frontier models

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2025 by Chelsea Finn · across every show →

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Jul 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Finn: Frontier models struggle with visual understanding for robotics
“In general, we found that these frontier models generally struggle with visual understanding as it pertains to robotics. Which makes sense because in general, these models aren't kind of really targeting, ah, many physical applications and have very little dat…”
Chelsea Finn Jul 22, 2025 ▶ 29:49 Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
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Hassabis: No lab has enough spare compute to train two maximum-scale frontier models
“Like, nobody has enough spare compute to just make two, you know frontier models at maximum size, right, with different attributes, so that's pretty difficult.”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 21:35 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Tan: AI token compute costs will drop drastically within two years
“I mean, basically because the frontier models are that good, like, you know, I think that in two years, like, That'll be a 100,000 and, you know, down to 10,000 and a thousand. I mean, basically these orders of magnitude are about to happen.”
Garry Tan Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 30:27 Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
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