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Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:13 Clay Bavor Character, inflection, adapt, great people at these companies, but the capital expense, uh, the ongoing capital expense to create what is effectively a highly perishable bag of floating point numbers just doesn't work.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, namely, we have first Norm Shazir, who was character AI, and then we have John Jumper, Nobel Prize winner, uh, co-creator of AlphaFold, also leaving to join Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:42 Anish Acharya Character, but also janitor, right?
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:24 David George And so, you know, as an example, you know, my partner, Sarah, um, led around a character AI and, you know, it was extremely early stage and,
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:38 Rory O'Driscoll But you got that, you've got inflection, adept, and character AI, which is the other one that Google did. 2 times in the scene
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:53 Victor Lazarte I think there was like ChatGPT and Character AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:10 Victor Lazarte In a few years, we're going to look back, and we're going to say that Character AI was Friendster. 2 times in the scene
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:01 Harry Stebbings Do you think we will continue to continue to see the consolidation of smaller players like Inflash and like Adept, like Character, continue to get acquired by the large incumbents?
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:01 Harry Stebbings We've had Character AI.
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:01 Harry Stebbings We've seen character inflection at that.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:03 Michael Eisenberg I'm in character AI.
Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:23 Nicole Quinn Maybe you're using character AI and talking to your favorite characters, but there's so much we can do with our new lottery of time.
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:13 Harry Stebbings I had Nom from Character on the show, and he said the biggest problem that we have is the cost of training. 2 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:13 Harry Stebbings When it costs, you know, I had the founder of Character.ai on the show, and it cost two million dollars to train a single model. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 3:27 Harry Stebbings Kicking us off today is Noam Shazia, founder and CEO at character.ai.
- ▶ 4:47 Harry Stebbings We had Character.ai there, and now we're joined by Chris at RunwayML on what matters more?
Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings Noam is the co-founder and CEO at Character.ai, a full stack
- ▶ 2:24 Noam Shazeer He's also one of our investors here at, uh, uh, Character, but, uh, he was going on, uh, on vacation for a couple of weeks, uh, you know, over the winter holiday.
- ▶ 3:25 Noam Shazeer Um, yeah, well, well, I, I think like right now I, I've, uh, you know, started this, uh, this company character 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Harry Stebbings So how do you think about characters, mission and vision? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:53 Harry Stebbings Character is producing a ton of proprietary data within your
- ▶ 21:04 Harry Stebbings Why is character, and I mean this in that, why is character a standalone company and not a product of Facebook? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:08 Harry Stebbings What do you think will be characters?
- ▶ 26:40 Harry Stebbings What's been the hardest aspect of building character for you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 Harry Stebbings What do people not understand about character that you wish that they did? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:34 Harry Stebbings Where will character AI be then?
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:08 Emad Mostaque A group of different friends, like Character AI has something like two hours a day of engagement per session, because people find this valuable, but then it has the dark side.
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:02 Harry Stebbings But like character AI, like, okay, you know, you know Josh Buckley, I know Josh Buckley, we speak every night. 2 times in the scene