The hottest Substack posts of Pratik’s Pakodas 🍿

And their main takeaways
12 implied HN points 10 May 23
  1. Focus on building a competitive advantage in AI startups by leveraging niche markets and verticals.
  2. Consider using open-source AI models and iterating smaller models to strengthen the modeling moat.
  3. Explore value-based pricing, outcome-based pricing, and other strategies to align pricing with customer needs in AI startups.
8 implied HN points 09 May 23
  1. In certain scenarios, companies use 2 types of hybrid search: weighted scoring and filter and rerank, especially prevalent in e-commerce.
  2. GPT can be leveraged for query understanding to parse out complex queries and populate Elasticsearch/Solr with detected entities.
  3. Although using GPT-4 for this purpose may be costly and slow, training an open-source model like MPT-7B can be a more viable option.
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