Frontier Tech
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John V: BT6 waives open-source stance if needed to test frontier models
“We have an ethos in our hacker collective. Which is radical transparency and radical open source. And what that basically means is if it comes down to, you know, us being an emerging technology is like red team doing like ethical hacking and research and devel…”
Asparouhov: AI and frontier tech bubble makes building generational startups harder
“Like, the current, like, new CNC ecosystem for all things, like, frontier tech, AI, et cetera, is, like, in such a crazy bubble right now and that actually just makes it really hard for generational companies to be founded.”
Ulevitch: Terms like 'deep tech' and 'hard tech' are boring and meaningless
“And you know, we never use those terms because they, I mean, frankly, they just never made any sense. And certainly, and they also were just, Boring, stupid terms. They weren't galvanizing, that's for sure.”
Arbesman: Frontier tech is too broad to be treated as a single category
“While there might be certain similarities, I think frontier tech overall, and it's really this, it's very broad and diffuse space, and so in many ways I'm almost hesitant to group it all under kind of that umbrella term. And because the knowledge you need to d…”
Zaveri: Broad themes like frontier tech are marketing labels needing sub-themes
“Themes have sub-themes. So, you know, if you are sort of a, hey, we're frontier tech, You know, we're frontier tech investors, or, you know, we invest in machine intelligence. That's very broad at that point. Is it autonomous driving? Is it smarter application…”
Raney: VCs investing in complex tech without domain depth face losses
“People that go out and read a handful of blogs and then decide that they're going to be investing in these categories are likely to experience a lot of pain.”