foundation model

also referred to as: foundation models

11 statements across 10 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2022 by Blaise Aguera y Arcas · across every show →

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Nov 9, 2022
Insight
Aguera y Arcas: Foundation models reflect collective human intelligence
“Locating the spiritual element, or the, or intelligence, or any of these kind of things in the individual alone, and not thinking about that as a broader collective thing, I think is the root of a lot of cognitive dissonance. And from that perspective, you kno…”
Blaise Aguera y Arcas Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 26:12 Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI
Jan 24, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pineau: Meta's next AI step change requires general and world models
“We've done a ton of work on AI on the platform over the last few years. That was what I would call more narrow specialized models. We can continue to do that, but the bigger step change are gonna come through the more general model, building foundation models,…”
Joelle Pineau Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 5:47 Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AWS's Wood: Foundation AI models will diversify rather than become commodities
“My guess is that these models will not, you know, kind of commodify. My guess is that they will diversify increasingly over time, and that the idea that there's, these models will become commodities Defined as, you know, you can hot swap them and that their ec…”
Matt Wood Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 42:20 Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Jul 10, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Wood: Most enterprises will fine-tune existing models rather than build foundation models
“There isn't one model to kind of rule them all. Each different model has, you know, different sweet spots, and it's my expectation that most customers will invest in not building the foundation models, but will invest in fine tuning and improving those individ…”
Matt Wood Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 20:35 Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Nov 15, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Smaller, domain-specific AI models will outperform massive general foundation models
“And I think in the coming months and years, we're going to start to see some awkward headlines around size matters because smaller will be better in terms of actual models being used.”
Ranjan Roy Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 15:51 Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Jan 23, 2025
Insight
Demis Hassabis says knowledge compression cannot solve novel math without planning
“Just understanding the world's information, and then trying to sort of almost compress that into your memory, that's not enough for solving a novel math problem, or a novel, novel conjecture. So there, you know, we start needing to bring in, I think we talked …”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 6:53 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
Apr 7, 2025 positive
Insight
George: Product design and human-model handoffs matter as much as AI models
“The product is just as important as well, right? Because how the user interacts with the system where models are leveraged and you have the right sort of handoff from human being to the model where you've got the ability, you know, think of it from a user inte…”
Joseph George Apr 7, 2025 ▶ 24:45 Understanding Practical AI and the Future of Automation – With Joseph George
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Insight
Cacioppo: Foundation Models Finally Enable Automated Enterprise Security Questionnaires
“Everyone has always wanted to build a product that just answers the questions correctly the first time. That wasn't possible prior to some of these foundation models, but now it is”
Christina Cacioppo Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:16 Security in the Age of AI: Vanta CEO on Compliance and Risk
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Roy: The AI Industry Realized in 2025 That Models Won't Solve Everything
“I think if one thing happened this year, I think more and more folks coming over to team products that models aren't going to solve everything.”
Ranjan Roy Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 19:54 OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
May 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: AI will shift to multi-model routing over single dominant models
“Interoperability model routing based on request being model provider agnostic on the foundation model side is where I see this going. It's not gonna be one, and I mean, we've talked about this for a long time, one model to rule them all, systems that can route”
Ranjan Roy May 25, 2026 ▶ 30:29 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
Jul 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Schmidhuber: AGI requires a separate controller to plan with world models
“The model alone, the foundation model alone, is, is not an AGI. No, you need the other guy, which uses all kinds of tricks to exploit The algorithmic information in the world model to come up with better plans.”
Jürgen Schmidhuber Jul 15, 2026 ▶ 12:24 AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
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