Saahil shares insights into the You.com search engine approach, which includes a focus on a user-friendly interface, third-party apps, and the combination of natural language processing and traditional information retrieval techniques. Saahil highlights the importance of product thinking and the trade-offs between relevance, throughput, and latency when working with large language models. Saahil also discusses the intersection of traditional information retrieval and generative models and the trade-offs in the type of outputs they produce. He suggests occupying users' attention during long wait times and the importance of considering how users engage with websites beyond just performance.

Ultraleap do a surprising amount of interesting ML – mostly hand tracking from cameras - they had headsets to try and a cool screen ball pit demo thing. They’ve got this interesting homebrew ML platform because they were shipping ML in a product early. It’s got some interesting features and a ton of stuff in it, so they’re having a fun time working out how to replace it, nothing modern quite fits. Maybe partly as they don’t have the normal model serving problem. They’re hiring across a surprising range of things.