[HN Gopher] Brev: Start fine-tuning and training models in < 10 ...
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       Brev: Start fine-tuning and training models in < 10 minutes
        
       Author : omarfarooq
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2023-10-27 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | emptysongglass wrote:
       | I am shocked at how this start-up with a not-great name that was
       | just another developer environment tool not less than six months
       | ago managed to do a full re-haul and pivot toward fine-tuned AI
       | models. It's much more compelling now.
       | 
       | Popped into my feed recently with two laughing attractive
       | employees. That little video loop of them popped back into my
       | feed again, and again, and again. And then they did a new,
       | expanded version. It's TikTok marketing crack.
       | 
       | They caught lightning in a bottle in a sea of high interest rates
       | and startups going bust left and right. Fair play. Great combined
       | maneuver from marketing and product.
        
         | naderkhalil wrote:
         | Hey! Co-founder of Brev.dev here and was in that video. We're
         | actually a small team of 3-- makes it easy to maneuver when
         | marketing and product are the same :)
         | 
         | We were building cloud dev environments in 2021, which I now
         | feel strongly do not have PMF. Writing a fun post on that...
         | 
         | We were trying to make coding in the cloud as seamless as
         | coding locally. Users started using that for GPUs ~1 year ago.
         | A solid dev env experience makes sense for AI/ML developers.
         | The infrastructure problems are more complicated & more
         | expensive.
         | 
         | We've since reworked our product and aim to build AWS SageMaker
         | but without the confines of any particular cloud. We're
         | starting by sourcing cheap GPUs & having 1st class notebook
         | experience for fine-tuning and training. Inference coming soon!
        
         | swyx wrote:
         | and thats not even ALL the laughing attractive employees that
         | they have!
        
       | rocauc wrote:
       | brev's execution to make LLM finetuning approachable,
       | educational, and fun has been nothing shy of inspiring
        
       | Bnjoroge wrote:
       | How do you source GPUs given the current GPU shortage?
       | Parntership w Coreweave?
        
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