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🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- ▶ 1:24:40 Neil Patil I think one of the things that was really cool with, you know, is like if you study the history of Silicon Valley, right? 2 times in the scene
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 57:29 Shawn Wang One of the things that is a movement in Silicon Valley is mega kernels.
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ▶ 13:39 Eiso Kant Now we do also have people here in Silicon Valley, like the company's grown and others.
- ▶ 1:24:25 Eiso Kant Exorbitant amounts of money when you're just a couple of guys who are not even building it in Silicon Valley who don't come from any, you know, of the known navs and things like this.
- ▶ 1:51:40 Eiso Kant You know, the Silicon Valley, you know, quote of the, of the last, you know, year and a half or so, so you can just do things, right?
The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO
- ▶ 3:38 Dan Biderman Uh, here in the valley.
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 7:01 Anjney Midha Many of them live in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 57:05 Anjney Midha Because I started my company at 24, 25, I had, I went through the whole cycle of betrayal and drama, and so you realize, you know, Silicon Valley is both a very missionary place, it's also a very mercenary place.
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
- ▶ 1:24:47 Yaroslav Azhnyuk Um, and, um, just the same way as Silicon Valley as, as this sort of future location for all things tech, uh, Kyiv and Ukraine is sort of the Defense Valley. 2 times in the scene
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 25:56 Peter Ludwig Um, we, I think like every company in the Valley right now are evolving our, our hiring practices, um, because the, the skills required to be effective are changing so fast, right?
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 0:14 Felix Rieseberg Silicon Valley overall is undervaluing the local computer, and my default argument for that is always, how come you are using Macbooks and not like an iPad or a Chromebook?
- ▶ 17:38 Felix Rieseberg So I generally believe that Silicon Valley overall is undervaluing the local computer.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 1:02:22 Kyle Kranen And then, you know, which also worked with our product team to determine like which models were important a very long time ago.
Why Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box
- ▶ 11:37 Aaron Levie We all in Silicon Valley,
- ▶ 50:17 Shawn Wang So, uh, last couple of questions, but feel free to jump on in or if you want any rants, um, I see you as a very interesting and unusual founder where like you've been in a business and you're, you're both like, you're off like of two…
- ▶ 55:36 Aaron Levie And I just want to have people hear your perspective on what, and this is the, this is this, like, um, you read the post about, you know, everybody having agents running in the weekend and, um, and it's like, I, you know, you, you just, I…
- ▶ 1:07:42 Aaron Levie And I met our first investor, uh, in Silicon Valley at one of these house parties, Emily Melton, who then brought us into 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 40:48 Dylan Patel The nice thing is they embody Silicon Valley's spirit more than maybe any other company, uh, which is Andy Grove, right?
[State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
- ▶ 12:40 Andy Konwinski There is a really big focus on bringing, creating a bat pipe of bandwidth to the root of where all the action, like you can't get around that the root is of all of it's happening in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 14:26 Andy Konwinski And, and I think in addition to the mechanisms NSF has used to just deploy the money, which are very effective, we have secret sauce in Silicon Valley of how startups find product market fit. 2 times in the scene
[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- ▶ 7:52 unnamed speaker So Anton is the Silicon Valley HBO.
⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- ▶ 54:12 Joubin Mirzadegan I think a lot of times, uh, in the valley, founders will pretend like the mission that they have
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 0:35 Matthias Wagner And then, 15 years ago, moved to Silicon Valley.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 1:33:58 Shawn "swyx" Wang The, the, the Silicon Valley phrase is you need Riz and Tiz, and if you don't have Riz, then, then, then it's all fair.
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 28:51 Shawn Wang Please, please like drop data points because like people who are not in Silicon Valley don't know this.
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 3:24 Brendan Falk And what's so fascinating is we're in Silicon Valley
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 45:07 unnamed speaker I'll tell you a side comment about a Silicon Valley trend I'm seeing, which I cannot explain, which is that all these YC startups and all these, they're spending
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 47:08 Shawn Wang Uh, I, and I only ask this because I think you're one of a growing number of openly, outwardly, positively religious people in the Valley. 3 times in the scene
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 1:07:26 Greg Brockman Right, because I remember in, you know, 1999, 2000 reading about Silicon Valley and feeling like I've missed the boat.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 26:01 Shawn Wang I, I've come around a little, so I think that is the Silicon Valley narrative, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:55 Shawn Wang This is just, you know, these are the things that people say in the Valley.
