Providing Greater Access to LLMs with Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI
Dive into the world of AI with Brandon Houghton, founder of Nomic AI, as he discusses the intricacies of language models, the role of fine-tuning, the concept of prompt engineering, and the importance of AI policy on this enlightening episode of Gradient Dissent.
Created on July 27|Last edited on July 27
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About this Episode
On this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI. Both of Nomic AI’s products, Atlas and GPT4All, aim to improve the explainability and accessibility of AI.
We discuss:
- What GPT4All is and its value proposition.
- The advantages of using smaller LLMs for specific tasks.
- Brandon’s thoughts on the cost of training LLMs.
- Details about the current state of fine-tuning LLMs.
- What quantization is and what it does.
- What Atlas is and what it allows you to do.
- Training code models versus language models.
- Details around evaluating different models.
- The opportunity for smaller companies to build open-source models.
- Prompt chaining versus fine-tuning models.
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