What-if
Krishnan: Passing SB 1047 Would Have Ended American Open-Source AI
“You know, like until last a year and a half ago, I was in California, along with all of you, California almost passed SB, which if that had happened, it would have been the end of open source, by the way, in the United States, we would not have a Lama. We woul…”
Opinion
Krishnan: Biden Administration Attempted to Demonize and Ban Open-Source AI
“The Biden administration really, really tried to scare people about open source, talk about how unsafe it was. SB. And obviously tried to kind of basically ban it in many ways.”
Opinion
Krishnan: Biden AI Policy Sought Centralized Control Across Four Companies
“One, very fundamental difference I think we have with the Biden administration is the Biden team really looked at AI as something to be centralized and controlled. Everything was about how do we make sure that we regulate these three or four companies and only…”
Opinion
Krishnan: Climate Lobbyists and Doomers Blocked US Nuclear Development for Decades
“Nuclear, that's another case where I think for decades and decades, the climate lobby and the doomers that kind of stop any real efforts over there.”
Assertion Partly supported
Krishnan: Biden Diffusion Rule Effectively Banned US GPU Exports to Allies
“Under the Biden era, there was something called the Biden diffusion rule, which basically was a 200 page document, which basically made it illegal for America to export GPUs. It was really hard for you know, if you're Jensen or if you're Lisa Su to really kind…”
Opinion
Krishnan: Senior Global Officials Lacked Basic Competence in AI Policy
“A lot of people who are in very senior roles in governments in the United States back then and other parts of the world didn't know what they were talking about when it came to AI. I was convinced that they were doing the absolute wrong thing on many topics, f…”
Opinion
Krishnan: America Currently Holds Only a Very Small Lead in AI
“It told us that America doesn't have a huge lead. On AI. It actually has a very, very small lead.”
Opinion
Krishnan: Chinese Models DeepSeek and Qwen Are the Best Open Source
“I think to even today, I would probably say the Chinese models, Deepsea, Quan are the best open source models”
Insight
Krishnan: Measure AI Dominance by American Hardware and Model Inference Share
“And one of the measures I've been thinking about is let's say the world inferences, I don't know, maybe it's called 10 quadrillion tokens a month. We don't know what the number is, right? What share of those tokens are being inferenced on American hardware on …”
Opinion
Krishnan: Global Usage of DeepSeek and Qwen Is Geopolitical Soft Power
“When somebody is using DeepSeq or Quinn, that's an expression of soft power.”
Insight
Krishnan: Undetectable Backdoors in Coding Assistants Threaten Critical Infrastructure
“Interpretability is still a nascent field and you could very easily see ways where You plug a model into a cursor or windsurf and you generate a piece of code. And then two years down the road, it turns out that code had a little if statement saying, if I'm ru…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krishnan: Exporting US GPUs Strongly Incentivizes Allies to Run American Models
“And one of the other things we're doing that is we get our GPUs over, we probably get them to run our models as opposed to models from, you know, another country, and we go from there.”
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Krishnan: Robotics Startups Are Heavily Using Distilled DeepSeek and Qwen Models
“When I was talking to a bunch of robotic startups, you're seeing a lot of distilled DeepSeq, a lot of distilled Quen out there.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krishnan: Chinese AI Powering Global Devices Will Have Catastrophic Geopolitical Consequences
“There are going to be catastrophic consequences if Chinese models are running on every robot, Every camera, every car, every device around the world.”
Insight
Krishnan: AI Leadership Will Create an Accelerating Economic Flywheel Effect
“AI might be the most transformational economic cultural force of our lifetime. And I believe that if the country or the ecosystem Which winds up getting ahead is going to have these cyclic effects, right? Like you're going to, you know, you're going to power p…”
Insight
Krishnan: Twitter Algorithms Easily Injected Cultural Bias Into Mainstream News Cycles
“One of the things I saw when I was at Twitter was how easily you could inject cultural bias in your algorithms. I have so many stories about how if you pick the right kind of Twitter accounts, which then feed into the trending algorithm, which then feed into T…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krishnan: David Sacks Regularly Explains Deep AI Technical Concepts in White House
“Like you'd be shocked at how often I've seen David Sachs in a meeting explain how inferencing works, you know, what high bandwidth memory is, you know, how the world has shifted from a, you know, pre-training context to a post-training context.”
Insight
Krishnan: Independent Open-Source Scrutiny Detects AI Vulnerabilities Better Than Internal Teams
“If you have a model up on hugging face and somebody downloads a final gigabyte file and the thousands of students and researchers just kind of pounding away on that, I think there's a good chance they're going to find issues a lot better than a very small safe…”
Insight
Krishnan: Single-State Tech Regulations Often Become De Facto National Law
“If you have a small state set rules, It can often become the de facto law for the country, because if you're a company, you're like, well, I have to operate in this state, or I have an office, so let me just do that for everybody. It's kind of just like the EU…”
Opinion
Krishnan: US AI Dominance Demands Blue-Collar Trade Workers, Not Just Engineers
“America needs not just engineers, but it needs people up and down the stack. It needs electricians, technicians. We need to get construction going and we need to get these jobs and this whole ecosystem back in back in the US.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krishnan: Physical AI and Robotics Will Become Critical Within Two Years
“The action plan actually has a section in it of making sure, you know, we are set up For robotics. I think that's obviously that's going to get super key within the next 18 to 24 months.”
Assertion Contradicted
Krishnan: DeepSeek Preceded Anthropic and Google in Releasing Reasoning Models
“DeepSeq was the only reasoning model, which was not open AI. So I don't think Claude had come out of the reasoning model yet. I don't think Google had yet. It was the only non-open AI reasoning model.”
