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3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 5, 2024 by Aravind Srinivas · across every show →

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Jun 5, 2024
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Srinivas: Only three or four AI labs can effectively scale models
“Those who do it right, those who get these 128 details right, are the ones who end up benefiting more from more scale. And that happens to be like three or four labs at this point.”
Aravind Srinivas Jun 5, 2024 ▶ 7:26 Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Mercor works with all top frontier AI research labs
“We work with All of the top research labs at the frontier of model capabilities, and we're not like the crowdsourcing companies in that we try to hide all the people on the platform, pay them low rates, et cetera.”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 14:27 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 8, 2026 bearish
Opinion
O'Driscoll: Skeptical the Market Can Support Ten Separate AI Research Labs
“It will be interesting to see, can the world support 10? Research labs coming up with 10 different variants of AI, all of which have to build either commercial or consumer businesses. I think on aggregate I'm fairly skeptical, but it's less a quality of, I mea…”
Rory O'Driscoll Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 34:05 Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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