AIF = AI factories.
This is a new concept that the mainstream media has not even begun to address.
This will be the page that defines and tracks AI factories.
I have spent the past three hours discussing this new concept with ChatGPT. It's mind-boggling.
An "AI factory":
AI prompt: what is meant by "beyond the original Turing test"?
Another AI prompt: is FluidStack more akin to CoreWeave (building large data centers from concept to finish) or is FluidStack something completely different -- an AI factory?
AI reply:
Meta, Mistral, Poolside: these are all "AI factories." How does Poolside compare to Mistral & Meta?
- Meta: Big tech company with many AI lines (LLaMA models, research divisions). Broad scope across many modalities.
- Mistral AI: A European foundation-model startup aiming to build competing general-purpose LLMs.
- Poolside: Startup; founded in Paris, 2023. More specialized currently—focus on software development tools (coding assistants) and then enterprise agent + foundation model capabilities. One could call it more verticalized than a general LLM company.
- In its financing and ambitions, Poolside is already valued highly (≈ US$2–3 billion in early rounds) even before full product launches.
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