Brightwave
company on 1 show · 7 statements across 1 episodes · said 24 times in 6 episodes since 2024
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- How AI is Eating Finance - with Mike Conover of Brightwave
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
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Conover: Building automated Excel spreadsheets is an explicit non-goal for Brightwave
“I think what is an explicit non-goal for the company is to create Excel spreadsheets.”
Brightwave uses composable, context-aware prompting conditioned on retrieved context semantics
“You can have prompts that are composable and that have different sort of command units that like may or may not be present based on the semantics of the content that is being populated into the rag context window. And so that, that's something we make great us…”
Conover: Nearest-neighbor search without metadata yields convincingly wrong AI answers
“If I just look for something that is a nearest neighbor without any of that temporal or other qualitative metadata overlay, you're just going to get a kind of a bag of facts. And that, that is like explicitly not helpful. Because the worst
Failure state for th…”
Brightwave uses LLM supervision alongside human annotation benchmarks for model evaluation
“We pay human annotators to evaluate the quality of the generative outputs, and I think that that is always the reference standard, but we frequently first turn to LLM supervision as a way to
Have whether it's at fine tuning time or even for subsystems that ar…”
Brightwave trains custom models to verify outputs against primary source material
“We train our own models to assess you know, you can think of this like entailment, like is, is this supported by the underlying primary sources?”
Conover: A $20B crossover hedge fund uses Brightwave for equity research
“We have a twenty billion dollar crossover hedge fund and their equities team uses this tool to go deep on a thesis.”