Reddit, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Reddit comes up
🔬 "The Most Innovative Diffusion Research Is Happening in Drug Discovery, Not Image Generation"
- ▶ 22:17 Evan Feinberg Like, we can't just download Reddit posts and, you know, buy some subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and, like, train a model, and voila, the pre-trained model works fairly well.
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- ▶ 49:16 unnamed speaker I'll let my Reddit, it took me a few hours.
- ▶ 1:12:30 Shawn Wang Uh, so if you are interested, you can go into Reddit and people have taken out the exact, like, uh, I don't know, what do you call it?
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 23:31 Omar Sanseviero Two years ago, when all of these people started to fine tune models, and to do experiments, and do model merging, there was quite a bit of research that was happening in GitHub, and in Reddit, and in LocalLama, and people were actually,… 2 times in the scene
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 9:30 Shawn Wang A lot of Reddit bots and stuff.
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 37:56 Yasser Elsaid I think maybe like you put more emphasis on user generated stuff, like Reddit and Quora and stuff like that.
⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- ▶ 36:08 Stay Sassy PM This time is not just that amalgamation of reading the entire internet, and for better or worse, reading every single Reddit comment on the internet, and then using that to generate your version of intelligence.
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 3:12 Dylan Patel I was moderating Reddit and all these things anonymously for, around like hardware, NVIDIA, Intelli, and this kind of stuff, and I was posting all the stuff,
⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
- ▶ 10:49 Pratyush Maini I think it should be important to point out that this seahorse emoji is an interesting question, and, like, why it really brings out this behavior is because the existence of the seahorse emoji is kind of called, like, a Mandela effect,…
- ▶ 14:25 Pratyush Maini That's a good sanity check that what we're seeing is a capability and not like a regurgitation from some website or like Reddit posts, which might've said that yes and no.
⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
- ▶ 4:18 Kevin Weil And, uh, and then I found on this, uh, Reddit forum, uh, 3 times in the scene
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 41:46 unnamed speaker Is there like a big Reddit? 3 times in the scene
⚡️Automating Scientific Discovery - Jessica Rumbelow, Leap Labs
- ▶ 0:26 Shawn Wang It's a, it woke people up to tokenization and the mysteries of Reddit.
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 31:01 Shawn Wang A Docker container that has like a clone of Reddit, a clone of Wikipedia, a clone of GitLab, a clone of CMS, and a clone of an e-commerce place.
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 4:21 unnamed speaker And then the community is Reddit? 2 times in the scene
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 7:46 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan Marketing guy, Nick Bauman, he uses it to connect to, you know, a Reddit MCP server, scrape content connected to an ex-MCP server and post tweets essentially.
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 5:32 Justine Moore Initially with AI video, it was actually Reddit, like the early days of AI video, you had a ton of people making and posting stuff in those, in those forums. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Justine Moore So I think about that a ton because sites like Reddit 4 times in the scene
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 1:13:44 Chris Lattner I also follow, uh, the Reddit communities and things like this.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 39:25 unnamed speaker And I think you see some of that in the community already, but there's just, you know, things like, Hey, summarize my, you know, my, my, my, my favorite subreddits for the morning MCP server that nobody has built yet, but it's very easy to…
- ▶ 40:24 Alessio Fanelli Like, if I want to build like the subreddit one, there's probably going to be like the Reddit API, uh, MCP and then the summarization MCP.
- ▶ 1:18:21 unnamed speaker I want someone to build a client that is sampling and someone else that builds me a server that does summarize my Reddit threads or summarize, like I'm an old EVE Online player.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 12:26 William Beauchamp I think it was a, like, a Reddit news bot.
- ▶ 34:54 William Beauchamp The important thing about the third one is if you go on our Reddit or you, you talk to users of, of AI, there's like a clear date.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 27:11 unnamed speaker Twitter, Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, I don't know what else.
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 6:08 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Posted it on Reddit, and it got a bunch of upvotes, so I think that's when, like, when people first learned of ConfiUI.
- ▶ 37:52 Shawn Wang Read it.
- ▶ 45:07 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Comfy was first released to the public, then yeah, did a Reddit post about the area composition thing somewhere in the, I don't remember exactly, maybe end of January, beginning of February, and then someone, a YouTuber made a video about…
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 32:34 Shawn Wang Journalists, writers, artists, uh, anyone who knows, owns IP basically, New York Times, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Getty, Sarah Silverman, George RR Martin.
Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 13:07 Loubna Ben Allal Instead, they trained it on Open Hermes dataset, which is a dataset for instruction tuning, and also the explain like IAM five subreddit.
Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 21:59 Florent Crivello You go through Google to search Reddit.
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 37:49 unnamed speaker We were particularly impressed that Olivier addressed the not safe for work moderation policy question head on, as that had only previously been picked up on in Reddit forums.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 4:09 Alistair Pullen He'd seen it on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 36:09 Alessio Fanelli Yeah, the, I guess the winner in all of this is Reddit, which is making over two hundred million just in data licensing to OpenAI and some of the other AI providers. 3 times in the scene
[LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
- ▶ 26:45 unnamed speaker Jeremy shared a link to the Reddit that talks about this, where they're basically going through them, and then there's discussion here if anyone's interested.
- ▶ 1:02:17 unnamed speaker Uh, this is where Reddit people are doing good, good work, you know, um, as opposed to like,
The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
- ▶ 2:04:48 unnamed speaker Reading-wise, uh, I, I don't know if you know, but I've been running this, like, AI newsletter, uh, that, like, auto summarizes all Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and all that.
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
- ▶ 52:17 Rob Haisfield It hallucinated like the URL for, uh, like reddit.com like slash r slash wholesome memes and like sort top 100 or whatever.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- ▶ 7:26 Shawn Wang Uh, was like, very obsessed with, with, um, Transformers and applying them to, like, Reddit sentiment analysis.
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 1:11:10 Soumith Chintala Um, and if you see with, with open source models, like, if you go to, like, Reddit, Local Llama, subreddit, like, there's so many variations of models that are being produced from, say, NOS research to, I mean, like, there's, like, so…
Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- ▶ 23:50 Shawn Wang Um, you know, Stack Overflow shut down our API, Reddit shut down our API, uh, X,
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 16:29 unnamed speaker The, the bigger problem I have is with Stack Overflow and Reddit, which I named as, um, on the, on the side of the New York Times. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:12 unnamed speaker Like, a unique context is, like, you know, I have Reddit info, I have Stack Overflow info, I have New York Times info.
The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- ▶ 25:15 Nathan Lambert It has this three-step process that we'll go to, into more when I kind of go into the main concepts, but it's like the first time you see this diagram that they reuse with InstructGPT, they reuse with ChatGPT, and the types of examples…
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- ▶ 1:00:41 Suhail Doshi So we have kind of like a Reddit thing going on where it's a kind of a competition, like every day, loose competition, mostly fun competition of like making things.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 9:13 Michael Royzen Um, and this BART model, yeah, it was fine tuned on this Reddit dataset called, um, Eli Five. 2 times in the scene
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 2:46 Artem Keydunov Uh, we built, I built that as a, you know, like a first, uh, sort of a side project, and I published it on Reddit, and people started to use it even before Slack came up with that Slack application directory.
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 26:34 Youssef Rizk Well, um, I really like Reddit. 4 times in the scene