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Murdock: AI tokens are not commodities because model customization changes their value
“I disagree with a token as a token. That may be true at the moment with pretty much frontier models, but I disagree with it because companies like fireworks and others are helping companies to customize. The more you customize the model, the more the token cha…”
Murdock: Containers are not safe for AI tools and require sandboxes
“Containers aren't safe. You need sandboxes. This is why. The big container company, Docker said, Hey, themselves said containers aren't safe. You better put in a sandbox.”
Murdock: ASIC Chips Are Ideal for Customization While GPUs Are Too Expensive
“I, look, Asics chips are really ideal if you're thinking about model customization. If you're saying, look, we're at a new phase in, in, in this AI build out, or what we really want to do is, is, is do a lot of model specialization. You don't need a GPU for th…”
Murdock: Autonomous agent co-work is starting to threaten legacy SaaS companies
“And as co-work becomes, you know, more successful and more stable and more broadly used, I would be really concerned about SaaS companies that don't have some kind of system of record or some kind of AI strategy in place to succeed. Because the co-work era, it…”
Jerry Murdock: AI displacement begins with hiring freezes for junior white-collar roles
“First of all, not to the people with the job. First of all, to the next person in line, the next junior developer you want to hire, the next executive assistant, the next marketing person. So the first thing you see is people stopping or slowing down Hiring of…”
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous AI agents require visual recognition to understand reality
“Language is, is a very subpar Descriptor of the world. It's just limited. So for autonomous agents, we need a new system where we can visually recognize the world to be able to have an objective view of reality for the autonomous agent.”
Jerry Murdock: New technology expands software markets before contracting them
“Normally when a new technology comes, it sort of expands the market before it contracts, because people are already in their momentum.”
Jerry Murdock: Most successful founders are socially challenged
“Most of the most successful people are going to be challenged socially.”
Jerry Murdock: Suspicious of any consumer technology under one billion users
“Until you get to a billion users, I'm suspicious of any consumer technology.”
Murdock: Customizing models executes specific tasks cheaper than frontier models
“If you only have a million dollars to spend, You could spend that million dollars on customization and getting specific tasks done a lot more efficiently than you can on a frontier model.”