Three Product Hunt launches, introduction of AI discussion threads and coworking update

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Here’s what you need to know this month.

We have had an amazing month for the Builders Club. We have scaled our offline community to 200 active AI builders and are continuing to ramp up our in real life coworking sessions.

Our community brains trust has been busy too. We released our peer reviewed Generative AI in Insurtech thesis and held our very first "discussion thread" topic on RAG vs Fine tuning, were we gathered thoughts and learnings from the community on the topic (more on this below).

We also saw our Season 0 cohort start up Continous go live and had three launches from club members! Wow! 🔥 You can check them out and support them here:

• Grant Davies - Verbalate (product hunt)

• Harini Janakiraman - Buildship (product hunt)

• Les Finemore - Yarta (IOS app launch)

📅 Upcoming we have an event focused on early-stage founders helping them go from 0 to 1 customers with Sean Grealy at Aura Ventures offices (sign ups are still open here) and multiple soon to be announced events with SWSX and YC.

Spotlight: Continous (Season 0) has launched and are looking for alpha testers

Season 0 cohort members Continous are on the mission to revolutionise the way products get built, by making continuous product discovery a reality. They empower product teams with the insights and collective intuition they need to go from idea to execution.

The team Kevin Zhu , Richard Eve and James Entwisle, are currently looking for alpha testers. Reach out if you are interested in learning more!

Check out their newly minted website here

Spotlight: RAG vs Finetuning 🧵

This week, the AI community delved deep into the comparison between Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs).

Thank you Nissan Dookeran, Caesar De Keijzer , Michael Mifsud , Katrin Schmid, Emmanuel Nsanga, Joe Anthony , Justin Hansky for your contributions this week.

Here are some snippets of the discussion. To view the full thread, you can sign up to Builders Club here. Off the back of this, builder Stephen Young has written an article on RAG for LLMs, you can check it out here

Spotlight: Builders coworking sessions

Our Builder Coworking sessions run with the help of Maxine Sherrin are still crushing it! Last Sunday ~20 builders gathered at Aura Ventures offices to co-work and internal demo for 6 hours!

We saw the demo of:

• Vidsearch : a tool which enables schematic search in videos in real time at web scale. Ideal for long live streams.

• Mike Gardiner demo of http://Buzzy.gg, built an agent interface for his game builder helper

• Pramod's update on Matrixity.AI: QR Generator for knowledge for customer knowledge bases designed for on the spot engagement when you need it.

You can view the recap below 👇. Our full event calendar is available here

Other golden nuggets from the Club

• Open AI can now hear, speak and talk!

• LongLoRA -  could extend a model’s context from 4k to 100k for LLaMA2 7B, all achievable on a single 8× A100 machine

• GPUs may have an energy problem ⚡

• Amazon invests $4bn into Anthropic

• Some further thoughts on performance gain with RAG

And a bit of fun... prompting be like:

And that's it for this edition. Happy Building for the week ahead 🛠.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to support The Builders Club and our blossoming AI ecosystem in Australia at the grassroots level.

A huge thank you 💌 to our program sponsors and partners: Fishburners, GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft for Startups, Databricks, Stripe, SydWeb3 (NextGenius), Marqo, Relevance AI, Aura Ventures, Mutinex, Sahha, Heaps Normal, National AI Centre