model

also referred to as: models

21 statements across 19 episodes · 11 bullish · 7 bearish · 16 people on the record · first statement Apr 12, 2021 by Nik Storonsky · across every show →

Everything said about model, oldest first

Apr 12, 2021 negative
Insight
Storonsky: Decision-makers must rely on quantitative models over intuition
“When you do, like, you know, five, 10 trades a day based on intuition, sooner or later you realize the world doesn't work on the intuition, so you need somehow to plan it in a better way rather than your intuition.”
Nik Storonsky Apr 12, 2021 ▶ 4:29 20VC: Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky on His Leadership Style and Relationship To Ambition, His Biggest Lessons From Scaling Revolut Globally; What Worked, What Did Not & Why Speed of Product Shipment is The Most Important Thing
Jun 30, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Douwe Kiela: LLMs generate inaccurate statements with high confidence
“These models make things up with very high confidence.”
Douwe Kiela Jun 30, 2023 ▶ 8:16 Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 28, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cris Valenzuela predicts AI will cease to exist as a distinct category
“We're going to stop referring to it as AI. We're just going to think about it as tools. I think I'm really looking forward to the moment in time where there's no discussion around AI in the same way that today we don't discuss the Internet as a thing. It's jus…”
Cris Valenzuela Aug 28, 2023 ▶ 51:54 Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 15, 2023 negative
Insight
Emad Mostaque: Unbiased AI Models Do Not Exist
“There is no such thing as an unbiased model.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 15:48 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
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Lightcap: AI model scaling laws have held predictably consistent for six years
“I think it's how consistently the scaling of models has worked. It still breaks my brain. Like I don't, maybe I've been, if we've, I've watched the same trend line for six years now, but I still find it incredible that you can make these models bigger and they…”
Brad Lightcap Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 48:29 Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2024 bullish
Insight
Wang: Overwhelming Models With Scenario Data Solves AI Reasoning
“It's like you need data for every scenario where you want these models to reason well in, You just need to overwhelm them with data in all those scenarios, and you're gonna get models that can reason really well.”
Alex Wang Jun 12, 2024 ▶ 10:45 Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 5, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cahn: Separate Data Center and AI Model Teams Will Fail as Models Scale
“I think the vertical integration piece is gonna matter in the sense of you can't have a separate team running the data center and a separate team building the model. That is just not gonna work as these models get bigger and bigger. You need to deeply couple t…”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 23:12 David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 4, 2024 negative
Insight
Altman: Startups patching current AI model flaws will become obsolete
“We are gonna try our hardest and believe we will succeed at making our models better and better and better, and if you are building a business that patches some current small shortcomings, if we do our job right, then that will not be as important in the futur…”
Sam Altman Nov 4, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 9, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Benioff: Salesforce Built Two of the Top Five AI Models
“Well, two out of the top five models in the industry are Salesforce models, Salesforce builds a lot of models.”
Marc Benioff Dec 9, 2024 ▶ 15:25 Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 17, 2025
Assertion Supported
Groq deploys 600 to 3,000 chips per AI model instead of eight
“So rather than using eight chips, we'll use 600 or 3000 for a model.”
Jonathan Ross Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 19:34 Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krieger: AI foundation models will differentiate over time, not converge
“I think models over time get more different rather than more similar.”
Mike Krieger Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:16 Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 3, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krieger: AI models are three-plus years from solving product strategy
“That, that's still a very human problem that I think we're at least three years away from the models being, being solving at that level of abstraction.”
Mike Krieger Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 48:24 Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Insight
Casado: AI Models Lack Long-Term Moats Because Distillation Is Too Easy
“So historically, Models don't really keep much of an advantage because they're so easy to distill.”
Martin Casado Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 4:48 a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 7, 2025 bullish
Insight
Rory O'Driscoll: GPUs and foundational models dominate the AI tech stack over applications
“I think that the two people who have, the two categories in the stack that didn't meaningfully exist at scale in SAS and cloud land that exists now are the GPUs, which is all Jensen and the models. Neither of those kind of categories even existed. And obviousl…”
Rory O'Driscoll Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 1:02:57 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 8, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Staniszewski: AI model cost declines will validate weak application-layer unit economics
“The unit economics in most of those cases that you mentioned is pretty, pretty poor, but I think the strategy is that yes, one, the models will optimize in cost, and then two, they will be the brands that customers trust, and then they can actually use a lot o…”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 50:20 ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Insight
O'Driscoll: AI model owners will capture more value than cloud providers
“From the perspective of, say, five or 10 years from now, the people selling cloud computing to the people who own the models will probably not make as much money as the people who own the models.”
Rory O'Driscoll Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 29:20 Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Ross: Hardware incumbents win because AI models are optimized for existing GPUs
“So if you are the incumbent, you have an advantage because people are designing their models for your hardware. It doesn't even matter if there's a better architecture out there. It's not going to run well, so it's not a better architecture.”
Jonathan Ross Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 25:22 Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 10, 2025
Insight
Randle: Financial models in VC only serve to test conviction
“And so I think beyond being like a yardstick to test your conviction, models aren't that useful, but for that, they're really, really good.”
Everett Randle Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 55:00 Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 29, 2026 positive
Insight
Reyes: Agent harnesses solve AI problems, not models or gateways
“People really want the problems to be solved, like sort of somewhere else, like in the model or in the gateway, but more and more we see it's the harness that solves these problems.”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 31:12 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Aug 29, 2026 bearish
Insight
Reyes: AI foundation model margins are worse than application margins
“The margin profile of the models is definitely worse than the applications.”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 14:21 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Opinion
O'Driscoll: Advanced AI models have had a massive impact on cyber risk
“I mean, I think to be fair, unlike some of the other PDOOM stuff, right, there's real evidence that the impact of these models on cyber risk has been massive.”
Rory O'Driscoll Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 31:37 Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
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