Jacob and Jordan sit down with EleutherAI's Aran Komatsuzaki to discuss the future of open-source models, thought cloning, his work on GPT-J and more.

0:00 intro

01:06 Aran’s background

02:58 starting work on gpt-j

05:49 gathering data for Lion and gpt-j

08:51 history of EleutherAI

11:16 open vs. closed-source models

19:06 how will open-source models be used going forward

21:33 thought cloning

25:51 building AI models that understand video

29:35 one model to rule them all

31:58 influence of academia in the LLM space

34:33 over-hyped/under-hyped

38:01 Aran’s thoughts on AGI

With your co-hosts: 

@jasoncwarner 

- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical 

@ericabrescia 

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) 

@patrickachase 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn 

@jacobeffron 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health

@jordan_segall 

- Partner at Redpoint

With your host:  

@jacobeffron  

- Managing Director at Redpoint