AI labs

also referred to as: ai lab

10 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Oct 17, 2024 by Sarah Guo · across every show →

Everything said about AI labs, oldest first

Oct 17, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sarah Guo predicts massive excitement when reasoning models gain tool integration
“I do think on how it is received and how people use it, as the labs, you know, attach tools and function calling to the ability to do this type of planning and iterative reasoning, I think people are going to get a lot more excited.”
Sarah Guo Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 16:37 No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
Dec 6, 2024 bearish
Insight
Simons: Simple AI wrappers quickly die when foundation labs update products
“Whenever the next model comes or whenever, you know, one of the AI labs eventually integrates that into their chat products or whatever those companies, you know, kind of tend to go away pretty quickly.”
Eric Simons Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 4:24 No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foody: AI labs will specialize by industry rather than one lab dominating
“I think it's going to be hard for one lab to do everything there and there's going to be, you know, more specialization as we progress further and further and marginal gains in each industry become more challenging.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 13:18 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Apr 10, 2025 positive
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Foody: Top AI Labs Use Mercor to Hire Thousands of Model Trainers
“It's used by all of the top AI labs to hire thousands of people that train the next generation of models.”
Brendan Foody Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:03 No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody
Sep 18, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zhang: AI labs will target coding before customer service
“I think before they tackle our space, there will probably be other spaces they have to tackle first. Yeah. Coding's probably one of them.”
Jesse Zhang Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 19:30 No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
Oct 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Zelikman: Most AI labs treat humans as mere intermediates to full automation
“And maybe this is a strong statement, but I say for most labs, like the human is kind of, you know, the intermediate until you have like this fully automated, like, you know, system. And so spending a lot of time optimizing things for being really good at unde…”
Eric Zelikman Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 29:26 No Priors Ep. 135 | With Humans& Founder Eric Zelikman
Feb 19, 2026 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Gil: AI labs scaled from $1B to $10B revenue in one year
“ADP Took 20 something years to grow from a billion to ten billion in revenue. And then the next wave of companies like Adobe took about 20 years to go from one to 10. And then you fast forward in time and you have things like Salesforce or SAPs for an even mor…”
Elad Gil Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 15:53 The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
Jun 26, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brown: Rapid AI Release Cycles Obscure True Model Capability Ceilings
“The model release cycle is, look, we're releasing new models, like, every two or three months at this point, and so a model comes out, it takes two or three months to push it to its limits, and then you have another model come out, and so nobody actually knows…”
Noam Brown Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 16:10 Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown
Aug 6, 2026 neutral
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Gil: AI labs are slowing researcher hiring due to compute costs
“I know some labs have slowed down on their hiring of researchers unless they're above a very, very high bar because the cost isn't the research or it's the compute associated with the person.”
Elad Gil Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 22:46 Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
Aug 27, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ehrlich says AI labs are trying to buy hedge fund data
“I'm hearing about, you know, labs going to Wall Street and trying to buy data from a hedge funds and try to understand how to map and analyze companies.”
Ofir Ehrlich Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 4:55 Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
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