Clay Bavor

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Sierra co-founders Brett Taylor and Clay Bavor have a bet on when the majority of interactions with their company's AI agents will be from other AI agents rather than from humans.

Brett Taylor

Brett Taylor and Clay Bavor have a bet on the year in which over 50% of conversations with Sierra-built agents will be with other personal AI agents.

Clay Bavor

Clay Bavor worked at Google for over 18 years, where he led product for Gmail, Drive, and Docs, and eventually ran Google Labs.

MARK MANDELAVYSKI

Sierra co-founders Brett Taylor and Clay Bavor have a bet on when the majority of interactions with their company's AI agents will be from other AI agents rather than from humans.

Expert perspectiveBrett TaylorFeb 25

Brett Taylor and Clay Bavor have a bet on the year in which over 50% of conversations with Sierra-built agents will be with other personal AI agents.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

Clay Bavor worked at Google for over 18 years, where he led product for Gmail, Drive, and Docs, and eventually ran Google Labs.

Expert perspectiveMARK MANDELAVYSKIFeb 25

Clay Pavor suggests that Chinese companies are more willing to perform large-scale distillation of frontier AI models.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Clay Pavor predicts that language model-optimized hardware will be integrated into consumer phones and computers in the future.

SpeculativeClay PavorJul 4

Clay Pavor states that Palantir has a few hundred customers, and Sierra intends to operate at a much larger scale.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Sierra enlisted half a dozen design partners, including Olokai, SiriusXM, Sonos, and Weight Watchers, to build the first version of its product.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Sierra collaborated with the retailer Next on personalized product recommendations to help customers build outfits and increase basket size.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Sierra worked with Redfin to redesign its search experience and with Rocket to build Rocket Assist for loan applications.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Clay Pavor believes there is an underappreciated and unbounded demand for frontier-level AI intelligence.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

The cost for an intelligence-equivalent token from GPT-4 is now 1/300th of what it was in March-May 2023.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Sierra has developed an internal tool called Sierra Brain, which acts as a "strategy thought partner" by being grounded in company documents, board letters, and operating reviews.

Expert perspectiveClay PavorJul 4

Clay Pavor predicts the rate-limiting factor in software development will shift from writing code to reviewing code, and eventually to deciding what is worth building.

SpeculativeClay PavorJul 4

Harmony, the AI agent for SiriusXM built by Sierra, can send a satellite signal to refresh the encryption keys on a customer's car.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

Sierra is paid on a sales commission basis by a large furniture retailer when its agent successfully attaches a premium delivery service to an order.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

A Sierra agent successfully processed a warranty claim for Olakai by analyzing photos of a product and automatically shipping a replacement.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

The primary constraint in building frontier AI models is the small number of people who know how to architect and train them, not capital.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

The AI agent built by Sierra for ADT can troubleshoot alarm panels, identify the specific model out of 52 possibilities, and mail the customer a replacement battery.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

Sierra utilizes an outcome-based pricing model, charging customers only when its AI agent successfully completes a task without human intervention.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

Sierra helps companies build their own customer-facing AI agents for their customer experience.

Expert perspectiveClay BavorFeb 25

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