Replica
company on 4 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019
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Tan: US lost consumer distribution art; top growth talent is in Eastern Europe
“You can't hire them in the United States anymore, or in the West. Like, they're all in Eastern Europe. Which is interesting. It became like a lost art. Like, we forgot how to do, ah, consumer distribution”
Kuyda bet Replika on dialogue language models in 2015
“When we saw that in August, 2015, we just basically put all of our bet everything we had at the company on building those models. We said, okay, well, this is it. This is right around the corner. We need to really focus on building these language models, getti…”
Kuyda: Replika was OpenAI's largest GPT-3 API customer
“We were the biggest customer in terms of API calls, because we were the only chatbot available on the market that actually used Genitive AI.”
Kuyda: Replika owned all major AI app store search keywords
“Before that, we literally owned all the keywords like AI, chatbot, artificial intelligence on every single platform.”
Kuyda: Replika raised only $11M in total funding
“With Replica, we only raised eleven million dollars, and I guess it's still all in the bank and, you know, we went for many, many years and built a big business”