AI model

also referred to as: ai models

40 statements across 29 episodes · 17 bullish · 10 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2022 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →

Everything said about AI model, oldest first

Dec 3, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: Solving the final two percent accuracy in AI takes decades
“But the last two percent will take a few decades.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:26:06 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Multi-modal AI will completely rewrite movie, music, and advertising industries
“And so look, as they start to work together, I think we'll see them, you know, completely rewrite some of these verticals, like movie production, or music production, right, or advertising, or we're seeing it now with video and creative arts, with, you know, s…”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:33:53 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Jan 13, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Startups won't build AI models, only build on APIs
“I don't think startups are going to be able to create the AI themselves, but they might be able to benefit from the APIs.”
David Sacks Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 32:49 E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
Feb 11, 2023 negative
Opinion
Calacanis asserts AI web scraping for derivative answers violates fair use
“It's not fair use because in fair use, you have the ability to create derivative works on future platforms. And you are taking this person, the original content owner's ability to exploit that And you are co-opting it and you're doing it at scale. And that is …”
Jason Calacanis Feb 11, 2023 ▶ 59:46 E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
Feb 17, 2023 positive
Prediction Held up
Chamath: AI models tailored to specific political leanings will emerge
“I think that you'll see the emergence of these various models that are actually optimized for various ways of thinking or political leanings.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 1:05:52 E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
Dec 16, 2023 positive
Opinion
Sacks: AI models should be allowed to train on open web content under fair use
“And I do think that AI models should be able to use the content that's available on the web. Under a fair use doctrine to train their models for the benefit of consumers.”
David Sacks Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 28:49 E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
Apr 12, 2024 neutral
Insight
Friedberg: AI copyright infringement should depend on output, not training process
“I'd rather focus on is there copyright infringement in the output? Does the output mimic An original copyrighted source. And if it does, then that's where the infringement should lie. Not on the, how did you do it?”
David Friedberg Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 55:13 E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
Apr 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: AI models do not store training data, but learn synthesized predictors
“The truth is that the models don't actually hold the data that they're trained on. They develop a bunch of synthesized predictors that they learn what the prediction could or should be from the data.”
David Friedberg Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 52:10 E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
Apr 12, 2024 neutral
Insight
Friedberg: Enterprise cloud profits come from AI models and inference, not storage
“It's like a race to the bottom on pricing for basic commoditizing services in the cloud, like data storage, right? And then whoever has the better, higher level services, whoever has access to better models or has a lower price on running models or on running …”
David Friedberg Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 15:44 E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
May 17, 2024
Prediction Partly held up
Calacanis: AI models will become 99% cheaper every two years
“And these are now becoming about 90% cheaper every year, which means every two years these things are going to be 99% cheaper and better.”
Jason Calacanis May 17, 2024 ▶ 22:39 GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
May 17, 2024
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: AI will transition to continuously updated systems of models
“And so I think what we're going to see is soon more of an obfuscation of the individual models and more of this general service type approach where the updates are happening in, in, in a more continuous fashion.”
David Friedberg May 17, 2024 ▶ 18:22 GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
Sep 27, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Enterprises will still need deterministic systems of record despite AI
“Well, first of all, I think AI models are predictive. I mean, at the end of the day, they're predicting the next set of texts and so forth. And when it comes to like your employee list or your customer list, you just want to have a source of truth. You don't w…”
David Sacks Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 28:45 OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
Oct 3, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban predicts tens of millions of custom AI models
“I think there are going to be tens of millions of models. Everybody's going to have a model.”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:46:10 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Dec 20, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Enterprises will rely on 30 to 50 AI models using routers
“Instead of having two or three models you rely on, you're going to rely on 30, or 40, or 50, and you're going to trade them off, and you're going to use effectively like an LLM router to, you know.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:03:07 DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
Jan 31, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath Palihapitiya expects China to use AI to design simpler chip workarounds
“And if China is forced to engineer its way around it, yeah, Freberg, the answer to your question is they'll use these models to design chips that can be manufactured in simple ways, and they'll make simple stuff.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 1:00:36 DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
Feb 2, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: China's AI lag behind US narrowed to 3 to 6 months
“If you had asked most people in the industry a few weeks ago, how far behind is China on AI models, they would say six to 12 months. And now I think they might say something more like three to six months, right?”
David Sacks Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 4:10 AI Czar David Sacks Explains the DeepSeek Freak Out
Feb 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Naval: Paying AI copyright holders fails; open-sourcing models is the solution
“So there's only one of two stable solutions. Either you pay the copyright holders, which I actually think doesn't work, And the reason is because someone in China will crawl it, and they just dump the weights, right? So they can just crawl and dump the compres…”
Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 ▶ 1:31:24 JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
Feb 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Naval: AI model training naturally favors centralized compute clusters
“The problem is that the nature of training these models is highly centralized. They benefit from supercomputer clustered compute. So it's not clear how any decentralized model can compete.”
Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 ▶ 32:00 JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
Feb 15, 2025 positive
Opinion
Naval: AI models trained on open web data should be open source
“I think if you trained on the open web, your model should be open source.”
Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 ▶ 1:24:37 JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
May 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: AI models can eliminate most task-oriented entry-level graduate jobs
