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Anjney Midha

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339 total appearances

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

So from a substantive perspective, we do two things, right?

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

We have a venture capital business and we have an infrastructure business.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Both things have this very unique property called positive externalities.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

When implemented correctly, venture capital can unlock

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

massive positive externalities for the ecosystem and for the world, because you end up funding innovation when done correctly.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

And then infrastructure is the same, right?

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

When you have compute that's used by small, focused, down-dense teams like Anthropic that's able to produce 10 times more soda capabilities than like DeepMind, which is over 160,000 people,

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

then you're generating positive externalities for the world by being much more efficient per unit of input with the output they create and so i was like huh well what happens when as an economist you look at positive externalities usually you have market failure you have under consumption of that good well how do you correct the market failure usually you get the government to intervene but if you don't have the government intervening in time what do you do you become a private sector participant and then if you look at the arc of 1885 you know private sector businesses that ended up correcting market failure by

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

by producing public benefits, they ended up getting regulated as utilities.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

That's what AMP is.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

AMP is a self-regulated utility that provides venture capital and infrastructure to the world's leading scientific teams.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

The next Dario, the next Guillaume at Mistral who created Lama, the next Robin who created Stable Diffusion.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

These are my generation's smartest minds.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

I'm not smart enough to be them, but I can be their intern.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

And instead of waiting

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

for the rest of the space to come up with standards and institutions to enforce this.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

We're like, dude, let's just do it ourselves and show the world you can have fun while doing it with a small team.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

You don't need to be, you know, something called a, you know, like these words like RIA, multi-stage asset class firm doesn't matter.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Just let's skip ahead to the part, the good part.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

And like, you know, use all the proceeds that we get from management fees and carry to keep the space like innovating at the base that we were promised, you know, 12, 13 years ago.