Andreessen: AI will commoditize into billions of cheap, localized models
Marc Andreessen · Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything! · Dec 5, 2023 · at 24:10
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of VC firm a16z, discusses whether AI will be dominated by a few central models or become cheap and commoditized across all software.
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“My guess is it's that second scenario. My guess basically is what we're about to see is something a lot like the microchip or the internet where you're going to have actually, you know, billions of AIs running around sort of with, you know, district, like a pyramid, you know, industry configuration where, you know, you'll have just a, you'll have a giant plurality of AIs that are on the smaller, cheaper end that will be doing all kinds of, you know, kind of localized functions. And you'll be able to, you know, basically summon intelligence at some level into any application you need for, you know, basically very cheap or ultimately basically the same as free. And then, you know, you'll have the God models in the background when you need like the super genius, but like for most things you don't actually need a super genius. And so I think, I do think it's actually like a re I have, it's a reasonable expectation that basically intelligence is going to be something that's going to get built into everything.”
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