why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Supported
Feldman: xAI leased GPUs to Anthropic because Grok lacked usage
“They had available capacity because the Grok model wasn't used very much. So they had these GPUs that were sitting around and that's a bad idea. And so they sold a whole block of them or released a whole block of them to Anthropic.”
Assertion Partly supported
Feldman: Cerebras AI inference is 20x faster than competitors
“And we're the fastest, not by a little bit, but by 20 x.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Feldman: Ending cancer deaths for next generation achievable in 25 years
“Look, I think that we have a chance for our children or the next generation, not only to not die from cancer, but to not know anybody who died from cancer. I think that is a real achievable goal in 25 years.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman: Cerebras IPO created about 1,000 employee millionaires
“At IPO, it was more. It was about a thousand.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman: Real estate timelines make data center capacity a major industry limitation
“Data centers had historically moved at sort of the speed of real estate, right? Somebody would decide to build a building and two years later after permits and they poured concrete and the building would go up and two years ago nobody cared about AI. All right…”
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Google TPU Co-Design with Gemini and DeepMind Is a Major Advantage
“One of the advantages Google has is that their TPU can be designed in collaboration with the team building Gemini or the team of DeepMind, and so they can inform their choices back and forth, and that's an enormously powerful thing that is surprisingly relativ…”
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Cerebras chip is 58x larger but fits standard data center racks
“While we build this sort of super big chip, the chip that's like 58 times larger than any other chip, it goes in a server. It goes in a metal enclosure that's about the size of a fridge for a dorm room, a little fridge, and we put a couple of those in a standa…”
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Pierre Lamond invested in Cerebras at 84 and joined the board
“There's there was a venture capitalist named Pierre Lamont, and he's now in his nineties. He invested in us at Cerebris when he was in the ripe age of 84. And was on our board”