Anjney Midha
Founder & CEO, AMP · 1 appearance on the record.
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Anjney Midha founded AMP to build independent compute infrastructure, after leading AI investments at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously co-founded Ubiquity6, which was acquired by Discord, and was an early investor in companies such as Anthropic and Mistral AI.
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Midha: Stanford Holds America's Second-Largest Longitudinal Patient Dataset Behind the VA
“Stanford is one of the only research facilities in America that has a longitudinal patient data set that's Larger at scale, I think it's at least twelve million patient lives. The only larger data set is the VA, the Veterans Affairs, you know, of America.”
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Midha: The 'NeoCloud' concept is mostly marketing speak
“I think this whole idea of NeoCloud being somehow this new category is a lot of marketing speak. There are really good, reliable, trusted data center providers in America who've been around 20 plus years.”
Google DeepMind's six-month internal embargo shelves commercially valuable research papers
“I mean, what's worse is the paper is actually not even being Published anymore because there's a six month embargo inside of DeepMind, right? Like we've heard about this where a paper comes out and then I think there's a six month embargo window where if anybo…”
Most AI clusters fail to hit Google's 96% node utilization standard
“My co-founder, Seb came from he built the Borg export GQM scheduler at Google, and there, I think, 95% was considered an outage, so 96% node utilization is, should be standard, and most single-time clusters are not running at that”
Up to 20% of US data centers risk cancellation from community backlash
“Up to 20% of all data centers this year in the US, my understanding is are at risk... Of not getting the community support they need to get brought up.”
AI diagnostic adoption is blocked because legal liability remains with doctors
“The problem remains then and now is regulatory because you actually can't shift the burden Of the wrong clinical diagnoses from the physician to the AI system.”
Anthropic will become a trillion-dollar company within four years of founding
“Have you met Dario? Dario's a scientist. He's gone from zero to like what will soon be a trillion dollar company in four years.”
Midha: AI Labs Raising Too Much Money Too Fast Develop Fragile Cultures
“And I think teams who can raise too much money too fast, too early, who don't have to define what the P zero is, because that's the only thing when you have scarce resources, you gotta invest in. Those cultures end up being the most fragile and brittle, and th…”
Midha: Regulators will investigate AI infrastructure operators that bypassed rules
“There will be audits. There will be investigations, and when the regulators come, I don't know when it's going to be. The folks who are moving fast and breaking things in the name of AI progress better be prepared.”
Midha: AMP Is Pooling 1.3 Gigawatts of Compute Supply Over Four Years
“We pool demand, we pool supply from a number of partners we trust at about 1.3 gigawatt scale over four years.”
Midha: AI chip co-design requires visibility into next model architectures
“To do co-design well, you need visibility into the next model generation as soon as possible, because it takes two years to tape out. So if by the time I bring my chip to market, your model architecture's changed, I'm host.”
Midha: Elite academic publishing prepares scientists for high-performance CEO leadership
“Being a great CEO actually requires a level of performance that scientists who have already published at the top of their field have accomplished. It is super hard to be a competitive scientist.”
Midha: Categorizing AI architectures as 'world models' lacks useful technical precision
“World models, don't get me wrong, are cool and everything, but you and I both know that that is a layer of abstraction that is sometimes not usefully precise enough.”
Anthropic achieved technical model takeoff during its October 2023 training run
“What happened is, Anthropic basically achieved takeoff in October of last year. That training run.”
Anthropic made coding its day-one priority as the mechanism to AGI
“And there, P zero from day one was coding. The reason the mechanism system there was, if we crack coding, Then we will crack AGI. You know, our mission is AGI. We want to get there safely. If we focus on coding, it's such a generally powerful capability that i…”
Midha: Best-in-class AI cluster MFU is between 60% and 70%
“And then MFU utilization should be, I would say, the best in class today, somewhere between 60 and 70%.”
The most enduring electric grids pooled uncorrelated demand without owning assets
“In order, if you study, like, the history of grids, the most enduring ones were those that never owned their own assets. They were ones that had, ah, already often started with long-term anchors who are uncorrelated sources of demand”
Midha: AMP Foundry invested hundreds of millions into Anthropic this year
“We put a few hundred million dollars into Anthropic from our fund earlier this year.”
Midha: Anthropic's velocity came from standardizing on the transformer architecture
“Like, one of the reasons Anthropic has had extraordinary sort of velocity is because they picked the transform architecture and said, this is simple, let's double down on it, right? And now, luckily, there's enough investment going into space that we can affor…”
AMP's projected excess annual compute capacity vanished in six weeks
“Unfortunately, what's happened the last six weeks. Is, you know, we thought we'd have a bunch of excess capacity by the end of this year. It's all gone.”
Midha: MatX chips adopt NVIDIA reference architecture to plug into existing sites
“When they decided to pick the standard for their data center, they picked the NVIDIA reference architecture. So the Matex chips just plug in to any site that has an NVIDIA bring up planned. And you know.”
Midha: Frontier AI Models Were Terrible at Analyzing Condensed Matter Physics Data
“We had started benchmarking frontier models on physics and science capabilities, and they were not very good. They were good at, like, doing things like summarization of papers, but if you said, hey, could you, like, analyze the scientific data coming out of a…”
Midha: Stanford Holds America's Second-Largest Longitudinal Patient Dataset Behind the VA
“Stanford is one of the only research facilities in America that has a longitudinal patient data set that's Larger at scale, I think it's at least twelve million patient lives. The only larger data set is the VA, the Veterans Affairs, you know, of America.”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP | Jun 18, 2026 | 46m |