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The Dark Forest of R&D and Capital Deployment in AI - Michael Dempsey: Blog

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Building a framework for how AI Companies navigate the dark forest of foundation models while deploying large sums of R&D capital

Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond Author’s Note: There are a lot of (long) footnotes in this piece. While they aren’t necessary, they do add a layer of depth that may be interesting to some readers. While on the surface we mostly just see large rounds and revenue or usage leaks, in reality AI companies are perhaps some of the most complex businesses we’ve had being built in tech in some time. Doing core AI model R&D necessitates a need to play 4D Chess around research communities, capital accumulation and deployment, talent acquisition, compet

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