Frontier Tech

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LATENT SPACE Disclosure
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…”
John V Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 22:08 ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
TBPN Opinion
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.”
Delian Asparouhov Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 9:18 Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
a16z Opinion
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.”
David Ulevitch (Dee) Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 10:19 Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
20VC Insight
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…”
Sam Arbesman Oct 18, 2017 ▶ 19:46 20VC: Lux Capital's Scientist-In-Residence on Why We Cannot Just Be Specialists Today, The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Thinking & Computational Creativity That Makes Man and Machine Partners with Sam Arbesman
20VC Insight
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…”
MZ Zaveri May 29, 2017 ▶ 18:50 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
20VC Insight
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.”
Scott Raney May 17, 2017 ▶ 14:01 20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Josh Wolfe: Tourist VCs investing in frontier tech will lose a lot of money
“I think that there are a lot of tourist VCs who are in these domains that are going to lose a lot of money”
Josh Wolfe May 10, 2017 ▶ 7:22 20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Borthwick: Conversational AI and frontier tech will take 5 to 10 years to mature
“Well, you know what? Is that I wouldn't have expected them to be anything but disappointing, because they are going to take, it is going to take five to 10 years for us to figure out how to talk to machines.”
John Borthwick Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 20:20 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year

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