startups built purely on third-party AI APIs to basic website builder tools, advocating instead for custom model training.
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“The analogy that I sometimes like is that on the early days of the web, you could use kind of like something that would Create a website for you, right? You could use the equivalent of a Squarespace or for weeks, and that would make you feel good, right? Because really quickly would have like a nice website up and you can start experimenting. That's the equivalent of using an AI API for me. But the reality is that if you really want to differentiate yourself Build your capabilities and really do something that is specifically catered for your use case, for your users, and be able to optimize that. The same way you need to write lines of code to build a technology product. In my opinion, you need to train, optimize your own models in the machine learning paradigm.”
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