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Wu: Fewer than 10,000 researchers drive the vast majority of AI progress
“Somewhere in between those two is right. You know, I think there are at least a hundred folks that, that, that, that are, that really matter in making a lot. A lot of differences. Certainly less than 10,000 and probably a good bit less than that, if I had to g…”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 9:56 Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Wu: AI application layer talent competition is fiercer than at foundation labs
“I think the level of talent and the fierceness of competition is, in many of these is actually like, Greater even in the application layer, which is crazy to say, because I think the competition in the Foundation Labs is extremely strong.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 10:29 Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Wu: Current AI coding capabilities alone would fundamentally transform the world
“In AI code, to be truly honest, if there was zero progress, the world would still be entirely different.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 0:24 Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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