Science

11 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2023 by Arthur Mensch · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
Mensch: Closed-source AI wastes billions in duplicated compute
“We think that it's too early, and we think it's really, ah, damaging for the science, ah, to actually move into such an opaque regime, where you have A few companies basically doing the same thing, just not communicating about it spending billions of compute d…”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 11:56 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 13, 2025 negative
Insight
Wickramasekara: Much of scientific research is lost to institutional folklore
“And so there's so much of science that lives in like folklore and institutional knowledge, and that's kind of lost over time.”
Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 18:05 No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
Insight
Wickramasekara: Science is uniquely structured to benefit from LLM architectures
“I go back to that sort of returns to intelligence piece where I think science is a problem that has some shape to it that really benefits from the LLM architecture. Like you just think about the corpus of scientific literature as like this vast pool of unstruc…”
Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 32:40 No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Hodak: Science secured European marketing approval for Prima retinal implant in July
“So it took us about two years for post acquisition to get it to the place where this was possible, but we just in July got marketing approval in Europe for Prima to start commercially selling it there.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 5:29 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: Next-generation Prima implant will expand addressable market to millions
“The TAM will grow over time for this first version. It's on the scale of like hundreds of thousands of patients in the U S and Europe. So for the current version of Freeman is probably hundreds of thousands of patients. And then the next version, which is Goin…”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 24:59 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Hodak: Science finished macular degeneration trial, planning studies for RP and Stargardt's
“Specifically this is diseases like macular degeneration, which our clinical trial was done and we're about to do studies in retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt's and a couple of their diseases.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 2:29 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hodak: Second Sight's retinal implant received $150,000 per patient in reimbursement
“Second site, 10 years ago, they, so there's a company about a decade ago that had a retinal prosthesis that works differently than ours does. It did not get the type of performance that Prima does, but was Briefly approved. Cause then there's really nothing fo…”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 23:37 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hodak: Vision gene therapy reimburses at nearly $500,000 per eye
“In the mid-twenty-tens, there's a gene therapy that works, that is only relevant in the first place for about five percent of patients in one narrow indication. And it really doesn't work that well. It gets .one lines of improvement. It kind of slows the rate …”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 24:15 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: First commercial sales of Prima retinal implant will happen in weeks
“The first sales will happen in the coming weeks.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 5:43 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Hodak: Science aligns animal brain recordings with AI model representations
“We use that constructively at science like that. So we know that that is. That is true because we can get alignments between animal brain neural recordings and AI model internal representations.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 20:40 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Hodak: Science's in-house retinal gene therapy probably enters human trials next year
“What we ended up doing is we developed indigenously a state of the art gene therapy, which is probably going to humans next year.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 4:40 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
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