Today, Yash Patil (@ypatil125) is the founder of @appliedcompute, a $1.3 billion AI company. Before this, he was a Stanford sophomore who dropped out to join OpenAI.
It all began when he emailed Sam Altman asking for a job. Altman introduced him to the residency team. They told him he had to drop out.
Yash wasn't sure he could bring his parents around. So he asked Altman directly. Altman said, "Let me chat with them.”
A week later, Yash joined OpenAI.
"A modelless company is sitting on shifting sand."
Yash Patil (@ypatil125) is the founder and CEO of @appliedcompute, a company that trains custom models on company data and serves them in production.
His conviction: every organization has its own definition of what good looks like, and a company that doesn't own its model is one system card away from finding out what it can no longer do.
(0:00) Introduction (3:50) Betting on custom AI models (12:30) Yash's early influences and first projects (19:29) Inside OpenAI during Sam Altman's firing (28:18) What Yash admires about Sam Altman (29:43) Teaching models to reason (35:39) The core insight behind Applied Compute (45:55) Why model training never ends (51:25) The culture and people of Applied Compute (1:03:48) Final meditations
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