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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner Nov 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

Mobilizing the American Industrial Base Apr 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:48 David Ignatius DARPA and so many other agencies have tried to sponsor good ideas, and production at scale, deployment throughout, ah, military service.

How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver Aug 5, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:45 Sarah Wang He was an early pioneer in self-driving cars, working with Toyota and Stanford on DARPA's Grand Challenge before joining Google's self-driving car project, which then evolved into Waymo.
  • ▶ 1:24 David George Maybe to start, take us back to Stanford, if you will, and that was when you first started working on the DARPA project, and maybe give us a little bit of your history of how you ended up from there to here. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:22 Dmitry Dolgov That was the next big step is, ah, a number of us, ah, from the DARPA challenge competitions, ah, started the Google self-driving, ah, project.
  • ▶ 14:50 David George Um, but the DARPA school of thought is, um, you know, there's sort of a rules-based approach, right?
  • ▶ 27:46 David George You and I have talked a bunch about, you know, you said like, hey, going all the way back to DARPA, um, you know, it's kind of the same stuff, right?

The Future of AI Is Amazing Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:40 Martin Casado So when I joined Stanford to do my PhD in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA grand challenge, right?

Collaborative Disruption at DoD Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:02 Kathleen Hicks Think of DARPA funding early AI research at Stanford, the labs where Vince Cerf and Bob Kahn fathered the internet, and the grand challenges that road-tested technologies used in today's self-driving cars.

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter Jan 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:39 Marc Andreessen And created the sort of modern federal funding complex of things like the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, DARPA, and so forth for funding, funding research.

a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots Apr 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:07 Safi Bahcall So he created phase separation within the federal government, and that's, to this day, that really is the origin of the national research infrastructure of the United States, the National Science Foundation, the NIH, DARPA essentially came…

a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:38 John Hennessy I mean, if you look at the self-driving car, the tipping point was when the DARPA Grand Challenge was won, and that really was a key tipping point because it demonstrated the technology was considerable. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:40 Jeffrey Wu Department of Defense or DARPA to create super soldiers or just more enhanced humans. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts' Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53 Sonal Chokshi The DARPA now has a thing in, I mean, they've always partnered Silicon Valley and actually funded much of the early Silicon Valley for sure, but there's now a formal organization.

a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:33 Michael Franklin Our funding comes about half from, you know, the government from NSF and DARPA and places like that, and half from, half from companies.

a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon Dec 21, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:42 Chris Dixon Back when TCPIP and all these things were, you know, DARPA funded all this stuff.

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:58 Giovanni Vigna Uh, capture the flag Defcon hacking team, uh, in history, and we recently also participate to the Autonomics Cyber Challenge, uh, put up by DARPA, and we made, you know, we made the cut, and so we received 750,000 dollars in gift money,…

AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer Jul 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:39 Frank Chen In 2004, DARPA sponsored the very first Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert. 2 times in the scene

Chris Re Jul 15, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:16 Chris Ré Now, one thing that you may have seen here was that actually there's a database, and we're basically adding tuples to it, and one thing that I'll skip over a little bit quickly is that there are situations that we can use this information…
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