AI infrastructure

13 statements across 13 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement May 27, 2023 by Tomer Cohen · across every show →

Everything said about AI infrastructure, oldest first

May 27, 2023 positive
Insight
Cohen: Incumbents hold major AI advantages in compute, talent, and distribution
“If you're an incumbent and you already have the infrastructure for AI, the talent for AI, you're already have a leg up in this race and you should be using that. Incumbents have existing market share. They have already an existing customer base and that custom…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:06:43 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 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
Jun 12, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alex Wang: AI value will accrue above and below foundation models
“I think that the models themselves there's so much competition there that I don't know if, I don't know how much value accrues at literally the model itself, but the everything above the model and everything below the model, I feel very confident there will be…”
Alex Wang Jun 12, 2024 ▶ 26:13 Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2029
Ross: Power will become a hard bottleneck for AI in 3-4 years
“That power will become a hard bottleneck in three to four years.”
Jonathan Ross Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 34:17 Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Latency reasoning is 2025's fundamental AI infrastructure shift
“Latency reasoning. Definitely. This year. So, you know, as I was saying, like, the shift from throughput, so how speed my answers to how long it takes for my answer complete to appear. That is probably one of the fundamental, like this year, right?”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:13:38 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 26, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Green: AI infrastructure investing today mirrors website investing in 1997
“I think investing in AI infrastructure today is like investing in websites in 1997.”
Mitchell Green Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 6:25 Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 2, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
O'Driscoll: AI infrastructure ambitions will become unfundable in 2-3 years
“I think if you look to a finance and economics lens, at some point in the next two, three years, the scale of the ambitions becomes too hard to fund, and you can find evidence of that, right?”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 44:57 Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Current AI Infrastructure Cannot Service Existing Market Demand
“I really do think we are not, I can see it myself. We're not remotely servicing the demand that exists today. Right? So how it gets paid for is a different question, but I think this is so different than the prior waves, where we just can't even service this d…”
Jason Lemkin Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 37:52 Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 18, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Browder: AI infrastructure pitches like agent observability are jargon-filled BS
“Everyone is pitching this AI infrastructure nonsense. Like we're building agent observability, like the jargon levels. I'm British. I think that's all BS. Like they just add on the jargon.”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 48:27 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 8, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chernin: AI infrastructure is not a bubble, capacity will scale 10-100x
“No, I don't believe it's a bubble. I mean, Define the bubble. Do I believe that we will need tens or hundreds times more to build? I fairly believe.”
Roman Chernin Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 1:47 Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Grinberg: AI infrastructure is not in a long-term bubble
“Maybe there's like some short term blips, but like long term, absolutely not. Like not even close. I think there might be similar corrections to like this thing at Uber, Where, oh, we were going a little haywire. We weren't allocating it appropriately. And the…”
Matan Grinberg Jun 13, 2026 ▶ 44:37 OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shridhar: AI Growth Will Maintain Long-Term Trajectory Despite Market Corrections
“Anything going at that speed, will it have bumps along the road? Will it have pauses along the way? Most probably, yes. You know, we don't know of anything else in human history of this scale and this magnitude, but it is the trajectory. Is the normal course a…”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 13:55 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 23, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
O'Driscoll: AI infrastructure spend hits $900B while AI apps struggle past $50B
“Zooming out a million miles, you know, my mental model is, I divide the AI world up into three buckets. It's the making AI, the infrastructure layer, right? And you're right, the spend there is eight, nine hundred billion dollars a year. Then there's the two f…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 23, 2026 ▶ 37:21 Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
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