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Read this article a few years ago and was glad it was published! It definitely reduced competition judging by the popularity on HN when it first debuted.

We were building our company on the back of GPT-3 and soon sold it for a life-changing amount of money.

So starting a business around GPT-3 ended up being a very good idea :)

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Sounds like another case of “pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich”.

Optimists get either rich or ruined, but the latter isn't something that people like to boast about.

Of course this doesn't show GPT-3 is the basis for anything reliable or long term, just that the start-up market is pretty fluid.

i'm sure GP is crying into his wads of cash right now

Sure, the GP is happy. I'll admit my main interest as an amateur researcher/pundit is the "how much can current AI components be used as elements/inputs to reliable software" rather than "can you make money with this".

I think the interesting thing is how hard it is to combine neural output into something reliable in the real world. It gives clue that some ingredient and not just some level of processing power, might be missing.

Don't stop there. What was the business?

I think it is - https://snazzy.ai/

Correct https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...

Congrats that's awesome! When was it founded?

Also why would Unbound pay anything more than the cost of an engineer to integrate GPT-3 themselves? What was their thinking or what extras did you bring to the table?

We had users, early PMF and revenue :)

What kind of ML techniques did you use on top of GPT-3, outside of the baseline model?