Justin Johnson

8 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2024 by Justin Johnson · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Sep 20, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Justin Johnson: Native 3D AI representations will outperform 2D video generation
“Modeling the two D projections of a dynamic three D world is, is a function that probably can be modeled, but by putting a three D representation into the heart of a model, there's just going to be a better fit between the kind of representation that the model…”
Justin Johnson Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 31:00 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Insight
Justin Johnson: AI is shifting from analyzing web data to sensor data
“The previous decade had mostly been about understanding data that already exists. But the next decade was going to be about understanding new data.”
Justin Johnson Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 21:32 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Sep 20, 2024 negative
Insight
Justin Johnson: Multimodal LLMs shoehorn visual data into 1D token sequences
“And now the multimodal LLMs that we're seeing now, you kind of end up shoehorning the other modalities into this underlying representation of a one D sequence of tokens. Now when we move to spatial intelligence, it's kind of going the other way. Where we're sa…”
Justin Johnson Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 27:44 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Johnson: Generative new view prediction in Atlas is AI-complete
“But I think that's something we're kind of realizing, and Ben was talking about this earlier today, is, like, new view prediction, this primitive that we have in Atlas, especially generative new view prediction, this is also AI complete.”
Justin Johnson Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 42:09 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Sep 2026
Johnson: No base model has used new view prediction before Atlas
“And this is a really fundamental primitive that we think is super exciting, a super new primitive For base models that no one's ever done before, right?”
Justin Johnson Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 3:01 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: World Labs' models improved significantly with each increase in compute
“Each time we made the model bigger and each time we trained it for longer, each time we put it on more chips, like it got significantly better.”
Justin Johnson Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 23:17 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Johnson: World Labs' Atlas model generates, reconstructs, and simulates the world
“Atlas is our new next generation world model. It has three basic things. It can generate, reconstruct, and simulate the world.”
Justin Johnson Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:06 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
Sep 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Johnson: Scaling spatial world models is primarily bottlenecked by training compute
“I think we're basically at the beginning, and we're basically limited by compute at this point, right? Like, data is very important, as Fei-Fei likes to point out, but, like, everything has a bottleneck, and I think the main bottleneck on continuing to scale t…”
Justin Johnson Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 22:56 Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
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