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Interview 01 of 2111:42 AM · Moscone West

Juha Chung

Founder, West of the Sun

Local, end-to-end dataset synthesis for training your own models.

The full conversation

5:15 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:52 · Juha's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Sell to developers at 3 a.m.

“So far it's like developers at 3 a.m. And my plan is developers at 3 a.m. find my service on open source and they go back to work on Monday and use it at office. And when the enterprise users need something more auditabl…”

0:31
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Cancer made her automate it

“I actually had leukemia. I was prepping the data, doing the same thing over and over again for the South Korea's national patent engine, search engine. So my job was like cleaning dirty data and making it presentable so …”

0:38
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Life is limited. Make the best of it.

“In terms of stability and recognition, I had a great government job before cancer. And, like, it kind of... Leukemia was kind of a blessing in disguise because you think a lot about priorities because, like, life is limi…”

0:35
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In SF, everyone builds their own model

“What do you think of TechCrunch and San Francisco so far? There are a lot more excitement because like in South Korea, people are interested in harness and in agents. But seldomly like they touch the motor weights. Becau…”

0:35
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Train the model of your dreams

“I want my pipeline to go full modality because I think everybody is not realizing it, but everybody wants to build their own model, the model of your own dream. But it was too difficult now. It was too expensive until no…”

0:33
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