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Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 50:59 Shyam Sankar But after World War II, he was sent to Oak Ridge, uh, at the, the vestiges of the Manhattan Project.
Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- ▶ 26:04 Emil Michael We need more people to do that because we used to have government service as an honored profession, the Manhattan Project, the best scientists.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 0:03 Jeetu Patel This is, like, the combination of the build-out of the internet, the space race, and the Manhattan Project all put into one, where there's a geopolitical implication of it, there's an economic implication, there's a national security…
- ▶ 2:33 Jeetu Patel Um, the, um, the thing I would say that's, that's really interesting is this is like the combination of the build out of the internet, the space race, and the Manhattan Project all put into one.
Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
- ▶ 53:31 Marc Andreessen And so the, the movie basically tells the story of, of course, Robert Oppenheimer, the, the sort of person who ran the, the Manhattan Project, uh, created the atomic bomb, which was then, you know, at least historically gets credit for,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:04 Katherine Boyle Like, like your, the portrayal in Berkeley, like, was a very interesting, you know, like, you kind of, you saw this complex figure and complex character, and then there's this whole middle section, um, on the Manhattan Project that kind of… 2 times in the scene
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 12:48 Guido Appenzeller So I think basically having the government drive all of AI strategy, you know, Manhattan-style project or Apollo project, pick your favorite successful project there, I can't see that working.
- ▶ 13:40 Anish Acharya The history of centralized planning at the frontier of technology is not great, barring a few situations that were essentially, um, brief sprints of war, right, and arguably even the Manhattan Project, which is kind of the, the analogy I…
Powering the Next Big Things
- ▶ 16:59 Doug Burgum I mean, everything is for us right now is like a Manhattan project, uh, and we, we've got to be able to deliver that kind of urgency.
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 53:37 Ben Horowitz So basically, and this is, um, the, where kind of our, uh, people with fake motivations weigh in on things like the Manhattan Project and so on. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 12:19 Marc Andreessen Yeah, so people look back, you know, this movie Oppenheimer that just swept the Oscars, which is, of course, an extraordinary movie, you know, tells sort of the Manhattan Project story, um, and then there's, you know, the famous Apollo… 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 1:28:12 Ben Horowitz His core argument was this is the Manhattan project. 3 times in the scene
Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- ▶ 41:52 Marc Andreessen Um, there is a third model, and this is the one that people often talk about, um, you know, as sort of an aspiration, which is this idea of these very large societal projects, and in, in, in the U.S., you know, we talk in particular about… 4 times in the scene
Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- ▶ 2:55 Ben Horowitz Uh, this one's from DJ Wayne, and he says, what was it about Oppenheimer's personality that made him different from other engineers and able to lead the Manhattan Project? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:38 Marc Andreessen He was an engineer at the Manhattan Project, um, and he conveyed, he conveyed, he, get this guy on the job, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:07 Marc Andreessen Yeah, there, well, there, uh, that was part of it, but then also on the Manhattan Project itself, um, there was, there was, I think what was called the gun, gun method, I think was references, which is like, which was the main thing they… 3 times in the scene
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 6:20 Palmer Luckey We built the Pentagon in 16 months, we completed the Manhattan Project in three years, and we put a man on the moon in under a decade.
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 22:21 Joel Mokyr And this is something that happens throughout history, all the way down to Project Manhattan, you know, and, and on and on and on.
a16z Podcast | On Government as Software Builder, Not Just Buyer
- ▶ 21:41 unnamed speaker The U.S. had just come through World War II, uh, had just completed the Manhattan Project, had launched the Apollo Project, and was building, like, the space program, the nuclear industry, and the, you know, the military as we know it…
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 17:39 Ilyas Khan The, the, the, the, the Apollo space mission program, um, was shrouded in the kind of secrecy that was really a hangover of the Manhattan Project.
Quantum Computing: A Primer
- ▶ 3:07 Frank Chen He helped design the atomic bomb at the Manhattan Project.