The reading ingredients on bathroom items while on the toilet...lol. I did not know this was more of a universal experience. Did this all the time when I was a kid.
I thought they were fore inference not training...either way, kind of is concerning that I've heard about them plenty from the hype bubble but I apparently still don't really understand what they do.
Concerning in terms of hype bubble now having even more exposure to the stock market. Perhaps less concerning since it's a hardware startup? Nah, nvm, I think this will end up cratered within 3 years.
When company valuations are fundamentally based on "faith to perform well", yes. It's a product of touting a speculative economy as one of "rational actors". CEOs function as mythological heroes more than anything. So there's no number too high to pay since even their defeat can be incorporated into the ongoing myth of the brand. It's very strange to me.
If you scam the powers that be out of some real money (or just slightly expose their financial incompetence) that's when they suddenly know how how to hold individuals responsible. Pharma bro, Elizabeth Holmes, Delvey, SBF, etc.
The system views individual lives as less important than the confidence / stability / illusion of power of the holy market and those it is meant to benefit.
> Now we are only focusing on the speech-to-text API as the other areas are already very crowded and there's a lack of innovation in the speech-to-text space.
I'm legitimately wondering how your hosted Whisper API for $0.17/hr is supposed to compete with groq's exact same API that costs $0.03/hr.
You may be about to find out how crowded all of the AI infra spaces are.
I strongly recommend narrowing your scope far beyond modality. If you've been working with this tech and getting familiar with it then you already have valuable expertise. Pivot now or panic later. If you want to stay in the speech space find what markets are being underserved with speech AI related solutions. Are there pain points there that can be solved by a STT API? If so, build those solutions. You can't compete at the infra layer and I'm not sure why you would want to try if you don't already have something unique about your offering beyond hosting open source models. It's never good if your competition is potentially just a single developer in a company standing up your entire service internally in a week.
If you are determined to stay in the AI infra space then you'll need to be tackling a hard problem that companies want solved. Maybe take a look at fine-tuning models. Hard problem and maybe there's a hunger for it. (It's a risky one to tackle too though since it's very possible general/foundational models will maintain a grip on "good enough".)
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