Foundry

includes Foundry Spot, Foundry Cloud Platform

9 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2023 by Shyam Sankar · said 25 times in 4 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jul 27, 2023
Assertion Supported
Palantir Foundry powered US and UK COVID vaccine distribution
“And this is the same platform that was used to build the COVID vaccine response distribution in the U S and the UK same platform that commercial companies were using to manage the supply chain crises”
Shyam Sankar Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 7:43 No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar
Feb 29, 2024 neutral
Insight
Papermaster: Semiconductor packaging requires geographic diversity beyond foundry capacity
“And so it goes beyond the foundry. It's the same thing with the packaging. So where do you, as you put those chips onto carriers and you need to interconnect it, you need that ecosystem to have geographic diversity as well.”
Mark Papermaster Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 29:20 No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
Aug 22, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Davis: Future AI infrastructure will rely far less on massive GPU clusters
“I think this actually points the way towards like what the infrastructure future might look like. And I think it looks a lot less like everything requiring these big clusters.”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 32:22 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
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Davis: AI teams hold 10% to 20% of GPUs idle as healing buffer
“And so one of the consequences of that is that it's very common now to hold aside 10 to 20% minimum of the GPUs that a team has as buffer, as healing buffer, in case of a failure so you can slot something else in to keep the training workload running, right?”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 5:01 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Aug 22, 2024 bullish
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Davis: Democratizing AI Compute Will Increase AlphaFold-Level Breakthroughs 10x to 100x
“I think it would increase the frequency of events like AlphaFold II by 10 X, a hundred X, or maybe even more super linearly.”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 2:18 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Aug 22, 2024 positive
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Davis: AI systems will make millions of heterogeneous model calls per question
“I think that what we'll see people doing is kind of composing, this sounds funny, but massive networks, Where maybe each stage in the network will basically be maybe some best of A, best of K component with many, many calls to different language models, you kn…”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 40:39 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Aug 22, 2024 negative
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Davis: Large-scale GPU pre-training utilization is sub-80% and often below 50%
“And so even for a lot of the more sophisticated orgs running large pre-trainings at scale, The utilization sub-eighty percent, sometimes less than 50%, actually, depending on how bad of a batch they have and the frequency of failure in the cluster.”
Jared Quincy Davis Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 5:16 No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Nadella: Microsoft uses the GitHub harness across all its AI products
“So we have, in our case, we have the GitHub harness, which essentially we're using across all our products. It's available in Foundry”
Satya Nadella Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 10:55 We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It
Jun 18, 2026 positive
Insight
Tan: AI Factories and Semiconductor Foundries Require Sovereign and Government Capital
“And then in terms of the capital intensive, like AI in a factory and also the foundry, and then you really need to tap either government funding or some sovereign fund, and also some very big capital. You know, there's some big fund that doing that, and they'r…”
Lip-Bu Tan Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 36:40 Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
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