“I think that just these tools are good enough where the net new incremental task-oriented role that would typically go to a new grad, a lot of that can be defrayed by these models.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 31, 2025 ▶ 42:28 AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
Jun 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Chamath: Compounding AI error rates make long-task code output unviable
“When you allow these models to run over complicated tasks over long periods of time, The error rates compound to such a degree that the resulting output is not worthwhile.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 1:33:18 IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Buchheit: AI will outperform clinical drug trials within 20 years
“In 20 years, we'll be able to know how a drug affects the body without ever actually testing it. And my prediction is actually Our AI models will be more predictive than today's clinical trials.”
Paul Buchheit Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:06:19 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sankar: AI will evolve into specialized models rather than single general systems
“I think the cardinality of agents and models is very high. I think there will always be alpha to be achieved, you know, improved differentiation, improved outcomes by specializing to the use case. Now, it's great to start with the general models, but You will …”
Shyam Sankar Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 55:53 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Trump states AI training on public works does not violate copyright
“When a person reads a book or an article, you've gained great knowledge. That does not mean that you're violating copyright laws or have to make deals with every content provider”
Donald J. Trump Jul 24, 2025 ▶ 20:33 Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
Aug 1, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Friedberg: AI models will eventually gain legal privilege and professional certification
“And it sounds crazy today, but I guarantee if you put it on Polymarket, there will be a date when this happens.”
David Friedberg Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:00:14 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Sep 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dave Ricks: AI drug information is mostly accurate and substantially improved
“Mostly it's accurate, and they've It's gotten better over the last two years. I'd say substantially better.”
Dave Ricks Sep 29, 2025 ▶ 24:35 Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
Feb 28, 2026 bearish
Insight
Chamath: Markets now question if software cash flows are durable at all
“We used to debate when. This is no longer a when moment. The market is very much in an if mode. Are these cash flows durable at all?”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 28, 2026 ▶ 5:36 Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Michael Dell: AI lets Dell teams finish months of work in days
“When I listen to what our teams are able to accomplish in a day or two weeks that would have taken them, you know, a few months or nine months time, you know, it's just amazing the speed of innovation.”
Michael Dell Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 57:55 Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
Apr 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Fixing legacy enterprise tech debt with AI will take decades
“Untying this Gordian knot, it's going to take decades to do it right.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 35:42 Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Arora: AI base models will become a commoditized utility layer
“I still believe models are going to become a utility layer. You'll be able to buy intelligence on the fly”
Nikesh Arora Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 14:13 Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks"
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Insight
Feldman: Modern AI models no longer require precise prompt whispering
“And increasingly, it's understanding what your intent was. And if you have a chance to play with Fable or Five Six from OpenAI, increasingly, what, you don't have to get the prompt just right. You don't have to be a prompt whisperer.”
Andrew Feldman Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 7:34 Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
Jul 24, 2026 bullish
Insight
Chamath: AI model fragmentation directly benefits Google's custom silicon
“The best thing that can happen to them is 500 different models proliferate, and they support all of them because they will make so much money at the silicon layer.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 1:10:48 The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
Jul 24, 2026 bearish
Insight
Chamath: AI models are commoditizing faster than expected
“These models are getting commoditized much faster than anybody thought. And how do we know this? Because there is no meaningful sustained advantage once a model publishes their performance criteria. What you see is literally within weeks, other models, some op…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 9:59 The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
Jul 24, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Courts won't rule AI processing digital knowledge as copyright infringement
“Knowledge can't be contained. It's diffuse. And so the form of copyright is very clear. The case law and copyright is very clear. I cannot lift text out of your book, reprint it, and claim it as my own. That is a violation of copyright. But my reading of your …”
David Friedberg Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 57:59 The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Friedberg: Converting copyrighted data into AI knowledge will be upheld as fair use
“I do think fundamentally that the conversion of that data into what I would call knowledge and ultimately the ability to create new outcomes from that knowledge that are not copyrighted, that are not copies of the original material, I do think is going to end …”
David Friedberg Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 1:10:01 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Chamath: AI-generated code will eliminate human security vulnerabilities by 2028-2030
“But at some point, when most of the code is generated by the model, there'll be some point in the future, say, 28 or 29 or twenty-thirty, these security holes won't exist because the errors that humans make won't be made by these models.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 48:26 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
Aug 21, 2026 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Sacks predicts an open-source AI ban disguised as uniform safety standards
“An open source ban is coming. They're not going to call it that. You know what they're going to say? They're going to say that we simply have to apply the same standards to open models that we apply to close.”
David Sacks Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 29:53 Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
Aug 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Recursive Self-Improvement in AI Is Likely to Happen Soon
“I happen to Believe, having looked at this and thought about it, I think that it is possible. I think it is likely to happen soon.”
David Friedberg Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 46:03 Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
Aug 27, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weinstein: AI models will soon train on rejected 'trashcan' scientific papers
“The AIs are going to change soon. Right now, the AIs are trained on a corpus that privileges things like cell nature and science as the prestige journals of biology or in mathematics, it would be the Invenciones and the Al's and the Journal of the American Mat…”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:17:58 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Frontier AI models are converging across 98% to 99% of key tasks
“All these models For the most part of converging in capability for the 98 or 99% of tasks that matter.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 22:03 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
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