George Hotz
Founder, Tiny Corp. On 2 shows, 2 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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George Hotz first gained notoriety for developing the first carrier unlock for the original iPhone and reverse-engineering the PlayStation 3. He subsequently founded comma.ai to build open-source autonomous driving systems and later launched the tiny corp to build the deep-learning framework tinygrad.
2shows
2appearances
43statements
9resolved
6supported
2contradicted
67%fully supported
95said about them ↓ Everything George Hotz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hotz: GPT-4 is an 8-way mixture model with 220B parameters per head
“GPT-IV is two hundred twenty billion in each head, and then it's an eight-way mixture model.”
Hotz: Meta attracts researchers who want to publish while OpenAI keeps ideologues
“OpenAI can keep ideologues who, you know, believe ideological stuff, and Facebook can keep every researcher who's like, dude, I just want to build AI and publish it.”
Hotz: AI application wrappers like Cursor and Windsurf will fail
“And then on top you have, like, completely worthless things like cursor and windsurf you know, these character AI, all these people who think, oh, we're the app, we're gonna get the ARR. No, that worked in the web, it won't work for AI”
Hotz: AI scaling laws deliver linear returns for exponential capital
“AI scaling laws. You can put in exponentially more money to get linear returns.”
Hotz: Waymo robotaxis require approximately 1.2 remote human operators per car
“There's probably about, I would say there's 1.2 operators per car. But it's not, they don't have a steering wheel and pedals. It is an autonomous system that they're probably doing some higher level inputs on.”
Hotz: Analog computing for AI won't work and clockless chips aren't practical
“Analog computing just won't work. And clockless computing sure, it might work in theory, but your ETA tools are, maybe AIs will be able to design clockless chips, but not humans.”
Hotz: Systolic arrays are the wrong architectural choice for AI chips
“I think systolic arrays are the wrong choice. Systolic array, I think they have systolic arrays because that was the guy's PhD. And of course Amazon makes... They are very power efficient, but it becomes hard to schedule a lot of stuff. On them, if you're not …”
Hotz: Tinybox will be 5x faster than H100 systems per dollar
“For 90% of most companies model training use cases, the tiny box will be five X faster for the same price.”
Hotz: Machines will replace all human labor in about 20 years
“I'm a believer that machines are gonna replace everything in about 20 years.”
Hotz: Maximally compressed human brain represents only a couple gigabytes
“Quantization is a poor man's compression. I think we're only talking really here about, like, maybe a couple gigabytes, right? And then if you have, like, a couple gigabytes of true information of yourself up there, cool man. Like, what does it mean for me to …”
Hotz: Real AI alignment problem is corporate and government misalignment
“I think it's actually not a question of whether the computer is aligned with the company who owns the computer. It's a question of whether that company's aligned with you or that government's aligned with you. And the answer is no. And that's how you end up de…”
Hotz: AI is a far better military technology than nuclear weapons
“So, like, as a military technology, nukes are not that good. AI is way better.”
Hotz: Robotaxis will be a scooter-style capital race to the bottom
“Self-driving cars look like scooters. The only thing that it's going to take to roll out big fleets of self-driving cars is capital, right? It's just strictly a capital market... So self-driving cars are going to be this awesome race to the bottom, right? It's…”
Hotz: Robotic arm hardware is good enough, robotics is strictly software
“The arms are already good enough. It's the off the shelf arms are fine. It's all software. Again, it's always all software. Autonomous vehicles are all software. Robotics is all software”
Hotz: Shift to diffusion AI models will erode centralized cloud moats
“With AI, I think there's going to be a much less of a moat. Especially when you look at the move from autoregression to diffusion. So autoregression can run in large batch sizes. When you run ChatGPT, you're running with a whole bunch of other people on that s…”
Hotz: Tinygrad runs all ML models with only 25 primitive operations
“Tiny grad is, we are going to make a risk offset for all ML models. And yeah, it can run all ML models with basically 25 instead of the two 50 of XLA or PrimTorch. So about 10 X less complex.”
Hotz: Google TPUs are the only successful non-Nvidia training chips
“The only company, there's one other company aside from Nvidia who's succeeded at all at making training chips... Mid journey is trained on TPU, right? Like a lot of startups do actually train on TPUs, and they're the only other successful training chip aside f…”
Hotz: AMD CEO Lisa Su sent pre-release ROCm 5.6 to fix panics
“Lisa Sue reached out, connected with a whole bunch of different people. They sent me a pre-release version of Rock M 5.6. They told me you can't release it, which I'm like, okay, Why do you care? But they say they're going to release it by the end of the month…”
Hotz: Best chatbots will be smaller models with 1,000 training runs
“I don't think that the best chatbot models are going to be the big ones. I think the best chatbot models are going to be the ones where you had a thousand training runs instead of one. And I don't think that the interconnect bandwidth is going to matter that m…”
Hotz: Third company will build an AI girlfriend product
“The third company's the first one that's gonna build a real product, and that product is A girlfriend? No, like I'm dead serious, right? Like this is the dream product, right? This is the absolute dream product.”
Hotz: Merging with machines requires an AI companion, not Neuralink electrodes
“So I don't need to put, you know, electrodes in my brain to merge with a machine. I need an AI girlfriend, right?”
Hotz: Comma.ai rejects stealth mode because competitors cannot out-execute him
“Nah, we don't believe in stealth. I'm a really open guy. You are pretty open. I tell you everything I'm doing. Come on. Here's what I say. Here's what I say. I'm going to tell you what I'm doing. And you can try to compete, but I'll still crush you.”
The other half of the tape: George Hotz's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 94 times in 46 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about George Hotz, by other people (1)
Chintala: George Hotz's TinyGrad requires major breakthroughs to match PyTorch
“There's no, like, I don't think, like, unless we have, like, great breakthroughs, like, George's vision is achievable, like, or, like, he should be thinking about a narrower problem, such as, I'm only gonna make this for, like, work for self-driving car con ne…”
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| LATENT SPACELEDGER | Founder, Tiny Corp | 1 | 32 | 67% 6/9 | full record on Latent Space → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Founder, Tiny Corp | 1 +1 | 11 | — | full record on TBPN → |