Academics

“90% of kids who are using chatbots for academics are cheating and not learning.”

“We're launching a basically free. Dashboard, service, web, app, platform, free for academics, or free for anybody who will publish their data, basically free for open source data.”

“You know, one of the things that I did not realize going in is how few parents actually care about academics.”

“I see is this is a game that won't be played by academics like before, because just to do the inference compute, to do all these reasoning, like getting an output, going back and reasoning building a rationale, then going back and getting another output, just …”

“It's really hard to actually build interesting tools as an academic. You can't really hire great engineers. Everything is kind of on a paper to paper timeline.”

“It's very hard to find an academic who is able to ship a product”

“I really think people in open source and academics are going to figure out how to use any preference data on any model just because they're scrappy.”

“And you just can't have AI built by UN committee. It just doesn't exist. And it's one of the things that academics mostly don't understand because they've never, most of them, not all, of course, but most have never built anything, don't really understand how …”

“So the actual government is what remains constant through elections. And that's, you know, the official bureaucracy of, you know, about three million federal employees, many of whom have career tenure. And if so, they were not elected and can't be fired. Okay.…”

“I think there is a potential danger in these kind of new age content creators becoming sort of new versions of academics in an ivory tower where you just share ideas all day but you don't actually have to implement them”

“Just in the last three years, we've had tons more interest from companies who come to us as academics and say, look, can we jointly work on something with you? I mean, that's really been a sea change.”