Base LLMs

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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 20VC

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Chollet: Base LLMs score 0% and static reasoning scores 1-2% on ARC-2
“Well, if you take Bazel Alums, model Slack, GPT-IV-IV-V, LAMA-IV, it's simple, they get zero percent. There is simply no way to do these tasks simply via memorization. Next, if you look at static reasoning systems, so systems that use a single chain of tasks t…”
François Chollet Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 17:36 François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
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LeCun: Open LLMs will become infrastructure and create net new jobs
“The scenario I think will happen, and I'm certainly waiting for is the scenario I described earlier, where you have some sort of open platform for base LLMs. So base LLMs basically would be seen as a basic infrastructure like, you know, TCP, IP, Linux, Apache,…”
Yann LeCun May 15, 2023 ▶ 30:21 Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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