AI applications

also referred to as: ai application

10 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2023 by Vinod Khosla · across every show →

Everything said about AI applications, oldest first

Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: AI progress will advance steadily regardless of Wall Street sentiment
“I think the progress of AI applications in utility for society will go on a steady pace based on technical capability and entrepreneurial interest in it, not what Wall Street or investors think about it.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 3:37 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 31, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shazeer: The Best AI Applications Have Not Been Invented Yet
“The best applications just haven't even been invented yet that You know, we, you know, we're still at, like invention of electricity kind of moment, or invention of the computer, where we don't really you know, we don't really know what the coolest things are …”
Noam Shazeer Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 24:44 Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 negative
Insight
Grimshaw: Early AI application sign-up spikes resemble 'high fructose corn syrup'
“Like, I think there can be a lot of high fructose corn syrup of adoption. Like, there's an amazing magical moment in a wow, right? When you go experience ChatGPT for the first time, or some of the imagery models for the first time. The rate of adoption of, lik…”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 1:24:42 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Grimshaw: AI applications will capture massive value and pull through infrastructure
“I think in the arc of time if it is a shift like the internet was in many ways the applications, Which might not look like an applications, right, in the way that we think of them, but might look more like, you know, this control center idea will have profound…”
Miles Grimshaw Sep 18, 2023 ▶ 1:23:54 Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Opinion
Biswas: AI infrastructure favors mega-incumbents, while AI applications favor startups
“So in that sense, AI infrastructure may be well suited for companies that can invest billions of dollars ahead of time in building big data centers. The applications on the other hand, I think that sort of rapid feedback loop and kind of creativity is really w…”
Sanjit Biswas Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 58:36 Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: Defining AI companies will be applications, not base models
“The focus on hardware and models and not enough focus on the applications of AI. I think many of the defining companies in AI will be delivering consumer and business solutions that happen to be powered by AI, not just the models themselves.”
Bret Taylor Oct 2, 2024 ▶ 1:09:17 Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
Insight
O'Driscoll: AI Software Automates Actual Work Rather Than Just Updating UIs
“Salesforce was rebuild Siebel in the cloud, and it was fun, and we made a lot of money, but you're right, somewhat boring. What is really exciting now is you're not just talking about rebuild Salesforce exactly the same, but with a slightly modern UI. You are …”
Rory O'Driscoll Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 1:12:01 Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 22, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Arora: SaaS applications will give way to opinionated AI applications
“SaaS applications will give way to AI applications, the difference being SaaS applications have no opinion, AI applications will have opinions. That's a fundamental rethink we need from a workflow perspective.”
Nikesh Arora Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 13:54 Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 22, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Arora: Companies will cut G&A headcount by half within three years
“My rule of thumb is that in the next three years, we'll probably have half the people in GNA type activities in companies. Things like marketing, things like finance, things like HR, because there's a lot of process management there, and a lot of process manag…”
Nikesh Arora Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 13:32 Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 9, 2026
Insight
Atallah: No single layer can capture all AI memory context
“I do think that like, it's impossible for one layer to capture all valuable memory because the apps own so much important context that the model labs don't have. And they, the model labs in order to get this to work, they'll have to incentivize the apps to, li…”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 45:24 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
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