Product for Founders
Practical tips to maximize ROI on SR&ED, R&D, technical strategy, infrastructure, and practical founder challenges - especially in the AI/ML space. Under 5 mins, 2x month.
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Hi Reader, We’re feeling reflective during the holiday season and decided to share a special edition of Product for Founders, a newsletter for tech and $ savvy founders! We focus on AI must-knows for solid product decisions and the Canadian SR&ED program. What’s up for today? > 2 model tidbits - saturation and a free resource > The year that was and will be Read time: 2 mins 2 Model TidbitsModel scaling is saturating What’s this about? Many news cycles have been spent on the apparent slowing down of model improvements. The question goes - After consuming all the data there was to be consumed on the internet, how would models scale? Should you care? Not likely - because this is a prediction that has not played out yet. As founders and builders, focus your efforts on improving product reliability and adoption. GenAI adoption is in its infancy (3.5% of all US work hours == ~0.9% increase in productivity). The opportunity both for internal process efficiency and external facing products is huge - so innovate away! Still curious? Read this excellent analysis by AI Snake Oil. A FREE to use reasoning model What’s this about? Google released a new reasoning model ‘Flash 2.0 experimental’ (I assume that’s a working project name 🙂) and it’s available for free via API and AI Studio Should you care? Yes - for those who have subscriptions to GPT Pro, o1 is a separate charge ($15/1M tokens for inputs and $60/1M tokens for output) and its $$. Google’s model is currently available for free and via API with rate limits, of course - thank you for opening up those deep pockets, big G! Still curious? Check out Google Flash on their AI Studio here. Our next edition in 2025, will break down two more developments - Agents and a full blown Physics engine that could be the answer to ∞ data for your next model tuning. Switching gears a bit because New Year's eve tends to bring out reflections... The year that was
The year that will be (2025)We’re kicked about our roadmap for 2025. Like all good product-led companies, we think long term, but pivot rapidly. Our focus in 2025 is to double down on internal scaling to support your hyper growth, product tooling for internal AI agents and in-person ecosystem events. But, the real MVP is…You!We're energized by the incredibly high-growth teams we've supported this year. Your trust means everything to us, and we love diving deep into your technical challenges. As you continue to build and scale in 2025, we're here to help you maximize your research and SR&ED potential and keep your innovation engine running at full throttle. Happy holidays and a fantastic New Year 2025 from the Inference PM Team! Let’s continue to build together, Varsha |
Product for Founders
Practical tips to maximize ROI on SR&ED, R&D, technical strategy, infrastructure, and practical founder challenges - especially in the AI/ML space. Under 5 mins, 2x month.