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Reyes: Model training and self-improvement will not stay exclusive to frontier labs
“And so I think that right now the, there's like a couple of companies that claim that, like, recursive self-improvement and model training will be only their domain. And I think in reality, many businesses will have access to that technology via software servi…”
Opinion
Reyes: Frontier labs must pursue regulatory capture or multi-model architectures
“Part of what needs to happen in order to make these
companies like Anthropica and OpenAI realize the value is they either A, which they're pursuing, have to go through regulatory capture, in which case they go and they tell, they sort of scare politicians int…”
Assertion Contradicted
Reyes: Major AI model providers explicitly plan to compete with customers
“At least, you know, two of the largest companies that provide models today have explicitly said, we are going to go after every single one of these industries and businesses that we provide like intelligence for.”
Opinion
Reyes: Labeling open-source AI 'Chinese models' is a frontier lab psyop
“I think calling open source models Chinese models is a psyop by the frontier labs to basically trick people into thinking that they're scary and otherize them.”
Assertion Supported
Reyes: Chinese AI models show no unique security backdoors versus US models
“For me, the Chinese models specifically have demonstrated no examples where they have some sort of security risk or backdoor compared to American models.”
Opinion
Reyes: OpenAI and Anthropic are currently in the Netscape and Yahoo era
“We are probably in like the Yahoo era where we don't actually have, or at least widely recognize The Googles of the world, or like the sort of the thing that comes after. And so today, when I look at OpenAI and Anthropic, there are, I think, more analogies to …”
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Reyes: The smartest AI models will be the cheapest for complex tasks
“For many of the most intelligent demanding tasks, I see a world where the smartest model is actually the cheapest.”
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Reyes: Open-source models will likely dominate commodity AI tasks
“There is going to be probably a difference between the commodity task executors. So this is just like your everything model and that we think will be dominated by open models.”
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Reyes: Enterprises will soon generate specialized models via simple web platforms
“Well, very shortly, already to a certain extent you can open up a platform, go into their, you know, web page, click a couple buttons, describe the task you care about, point it towards those workflows that happen in your business today, and out comes a model.…”
Opinion
Reyes: AI data companies like Mercor are undervalued by venture investors
“These data companies, like you mentioned Mercore, yes, they sell data, but every person at that company gets how AI is going to look much clearer than the average human, and that makes them worth significantly more than, you know, even what investors will say.”
Insight
Reyes: AI foundation model margins are worse than application margins
“The margin profile of the models is definitely worse than the applications.”
Insight
Reyes: Being Model-Locked Is a Huge Disadvantage for Outcome-Focused AI Apps
“I think that the application layer is going to be a much harder battle because being model locked is actually a huge disadvantage if you're trying to sell outcomes.”
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Reyes: Local open models will be the most cost-effective consumer solution in 1-3 years
“I think that probably the consumer will continue to follow the sort of like most cost effective solution. And so what does that look like in one, two, three years? I think it's open models. I think the most cost effective solution for a model is going to be th…”
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.”
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Reyes: True continuous learning within a closed-loop LLM does not exist
“There was an idea of continuous learning from over the last couple of years that said that you would have a, like a literal LLM like model where all of the learning happens internal to this closed loop system. That technology has not been developed. It doesn't…”
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Reyes: Cursor will struggle to stay model-independent and orient around Grok
“It's going to be a very hard story to become Model independent, or rather stay model independent when you're attached to a model lab. So they're going to want to push Grok, the models, the products are going to become increasingly oriented around Grok, and tha…”
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Reyes: Enterprises will hesitate to adopt Cursor due to model lock-in
“However, I do think for that, most of the enterprises are going to have a second look at the idea of sort of seeding their software development lifecycle to a provider who is one, likely to be model locked, and two has an existing sort of history or pattern of…”
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Reyes: Users will choose AI models based on opinions, not just performance
“Models are going to be like that as well, where they emit opinions and they have takes that are different from the ones that are most popular, and people will gravitate towards those.”
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Reyes: 80% to 90% of AI neo-labs will die within 18 months
“I think it could be 80 to 90% of Neolabs die in the next 18 months. And die is going to be a funny word to use because it'll probably be for a lot of them incredible outcomes. So I don't know if it's necessarily doom and gloom as much as it's these businesses …”
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Reyes: Almost all AI model usage will be open in three years
“I think close to, I think almost all usage of models in three years are going to be primarily open, but that difference between frontier and open is going to become actually larger than it is today.”
Opinion
Reyes: 99% of Global 2000 enterprise workflows do not need frontier models
“But if you go into any business in the global 2000 today, and you look at, you ask any random person, what are you doing today? It's not something that needs the true frontier of intelligence, like, 99% of the time, and so cost will dominate.”
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Reyes: Microsoft Will Win in AI Regardless of Which Model Succeeds
“The biggest thing that Microsoft has going for it is that infra. They own so many of these data centers. They're spending so much on build out. No matter what model runs on top of that, Microsoft is going to win.”
Opinion
Reyes: OpenAI and Anthropic face existential risk from data center debt
“If you're open AI or you're anthropic, the hundreds of billions in free cash flow that you need in order to pay back the debt that you're taking on in order to accommodate these data center build outs in order to get the next big training run, it's totally exi…”
Opinion
Reyes: Chamath's critique of Silicon Valley reflects how Chamath made his money
“I think that that is something that it sounds like Chamath would say, because frankly, that's how he's made his money.”
