Frosst: Cohere is not chasing AGI, consumer bots, or public benchmarks
Nick Frosst · He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick F... · PMF Show · Sep 9, 2024 · at 17:27
Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, contrasts the company's enterprise-first focus against AI rivals pursuing artificial general intelligence and consumer chatbots.
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“So we're not interested in making like a public facing bot for consumers to talk to. We're not interested in chasing AGI. We're not interested in a lot of, there's a lot of like weird public benchmarks that exist trying to measure, you know, how close we are to AGI or how close we are to things like We don't really care about any of that. We just care about when we talk to a company who's using our model, is it useful for them?”
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