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Kwasi Ankomah

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536 total appearances

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The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And then you've got these other models that are mid-tier that work really well.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

Now,

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

I think as more and more education comes through, people will start off with that top level, the more frontier level stuff, just to prove out their use case.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

Just to be like, hey, does it work?

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And then as they get more comfortable, and we're starting to see this already, they will then start to swap out.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

these components they might fine-tune it themselves or they might quite frankly go and find a little bit of a better model like and they might say oh actually this you know we might have a a call center agent that doesn't need that we've actually got a voice model that does this at a tentative cost and you know we can host on your hardware let's let's do that so i i do to answer your question about i do think we're going to need both i think as yeah as um

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

As the enterprise evolves, they will start to see the need for both as well.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And that's what we're already starting to see as well.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

I think most enterprises want to see now, does it work?

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

Let's see if we can actually make this use case work.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

Once they do that, they will then likely to be like, okay, how do we make this work for a more effective cost?

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

So I definitely see in the complexity of applications.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

So I'll give you an example.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

you know, let's take voice or let's just take healthcare or something, you're going to need more customizable models.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

The question is, at what point does the enterprise say, okay, you know, this is good enough, you know, and, you know, this open source model is out and we can put it on.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And that is definitely...

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And that's always going to be a question, right?

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

And I always see this is if you work in an industry where the bar is higher, you might be a bit less kind of, I would say, willing to go with a open source model.

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

But as we're seeing the gaps between open source and frontier closing so fast that I think within...

The Neuron: AI Explained
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)

Maybe 18 months, you're going to start to see people being as comfortable moving to these smaller models as they are using the Frontier model.