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Ross: Replace one-on-ones and private emails with open communication to eliminate politics
“And so when you are leading groups of people, if you want to reduce the amount of politics and people going off and, you know, forming side cliques and all this, stop having one-on-ones, have big meetings with everyone who you want to tell something and tell t…”
Ross: Putting excess capital into startups no longer provides an advantage
“What's changed though is that unlike the Keynesian beauty contest where the winner is the one with the most money, in reality, there's a point at which you get enough money and you don't need more. And for the first time in history, the startups are not starve…”
Ross: Splitting LLM pre-fill and generation across different chips is a mistake
“What we realized was, and this is what most people get wrong when they're trying to do this themselves. They'll, they'll take the reading of tokens or what's called pre-fill, and they'll do that on one piece of hardware, and then they'll put the generation of …”
Ross: Faster inference compute directly makes AI models smarter
“Now bring in the LPU, and you can go deeper, faster, you can search faster, and so you can actually make a model smarter by making it faster. And so the realization is, and now that you've got this ability to reflect, think deeply, and change the outcome based…”
Ross: Hiring requires vetting negatives rather than searching for positive traits
“The biggest flip in my hiring was when I went from looking for positives, which is what you do when you're trying to grow talent, to looking for negatives, which is what you do when you're trying to select talent.”
Ross: GPUs excel at LLM attention while LPUs excel at applying weights
“The LPU and GPU, as mentioned, they, they're better at different parts of what's, what's called the decoder layer of an LLM. The GPU is better at the attention portion, and the LPU is better at sort of applying the weights, which is the thing that gets trained…”
Ross: Combining GPUs and LPUs yields superior performance across curves
“And so GPUs and LPUs combined ended up giving better performance across the performance curves.”
Ross: Agentic AI drives exponential growth by delegating tasks to other AIs
“AI is really good at using AI. And that's really what agentic is, right? So humans benefit from using AI. So does AI. Just like you would do research about me before I show up on your show, AI is going to kick off a job doing research on different tools it's g…”
Ross: Workers Are Shifting from Individual Contributors to Leaders of AI
“Yeah, and this also goes towards a shift of going, people are moving from being ICs or individual contributors to all being leaders, but leaders of AI.”
Ross: Stating 'I intend to' prevents pessimism and filters feedback
“And the basic idea in intentional leadership is if I ask someone, should I do something? Oh, they have opinions. Most people will be pessimistic and give you negative opinions. On the other hand, if you express intentional leadership, you say, I intend to do t…”
Ross: Modern education must test question formulation over answer lookup
“When you create homework or a test for kids, if they can look up the answer online, or if they can ask AI to solve it, you haven't taught them what they need for the next stage. But if you give them a problem where they have to ask the questions and get AI to …”