Exclusive: Inside @baseten
The $13B startup at the centre of the biggest fight in AI - Open vs Closed.
We spent a day at their SF HQ with co-founder & CEO Tuhin Srivastava, Charlie O'Neill, Mudith Jayasekara and the Base Labs team - to understand why they're building an open ecosystem.
Backed by top VCs led by @saranormous@altcap@apoorv03@wmccarthy11@saammotamedi@nikiscevak@lachygroom@willreed + more. Plus participation from @nvidia.
0:00 The Open vs Closed AI War
2:18 A Billion AI Requests a Day
3:43 The Best Models Are Chinese
4:06 Tuhin: Don't Rent Intelligence
5:09 Sachin & Tuhin Talk Cricket
6:02 Tuhin: The Real Bottleneck
10:15 Why Launch Base Labs?
11:35 "You Have to Have an Opinion"
12:52 Centralised Control Is the Danger
13:07 Publish Everything, Even Fails
15:08 Hugging Face & the 6-Month Gap
16:10 Why We Still Need Closed
Exclusive: Inside Fortell (@fortellresearch)
The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid.
Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had cracked in 70 years. Now they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it.
Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by @JoshuaKushner@AntonioGracias@traestephens@wolfejosh@GavinSBaker@patrick_oshag@RobertIger@jaltma@aplusk@hbarra + more.
We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :)
0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid
2:09 70 years unsolved - until now
3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this"
4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist
7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI"
9:00 Why they built a custom chip
10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional
14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents
15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?
Exclusive: Inside Fortell (@fortellresearch)
The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid.
Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had cracked in 70 years. Now they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it.
Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by @JoshuaKushner@AntonioGracias@traestephens@wolfejosh@GavinSBaker@patrick_oshag@RobertIger@jaltma@aplusk@hbarra + more.
We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :)
0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid
2:09 70 years unsolved - until now
3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this"
4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist
7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI"
9:00 Why they built a custom chip
10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional
14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents
15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?