Eiso Kant

17 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 7, 2024 by Eiso Kant · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Insight
Kant: AI training requires co-located servers, while inference can be distributed
“For inference, we don't need all of the machines to be connected to each other in the same place. For training, we need them all to be connected to each other in the same room, in the same place.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 35:38 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kant: $100B is merely the starting price to become an AI hyperscaler
“If you want to become a hyperscaler that is able to put data centers all over the world with GPUs in it that is, that are going to allow you to serve these models to everyone, an infrastructure player, that's probably it. And that's probably just a starting po…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 31:57 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 negative
Insight
Eiso Kant: AI regulation disproportionately harms young startups over funded incumbents
“The reality of regulation in many cases is that it becomes an expensive bureaucratic overhead. And that harms the most young startups. It doesn't harm companies that have raised massive amounts of capital.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:09:33 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eiso Kant: Global AI regulation will focus on end-user applications
“The world is finding a balance and the balance that I'd like to see that the world is, and I think it's moving towards it, is to regulate the end user application of AI.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:09:49 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 positive
Opinion
Kant: Elon Musk repeatedly built companies that shouldn't have existed
“I think Elon is one of the most impressive examples of someone who has done this For such a prolonged amount of time, at moments in time when the entire world, you know, refused to align around his view, I think there's companies in the world that get built be…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 49:55 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Kant: Believing AI progress will halt in 10 years is a misconception
“That it's going to, that progress is going to halt.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:08:19 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 positive
Insight
Kant: Unlike normal startups, building AGI is a direct competitive race
“Most startups are not racist. Most startups are against your, yourself. But AGI is a race, and so our view always has been, is that the team that we build is a team that is deeply passionate to be in that race”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:00:21 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kant: Data Centers Built in Two Years Will Look Radically Different
“The data centers from, you know, two years ago versus the data centers in terms of size and power requirement that we're going to see in the next two years look radically different, not just because the scale of number of servers and nodes that we're interconn…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 35:24 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024
Insight
Eiso Kant: Capital scales AI compute directly, but not talent or data
“What we are going to find is that for compute, dollars have a direct one-on-one effect. But when we look at data, when we look at proprietary applied research, and we look at talent, It is not as straightforward as dollars in magic, you know, success out on th…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 42:05 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 bullish
Insight
Kant: Poolside is generating intermediate developer reasoning data to unlock software AI
“The missing data set in the world to go from where models are today to being as capable as humans at building software is the data set that represents being given the task, all of your intermediate reasoning and thinking, the steps that you do, the code that y…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 4:17 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 positive
Insight
Kant: Data is the real differentiator between competing AI models
“The real differentiation between two models is the data.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 9:52 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Insight
Kant: Model training is CapEx, while inference is OpEx
“The creation of models is CapEx. The operating of them, the inference to running of them is OPEX. But the OPEX to run them requires extremely large scale physical footprint in the world.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 33:32 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kant: Internet has 3T usable code tokens vs 15T English text tokens
“Usable code for training is what we refer to as about three trillion tokens. And if you look at kind of usable language in English on the internet for training, we're talking about anywhere between 10 and 15 trillion tokens. There's a massive amount of code th…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 3:36 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kant: AI infrastructure build-out is largest since cloud boom
“I think this is the, one of the largest build outs that we've seen in physical infrastructure since, you know, the last couple of decades in, in the cloud.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 34:35 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 positive
Opinion
Kant: Elite tech talent willing to make extreme sacrifices exists worldwide
“I have found no shortage of people in Europe that, or in America, there's a stereotype about Europe But the fact of the matter is that people who want to join races and do truly their life's work, they're built differently, and you can find them all over the w…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:00:59 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Kant: Only global conflict disrupting chip supply could halt AI progress
“Global conflict that disrupts the supply chain of chips.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:08:25 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kant: Full AGI is far off, but specific high-value capabilities will arrive first
“At some point we are going to be in a world where across all sets of capabilities that we have as human beings, Machine intelligence is going to be as capable and if not more capable than us and surpass us. Now, our point of view is, is that that world is stil…”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 1:42 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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