Vinod Khosla
21 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 8 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2024 by Vinod Khosla · across every show →
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Jun 14, 2024 negative
Jun 14, 2024 neutral
Jun 14, 2024 bearish
Jun 14, 2024 neutral
Khosla: AI labs must prioritize usage and training data over near-term revenue
“So I'm pretty convinced The next few years, the revenue isn't the important metric. You don't want to, of course, lose so much money you can't afford it, but you're not trying to make tons of money. You're trying to get tons of usage and you're trying to get t…”
Jun 14, 2024
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Khosla: AI primary care and therapy will become larger than specialized AI
“I think the specialties will become embedded in the generic. And the general, like primary care and mental health therapy are two examples that I think will be larger businesses because there's other aspects than just the knowledge aspect.”
Jun 14, 2024 neutral
Jun 14, 2024 bearish
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Khosla: Small models will never substitute for large, human-level AI models
“If you want human level intelligence from model, it'll be a big model, and there'll be a couple of them around. Some better than others, some a year or two ahead of others, but I don't think small models substitute for big models, but they do some things reall…”
Jun 14, 2024 bearish
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Jun 14, 2024 bullish
Jul 19, 2024 neutral
Dec 27, 2024
Dec 27, 2024 negative
Dec 27, 2024 negative
Khosla: Small models will not replace large frontier models for intelligence
“If you want human level intelligence from a model, it'll be a big model, and there'll be a couple of them around, some better than others, some a year or two ahead of others, but I don't think small models substitute
For big models”
Dec 27, 2024 bullish
Khosla: Khosla Ventures followed a $2M Symbolica seed with $15M
“And I said, fine, I'll give you a two million dollar seed. And if you prove this out, then we can talk more. They came back in March of this year, not very long ago, and said, here's the results that I promised. I said, don't go out. I'll write you a fifteen m…”
Dec 27, 2024 neutral
Dec 27, 2024 bearish
Khosla: Frontier AI compute costs will drop 80-90% within a year
“My bet is, a year from now, it'll cost one-fifth to one-tenth of what it does today, and my advice to all our startups is ignore the cost of compute, because any assumption you make, any dollar you spend on optimizing your software will be worthless within the…”
Sep 12, 2025 bearish