large language model

also referred to as: large language models · llm

8 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · across every show →

Everything said about large language model, oldest first

Mar 21, 2024 neutral
Insight
Gerstner: Enterprise switching costs reside in data gravity, not LLMs
“The switching cost is not with the LLM. I agree with you on this. The switching cost is really around where your data resides, right? We've heard this talked about data gravity.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 1:24:02 Ep5. Stock Comp, AI Cold War, Valuations for LLM | BG2 with Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Bob Mylod · Bg2 Pod
Apr 4, 2024 bearish
Insight
Gurley: Enterprise Projects Often Relegate LLMs to Mere Database Interpreters
“A lot of the incremental work that's being done on AI projects are Stitching together external databases with the LLM and the LLM gets relegated to being an interpreter of the human or to being the interpreter of the data back to the human, but is not involved…”
Bill Gurley Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 7:05 Ep6. AI Demand / Supply - Models, Agents, the $2T Compute Build Out, Need for More Nuclear & More · Bg2 Pod
Apr 4, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Gurley: AI Agents as App Connectors Lack Exponential Scale
“It doesn't appear to me that if agents are connectors to the external world, you know, to me, that's a lot like an enterprise when people would build connectors to other apps and I just don't see it on this kind of exponential scale that we got, you know, as t…”
Bill Gurley Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 20:38 Ep6. AI Demand / Supply - Models, Agents, the $2T Compute Build Out, Need for More Nuclear & More · Bg2 Pod
Apr 4, 2024 neutral
Insight
Gerstner: LLM Compute Intensity Fundamentally Alters Startup Risk-Reward Dynamics
“The capital intensity of that undertaking is very different than starting a software company, right? And so the risk reward to both the founders and the risk reward to the investors changes a lot.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 11:23 Ep6. AI Demand / Supply - Models, Agents, the $2T Compute Build Out, Need for More Nuclear & More · Bg2 Pod
Jul 11, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Gurley: Meta Gets AI Upside Without LLM Downside Risk
“My quick reaction would be that Meta is somewhat unique in the group in that if there were an air pocket, you know, or something that came out of the LLM AGI world, they're not really, I mean, they're playing with the open source models, but they're not really…”
Bill Gurley Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 21:23 Ep12. Tech Stocks vs the Rest; AI VC Bubble, Calcium CT Scan | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jensen Huang: Language models will be involved in everything
“Language models are going to be involved in everything. It took us, took the industry enormous technology and effort to train a language model, to train these large language models. Now we're using a large language model in every single step of the way.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 11:40 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Nov 21, 2024 neutral
Insight
Gurley: Scaling variables in fitting algorithms eventually stops adding value
“Historically, Mathematical algorithms that do some type of fit, and this is a very sophisticated form of that, but when you take the variables up to a certain level, they, it stops adding value. You just get too close to the fit.”
Bill Gurley Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:09 Ep20. AI Scaling Laws, DOGE, FSD 13, Trump Markets | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Ghodsi: Large language models have become interchangeable commodities
“Yeah, look, I think the LLM is a commodity. People are not saying that, but it is a commodity. Like, and, you know, when I took econ classes, commodity was when it's interchangeable. Like, you can get gas from this gas station, or you can get gas from that gas…”
Ali Ghodsi Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 6:55 AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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