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“And that has to do with the mechanics of the attention mechanism. As the contracts gets larger, you're literally spreading the attention over more and more and more data. But also, it's learning from all the bad examples it gave. So it's actually much more lik…”

“I can remember where I was when Jeremy told me, by the way, he doesn't think the company will ever need more than 12 employees. And I was like, oh sure, you mean like this month, you know, but it's like, no, over its entire life.”

“This group of, which has averaged about 10 to 12 people, currently nine, I think, have built a pretty Transformational and complex piece of software, which we can do a quick demo of later if you're interested. Using a complete web application development platf…”

“Built our own fully integrated professional services firm providing legal accounting, bookkeeping. They're all using Solvert, by the way. They're all using our AI. And we were their first client, so all of our back office and everything is being done by a comp…”

“We've made it easier to add tools to the LLM than anything exists in the world. Literally any Python function that you put right there in that system is immediately a tool”

“Behind the scenes, we've actually launched a persistent Linux Docker container for you and attached it to a unique URL for you. And so you actually now have your own computer. It's basically a VPS that you're now running this in. And so you can install softwar…”

“A key fundamental Thing of, like, basically all the AI work we do now is we realized that AI must be able to see everything that we can see exactly like we see it, and vice versa. We need to be able to see everything that the AI can see.”

“We're kind of building an API around this. We want to make this available, not just in Solvert, but for anybody to turn their discussions, their videos, their interviews into very, very high quality text outputs.”

“Quickly realized, actually, we've gotten so far off the, you know, academic normal research check now that No one cares about anything we care about on the whole and vice versa.”

“Two of the three models that we rely on in our day-to-day production stuff are open source.”

“So it's definitely not a research lab. This might sound minor, but it's an R and D lab, but they feel and look extremely different as was Edison's Menlo Park lab was an R and D lab.”

“And then another eight from Angels.”

“Yeah, maybe 14 now. 14 We're kind of aiming to be around 12. There was a couple of people we found we couldn't say no to.”

“Humans and computers work better together than separately, and then there are various things that kind of come out of that, and one key one, for example, is that the human and the computer should be able to see all of each other's work and be operating in the …”

“Definitely I feel like we are more, I can tell we're more advanced users of AI than anybody else, because people can keep complaining about all the problems with AI, and I'm always like, I don't have any of those problems, you know.”

“If we're going to have 12 to 14 people create five to 10,000 extremely commercially successful products, we're going to have to be extremely efficient, you know, at every level.”

“We're not going to have offices and departments. We don't, you know, we don't have any roles. We don't have any professional managers.”

“When we did our second round, which was an angel round, we had everybody invest through a long-term SBV, which we set up. Where everybody had to agree to vote in line with long-term value principles.”

“Like, 80% of the time, I find out the person has a really unusual background. So, like, often they'll have, like, either they, like, came from poverty and, like, didn't get an opportunity to go to good school, or they, like, you know, had dyslexia and, you kno…”

“We don't have any managers. We don't have any hierarchy from that point of view. So, for example, I'm not a manager, which means I don't get to tell people what to do or how to do it or when to do it.”

“To explain, it's not that you shouldn't merge models, it's that you shouldn't be distributing a merged model. You should distribute it a merged adapter. 99% of the time. And actually often, one of the best things happening in the model merging world is actuall…”

“We want to create thousands of Commercially successful products at Answer.ai. And we want to do that with like, 12 people.”