Alex Lebrun
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2023 by Alex Lebrun · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Jun 19, 2023 negative
Open-Source LLMs Are Not Inherently Explainable or Transparent
“Even an open model trained with open data, to me, is not that open, because when you have, like, three hundred billion parameters, and it's a huge black box, you don't understand why the output is what it is, is it really open? And so, I'm just putting a littl…”
Jun 19, 2023 negative
AI Existential Risk Warnings Are Driven by Publicity Seekers
“I fully agree with Jan and not just because he was my boss at Meta, but I think if you really understand how machine learning works and you're not looking for free publicity, I don't see why you would say something like that, that, that getting more intelligen…”
Jun 19, 2023
Serial Founders Face Deference Traps That Cause Uncorrected Early Mistakes
“Starting my third company after two exits, I felt like my investors were always agreed, my team always agreed people around us, and so I wasn't challenged enough, and we made some early mistakes that probably were not challenged enough.”
Jun 19, 2023 positive
Andreessen Horowitz Held Zero Board Meetings and Responded in 20 Minutes
“Personally, you know, I worked with Andreessen Arvitz with my previous startup. It was incredible because they never call. They never ask for anything. We didn't even have board meetings. And when I, every time I need something, you know, 20 minutes I get huge…”
Jun 19, 2023 positive
Jun 19, 2023 negative
Jun 19, 2023 bullish
Lebrun: Companies will continuously switch between LLMs to remain competitive
“It's how it will work, of course. You have, you know, every two weeks, incredible things coming out of research, and if you just assume it's a static, in a year from now, your product will be very dumb compared to your competitor's products. Or more expensive …”
Jun 19, 2023 negative
AI Pause Petitions Are Cynical Attempts to Block Competitors
“It looks to me that the people who are proponent of this pause or to more regulation Are the ones who feel that they are in advance. And so it's like a way to say, guys, let us, we are in front. I don't want more people to start the race.”
Jun 19, 2023 neutral
Jun 19, 2023 neutral
Jun 19, 2023 bullish
Lebrun: Open-source foundational AI models will win over closed models
“Open, obviously. You know, LLM are AI in general is an infrastructure in the future, and like every infrastructure, I'm just paraphrasing Jan, but is, is open. Open wins always with infrastructure. And so obviously I think the financial, the foundational model…”
Jun 19, 2023 bullish
Jun 19, 2023
Jun 19, 2023 bearish
No AI Models in Use Today Will Be Used in One Year
“Absolutely agree with that. You know, will you drive the car you drive today in 10 years? I don't think so. And 10 years in car industry is like one week in machine learning gravity zone. And so there is, of course, there is so much progress so fast That I don…”