Guo: Software 3.0 focuses on manipulating foundation models, not training them
Sarah Guo · 10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo · Jul 24, 2024 · at 40:50
Sarah Guo (Conviction) explains her overarching venture investment thesis, 'Software 3.0', comparing it to prior paradigms of hand-written code and data labeling.
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“Software three dot O is the idea that the next generation of software, a lot of it is about manipulating foundation models and they're called foundation models because they have a lot of capability out of the box. You don't need to train them from scratch. You just need to give them like guidance, reinforcement, the information specific to your business.”
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