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Sachs: AI Model Quality Varies Between First-Party APIs and Cloud Providers
“Companies that say they're selling the same model through different vendors, whether it be through first party or Bedrock, Azure, et cetera, we do see different qualities sometimes, and that's not necessarily what's advertised.”
Webster: AI guardrails are a commodity and easy to build
“Building a business on guardrails really scares me because there are so many incumbents that can come in and eat your lunch. And it's like, It's not actually that hard to build a guardrail. I don't know if I'm gonna make people angry by saying that maybe some …”
Nadella says Azure networking team requested AI tokens over headcount for operations
“So they built this agentic system. They even have a character for it. It's called Miles and it sort of does all this stuff. Right. They started sort of screaming for more tokens and so on, and so they were saying, look, we don't need headcount, we need tokens …”
Goyal: Public clouds fail to match direct OpenAI endpoint experience and capacity
“It hasn't been a smooth journey for people to get the capacity on public clouds that they're able to get through, you know, OpenAI directly. I mean, I think a lot of this is changing, catching up, et cetera. But it hasn't been perfectly smooth. And I think the…”
Nadella: Microsoft built more Azure capacity in 15 months than prior 15 years
“You saw that I talked about sort of how we built in the last 15 months more Azure capacity than we built in the first 15 years.”
Burazin: Daytona built a Windows sandbox that spins up in one second
“And the only option right now is an EC two with Windows or on, on, on Azure.
Both of them take anywhere from three to five minutes to spin up.
We've created an actual sandbox.
So it's a second instead of milliseconds, but you have like point in time snapshots,…”
Murphy: Azure OpenAI significantly beats OpenAI's hosted API 400-600ms latency.
“And then GPD, 3.5 turbo or four, you probably get, you know, 400, maybe 600 milliseconds of latency in their hosted API. And if you go into Azure and you use their services, you can get that down a lot lower.”
GitHub uses Azure dev compute for fast, isolated AI agent VMs
“We have a new underlying agent containerization service. It's like through, we're using it under the hood. It's through Azure. They recently announced it. The Azure like dev compute, but it's like very fast very fast compute to be able to like spin up you know…”