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Bornstein: Chinese AI labs without commercial funding will rely on government backing
“If there's no source of economic, if there's no source of funding for Moonshot to continue to train models, like, we know where the funding will come from instead, and it's not, like, something we, right, you know, it's government and things that, like, are ac…”
Matt Bornstein Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 22:41 How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030
Bornstein: AI developer tools will increase, not shrink, software engineering headcount
“I think the best way to think about this is simply that we're going to have more developers. I think it's very unlikely that like we're going to shrink development teams because we have amazing new tools. Like that's just kind of not how these markets have wor…”
Matt Bornstein Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 36:29 The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bornstein: AI data access will be solved by scraping, not protocols
“These problems are rarely solved by defining a new protocol and just saying like, Hey, if we make it easy for people to give away their core assets, they'll just do it. You know, obviously, you know, that's very unlikely to work, but someone eventually will so…”
Matt Bornstein May 2, 2025 ▶ 30:52 What Is an AI Agent?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bornstein: Low-latency interactive AI books are near technical reality
“I think we actually can do it now. Like, I think we're actually quite close to having, like, a low latency, fully interactive book, and things like Hidro are kind of the key piece.”
Matt Bornstein Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 7:04 Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
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