Jaden Schaefer

So companies and families, they kind of talk like they're going to approach both of those.

Their CEO, who is Eric Zekerman, he was formerly at XAI and he said, we are building a product and a model that is centered on communication and collaboration.

He said that their goal is to basically help people work together more efficiently, not with AI tools, but with one another.

So that's kind of interesting.

And so I guess an example he gave of what they're trying to solve or something that they did is, you know, in this kind of like group decision making is he said that, you know, if you're choosing a roadmap or you're trying to do something like a logo, it can help coordinate and often, you know, solve a lot of the problems that these really long meetings will have when there's kind of unclear consensus, there's decision fatigue.

Apparently, he said that this was something they put a lot of thought into because when they were coming up with their logo for their process, it was a super drawn out process.

process and it was really hard for them all to agree on a logo and trying to think of something that illustrated what they were trying to solve and so he's trying to create this smarter essentially this model that is optimized for building trust and you know creating this kind of long-term value of clarification this context building he said right now basically all of the ai models are optimized for giving this like immediate user satisfaction and answer correctness

but they're not trying to do these other things.

So they want their model to ask questions the same way maybe like your colleague would ask.

It's a very ambitious project.

It's also kind of vague and opaque and hard to understand.

If I'm being 100% honest, there's a lot of buzzwords thrown in there and a lot of like, this is a problem.

And if I'm being 100% honest, I don't know if all of their problems are problems.

I'm excited to see what they come up with and if they just have a model that's really good at one specific thing or if they pivot to that in the future.

I'll be thrilled.

They've raised, you know, half a billion dollars.

I think they're going to be able to pull something off.

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but sometimes I do feel like that.

One of their co-founders, Peng, said, part of what we're doing is making sure that as the model improves, we can co-evolve the interface and behavior into something that actually makes sense as a product.

I think, obviously, what they're trying to do is not build a model that is just simply plug it into some existing collaboration tools.