Big Models

topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes

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a16z Insight
Horowitz: Specialized AI startups thrive despite threat from foundation models
“Ideas that we thought would for sure get subsumed by the big models are becoming amazingly differentiated businesses just because the fat tail of the universe is very fat and you need really kind of specific understanding of certain scenarios to build an effec…”
Ben Horowitz Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 24:45 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
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Khosla: Small models will not replace large frontier models for intelligence
“If you want human level intelligence from a model, it'll be a big model, and there'll be a couple of them around, some better than others, some a year or two ahead of others, but I don't think small models substitute For big models”
Vinod Khosla Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 43:20 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
20VC Opinion
Mostaque: AI developers must stop pre-training models on uncurated internet data
“We've got to stop pre-training big models on all the crazy crap of the internet. And like, we've got to do it fast because this is coming like a train.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 1:03:13 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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