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OpenAI - DoD invested in them and now I guess you agree with it! Anthropic - same as above xAI - same as above CoreWeave - Doesn't make LLMs Glean - Doesn't
by _2d30 1y ago
OpenAI - DoD invested in them and now I guess you agree with it!
Anthropic - same as above
xAI - same as above
CoreWeave - Doesn't make LLMs
Glean - Doesn't make LLMs (wow this startup investing thing might be harder than for you than you thought!)
Perplexity - Has finetuned LLama models AFAIK. Maybe you think Meta should've gotten the nod from DoD as well?
PlayAI - AFAIK only voices
Cohere - Not sure if they are LLama or otherwise
Cyera - Doesn't make LLMs
Replit - Doesn't make LLMs
Windsurf - Doesn't make LLMs
Mistral - Does make LLMs, you got one! Is French, though.
Anysphere - They make an IDE called Cursor
Scale - Doesn't make LLMs, basically a Meta subsidiary (you really must have wanted Meta to get the nod too!)
Harvey - Legal focus, not general
Thinking Machines - Mira Murati's company, just started 5mos ago, no public products. Definitely don't fit your definition of "has revenue"
helsing - Hadn't heard of them, are German.
Cluely - LOL
Suno - If the DoD gets into music generation this would be a great choice.
Clay - Don't know them, doubt they have LLMs.
Crunchbase - lol is correct
Lubega Geoffery - No idea
Caris LIfe Sciences - Life sciences doesn't sound right!
C3 AI - Scam
Runway - Media generation, not general use
LangChain - Doesn't make LLMs
Rigetti Computing - Dude, come on. They're a quantum computing company
Cowbell - Don't know them, but a google shows they're an insurance company lol
Almost all the rest don't even have anything to do with AI. So all-in-all, nearly a complete failure at suggesting even close to 20 alternatives for the DoD to invest in. Your answer didn't even hit US companies that do have some alternatives: Meta, MSFT, AMZN, SSI maybe?
- bix6 1y agoI love that you went through every one of those, respect!
- _2d30 1y agoIt's easy when you know 90% of them already. If I didn't know it, I made that clear in the post. Looking forward to hearing about your billion dollar VC fund.
- bix6 1y agoWhich startup LLMs do you know of / recommend? My fund will never be $1B but that’s fine :)
- _2d30 1y ago> Which startup LLMs do you know of / recommend? I don't for anyone doing serious work. Use the Gemini family, O3 and Claude if you want to gsd. The DoD made the correct call IMO. Kimi K2 is also potentially interesting for non-defense purposes but I haven't spent enough time with it yet. > My fund will never be $1B but that’s fine :) It's "trivially easy" for you and 10% of your investments are expected to have "massive breakthroughs". Your strategy of "give money to good companies and founders" should easily enable you to reach $1B AUM!
- tough 1y agoWindsurf has their own models though
- _2d30 1y agoYou're right! I had forgotten about SWE-1 family
- tough 1y agonot that they're great or very remarkable, but they can get the job done, and in a world where anthropic tries to assert dominance by fucking cursor seems relevant to the future to have your own models but yeah that list was very silly anyways
- tonyhart7 1y agoright, these guy is completely bollocks I understand the sentiment to create healthy market but only a few handful company than can create general use LLM, most of them is just wrapper or small fine tune model for specific use case
- lr1970 1y ago> helsing - Hadn't heard of them, are German. Helsing is a military AI company [0] trying to make Terminator I movie a reality in the name of democracy. [0] https://helsing.ai/ https://helsing.ai/ EDIT: added link.