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Andreessen: AI market will feature diverse ecosystem, not just 'God models'

Marc Andreessen · Build Your Startup With AI · May 9, 2024 · at 1:06:05

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, compares the trajectory of AI to the evolution of computer hardware from mainframes to embedded chips, arguing against the idea that a few foundation models will dominate.

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“And so if that analogy holds, it basically means actually we are going to have AI models of every Conceivable shape size description capability right based on trained on lots of different kinds of data running at very different kinds of scale, very different privacy, different policies, different, you know, security policies, you know, you're just going to have like enormous variability and variety and it's going to be an entire ecosystem and not just a couple of companies.”

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