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Luan: Vertical integration pressure will merge model builders and chip makers
“That's my expectation. To me, like what's interesting about AI from a business side, right, is like it forces the question of like, what Companies or offerings are going to be bundled or integrated and which ones are going to get unbundled. And I actually thin…”
Luan: AI scaling will not suffer diminishing returns on compute
“The second way of improving model performance is just starting to be tapped now, and that's also going to absorb a boatload of compute. So because of that, I actually am not worried about diminishing returns to the compute over time.”
Luan: There will be only five to seven max-scale LLM providers long-term
“I do think there will not be that many LLM players. I think that there will probably be, my guess is somewhere between five to seven long-term steady state LLM providers at maximum scale, just because of the costs involved.”
Luan: Apple will dominate private on-device AI running at the edge
“And so I think as a result, I think Apple is just going to completely crush at everything that looks like something that's really private, something that's fine-tuned on your own particular data, but doesn't require massive reasoning capability. And that will …”
Luan: Developer-focused model sellers must align with clouds or face commoditization
“Companies that sell models to developers will either need to effectively be the like first party effort of one of these big clouds, or they have a short window between now and commoditization to build such a big economic flywheel that they can afford to stay i…”
Luan: In 5–10 Years, Computer Interaction Will Be Goal-Driven
“I just think in five to 10 years, people are gonna use their computers by giving them high-level goals, right?”
Luan: AI will not take all jobs, humans will drive agentic systems
“Like, that's not, I don't think this is how this is going to play out. I think the way this is going to play out is, Is that what we're going to have as humans fundamentally be the drivers of these agentic systems that like that, like basically give everybody …”
Luan: AI will not plateau like autonomous vehicles due to ongoing model breakthroughs
“What's going to prevent this for what I think has a hope of preventing this from just being a hype cycle that falls flat like AB is that those things are, those shoes are yet to drop. And as they do, the capabilities of these models are going to continue to im…”
Luan: Open-source AI will lag closed models over the next five years
“And I think in the next five years, open will always lag closed. And because open will always lag closed, because open just has fewer resources behind them and fewer incentives for people to go to go make things to be open as these things become more and more …”
Luan: AI agents in five years will function like brain-computer interfaces
“Agents in five years time, I mean it's kind of gonna be, like, a non-invasive, like, brain-computer interface, basically. I think that's what an agent will be. Like, all of us are gonna be up-leveled. We're going to, you know, it's gonna feel like the same tra…”
Luan: AI will make workers generalists supervising specialized AI co-pilots
“So I think what it's gonna do is it's gonna make humans at work much more like generalists, and it's gonna have, like, causes to create larger and larger, oh, sorry, like or giving people sort of, like, larger and larger scope over various different, like, are…”