* Never build your own model unless you have proven your model, and you have expertise to build it. Generic models will take you long way before cost/quality becomes an issue. Just getting all the data to train an LLM will be pain. 1000s of smartest people are spending n Billions to improve upon it. Don't compete with them. and if downstream you believe open source or your own is better use it then.
* Privacy is overrated. Enterprises are happy to use Google Docs, Office 365 exchange and cloud and ChatGPT itself. Unless you are in a domain where you know it will be a concern, trust Azure/OpenAI or Google.
* Let it be an AI startup. It should solve some problem but if VC and customer want to hear AI and Generative, that's what you are. Don't try to bring sanity in hand feeding you.
* Never build your own model unless you have proven your model, and you have expertise to build it. Generic models will take you long way before cost/quality becomes an issue. Just getting all the data to train an LLM will be pain. 1000s of smartest people are spending n Billions to improve upon it. Don't compete with them. and if downstream you believe open source or your own is better use it then.
* Privacy is overrated. Enterprises are happy to use Google Docs, Office 365 exchange and cloud and ChatGPT itself. Unless you are in a domain where you know it will be a concern, trust Azure/OpenAI or Google.
* Let it be an AI startup. It should solve some problem but if VC and customer want to hear AI and Generative, that's what you are. Don't try to bring sanity in hand feeding you.