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I did a bit of research… Builder.ai didn't tell investors they were competing with GitHub Copilot, Cody, or CodeWhisperer. Those are code assistants for develo
by pyman 1y ago
I did a bit of research…
Builder.ai didn't tell investors they were competing with GitHub Copilot, Cody, or CodeWhisperer. Those are code assistants for developers. They told investors they were building a virtual assistant for customers. This assistant was meant to "talk" to clients, gather requirements and automate parts of the build process. Very different space.
And like I said in another comment, creating a dedicated, pre-trained foundation model is expensive. Not to mention a full LLM.
Questions:
1. Did Craig Saunders, the VP of AI (and ex-Amazon), ever show investors or clients any working demo of Natasha? Or a product roadmap?
2. Was there a technical team behind Saunders capable of building such a model?
3. Was the goal really to build a domain-specific foundation model, or was that just a narrative to attract investment?
- daveguy 1y ago> creating a dedicated, pre-trained foundation model is expensive. Not to mention a full LLM. Creating a dedicated pretrained model is a prerequisite of any LLM. What do you mean by "full LLM"?
- pyman 1y agoJust to clarify: I said "pre-trained foundation model". LLMs are a type of foundation model, but not all foundation models are LLMs. What Builder.ai was building with Natasha sounded more like a domain-specific assistant, not a general-purpose LLM.