Opinion
Grinberg: Lacking frontier open-source AI models in the US is embarrassing
“I think it's pretty embarrassing that we don't have frontier open models in the United States.”
Insight
Grinberg: Believing a good product sells itself is delusional
“There's a very common Silicon Valley fallacy, which is there's like research is like the pinnacle. And then there's engineers who implement the research, you know, they're not quite there, but you know, they're still great. And then there's sales and marketing…”
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Grinberg: Coding speed and syntax memorization no longer matter for engineers
“And the parts of engineering that become less important are funny enough, the things that the Silicon Valley has really bragged about a lot, which is like, Competition winning or like Olympiad type. Are you like as fast as possible at coding? Are you, do you m…”
Insight
Grinberg: Institutional Math Olympiad track records can be an anti-signal in hiring
“Especially there's some high schools that, like, really focus on, like, you must do the math olympic, like, you must do this, the Amy, to then go to the IMO, and, like, this is the path to success, where actually that's kind of anti-signal, because there it's,…”
Opinion
Grinberg: Advocating to slow down AI development is harmful and selfish
“And by saying you want to slow down AI, that's saying like, These people who have relationships with loved ones who have dementia, you're like, no, no, no, sorry, you guys, you gotta maintain that relationship for a little bit longer. We're scared. We don't kn…”
Opinion
Grinberg: Ivanka Trump provides better hands-on help than traditional VCs
“She is genuinely so kind, so intelligent, and like, people just in, throughout tech, throughout the world, really love her, and for good reason, and she has an incredible network. She's so generous with her time. Like, there is, like, kind of dirty work invest…”
Insight
Grinberg: Software requiring forward-deployed engineers to close deals is a bad product
“If we need FDEs to make the product work, we have a shit product. Like, the point of FDEs should be accelerate and get them consuming faster. If you're putting in FDEs, because that's the only way you'll get a deal done, I'm sorry, my friend, you have a shit p…”
Opinion
Grinberg: AI labor displacement warnings are disingenuous hype designed for mega-fundraising
“I think that has been not only like disingenuine and wrong, but it's like really hurt the psychology of a lot of people, developers, like just people in the world. Does AI a disservice? Does the world a disservice? Because this is again, talking about the use …”
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Grinberg: Usage of frontier AI models may contract in the short term
“We might see a short-term contraction of usage of the very frontier models.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Grinberg: Kirkland's $500M AI push will ultimately benefit legal AI vendors
“Now, I actually think this is good for Harvey because it's nothing like trying to do something yourself to make you realize, oh, shit, this is actually really difficult. This doesn't actually matter for us to have the in-house ability to build this ourselves. …”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Grinberg: AI frontier models will remain roughly equivalent to each other
“The bare case against factory is if one model provider gets significantly better than all of the others. So basically I think a key thing for us is that all the models are going to be roughly as good as each other.”
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Grinberg: Enterprises will realize frontier AI models are unnecessary for most tasks
“A lot of enterprises will realize so many of the tasks that we're doing, we don't need the very frontier to do it. Like, and we can do it much faster, much cheaper with these open models.”
Insight
Grinberg: Enterprises Entering 'AI Hangover' Over High Costs and Unclear ROI
“Phase three is the hangover, where you go and look at the bill, and it's like, oh my god, we are spending so much. I have no idea what the ROI is. Does this, like, is this helping our business? That's where a lot of these companies are at now”
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Grinberg: Enterprise wasted hundreds of thousands monthly on trivial Opus queries
“One of the CIOs I was speaking with realized we've been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on people asking Opus 4.8 questions like, Hey, how's it going? Like, what should, what are my macros from the food I ate today? Like, what's the weather…”
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Grinberg: Individual AI token spend will range from 0% to tens of thousands % of salary
“I actually think it can be as low as zero percent for some individuals, and it can be as high as like 1010 of thousands of percent for some individuals.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Grinberg: Median developer AI token spend will match salary within three years
“I would say order of magnitude will probably be comparable to salary.”
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Grinberg: Open-source models can execute 80% to 90% of frontier AI tasks
“Probably, like, 80 to 90%. It's typically the planning that really needs the frontier models.”
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Grinberg: AI startups ignoring sales will fail when market gravity returns
“I think that the reality is it will come to haunt some of these companies one day, because I think right now where there's a gold rush and everyone's like desperate to sign, you know, and get more tokens from these people, it's easy. They're kind of like, in m…”
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Grinberg: Software engineers will build automated factories rather than write code
“The future of software development is where these organizations, instead of having engineers, That build the software. They're going to have engineers that build the factories that build their software.”
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Grinberg: AI infrastructure is not in a long-term bubble
“Maybe there's like some short term blips, but like long term, absolutely not. Like not even close. I think there might be similar corrections to like this thing at Uber, Where, oh, we were going a little haywire. We weren't allocating it appropriately. And the…”
Opinion
Matan Grinberg: Founders should accept valuation discounts for Sequoia Capital
“So generally, yes. I mean, they're the best firm.”
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Grinberg: Major security incidents from AI code will hit within two years
“I think there are probably going to be in the next couple years some pretty big incidents that occur because of,”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Grinberg predicts at least four AI companies will achieve frontier model parity
“There was a brief period of time where I thought it might be just one or two companies that run away with being kind of the frontier and the best. What seems pretty clear to me is it's probably going to be at least four that are going to probably be approximat…”
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Grinberg: Future AI tools will enable anyone to build anything
“The world going forward, there is going to be nothing that no one can build.”
