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srekhi commented on Vapi's pivot story: 5 years and 12 pivots to a $130M valuation   youtu.be/KjMq_BXJnmc?si=T... · Posted by u/srekhi
srekhi · 22 days ago
I interviewed Nikhil Gupta (Vapi's cofounder/CTO) for "Before It Clicked" - where we interview founders about the messy zero-to-one. It’s a crazy story, and I left thinking there are very few people with the gumption to go through what they underwent.

They shipped 12 products across 5 years, and experienced the whole range of emotions in between: elation, depression, confusion. Nikhil even considered moving to India and leaving tech startups entirely.

Thanks to Nikhil for sharing his journey in detail.

srekhi commented on Can GPT-5 Beat My Favorite Daily Puzzle Game?   nicksypteras.com/blog/cbs... · Posted by u/nsypteras
srekhi · a month ago
interesting - and thx for making reproducible
srekhi commented on Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints   arxiv.org/abs/2508.21141... · Posted by u/tdchaitanya
andrewflnr · 4 months ago
Is this really the frontier of LLM research? I guess we really aren't getting AGI any time soon, then. It makes me a little less worried about the future, honestly.

Edit: I never actually expected AGI from LLMs. That was snark. I just think it's notable that the fundamental gains in LLM performance seem to have dried up.

srekhi · 4 months ago
I'm not following this either. You'd think this would be frontier back in 2023
srekhi commented on Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing   arxiv.org/abs/2508.12631... · Posted by u/omarsar
srekhi · 4 months ago
Isn't this what NotDiamond (founded 2 years ago!) has been working to solve for? Maybe someone from their team will chime in (cc @t5-notdiamond)
srekhi commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
canyon289 · 4 months ago
We obviously need to create a pelican bicycle svg finetune ;) If you want to try this out I'd be thrilled to do it with you, I genuinely am curious how well this model can perform if specialized on that task.

A couple colleagues of mine posted an example of finetuning a model to take on persona's for videogame NPCs. They have experience working with folks in the game industry and a use case like this is suitable for game devs who want to start including lightweight models that won't take up a ton of accelerator memory and can run efficiently on CPU if needed. https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/huggingface_text_full_...

As for GGUF it's available here! https://huggingface.co/collections/ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-689...

srekhi · 4 months ago
video game NPCs with intelligence :O gaming is going to be crazy
srekhi commented on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser   napkin.io/... · Posted by u/nsypteras
srekhi · 4 years ago
This is awesome - using this in production for vdiff right now.

Two things I'd love: 1) code review (just like GitHub) 2) team collaboration

Awesome job y'all.

srekhi commented on Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room    · Posted by u/mchong6
srekhi · 5 years ago
Awesome product.

Two things:

1) would love to rotate the model to see how it looks from all angles

2) being able to customize the model to look similar to me (so I can get a sense for how the clothes would fit on my body) would be awesome.

srekhi commented on Show HN: Napkin.io – Backend in the Browser   napkin.io... · Posted by u/nsypteras
srekhi · 5 years ago
Big fan! Super fun, seamless way to spin up backend functions. Also has an excellent UX. Y'all rock!

u/srekhi

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