White: Founders should combine LLMs with deterministic tools like knowledge graphs
Sean White · Reid Hoffman & Inflection AI CEO: Designing AI that makes us better humans (Sean White) | Summit '25 · Jan 24, 2026 · at 24:24
Inflection AI CEO Sean White answers an audience question at the Masters of Scale Summit about how startups can build defensible products beyond foundation models.
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“If I was giving a recommendation, it would be look at all of the different forms in which we use AI, and some of those are rule-based systems, some of those are the comp, like, something super exciting to me is the combination of knowledge graphs together with LLMs, for instance, right, where you have things that are, like, we're getting into this regime where we have to be comfortable with probabilistic systems, and putting together deterministic with probabilistic systems”
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