CM Weekly: Software Procurement, Open LLMs, Training Data

Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

??? Interesting Reads

• Questions companies are asking themselves for software purchase requests, very important for startups selling into the enterprise to understand.
• A deeper dive on the ChatGPT plugin ecosystem, and the power LLMs gain when connecting them to the internet.?
• A look into where ChatGPT got its training data from. I expect companies with large datasets to get far more restrictive on what companies can do with it.?
• A further explanation into what prompt engineering is (it's not just blindly testing different prompts manually).
• Stability AI released their first *mostly* open source language model. Expect language models to become commoditized and more open over time.

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