AirOps is helping companies build AI-enabled applications on top of LLMs
Summary
Today, the company announced a $7 million seed round, which actually closed at the beginning of last year.Company CEO and co-founder Alex Halliday says that with the recent interest in LLMs, there is a challenge for businesses trying to get involved. There is a really large gap to close between these amazing capabilities that folks can play with in things like ChatGPT, and then [applying that] to the kind of hardest challenges in the business. So maybe for the first couple of months you would run using GPT-4, and that would create the training outputs to then use a smaller, open source model thats been fine-tuned, he said.And AirOps can help you move through those steps. Were really learning the right recipes and architectures here, but we expect over time the kind of boil-the-ocean, sledgehammer approach will give way to a more nuanced and a better understanding of how to take advantage of the menu of choices people have, he said.The company launched last year with the goal of helping get value from their organizational data, but as LLMs moved into the public consciousness, the company shifted its focus. Weve really been very open-minded when hiring people with different backgrounds and different levels of experience, he said.The $7 million seed investment was led by Wing VC with participation from Founder Collective, XFund, Village Global, Apollo Projects and Lachy Groom.