Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chat + AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research | Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast | Podwise
This interview podcast features William Beauchamp, founder of Chai Research, a consumer AI company. The podcast begins with an introduction highlighting Chai's rapid growth and success, reaching 1.4 million daily active users and $22 million in revenue. The interview then delves into Beauchamp's background in finance, his decision to pivot to AI, and the development of Chai's crowdsourcing platform, Chaiverse. Beauchamp discusses key learnings, including the importance of customer obsession and iterative development, illustrated by the example of their unsuccessful foray into audio features. The discussion concludes with Beauchamp's insights on the future of AI, emphasizing the importance of user-generated content and the limitations of current AI reasoning capabilities.
