How to become an AI researcher with @oneill_c Charlie co-founded Parsed to build specialized open-source models that can outperform frontier labs. I first met Charlie when Parsed was acquired by Baseten, and now he leads our model development team. Charlie is one of the smartest people I know, and I had the pleasure of talking to him about: 0:00 Intro 3:13 Leaving Oxford to start a company 6:37 Becoming an AI researcher 15:37 Developing a unique POV as your moat 22:04 Parsed origin story 26:01 Big Token, the case for open-source models 33:40 Post-training, fine-tuning, specialization 46:52 Will open models catch up with closed models? 51:50 AI-led job replacement vs job creation 54:45 How to get into inference engineering This is one of my favorite conversations I’ve had in a long time. Made with @ad0rnai behind the scenes. Enjoy!