If you want to be serious about AI, build your own LLM !

On July 1, 2024, Graypes made a definitive move that set it apart from the tech herd: we officially abandoned all commercial and third-party LLMs.

While most of the world remains tethered to generic APIs from Silicon Valley giants, Graypes transitioned to its own proprietary Large Language Model, engineered from the ground up for the high-stakes world of business innovation and investment rating.

💡 Why Abandon Commercial LLMs?

Relying on "off-the-shelf" AI is a gamble with your most precious asset: data sovereignty. Commercial models are "black boxes" that often prioritize general-purpose chat over specialized accuracy. For Graypes, "good enough" wasn't an option. By moving to a proprietary stack, we eliminated:

📍Data Leakage Risks: Your business secrets no longer pass through third-party servers.

📍API Dependency: We are immune to vendor price hikes, policy shifts, or unexpected downtime.

📍Generic Outputs: Generic models lack the nuance required for deep financial due diligence and innovation scoring.

💡 Build Your Model, Own Your Future

If you want to be serious about AI, you cannot lease your brain. True competitive advantage, your "moat", is created when you build your own model with your proprietary data.

By training on our unique datasets, Graypes has created an intelligence that understands the specific DNA of startups and global funding trends in a way no public model ever could. We didn't just switch tools; we claimed ownership of our intellectual future.

In a similar spirit, Alan Kay remarked in 1982:

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”