May Habib is the CEO and co-founder of Writer, an enterprise generative AI platform. She discusses how client demand at scale led to the creation of Writer AI Studio.
“This was L'Oreal about a year ago, you know, literally like a 180 apps, and we needed help, right?”
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PredictionNot checkable as stated
Habib predicts AI will be able to run companies within five years
“This is AI that in three to five years is going to be able to run companies.”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 26:52Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
Insight
Enterprise AI drives 500% capacity shifts, not just 10% productivity gains
“None of this is about productivity, right? You being able to go through Three decades of consumer research on Listerine to be able to develop a new flavor, right? You being able to develop all of the go to market around that new product in literally a third of…”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 33:56Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
Insight
Vector RAG struggles with nested tables and overlapping context, Habib explains
“When you are doing a vector-based approach, you're going through, and you are, you've chunked Right, that policy, and, you know, against the prompt, you are trying to find the most relevant chunks, right, in that policy, which means it does really badly, right…”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 15:28Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
AssertionContradicted
Vector RAG requires full re-indexing for single-file updates, Habib claims
“And when that policy, even one policy gets updated, you're throwing away the entire embedding store and starting over.”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 16:12Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
Disclosure
Writer trained its Palmyra X 004 model using just $700k in compute
“Just on GPUs, but yeah.”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 23:31Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
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A customer rebuilt Habib's previous startup Qordoba over a single weekend
“We had a customer basically in a weekend rebuild Cordoba using Writer.”
May HabibNov 21, 2024▶ 6:20Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
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