Misha Laskin, Reflection AI · No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
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argued that open-weight models can be built with far less capital than traditional frontier labs once you have strong talent and efficient infrastructure
“You’ll get the base level of 15%, but then you’ll get the 33% discount on the 15%. So it comes down to about 10% on capital gains, which is far less than what the government's proposing of the minimum of 30%”
“We have a bunch of fine-tuned models ourselves too… making us more innovative… couldn’t do with the frontier models because of cost and efficiency reasons”
“That's where you generally want your high growth potential, but tax efficient. So maybe if you own any stock index funds, things of that nature to benefit from the long-term capital gains. Tax deferred accounts, that's usually less tax efficient, but maybe lower return potential”
“I have eight different local models, open weight models running right now in my house, in my attic... they all have personas. My most recent is GLM-5.3 persona.”
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