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by: farza.
published: aug 23, 2024.
so, buildspace.
it's not even a company to me, it's literally like a friend i dearly love.
when i think of buildspace i think of the laughs we had while making our videos, the times i broke down in tears in moments when obsession wore me down, the deep and irreplaceable camaraderie our team shared, getting to meet so many of you at irl and of course all the thousands of times you all pressed 1 in the chat.
all in all, i've had the best five years of my life here.
but, i've decided to move on from buildspace and fully shut it down.
this means from this day onwards, buildspace is... no more.
this all might come as a shock.
i know many of you reading this bleed buildspace.
you adore this thing we created.
Paper Repository
Attention Is All You Need
45 min • 8/10
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
60 min • 9/10
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
30 min • 7/10
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers
50 min • 8/10
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
40 min • 7/10
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
55 min • 9/10
so...why?
well, the company isn't going down for any of the classic reasons.
no, it isn't because of investor pressures (love you papa a16z).
no, it isn't about runway (we have over 2+ years in the bank).
no, it isn't because of monetization (we'd confidently make $3-5m arr off sponsorships to at least pay the bills to keep the lights on)
no, it isn't because of some drama behind the scenes (jeff isn't pulling a coup to become ceo).
none of that stuff.
honestly, if it were any of those reasons above this would be easy as hell to explain and this would be a short letter.
in reality, the decision to close buildspace is a really personal one.
so what's up?
Open Experiments
Testing Agent Memory
Prompt Optimization
RAG Architectures
Multi-Agent Workflows
Knowledge Graph Retrieval
so...why?
well, the company isn't going down for any of the classic reasons.
no, it isn't because of investor pressures (love you papa a16z).
no, it isn't about runway (we have over 2+ years in the bank).
no, it isn't because of monetization (we'd confidently make $3-5m arr off sponsorships to at least pay the bills to keep the lights on)
no, it isn't because of some drama behind the scenes (jeff isn't pulling a coup to become ceo).
none of that stuff.
honestly, if it were any of those reasons above this would be easy as hell to explain and this would be a short letter.
in reality, the decision to close buildspace is a really personal one.
so what's up?
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