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Andreessen: Three-year-old Nvidia chips make more money today than when new
“The current models are getting better faster at such a rate that if you are running an NVIDIA, if you're running an NVIDIA inference chip today that's three years old, you're making more money on it today than you did three years ago. Because the pace of impro…”
Andreessen: Autonomous AI agents will inevitably hire humans for tasks
“The agent hiring the people, which of course is going to happen, right? It's obviously going to happen.”
Andreessen: Programming languages may not exist as a concept in 10 years
“Like I kind of think in 10 years, like I'm not sure, yeah, like I'm not sure there will even be a salient concept of a programming language in the way that we understand it today.”
Andreessen: AI will never transform existing US K-12 public classrooms
“How are we going to apply AI in education? The answer is we're not because it's a literal government monopoly. It is never going to change the end, and there is nothing to do. By the way, you can create an entirely new school system. Like that's the one thing …”
Andreessen: AI will sweep through coding and every other domain
“And so now we know that it's going to sweep through coding and then we know, you know, we know that if it's going to work in coding, it's going to work in everything else, right? It's just that, cause that's like the hardest, in many ways, that's the hardest e…”
Andreessen: AI hardware supply chain faces chronic shortages for next 3-4 years
“In the next three or four years, it's like somewhere between three or four years out, basically everything is selling out. So like the entire supply chain is, is, is, is sold out or selling out. And so there, there's no, like, we're just gonna have like chroni…”
Andreessen: Foundation model market will consolidate to 1-4 winners in 3 years
“Between the US and China right now, there's like a dozen primary foundation model companies. Companies that are like at scale at some level of like critical mass. It's not going to be a dozen in three years, right? Like it just because these industries don't b…”
Andreessen: Everyone in the world will use autonomous AI agents
“I have Absolutely no doubt that everybody in the world is gonna have at least, you know, an agent like this, if not an entire family of agents, and we're gonna be living in a world where I think it's almost inevitable now that this is the way people are gonna …”
Andreessen: AI will expose every latent security flaw before fixing them all
“We're about to go through computer security is about to go through the most dramatic change ever, which is number one, like every single latent security bug is about to be exposed. So we're going to have like the, we're set up here for like the computer securi…”
Andreessen: High-quality software will become completely fungible and abundant
“And so this thing that was this incredibly scarce resource of high quality software is just going to become a completely fungible thing that you're just going to have as much as you want.”
Andreessen: AI agents will be the killer app for crypto
“I think this is the grand unification basically of AI and crypto is what's about to happen now. I think AI is the crypto killer app, I think is where, where this is really going to come out.”
Andreessen: Entire industries will be built adapting AI into messy real-world systems
“There are going to be a lot of companies and a lot of products and in fact, entire industries that are going to get built to basically actually help all of this technology actually reach real people.”
Andreessen: AI inference cost declines will temporarily level out
“I mean, generally inference costs are going to keep coming down, but I think the, let's put it this way, the rate of decline, I think may level out here for a bit because of these supply constraints.”
Andreessen: Google had internal chatbots between 2017 and 2021 but withheld them
“Between 20 17 and 20, 21, I mean, that was the era of which like companies like Google had internal chatbots, but they weren't letting anybody use them.”
Andreessen: Dot-com fiber and data center overbuild took 15 years to utilize
“All of those data centers and all of those, all the fiber that they're in use, it's all in use today, but 25 years later. But it took, and actually the elapsed time was it took 15 years. It took 15 years from 2000 to 2015 to actually fill, fill up all that cap…”