Sebastian Thrun
4 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2025 by Ben Gilbert · said 28 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Oct 6, 2025 positive
Google's Self-Driving Team Completed the 'Larry 1000' Within 18 Months
“So, they start the project in 2009. Within 18 months, this tiny team, I think they hired, I don't know, it's like a dozen people or something. They've driven thousands of miles autonomously, and they managed to succeed in the full Larry 1000 within 18 months.”
Oct 6, 2025
Google X Was Formed in Late 2009 by Thrun, Page, and Brin
“Sebastian's concept of bringing these computer science machine learning academics into Google as contractors or part-time interns, basically letting them keep their academic posts and work on big projects for Google's products internally, goes so well that by …”
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 6, 2025 positive
Stanford's DARPA-Winning Vehicle Innovated Purely in Software Using Commodity Hardware
“The Stanford team did the exact opposite. They viewed any new piece of hardware as something that could fail, and so in order to mitigate risks on race day, they used all commodity cameras and sensors that they just mounted on a nearly unmodified Volkswagen. S…”