foundation model

also referred to as: foundation models

10 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Mar 15, 2025 by Sharad Sharma · across every show →

Everything said about foundation model, oldest first

Mar 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sharma: US AI regulation focuses on foundation models over apps
“The US, which has tried to control AI and its dissipation you know, Sam Altman's statement was just a manifestation of that. And the GPU diffusion order is a manifestation of that said, look, ultimately all these apps will have only a few models. Oh, you know,…”
Sharad Sharma Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:33:11 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sahai: Startups' clean data slates rival incumbents' massive but dirty datasets
“Incumbents have the advantage of a lot of data, right? But they also have the baggage that often the data is not very clean. So as you build your models, as you build your foundation models, et cetera, are you relying on good data or not, right? Whereas a star…”
Avanish Sahai Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 37:40 Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
May 15, 2026 positive
Insight
Ameya Bhatawdekar: Enterprise AI quality comes from surrounding engineering, not just models
“These intelligent systems, these AI systems are not just a model, right? There's a lot of layering that happens on top of these models. These systems have to really deliver specific capabilities or specific experiences that help people do certain specific task…”
Ameya Bhatawdekar May 15, 2026 ▶ 28:02 The “Messy State” of AI & How to Fix It | Ameya, Braintrust CTO
Jun 9, 2026 positive
Insight
Ambati: Monthly AI model churn is fueled by synthetic data loops
“Every month, if you will, there is a new model, right? That's beating the old model, and visibly adopted already, and people are moving to the new models and the data is just flowing, like you're generating data, you're sort of getting access to new data creat…”
Vamshi Ambati Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 5:24 94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
Jun 18, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Turing avoids building proprietary foundation models to prevent competing with customers
“We would not build our own model. We don't want to compete with our customers, but we are building around the models so that enterprises can unlock the fullest value.”
Jonathan Siddharth Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 1:05:39 Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Penmetsa: AI value accrual will shift from models to applications
“I do think over time, today a lot of the value has been accrued in the infrastructure and model layers. I do think over time we'll start seeing value getting accrued in the application layer.”
Arun Penmetsa Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 42:05 The #1 Mistake Killing B2B Startups | Arun Penmetsa, Storm Ventures
Jul 24, 2026 neutral
Insight
Most AI startup moats will not be technical, excluding foundation models
“Most of the mode is not going to be technical unless you're a foundation model company or a world model. It's not technical.”
Mahesh Ram Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 29:58 The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
Jul 24, 2026 negative
Insight
Foundation models struggle with multi-stakeholder enterprise workflows due to missing memory
“The foundation models aren't built for that because they don't really understand persona. They don't have memory. You know, you think they don't have memory of multiple complex and the interdependencies between those. So I actually am seeing founders, some of …”
Mahesh Ram Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 34:58 The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
Jul 31, 2026 positive
Insight
Krishnan: Meaningful services provide AI startups a moat against model advances
“Having having the need for a meaningful services component does, for example I mean, it serves a useful purpose also today, right? Like in a manner which might not have been valued as much a few years ago, which is that It absolutely gives you a certain moat a…”
Vijay Krishnan Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 1:04:15 The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
Sep 3, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Tandon: Commure runs daily pricing bake-offs across AI model providers
“And we're in pricing bake-offs with all the models every day. Like we pick the best model for the job and we're extracting every last bit of, you know, margin from them as we can.”
Tanay Tandon Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 1:01:23 How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
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