Jonathan Siddharth
Co-founder & CEO, Turing. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jonathan Siddharth is the co-founder and CEO of Turing, an AI infrastructure and research company providing training data for frontier models. Previously, he worked on natural language search at Powerset and co-founded Rover.
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3appearances
71statements
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1contradicted
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6said about them ↓ Everything Jonathan Siddharth said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Siddharth: All digital knowledge work will be automated within 10 years
“The glimpse of the future that I see is that all knowledge work is going to be automated. If a human's job involves looking at a computer, analyzing what's on the screen, using different tools, using a keyboard and a mouse, it's going to be automated. It's onl…”
Siddharth: AI will allow individuals to run 7 to 8 companies simultaneously
“Now, I think in the limit over the next decade, every human might run seven to eight companies as these, as the loop from idea to, I mean, as you can go from prompt to company in hopefully like a single step over the next decade.”
Siddharth: The era of traditional data labeling companies is over
“I think the era of data labeling companies is over, and it's now the era of research accelerators.”
Siddharth: There is no AI bubble because current models are incredibly powerful
“I don't see an AI bubble. These models are incredibly powerful today.”
Siddharth: Traditional SaaS as we know it is completely over
“SaaS as we know it, I think is over. I think it's completely over.”
Siddharth: AGI development will follow a slow, steady takeoff timeline
“It's innings one, and I believe in slow takeoff. I'm sorry to pour cold water on all the AI doomers that might be listening to this, but we are not in a rapid takeoff scenario. I believe in slow, steady takeoff for AGI and eventually super intelligence.”
Siddharth: Agentic AI will replace services firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Accenture
“So I think like Turing will probably replace companies like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and every services company like Accenture, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, like all of these companies doing vanilla services that's going to be automated with these agentic systems.”
Siddharth: Frontier AI models can autonomously build software systems for weeks
“You're seeing what the coding models today are capable of building end-to-end systems, like coding for days. Sometimes a week.”
AI coding improvements boost model performance across unrelated non-coding tasks
“When the models improve in coding, they have out of domain performance. They also improve in other tasks that have nothing to do with coding for reasons we don't fully understand.”
Siddharth: Coding, Tool Use, Reasoning, and Multimodality Unlock Superintelligence
“If you can solve coding, tool use, reasoning, and multimodality, you have the keys to superintelligence. Those are the building blocks. If you can solve those four, you can automate anything that a human does in front of a computer, and it'll give humans super…”
Siddharth: AGI Will Make Humans 100x More Productive
“AGI is going to just make humans a hundred X more productive.”
Siddharth: Humans Should Never Create V1 of Knowledge Work
“Basically the agents create V-one of the work. Humans are verifying and iterating. Humans never create V-one.”
Siddharth: Agentic AI models will eliminate the need for intermediate SaaS
“So on one hand, the models are becoming agentic. And in theory, if the models have access to the right sources of data, You kind of don't need software in the middle. The models can do it end to end.”
Siddharth: Basic Workflows Suit Fine-Tuning; High-Value Use Cases Need Frontier Models
“Step one should be to, like, just do it with a frontier model and see how well it does. And most times you'll see that you don't have to touch the weights. But there are certain workflows like customer support like an invoice to pay system, some of these more …”
Siddharth: AGI will allow non-technical founders to launch startups cheaply
“In a future where AGI exists, this person will recruit a marketing GPT, a software engineer GPT, a PM GPT, and get off the ground for a lot less capital. A million flowers will bloom. Lots and lots of non-technical founders will start companies.”
Siddharth: Current AI models suffer from a significant capability overhang
“And there's a very significant model capability overhang. By that, what I mean is the models are capable of X, but what we are getting out of the models is X minus Delta.”
Siddharth: There will be more software engineers in ten years than today
“I think it'll, I think there'll be more software engineers because if you define a software engineer as somebody who's capable of building a software product to solve a real problem, that pool of builders is going to expand way beyond people who've graduated w…”
Siddharth: Vertical AI data is crowded, but robotics remains wide open
“The vertical stuff, like, I mean, we are scaling up pretty massively in generating data for different verticals. So I don't see that as like a big white space. But I think everybody is relatively early with robotics. And robotics is such a vast realm that ther…”
Siddharth: Chinese open-source AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen are state-of-the-art
“I think it's very impressive, like the progress that they've made in open source with DeepSeek Kimi Ketu, Kuen. These models are state of the art.”
Siddharth: Solving multimodality, reasoning, tool use, and coding yields ASI
“Turing's the world's leading research accelerator, working with all of these frontier labs to advance them along I would say the four pillars of superintelligence which is multimodality, reasoning, tool use, and coding. If you solve these four things, you will…”
Siddharth: ASI means automating 90% of computer tasks for 90% of humans
“And I think of ASI as us having automated 90% of the tasks that 90% of humans do today in front of a computer, right?”
Siddharth: AI will automate $30 trillion of global knowledge work
“This is like, if you look at those four dimensional, if you look at that four dimensional matrix, that's 30 trillion dollars of knowledge work that is going to be automated.”
Siddharth: Reasoning models ended demand for simple AI data factories
“This industry had a huge shift after the reasoning models came out late last year, O-one being the first. The shift is, before the reasoning models, this industry needed simple data. Gobs and gobs of simple data. You needed a data factory. Or, ah, this industr…”
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 1 | 28 | 75% 3/4 | full record on the Neon Show → |
 20VCLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 1 | 25 | 67% 2/3 | full record on 20VC → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 1 | 18 | — | full record on Sourcery → |