Everything Andy Konwinski said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Western open AI research has lost the top spot to China
“Western open science and research discourse has no, has lost the number one spot to China.”
Frontier AI research requires up to $100B, far exceeding NSF budgets
“It was one billion dollars a year for computer science and that they're trying to cut that into half of that, but we need 10 to a hundred billion dollars to do frontier AI research.”
LLMs are commoditizing like raw compute, shifting value to abstraction layers
“Language models themselves are more like compute or GPU a generation ago, where what can we build at the layer above? And in software systems, we've traditionally thought of VMware being a great example. You have the operating system and the underlying archite…”
All major US AI labs stopped publishing research after OpenAI closed
“Whereas in the United States, since OpenAI closed their doors and stopped publishing, so did all the other labs.”
Jeff Dean and Databricks founders invested in Konwinski's venture fund
“So the venture funding, there's 50 professors and PhDs, the top names like Jeff Dean and the top faculty at Berkeley and Stanford and my co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity who've invested in the fund.”
Academic lab research teams de-risk founder divorce for venture capitalists
“Years of deep scars from working together, knowing each other's ins and outs and team, like the dynamism and like the gestalt, like some is greater than the parts of working together as a team. They're great bets. So you kind of de-risked the founder divorce r…”
The National Science Foundation has returned thousands of times its public cost
“It has been probably the best investment the American popular public has ever made. Thousands X return on their investments. I mentioned Google earlier, Databricks, all these researchers came from NSF funding”
Open Frontiers will gather the top 100 open AI researchers in SF
“The idea is like, let's team up. Get together one day in San Francisco in the next five months and get the hundred most influential open researchers together for conference and for meetings where we share our roadmaps and we talk about common goals amongst the…”
Konwinski: Terminal-Bench is the largest LAWD Slingshot grant investment to date
“Terminal Bench is the largest investment we've made in any one of the slingshots so far.”
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