Brixo Newsletter: Model Efficiency & Khakis
We built a report card for your AI efficiency (and most teams are getting a D-minus)
Brixo Latest
Model optimization is proving to be a super tedious effort for AI engineer teams. Our goal is take some of this burden off through a suite of products that optimize models for cost and performance, and ensure team’s are maximizing their AI investments.
We’re now offering free assessments aka report cards where we’ll analyze your inference and production stack, then provide a Model Efficiency Score (MES) and recommendations for optimization tactics.
Customers can actively track their MES, savings and efficiency rates in Brixo:
And play with model-mix scenarios to estimate the impact of making changes on their spend, performance and quality.
If you’re spending on inference, we’d like to talk to you about improving your performance and keeping costs down - even if inference is not expensive today - it’s best to have a plan in place.
What stood out
This post stood out. It’s very true assessment of where we’re at with all the AI tools. You’ve got to have expertise to be able to maximize the value. The good news for non-experts: you can leverage AI for learning. Link to Tweet
The full interview of Aaron Levie on the A16z pod highlighted in this tweet (or is it an X?)
He’s been very active sharing the enterprise point of view on AI and a must follow.
What we’re reading/listening/watching
Founder’s Podcast - How Elon Works
This has been a really fun podcast series and this episode is particularly great. He sheds light into Elon’s operating principles. If you ever wonder how he can run so many critical businesses, this is a fantastic inside look.
AI Exchanges: AI’s Impact on Employment from Goldman Sachs
This is more of an economist point of view on the recent datapoints about AI projects failing.
Empire of AI - Spotify Audio Book & Amazon
A fascinating look into OpenAI’s journey from non-profit to what it stands for today.
A16z’s newest report on “The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps”
Helpful is you don’t want to miss out on consumer app trends
Here is a chart that stands out because it’s consistent to what we’re hearing. With Google’s market advantage of having so many startups on GCP, they’re gobbling up share with Gemini by offering incentives.
Final Brick
If you grew up in tech during this time, this video hits home. For me, it was the blue button-down and khaki shorts.