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20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostaque: Only 5 or 6 foundation model companies will exist in 3-5 years
“I think that there's only going to be five or six foundation model companies in the world in three years, five years. I think it's going to be us, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft OpenAI, and Meta and Apple probably are the ones that train these models.”
Emad Mostaque Nov 24, 2023 ▶ 0:55 The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostaque: No AI models available today will be used in a year
“The reality is no models that are out today will be used in a year.”
Emad Mostaque Nov 24, 2023 ▶ 2:56 The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Emad Mostaque: No Current AI Models Will Be Used in a Year
“The reality is no models that are out today will be used in a year.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 16:21 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Mostaque: 50% of All Code on GitHub Is AI-Generated
“50% of all code on GitHub is AI generated now.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 43:09 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostak: No AI models available today will be used in a year
“The reality is no models that are out today will be used in a year.”
Emad Mostaque Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 12:49 20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostaque: Governments will not run on black-box AI models
“Governments will not run on black boxes.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 14:32 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Mostaque: Chinese tech companies paying $1.2M salaries to AI PhDs
“Certain Chinese companies paying 1.2 million dollar salaries for PhDs.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 15:10 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: AI startups getting $100M funding rounds with zero traction
“Already you're seeing GitHub stars leading to a hundred million dollar funding rounds with zero traction and zero business model.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 16:02 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Financial institutions cannot use AI models with web-crawled data
“If you're a financial services institute, you can't have a single piece of crawl data in there.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 26:24 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Mostaque: DataComp outperforms OpenAI CLIP at one-fourth the parameter count
“We had datacomp, which is the next generation lion that we funded the compute for, whereby at a quarter of the parameters of OpenAI's clip, it outperforms for the beta data quality.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 26:46 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
Mostaque: AI-synthesized search results will destroy digital media ad revenue
“I think he is right to be worried. Like, again, you look at Google's announcements yesterday, they were talking about this day after Palm Two, You suddenly look at the new Google page where they've got the language model, and it's just text, and where are the …”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 29:56 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostaque: No AI models in use today will survive a year
“The reality is no models you that are out today will be used in a year.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 37:27 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostaque: AI will deflate US inflation by disrupting healthcare and education bureaucracy
“It's massively deflationary. The biggest drivers of CPI inflation in the US were education and healthcare. And that was almost all administrative and bureaucratic. In the next few years, guess what gets disrupted? Those. But they don't get disrupted this year …”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 49:13 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
ChatGPT-Level AI Models Will Run Locally on Smartphones by 2028
“You will see ChatGPT level models running on the edge on smartphones in five years, which will be crazy.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 44:38 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Supported
Emad Mostaque: Google DeepMind's annual salary budget is $1.2 billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque May 24, 2024 ▶ 10:44 Sam Altman, Arthur Mensch and more discuss:Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI?|E1156 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Emad Mostaque: DeepMind's Annual Salary Budget Is $1.2 Billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 28:06 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostak: DeepMind's annual salary budget is $1.2 billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 4:25 20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Google's Med-PaLM 2 AI model exceeds doctor performance levels
“Now we have MedPOM-II that exceeds doctor levels. So that was a Google announcement yesterday.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 5:08 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Partly held up
Stability AI to build language models in the open starting next week
“From next week, we're going to build our language models in the open and share what works and what doesn't work.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 13:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
Mostaque: Google will spend $20 billion annually on AI
“Google will spend twenty billion dollars a year on AI.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 46:20 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: DeepMind spends $1.2 billion annually on salaries
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 46:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Mostaque: Stability AI currently has 7,000 NVIDIA A100 GPUs
“You need these chips lined up with interconnect, and we've got 7000 A-one hundreds now.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 48:04 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Character.AI Sees Two Hours of Engagement Per Session
“Character AI has something like two hours a day of engagement per session”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 59:08 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
Generative Image Models Will Soon Achieve 25 Frames Per Second
“With the additional breakthroughs that are coming through, it'll be 25 frame images a second. That's a hundred times speed up over a hundred times just from getting it out there and people interested in doing that.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 30:08 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: OpenAI's DALL-E 2 bias filter randomly assigned gender and ethnicity
“So DALI-II, when OpenAI had that and they introduced a bias filter, any non-gendered word, they had a random gender and a random ethnicity. So you typed in sumo wrestler and you'd get Indian female sumo wrestler.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 28:27 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Assertion Contradicted
Stability AI Repositories Beat Ethereum and Bitcoin Combined in GitHub Stars
“You know, on GitHub stars, we've overtaken Ethereum and Bitcoin cumulatively. It took them 10 years. We got there in like three, four months.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 7:10 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Distilled Stable Diffusion Models Can Run Locally on iPhones in Seconds
“Now, as of the release of Distilled Stable Diffusion, it will run in a couple of seconds on an iPhone, and we have neural engine access, because our view of the future is creating models that aren't necessarily bigger, but that are customizable and editable.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 12:37 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Stable Diffusion condenses 100,000 gigabytes into a 2GB file
“So we train the whole internet and like stable diffusion is a 100,000 gigabytes in a two gigabyte file.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 53:50 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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