Pretrained
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Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.

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Pierce Freeman headshotThe founder

Pierce Freeman

Trains language models from scratch and builds the stacks that serve them - formerly VP of ML, now a founder. Brings the view from the trenches: what ships, what breaks, and what's pure demo-ware.

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Richard Diehl Martinez

Cambridge PhD on making small language models punch above their weight, now building LLMs for finance. Brings the view from the lab: which results replicate, and why the loss curve does what it does.