- ▶ 43:44 Stephanie Palazzolo I think it's another example of these, like, strange acqui-hire deals that are happening, but, like, I think it's interesting, like, windsurf, I think, got so much more attention and honestly, like, hate from people in Silicon Valley,…
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 1:15:08 Nathan Lambert Drive to build things, or like, the feeling of AGI is not that different than a lot of things that have existed in Silicon Valley lore in the past, which are just people with the vision that are willing to execute on it, and they see…
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:37:40 Shawn Wang This is the Silicon Valley office?
- ▶ 1:39:42 Varun Mohan And that still is true, by the way, outside of Silicon Valley, a lot of people don't use GitHub, right?
- ▶ 2:15:01 Varun Mohan So we're getting a lot of feedback inside, but I will say like, there's a little bit of Silicon Valley ism in that a lot of us develop on Mac.
- ▶ 3:50:54 Shawn Wang I think there's a lot of like back and forth over like the broken founder, founding engineer contract in Silicon Valley.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 41:21 Evan Conrad Like Seers of the Valley.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 28:16 Shawn Wang Obviously I think in Silicon Valley, people are a little bit more tech forward, experimental, whatever, but you want to go mainstream.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 22:22 William Beauchamp This is like the Silicon Valley style, um, hyper scale business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:27 William Beauchamp So I'm, I'm growing, I'm evolving more and more into like a Silicon Valley style hyper growth.
- ▶ 43:17 William Beauchamp All the AI is being generated by middle-aged men in Silicon Valley, right?
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 0:24 unnamed speaker This is the Silicon Valley office?
- ▶ 2:32 Varun Mohan Outside of Silicon Valley, a lot of people don't use GitHub, right?
- ▶ 38:08 Varun Mohan But I will say, like, there's a little bit of Silicon Valley-ism in that a lot of us develop on Mac.
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 17:56 Alessio Fanelli And I would say in Silicon Valley, the two hottest companies at the time were you and Langchain.
Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo
- ▶ 42:21 Alessio Fanelli Um, we gave a presentation to a lot of the leaders from Temasek, GSE, EDVI about some of the stuff we've seen in Silicon Valley and like how different countries are building out AI.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 1:08:58 Drew Houston So getting the mentors or getting first time execs, like mentors who have been there, done that, or, um, getting them in like, you know, there's usually for any function, there's usually like a social group, like, oh, chiefs of staff of…
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 1:05:58 unnamed speaker Like in Silicon Valley, it's like this whole thing where like, if you don't have skin in the game, like you're, you're not really in the know, because why would you?
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 14:27 unnamed speaker Central casting of Silicon Valley, so to speak.
The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
- ▶ 2:14:40 unnamed speaker Um, every non-American I talk to always wants to be like, how can we build Silicon Valley in my city? 2 times in the scene
How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- ▶ 0:55 Mark Huang Uh, I was a quant for quite a few years and then made it out into, uh, Silicon Valley and, um, now we, we intersect again when it kind of feels like more or less the same, right?
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 1:06:44 Soumith Chintala Whenever I come to Silicon Valley, I see a different cultural bubble. 2 times in the scene
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 19:49 unnamed speaker Because I remember Silicon Valley at the time was early to COVID.
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 11:26 David Hsu And I think the funny thing about this is that when we first announced that, even, you know, internally and both externally, um, I think people were really surprised actually, because, uh, I think Silicon Valley has been conditioned to…
- ▶ 24:58 David Hsu Yeah, so what's really cool, and this is my sense of the AI space overall, you know, if you're scared to take some YouTube as well, is that, especially in Silicon Valley, where a lot of the innovation is happening, I think there's actually… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:16 unnamed speaker That are not in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 46:03 David Hsu Like, um, we, uh, all work at businesses basically that sell software as, you know, as sort of a, uh, as business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:26 David Hsu What's interesting, I think, is that long-term ubiquity actually is harder for us to achieve outside of Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 4:23 Steve Yegge They started hiring a bunch of people from Silicon Valley to come in and sort of like fix it.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 59:50 Shawn Wang One of the most legendary angels in Silicon Valley.