AI labs

14 statements across 12 episodes · 3 bullish · 6 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2025 by Casey Newton · across every show →

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Jan 5, 2025 neutral
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Newton: AI lab executives are setting expectations for linear progress in 2025
“So, based on the conversations that I've had with executives of the AI labs, it feels like people are trying to set expectations for more linear progress next year.”
Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 ▶ 5:31 Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Insight
Hendrycks: AI labs spend over 90% of intellectual energy on scaling compute
“Over, you know, 90% of the intellectual energies that they're going to spend is actually, how can we afford the 10 X larger supercomputer? And, ah, that means being very competitive, speeding this up and making safety be some priority, but not necessarily a su…”
Dan Hendrycks Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 37:49 AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
Jun 18, 2025
Insight
Patel: One-month lead in intelligence explosion yields winner-take-all dominance
“Look, if there is an intelligence explosion, it has a really tough dynamic because if you're a month ahead, you will kick off this loop much faster than anybody else. And what that means is that you will you will be a month ahead to super intelligence, but nob…”
Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 28:53 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Aug 11, 2025 bullish
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Masad: AI Frontier Labs Are Becoming Architecturally More Efficient
“And what we're seeing based on speed and things like that, it's actually probably the models are getting more efficient. I mean, Deep Seek showed that the models are getting more efficient, and if, you know, Deep Seek open source was able to make it, you bette…”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 39:00 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
Oct 10, 2025 bearish
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AI labs will struggle to break into B2B enterprise collaboration software
“I think also that the AI labs will struggle cracking into B to B, especially with collaboration.”
Zeb Evans Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 16:17 How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans
Oct 13, 2025 negative
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Roy: AI labs are starving academic PhD programs of talent
“The labs are starving PhD programs of talent. So like now actually that really kind of foundational research moves only towards the labs away from universities and kind of more traditional research”
Ranjan Roy Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 13:21 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Feb 2, 2026 bearish
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Morris: Private Mega-Checks for AI Labs Will End by 2027
“But in 20, 27, I can't see the checks of these sizes being written again, unless you go to the public markets and you start giving retail Share your retail shareholders and big institutional pension funds, things like that access to try and finance their colos…”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 16:55 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Insight
Pineau: AI ideas cannot stay proprietary while researchers move between labs
“And that's why, honestly, for many years I've been so much an advocate for open science. I just don't believe that you can keep these ideas boxed in unless you're willing to keep people boxed in, which we are not willing to do. And so I don't think we have a w…”
Joelle Pineau Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 32:22 AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
Feb 23, 2026 positive
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Levie: AI labs will not alter core answers for advertisers
“I don't think any lab would ever change the answer that it's giving based on advertising. I think it's going to give you the answer and then it's going to give you related and recommended things from, you know, from the bidding system.”
Aaron Levie Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 15:03 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Apr 8, 2026 bearish
Prediction Held up
Levie: AI labs will not accept liability for enterprise use cases
“The labs are not going to, you know, take on the liability for every single use case that you do. They're gonna have very narrow liability that they have around copyright and IP protection and stuff like that, but they're not gonna, you know, they're not gonna…”
Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 32:03 OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
Levie: AI Labs Will Inevitably Compete Head-to-Head Across All Use Cases
“You know, I think it's, to some extent, it was sort of an inevitable outcome because if you think about it, like if you have this AI model that is super intelligence packed into a model, it eventually has to converge on On, you know, all of this, all the same …”
Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 0:41 OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
Levie: Any AI Lab's Lead on Breakthrough Models Is Only 6 to 12 Months
“Unless there's some so kind of closed proprietary research event and breakthrough that happens that just simply nobody else knows about, and we have no evidence that we've ever had one of those in AI, like, you know, these things just eventually sort of emerge…”
Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 54:39 OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
Aug 26, 2026
Assertion Supported
Brown: Reps Gottheimer and Lawler pressured AI labs on election information
“Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler, Democrat from New Jersey, Lawler's a Republican from New York, have jointly worked together to try to raise awareness. They've, I know they've been on TV talking about it. They've reached out to a number of the labs to talk abo…”
Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 49:46 How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: AI labs are starting to lose control of their models
“And it certainly feels like we're starting to, or they in the labs really are starting to lose control of these bots. So I don't think this less transparent way of having them run their processing is, is a great idea.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 30:48 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
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