Steeve Morin

13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 24, 2025 by Steeve Morin · across every show →

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Feb 24, 2025
Insight
Morin: Interconnect dependency is the core difference between training and inference
“In terms of infra, probably the number one thing that is the number one difference between these two is the need for interconnect. So if you do, you know, production, you, if you can avoid to have interconnect between, you know, let's say a cluster of GPUs, of…”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 17:58 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Morin: Founders should focus on success before worrying about European AI regulation
“No, I don't care. I have zero, I, this is something I makes me wonder sometimes. I understand the narrative and so on, but I am absolutely not fearful. Let's be successful first and then we'll talk about the politics.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:10:10 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025
Insight
Morin: Closed-source AI models are actually complex backend constellations
“At least if you look at close source model, they're not really models. They're more like backend, right? And there are a lot of tricks that you feel like you're talking to one model, but ultimately you're talking to a constellation, an assembly of backends tha…”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 2:07 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Morin: Cold emails offering discounted GPU compute began in late 2024
“I'm getting cold emails for, you know, discounts, you know, from services I never heard about. It's, and it, and I started getting these emails probably around October, November.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 23:45 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Morin: Stargate data center is inefficient vertical scaling for AI
“It is a vertical scaling. And as you know, my days are spent on efficiency. So I look at these things as being like, all right, this is a bigger, you know, this is an American car of AI. It's big. It consumes a lot of gas, but ultimately, you know, it's not a …”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:11 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Future AI backend APIs will run locally in enterprise clouds
“The thing is, that API will be running locally, right? Locally, I mean, in your own, you know, cloud, you know, instances, and so on.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 2:59 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Morin: Written-off narratives about Mistral AI's demise are baseless FUD
“They are very competent. So I don't know. I think it's easy to spread FUD. There's a lot of FUD going around, especially about regulation and everything. But here's the thing. I look around me and I don't see You know, what I read. I am hardly convinced about,…”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:10:55 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Nvidia may lose market dominance in AI inference and training
“I think that there's a shot that they don't.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 35:25 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 negative
Insight
Morin: Cloud compute hoarding creates fake AI GPU scarcity
“So in, in the case of, you know, Amazon or Google, that would be buying reserved compute, which you're not going to use because if you buy it on demand, you will get tremendously ripped off. So that creates this like face scarcity of compute because that peopl…”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 22:35 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Morin: Switching from Nvidia to AMD offers 4x spend efficiency
“A simple example is if you know, switch from Nvidia to AMD on a seven TB model, you can get four times better efficiency, right? In terms of spend.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 3:44 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Running standalone AI model weights will eventually become obsolete
“Models in the sense of, you know, getting, you know, weights and running them is something that is ultimately going away because you know, in favor of like full blown backends, right? You feel like you're talking to a model, but ultimately you're talking to an…”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 2:41 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025
Insight
Morin: Talent and energy are the primary bottlenecks in AI
“What is ultimately the number, the, probably the two limiting factor today is talent. And energy. That's it.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 1:12:49 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morin: Auto-scaling AI inference yields 5x to 10x spend efficiency
“And that's number, probably the number one thing that, you know, gives you a lot of efficiency in terms of spend. Like we're talking, you know, multiples, like, you know, five, you know, sometimes 10 X, you know, improvement.”
Steeve Morin Feb 24, 2025 ▶ 21:35 Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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