How should founders approach the strategic tension between proprietary fine-tuning and commercial foundation models?
Replied byJon Noronha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Gamma
Niche: AI
Revenue: $8.3M/mo
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Started: 2020
Founders frequently waste capital fine-tuning custom models on tasks that frontier labs will solve commoditized months later. We focus our proprietary engineering on layout engines, rendering speed, and domain-specific context assembly. Rely on foundation providers for raw reasoning horsepower, and concentrate internal resources on proprietary interface abstractions that foundation labs cannot easily copy.
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