A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate

Listen now | Replicate is one of the most popular AI inference providers with over 2,000,000 users. But how did they get there? Their overnight success took 5 years of building, and it all started with arXiv Vanity. Ben Firshman came on the podcast to tell us about their experience building tools for ML research, going through YC during COVID, how AI art communities influenced their product roadmap, and where Replicate is going next.

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