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Levie: Altman's 2028 superintelligence timeline is totally reasonable
“I think that, that there's kind of, that seems to be totally reasonable based on the trajectory that we're on. And I would bet that, that Sam has an even a far higher bar for what his definition of, you know, intellectual or whatever the term was, then even I …”
Aaron Levie: AI Development Is Nowhere Close to Hitting a Wall
“I think certainly probably the biggest takeaway is just like we are nowhere close to hitting a wall. I remember it was probably only about a year ago where there was a lot of talk on like, oh, have we hit a wall? And these things are only kind of eking out, yo…”
Levie: Nvidia hitting $400B in revenue and a $10T valuation is realistic
“To be worth 10 trillion dollars, you probably want, you know, three hundred billion in profit, let's say. And so with their margins, that means that, you know, they're doing four hundred billion in revenue. Like, that's totally not crazy. 405 hundred billion i…”
Levie: Top five LLM providers will thrive, but 15th horizontal player will fail
“I think the business model is still very good for the top, let's say five or so model providers where, where you will run into a question is, you know, could you be the 15th LLM, you know you know, training company.
That, that seems tough, especially if your j…”
Levie: Current AI agent spending is sustainable due to engineering use cases
“I would say the vast majority of the current agent expend that's happening is sustainable because partly because it's actually coming mostly from engineering and engineering related, related tasks. And this is an audience that is kind of technically capable of…”
Levie: OpenAI faces no fundraising pressure from cap table dynamics
“I just don't think that open AI has a challenge raising money. So I don't know that. I don't know that there's sort of some kind of pressure that can be exerted on them from the cap table side.”
Levie: Claude is the first AI to reliably generate high-quality documents
“Claude this week announced a new capability that will generate files for you, and even though we're two and a half years, you know, nearly three years into the ChatGPT moment, it's the first time Where an AI system can, I believe, generate reliably a kind of h…”
Levie: Apple and Amazon Can Still Catch Up in AI
“The companies just mentioned, like, I don't think the, those spaces have been so utterly disrupted that, that that they can't catch up once they land on a final architecture.”
Levie: AI agents do not require a new breakthrough architecture
“We don't need any kind of new breakthrough architecture. We have the, we have an architecture that, that already kind of works as the core scaffolding for agents.”
Levie: OpenAI is not strategically constrained by its Microsoft relationship
“I don't perceive that open AI is constrained by anything strategically at this point vis-a-vis the Microsoft relationship.”
Levie: AI won't destroy startup jobs because founders weren't hiring anyway
“And I don't think it's going to take, you know, from jobs because those startups previously, just like they actually were not hiring those people. They were just sort of stuck In whatever they were currently doing at a certain scale that they were at.”
Levie: OpenAI is intellectually honest and its demos work in practice
“But I'd say ChatGPT and OpenAI generally have been incredibly intellectually honest kind of You know, stewards in this space. And so when you see a demo from them, it tends to actually, you know, work like that in practice.”