Phind

includes Phind Model

9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2023 by Michael Royzen · said 54 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Royzen: Fine-tuned open source models will beat proprietary in 2024
“So I think that even if a delta exists, in twenty-twenty-four, the delta between proprietary and open source won't be large enough that a startup like us, with a lot of data that we've collected, can take the data that we have, fine-tune an open source model, …”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 38:25 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 positive
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Royzen: NVIDIA Built Custom FasterTransformer Feature for Phind
“They actually implemented a custom feature for us in Faster Transformer which is one of their libraries... They implemented streaming generation for T-Five-based models, which we were running at the time up until we switched to GPT in In February, March of thi…”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 1:04:04 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Phind Plans Native Code Interpreter Features to Recursively Iterate on Code
“And Replit is great, and people use that feature. But yeah, I think there's more we can do in terms of, like, having something a bit closer to code interpreter where it's able to run the code and then, like, recursively iterate on it.”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 49:32 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
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Royzen: Paul Graham personally chose the company name 'Phind'
“Paul Graham actually picked it for us.”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 30:01 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Royzen: Phind focuses on developer reasoning engines over general search
“So as, I think there's always an opportunity for us to become more general if we wanted. But We've been along this path of, like, what is the best, most advanced reasoning engine that's connected to your code base, that's connected to the internet, that we can…”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 20:37 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 positive
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Royzen: Users switch to Phind when ChatGPT-4 fails on code
“What really shocks us is that a lot of the people who do that they're coming from ChatGPT. So they tried it in ChatGPT with ChatGPT-IV. It didn't work. Maybe it required like some multi-step reasoning. Maybe it required to like, Some internet context or someth…”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 27:07 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Royzen: AI code startups are ultimately competing with ChatGPT
“Really who everyone's competing with is ChatGPT which only has, like, that one web interface, and, like, ChatGPT is really the bar.”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 23:08 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Royzen: Phind Leads BigCode Leaderboard by 10 Points in Multi-Language Code
“All of our models are at the top of the big code leaderboard by far. It's not close, particularly in languages other than Python. We have a 10 point gap between us and the next best model on Java, JavaScript, I think C-sharp multilingual.”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 41:03 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Swix: Amjad Masad is Building Replit APIs While Competing in AI Models
“Amjad has specifically told me in person that he's, he wants to enable that for people. At the same time, he's also working on his own models. And Ghost Rider and, you know, all the other stuff. Yeah. So it's gonna get interesting, like, he wants to power you,…”
Shawn Wang Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 49:50 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
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