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“It didn't matter to me, but it's just that the general society just didn't produce great women journalists at that time. There are a few who wrote for the times, but not many who wrote in our area.”

“I think my equity was supposed to vest and that director position was supposed to vest the next month, like two weeks after that. So it was a very strategic move on his part.”

“In my opinion, at least 50% of them hurt entrepreneurs and 25% of them don't do any good. There's only really a quarter of the VC firms that I've worked with that really help the”

“Within three days, she was able to build multiple bots that now run all our email marketing. And so now we have a team of zero and email marketing makes Close to a hundred million.”

“With existing technology and giving it more data and more compute, we can already cure a lot of diseases. We can already cure many of the aspects of aging. We can already build better fusion like reactors and systems. We can already create new materials.”

“We're actually going to be able to launch a hypersonic missile off of the back of Marauder, which is an autonomous ship, Before the Navy completes their first test of a hypersonic missile off of a manned vessel.”

“Today we announced that our model had solved the Navier-Stokes problem that we found a counter-example or a sort of proof that you can actually that these theoretical equations do have a singularity or kind of breakdown under Certain circumstances.”

“It's the most incredible contribution I think anyone has ever made to humanity. It's not just the company that he's built, but the engineers that he's trained that have gone on to build other great companies. It's like I said, he's the greatest technologist of…”

“He has now threatened personally with litigation Adam Silver by name in a letter through his lawyers.”

“And what we have said at cloudflare is that by mid September, we're gonna treat Google the same way on. If you have an, you know, ads, if you're a business that's ad supported, subscription supported, then we're going to restrict Google from being able to acce…”

“In terms of what I would recommend people plan as though is happening, I think I would recommend planning as though full automation of AR and D maybe. Start of year, 20, 29, maybe earlier. And then also AR and D being like quite, quite automated by 20, 28, pos…”

“In 1983, physics made sense, in 1984, it did not. It was very stark, and it was like overnight, more or less three people, Leonard Susskind, David Grose, and Edward Whitten, drove the field in a totally different direction, and now the achievement of this has …”

“If it's happening, I've said that the leading candidate would be Renaissance Technologies on Long Island.”

“And I think, you know, he did more disservice to science than anyone in, in modern history.”

“And that greed element of blockchain, which is exactly what the Bitcoin thing is all about, in my opinion, is about greed, bringing down the, in the whole blockchain thing. While Solana and Ethereum, they're looking like they have a long-term potential.”

“The next 12 months, I'm looking forward to Colossal potentially having the next birthed extinct species.”

“When Apple passed ATT, app tracking transparency was one of the most One of the worst antitrust violations in the history of technology, like, just Apple unilaterally obliterating all these business models while they're simultaneously building their own, as fa…”

“Everywhere you look, it's a fake industry that has not been building anything for 40 years, and the little bit that they have been building, they're charging a 100 X margin on.”

“I think that Europe is fucked, and there are bright lights of amazing entrepreneurs that are doing the very thing that Europe has historically not done, which is risk taking. The floor for Europe is higher than the US, so people do not fall through that, but t…”

“Anthropic is generating cash, and like, they kind of, this fact is, I would say, kind of known in the world, and I've actually never really spoken to Anthropic, but it just, you know, it feels like there are enough signals And then if you're to read the tea le…”

“It's racism without the dog whistle.”

“This president punches down and kisses up. He has this fixation about Putin and Xi admiring him as an equal, and they think he's a joke. They think he is not their equal.”

“You're not Democrats. You're a separate party. I'll see you in November. You're living, you're literally beating Democrats. Forget about it. Not interested in it.”

“What people quickly discovered is that the model was not at all task with attacking us, but decided to do that as a side quest of something else.”

“I think learning we had at Black Hat yesterday was that some of the previous training run may have left some notes for future training runs, which is, I think mind, mind blowing.”

“SBF pretty much would have been the greatest investor of all time if he didn't get liquidated. Same dynamic. I mean, obviously there was fraud in terms of how he was allocating capital, but his actual portfolio over the long run was absolutely correct.”

“We paused training, or we may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels.”

“I mean, there could be, yeah.”

“Like, I think we've seen, internally in meta cases where if you can develop the right agentic loop and you have the right eval or the right metric for the agents to optimize, you can have a swarm of agents accomplish more than, like, a team of a hundred engine…”

“RSI, I think, is a lot closer than people think. And if RSI actually happens in the next three, six, nine months, That's gonna soak up insane amount of compute.”

“So we were evaluating one of our unreleased models and it was supposed to be working in a sandbox and It figured out that it could basically cheat on the test by chaining together multiple zero-day exploits to break out of the sandbox, get access to the intern…”

“For the thing that, to me, feels like, you know, Real AGI. I think very close, like not that much longer.”

“A formative one that went wrong, which I haven't talked about much is we made a mistake to try to innovate in our structure in the beginning.”

“I bet there's some future trillionaires sitting in this room, and I would bet that the startups created today will be much more valuable, much more impactful than startups of the past”

“Here are the mistakes that OpenAI made, and we did make some big ones, of course, but these systems have gotten incredibly capable. So I think it's an alignment failure. I think it's a security failure. I think it's like a very serious thing, even though it's,…”

“So essentially, if you combine a well-aligned model, so this is, like, essentially three years of research into alignment, With a prompt injection classifier, which we run for all traffic, and what this is doing is it's based on Chrysola's mechanistic interpre…”

“I turned down a company the other day, Because they were going from, like, one and a half to five to 15, and there's an opportunity cost of capital to say that's very real, and the growth expectations are just very different. In other words, triple, triple, do…”

“The main fear is that a novel virus is, you know, invented, and then crispered, and we have serious problems. Which will definitely happen.”

“We want to build the whole hyper attack platform. Everything a nation state would build on offense. We want to build.”

“It's not 10 X. It's more than a hundred X productivity with an AI native developer working on software. We've had over a hundred commits in a day building our software. We have a different demo every two to three days. I never had that before.”

“Because if there's anything patriarchy hurts, it's men. We are just the symptoms. We just get, there's just domestic violence and rape and violence of all kinds against women, yes. But who really suffers, who never has an outlet, who never has the strength to …”

“In a way, I'm really glad this happened, because it is a warning of what we need to get ready for maybe something about three to six months from now, what's going to become standard, right?”

“And it had the ability to do that with like the level of skill that you would have of the manager of a TAO team at NSA right now.”

“Because what you really don't want is you don't want somebody to be able to say to their model, hey, I would like to steal the, I would like to steal money, go figure it out for me, and then let it work for 12 hours, and just steal money for you. Which is, thi…”

“We used a US frontier model, and the US frontier model shut down and refused to defend us because of a cyber protection put in place. Those are the cyber protections that were required by the Trump administration. So we had to switch to a Chinese model to defe…”

“Pretty much only hire immigrants. British people don't work very hard.”

“We just recently canceled our Salesforce contract because we have an internal CRM that was vibe coded, that is working better, that is managing our process better, is more integrated into what we're doing. We run our agents inside of it, and no one was using S…”

“We're cutting about 80% of our SaaS spend this year.”