George Hotz
7 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 24 times in 14 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
- How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- A Technical History of Generative Media
- AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
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2024 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- [LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
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2023 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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Everything said about George Hotz, oldest first
Jun 20, 2023 negative
Jun 20, 2023 bullish
Hotz: Maximally compressed human brain represents only a couple gigabytes
“Quantization is a poor man's compression. I think we're only talking really here about, like, maybe a couple gigabytes, right? And then if you have, like, a couple gigabytes of true information of yourself up there, cool man. Like, what does it mean for me to …”
Jun 20, 2023 bearish
Hotz: Best chatbots will be smaller models with 1,000 training runs
“I don't think that the best chatbot models are going to be the big ones. I think the best chatbot models are going to be the ones where you had a thousand training runs instead of one. And I don't think that the interconnect bandwidth is going to matter that m…”
Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023 bullish
Jun 20, 2023 bullish
Mar 6, 2024 bearish
Chintala: George Hotz's TinyGrad requires major breakthroughs to match PyTorch
“There's no, like, I don't think, like, unless we have, like, great breakthroughs, like, George's vision is achievable, like, or, like, he should be thinking about a narrower problem, such as, I'm only gonna make this for, like, work for self-driving car con ne…”