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Beauchamp: Timeline for AGI has certainly been pushed out
“I think the odds, the timeline for AGI has certainly been pushed out, right?”
Beauchamp: Almost no 2010s ML reached superhuman performance except AlphaGo
“There was almost nothing that went superhuman except for something like AlphaGo.”
Beauchamp: DeepSeek slashes inference costs by shrinking KV cache
“What DeepSeek have achieved that's quite special is they've got this amazing inference engine. They've been able to reduce the size of the KV cache significantly. And then by being able to do that, they're able to significantly reduce their inference costs.”
Beauchamp: Chai users average 90-minute sessions and 150 messages
“With Chai, let's say a typical user session is 90 minutes, which is like, you know, is very, very long. For comparison, let's say the average session length on TikTok is 70 minutes. So people are spending a lot of time, and in that time they're able to send, s…”
Beauchamp: 5-person Chai AI team ships over 100 LLMs per week
“Every day we're able to, I mean, we evaluate between 20 and 50 models, LLMs, every single day, right? So even though we've got, only got a team of, say, five AI researchers, they're able to iterate a huge quantity of LLMs, right? So our team ships, let's just …”
Beauchamp: AI adoption is a 20-year journey akin to the web in 1998
“Look, it's going to be a 20 year journey and we're in like year four or it's like the web and this is like 1998 or something. You know, you've got a long, long way to go before the amazon.coms are like these huge multi-trillion dollar businesses that every sin…”
Beauchamp: Chai reached 100,000 DAUs as top App Store AI app
“I think in even 20, I think late twenty-twenty-two, was it late twenty-twenty-two or maybe early twenty-twenty-three, Chai was like the number one AI app in the app store. So we would have something like a 100,000 daily active users.”
Beauchamp: Character.AI launched voice at least nine months after Chai
“They launched it. I think they launched it at least nine months after us.”
Beauchamp: Cash incentives did not increase Chaiverse model submission rates
“We saw that it didn't really make a difference. Like, if they were submitting models at a certain rate, if you pay them a bunch of money, they didn't change the rate.”
Beauchamp: Quant trading firm made £5 million annually with 15-person team
“The company was making about five million pounds a year, and it was just me and a team of, say, 15, like, Oxford and Cambridge-educated mathematicians and physicists.”
Beauchamp: Chai tripled users and more than doubled revenue in 2024
“Users grew by a factor of three last year. Revenue over doubled.”
Beauchamp: Chai cut AI model evaluation feedback loop to three hours
“And so we were able to get that 30 day feedback loop all the way down to something like three hours.”
Beauchamp: Only 10% to 15% of Chai users engaged with voice
“And it was something like only 10 or 15% of users even clicked the button to like, they wanted to engage the audio, and they would only use it for 10 or 15% of the time.”