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<ul><li>Companies like Ramp, Notion and Databricks take outputs from frontier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and use them to fine-tune smaller, cheaper and faster open source models like Mistral and Llama 3.1, reducing their costs by 90% for specific, repetitive tasks.</li><li>Fine-tuning platforms like OpenPipe ($6.7M raised), Predibase (Felicis, $28.5M raised) and Airtrain AI (Y Combinator, $3.2M raised) unbundle fine-tuning from the LLMs and rebundle it with MLOps, combining a software development kit (SDK) for collecting prompt-completion pairs with model training, eval, and deployment to launch and rapidly iterate on fine-tuned models.</li><li>We recognized that fine-tuning could greatly enhance capabilities and reliability, but it typically required having a specialist on staff. We realized that if we built the right workflow tool, we could replace that specialist and make it possible for anyone proficient in prompt engineering to successfully build a fine-tuned model.</li></ul>

Companies like Ramp, Notion and Databricks take outputs from frontier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and use them to fine-tune smaller, cheaper and faster open source models like Mistral and Llama 3.1, reducing their costs by 90% for specific, repetitive tasks.Fine-tuning platforms like OpenPipe ($6.7M raised), Predibase (Felicis, $28.5M raised) and Airtrain AI (Y Combinator, $3.2M raised) unbundle fine-tuning from the LLMs and rebundle it with MLOps, combining a software development kit (SDK) for collecting prompt-completion pairs with model training, eval, and deployment to launch and rapidly iterate on fine-tuned models.We recognized that fine-tuning could greatly enhance capabilities and reliability, but it typically required having a specialist on staff. We realized that if we built the right workflow tool, we could replace that specialist and make it possible for anyone proficient in prompt engineering to successfully build a fine-tuned model.

Kyle Corbitt, CEO Of OpenPipe, On The Future Of fine-tuning LLMs

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Databricks hit $2.4B in annualized revenue in June 2024, up 60% year-over-year, for a 18x multiple on their $43B valuation (from September 2023), challenging the narrative of a slowdown in enterprise tech spending.</li><li>Databricks' $1.3B acquisition of MosaicML in 2023 (which trains LLMs at 40% of the price of OpenAI) has further positioned the company as a formidable player in the enterprise AI market, while their open source LLMs are increasingly gaining traction on Hugging Face, from DBRX Instruct (40K+ downloads per month) to Dolly v2 3B (350K+).</li><li>Databricks' Unity Catalog is the wedge product that’s become core to their AI strategy, becoming a category leader in the sparsely-populated data-governance-for-AI space with 10,000+ enterprise customers in less than two years after launch.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Databricks hit $2.4B in annualized revenue in June 2024, up 60% year-over-year, for a 18x multiple on their $43B valuation (from September 2023), challenging the narrative of a slowdown in enterprise tech spending.Databricks' $1.3B acquisition of MosaicML in 2023 (which trains LLMs at 40% of the price of OpenAI) has further positioned the company as a formidable player in the enterprise AI market, while their open source LLMs are increasingly gaining traction on Hugging Face, from DBRX Instruct (40K+ downloads per month) to Dolly v2 3B (350K+).Databricks' Unity Catalog is the wedge product that’s become core to their AI strategy, becoming a category leader in the sparsely-populated data-governance-for-AI space with 10,000+ enterprise customers in less than two years after launch.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.</li><li>Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on top of CoreWeave and Lambda Labs’s GPU cloud products.Companies use cloud GPU hosts Together AI, CoreWeave, and Lambda Labs to use Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units (GPUs) to train AI models on their datasets, fine-tune them, and deploy them into production.Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annualized revenue in April 2024, up 2095% year-over-year, with 90% of revenue coming from sales of bundled on-demand GPU compute and training via Together Inference and ~45% gross margin.

Together AI: The $44M/year Vercel Of Generative AI

<ul><li>Jenni AI has grown their annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 925% since the ChatGPT-pocalypse that decimated horizontal, prosumer businesses built on GPT-3.</li><li>Jenni AI niched down into the academic essay-writing use case in 2022, getting to ~$560K ARR by the end of the year after verticalizing their “ChatGPT for college students”.</li><li>Sacra estimates that Jenni AI is at $5.1M annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of April 2024, growing 481% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Jenni AI has grown their annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 925% since the ChatGPT-pocalypse that decimated horizontal, prosumer businesses built on GPT-3.Jenni AI niched down into the academic essay-writing use case in 2022, getting to ~$560K ARR by the end of the year after verticalizing their “ChatGPT for college students”.Sacra estimates that Jenni AI is at $5.1M annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of April 2024, growing 481% year-over-year.

Jenni AI: The $5M/year Chegg Of Generative AI

<ul><li>The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.</li><li>With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.</li><li>For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.</li></ul>

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 decimated Jasper and Copy.ai’s prosumer and SMB businesses, with revenue going flat/into decline as customers replaced their $50/month subscriptions to Jasper/Copy.ai with free and $20/mo premium subscriptions to ChatGPT.With its 32K token context window and superiority on reasoning tasks, the launch of GPT-4 in March 2023 enabled AI writing tools to re-position as enterprise solutions that could orchestrate complex, multi-tool workflows.For these companies where revenue might have been flat-to-down during 2023, the faster they can shift the underlying revenue towards low-churn enterprise revenue, the faster that growth will re-accelerate.

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Kyle Corbitt, CEO Of OpenPipe, On The Future Of fine-tuning LLMs

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Databricks At $2.4B ARR Growing 60%

TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Databricks hit $2.4B in annualized revenue in June 2024, up 60% year-over-year, as it retools as an AI company to take...

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Together AI: The $44M/year Vercel Of Generative AI

TL;DR: Sacra estimates that Together AI hit $44M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in April with their developer experience-centric layer built on...

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Jenni AI: The $5M/year Chegg Of Generative AI

TL;DR: Jenni AI has grown their annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 925% since the ChatGPT-pocalypse that decimated horizontal, prosumer businesses...

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AI Writing Goes Enterprise

TL;DR: AI writing tools Jasper and Copy.ai saw their prosumer and SMB businesses decimated by the launch of ChatGPT. In response, they’re niching...

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