Nick Frosst

7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2025 by Nick Frosst · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Sep 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
Frosst: AGI Hype Is the Most Damaging Rhetoric in AI
“I think the hype around AGI is the most damaging and confusing.”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 23:52 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025
Assertion Supported
Frosst: Core transformer architecture has remained largely unchanged for a decade
“The models themselves, like transformer architecture, which is the original model that, yeah, that was introduced in Hasn't changed very much, right? Like all, the whole industry is still using transformers. We've changed the way we train them, but the model a…”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 4:41 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Frosst: Fewer than 20 companies globally build foundational large language models
“Maybe there's like 10 companies in the world that are building, like, large language models. In the, yeah, maybe the, in, maybe there's like 15 in, I don't know, we'll have to figure out how, there's a few that have popped up recently. But there's some number,…”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 3:41 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frosst: Current large language model technology will not lead to AGI
“I think when people are talking about building towards AGI like, I don't think this technology gets us there.”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 10:04 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
Frosst: Claims of AI Posing an Imminent Existential Threat Are Incorrect
“The idea that, oh, this technology is like poses an imminent existential threat to humanity writ large was not a, was incorrect.”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 24:02 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frosst: Prompt engineering will be replaced by understanding how LLMs actually work
“So I think the idea of saying like, oh yeah, you got to learn how to prompt is going to go away. I think the idea of saying you need to learn how language models work and you need to know what they can and can't do in the same way you had to learn how a comput…”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 37:19 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025
Insight
Frosst: Creating the Best AI Model Requires Training Directly on Its Interface
“And if you want to make the best model for a given, you know, interface, it's best to be training the model on that interface.”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 12:19 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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