Anish Acharya

So, I mean, here is something that's actually very interesting, which is the nature of these models is very different than the nature of any technology we've had before.

I'd say a lot of the technology we've had before, it's quantitative, it's sort of clinical, it can do incredible things, but it's sort of bounded in the range of, you know,

I'd say a lot of the technology we've had before, it's quantitative, it's sort of clinical, it can do incredible things, but it's sort of bounded in the range of, you know,

feelings that it can sort of capture.

feelings that it can sort of capture.

Now we have this wild, non-predictable, emotional, very human technology, and sometimes it gets pointed in these directions that are very human but perhaps uncomfortable to a big corporation, right?

Now we have this wild, non-predictable, emotional, very human technology, and sometimes it gets pointed in these directions that are very human but perhaps uncomfortable to a big corporation, right?

What is the human experience?

What is the human experience?

It often involves

It often involves

disagreement, persuasion, sexuality, and we see that mirrored in some of these AI products.

disagreement, persuasion, sexuality, and we see that mirrored in some of these AI products.

Yet if you're Google or Apple, you have a thousand committees that are explicitly designed to ensure there's never any persuasion, disagreement, or sexuality expressed in your products.

Yet if you're Google or Apple, you have a thousand committees that are explicitly designed to ensure there's never any persuasion, disagreement, or sexuality expressed in your products.

So I think that there is a pocket that startups can really thrive in, which is building these weird products that really touch on many core aspects of humanity that the models can reflect, but the big corporations are uncomfortable to release.

So I think that there is a pocket that startups can really thrive in, which is building these weird products that really touch on many core aspects of humanity that the models can reflect, but the big corporations are uncomfortable to release.

I mean, everything in companionship.

I mean, everything in companionship.

Every product in companionship has been both well received by customers and a little uncomfortable for the labs to build, perhaps modular.