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It’s Time to Stop Renting Your AI | TWiST E2350
In an exclusive 1-on-1 with Jason, Reflection AI CEO and co-founder Misha Laskin explains why enterprises are ready to own their own models
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Renting your intelligence has been the industry standard since the onset of the AI boom. You pay a frontier lab by the token, and try to determine the most efficient yet effective models for your company’s tasks and workflows.
But all of this may be about to change, as more and more enterprises recognize the value of owning their AI stack, and not being beholden to any one intelligence provider or system.
Reflection CEO Misha Laskin compares the shifting scenario to investing in real estate. When you’re first starting out, you rent. But once you’re ready to put down roots — or ready to start spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI models and tools — owning starts to make more sense. The company controls all of its data and its costs.
Find out why Misha tells us “six months ago, no one was really talking about open source, and now it’s the opposite,” and how he managed to train a powerful US open source competitor with a relatively small team in just about a year.
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