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The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park Jul 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:59 Harry Stebbings It's kind of like AlphaGo, you know, they just beat the shit out of the model and played it a thousand times every day of activities and outcomes in the world is another game of AlphaGo where you can correct the model on what was wrong and… 2 times in the scene

Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs Jul 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:22 unnamed speaker Where we see it the most is, it, it, it's an interesting data type because it's competitive and you can have these AlphaGo type situations for, for cyber offense and defense where you can have, ah, uncapped rewards and performance and the,…

Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:01 Demis Hassabis So one of our groups, um, if you think of like AlphaGo and reinforcement learning, and of course Transformers,

Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:35 Joelle Pineau So the place where most people started hearing about RL is around the AlphaGo time, you know, the game of Go, which was sort of one of the goals for AI.
  • ▶ 9:40 Harry Stebbings Does progression happen in kind of a linear fashion, or does it happen in step functions like AlphaGo, like a DeepSeq, which depending, depending on kind of what you believe, suggests a lot of efficiency in terms of model improvement.

Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:55 Bucky Moore Now that we have test time compute, the same thing that brought us AlphaGo is sort of bringing an equivalent of that in all these different domains where unlike the human brain, these AIs can just try

Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:00:20 Steeve Morin Uh, that feels a bit, I would say intuitive, but if you look at AlphaGo, for instance, uh, the, the moment it's, you know, ramped up in its, in its skills is when they started generating games or synthetic games, right?

Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:49 Jonathan Ross So going back to my background, one of the, the fun things that I got to witness, I, I wasn't directly involved, was, um, AlphaGo, when, um, Google beat the, the world champion Lisa Dahl and Go, um, that model was, was trained on a bunch…

Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 7, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:15 Eiso Kant When DeepMind created AlphaGo, right, the, this incredible achievement of beating, you know, the world's best, you know, human player in Go, they did it in the following way, and I'm oversimplifying it for kind of brevity, but they first… 2 times in the scene

Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:59 Matt Clifford Search, you know, like how we can apply, you know, and there's been a lot of buzz about this recently in the sort of AI research community, like how do you use search, um, the techniques that actually made things like AlphaGo work, um, how…

Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:01 Guillermo Rauch What made Lisa Dole a formidable adversary to AlphaGo is that there was this instant, this pattern matching, but now it's almost like the board has shifted.

Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2023 · 1 mention

20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs Jan 10, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:42 Mark Carney The classic example of this, I think, is the classic example people use in favor of AI, which is AlphaGo and DeepMind. 2 times in the scene

20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware Feb 25, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:18 Frank Chen And so if you look at AlphaGo, which is a system that learned to beat world champions at Go, they basically generated their own data sets by playing each other.
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