base model

also referred to as: base models

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 9, 2024 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →

Everything said about base model, oldest first

May 9, 2024 bearish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Horowitz: AI economic value will accrue to tools, not base models

“The actual layer where the value is gonna crew is gonna be like tools, orchestration, that kind of thing, because you can just plug in whatever the best model is at the time. Whereas the models are gonna be competing, you know, in a death battle with each othe…”

Ben Horowitz May 9, 2024 ▶ 29:05 Build Your Startup With AI

Mar 20, 2025 bullish

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Mensch: General-purpose base AI models will eventually become open source

“There are general purpose models like base models, compression of the web. That are eventually going to be open source and that can serve as the right basis for constructing specialized systems.”

Arthur Mensch Mar 20, 2025 ▶ 4:12 Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

base model

Everything said about base model, oldest first

Turn any episode into a week of clips.