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AI Canon

A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.

The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.

AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer [video]

watch time: 45 minutes “One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car.” That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA sponsored the very first driverless car Grand Challenge. Of the 20 entries they received then, the winning entry went 7.2 miles; in 2007, in...

Emerging architectures for LLM applications

A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.

Adventures in Improving AI Economics

AI has enormous potential to disrupt markets that have traditionally been out of reach for software. These markets – which have relied on humans to navigate natural language, images, and physical space – represent a huge opportunity, potentially worth trillions of dollars globally. However, as we discussed in our…

Self driving cars and beyond

The story of technology is not unlike what often happens in dramatic stories and plays, where a “deus ex machina” or character drops down magically from the skies onto our world stage. But in reality, technology never comes so suddenly, or in such an isolated manner: There’s an entire ecosystem that grows up around…

What “working” means in the era of AI apps

New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.

Welcome to LLMflation - LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇️

For LLM of equivalent performance, the inference cost is decreasing by 10x every year. What cost $60/million tokens in 2021 costs $.06/million tokens today.