BCG's Global Tech Sector Lead Akash Bhatia (@akash_bhatia) visited our NYC office to chat with our CEO Anirudh (@anirudhsanga).
Most companies are renting intelligence and watching token spend explode. The next phase of enterprise AI is model sovereignty.
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We trained a small transformer to play a board game.
Now it's your turn.
We're hosting the Hyde AI Builder Hackathon with WnCC at IIT Bombay: one day, 10 hours, to train a small model to play a game.
Apply by 13 October: https://t.co/4YdoyzaAmN
earlier this year, i decided to reset and spend time tinkering with AI.
i'm now extremely hype to announce: i've joined @BuildwithHyde to lead strategy.
i was the company's first angel investor. they kept crushing. at some point, cheering from the sidelines wasn't enough.
Enterprises run hundreds of models for thousands of users. No human can pick the right one every time.
Our model layer decides. We train intelligence classifiers on each enterprise's own task distribution.
Inference cost cut in half. Same or higher quality.
Watch it decide.
If anyone wants to work at Hyde, hit me up! @BuildwithHyde
What Hyde offers - a talent density like never before. Top Tier Quants, PE, Consulting folks choosing to leave pedigree & building substance, value from the ground up.
Thats a rare thing!
Also ani is super cool that is another + 😉
cc: @anirudhsanga@neerajarora
The most interesting AI question of 2026 isn't the next frontier model. It's whether a model can fit the messy contours of a real enterprise. @BuildwithHyde is coming out of stealth with a thesis squarely in that lane - enterprise context + specialist models over general-purpose horsepower. Worth a read. cc: @anirudhsanga@kevinzhang
Renting a generic model to run your core business is a tax you don't need to pay, and the winners will be the ones who own their intelligence. Excited to back @anirudhsanga and the @BuildwithHyde team as they gain momentum to make custom models a reality.
Don't outsource your brain. Renting generic AI to run a real business is a massive tax. At Hyde we've spent a year building arguably the highest density of post-training talent in the world to fix this. Custom models that crush the frontier.