Answer.ai

12 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2024 by Jeremy Howard · said 20 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Aug 17, 2024 neutral
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Howard: Answer.ai required angel investors to commit to long-term voting principles
“When we did our second round, which was an angel round, we had everybody invest through a long-term SBV, which we set up. Where everybody had to agree to vote in line with long-term value principles.”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 11:05 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Aug 17, 2024 positive
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Howard: Developers should distribute merged adapters rather than merged models
“To explain, it's not that you shouldn't merge models, it's that you shouldn't be distributing a merged model. You should distribute it a merged adapter. 99% of the time. And actually often, one of the best things happening in the model merging world is actuall…”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 46:26 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Aug 17, 2024 positive
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Howard: Answer.ai operates with no managers and zero corporate hierarchy
“We don't have any managers. We don't have any hierarchy from that point of view. So, for example, I'm not a manager, which means I don't get to tell people what to do or how to do it or when to do it.”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 19:28 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Aug 17, 2024 positive
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Howard: 80% of top unique creators have unconventional or non-mainstream backgrounds
“Like, 80% of the time, I find out the person has a really unusual background. So, like, often they'll have, like, either they, like, came from poverty and, like, didn't get an opportunity to go to good school, or they, like, you know, had dyslexia and, you kno…”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 15:43 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Aug 17, 2024
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Howard: Answer.ai aims to build thousands of products with 12 people
“We want to create thousands of Commercially successful products at Answer.ai. And we want to do that with like, 12 people.”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 48:07 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Oct 2, 2025 bullish
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Howard: Answer.ai is building an API to convert video discussions into text
“We're kind of building an API around this. We want to make this available, not just in Solvert, but for anybody to turn their discussions, their videos, their interviews into very, very high quality text outputs.”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 47:13 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025 positive
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Howard: Answer.AI runs fully in-house stack without AWS or Google Cloud
“This group of, which has averaged about 10 to 12 people, currently nine, I think, have built a pretty Transformational and complex piece of software, which we can do a quick demo of later if you're interested. Using a complete web application development platf…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 4:28 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025 positive
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Howard: Answer.ai makes adding LLM tools easier than any existing system
“We've made it easier to add tools to the LLM than anything exists in the world. Literally any Python function that you put right there in that system is immediately a tool”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 8:52 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025 positive
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Ries: Answer.AI will never need more than 12 employees in total
“I can remember where I was when Jeremy told me, by the way, he doesn't think the company will ever need more than 12 employees. And I was like, oh sure, you mean like this month, you know, but it's like, no, over its entire life.”
Eric Ries Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 3:43 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025 positive
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Howard: Answer.AI built its own AI-powered legal and accounting firm
“Built our own fully integrated professional services firm providing legal accounting, bookkeeping. They're all using Solvert, by the way. They're all using our AI. And we were their first client, so all of our back office and everything is being done by a comp…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 5:04 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025
Insight
Howard: Effective AI tooling requires symmetric visibility between user and model
“A key fundamental Thing of, like, basically all the AI work we do now is we realized that AI must be able to see everything that we can see exactly like we see it, and vice versa. We need to be able to see everything that the AI can see.”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 18:12 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Oct 2, 2025
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Howard: Solveit provisions a persistent Linux container for every chat
“Behind the scenes, we've actually launched a persistent Linux Docker container for you and attached it to a unique URL for you. And so you actually now have your own computer. It's basically a VPS that you're now running this in. And so you can install softwar…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 11:50 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
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