Model Layer
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Foody: Enterprises will build evaluation systems to commoditize AI model providers
“And I believe that over time, this is going to develop to look very similar across every fortune, where they'll need to have this system of record for evaluating and specifying agent behavior across every workflow in their business. And they're going to use th…”
O'Driscoll: Owning AI model layers matters more than building custom chips
“If you think about it, if you're up here in the software stack, it's more important to own one level down, which is that model layer than to kind of start to optimize around chips.”
Gerstner: AI Model Layer Is Commoditizing, Value Accrues to Applications
“What that tells me is the model layers being increasingly commoditized. And that there's not going to be a lot of intrinsic value in, in, in that intelligence layer, that operating layer. You're going to have to build applications that guys like Bill Gurley an…”
Crivello: AI risks exist at model layer, not application layer
“I know that it's very self-serving to say, oh, you know, like the downside doesn't exist at my layer, it exists at like the model layer. But truly, look at Lindy, look at the Apple building. I struggle to see exactly how it would like get up and start doing cr…”
Riparbelli: Data Will Be More Important than the Model Layer Over Time
“Data is definitely going to be very, very important, and it's probably going to be more important than the model layer, in my opinion, over time.”
Luan: Controlling the AI model layer means controlling all underlying compute
“In the future, when more and more software is just like the logic of software is actually just handled by a, by an LLM, nobody cares anymore about what the base computing primitive is. All you need to do is access these models and compose these models to go so…”
Levie: Zuckerberg is spending billions to commoditize the AI model layer
“And much of that is, is due to the trends we've already seen, which is, you know, the moment you have, you know, people like Zuckerberg that are literally willing to spend billions and billions of dollars commoditizing the model layer,”