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Eiso Kant

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The demand of the world for AI for a Google and an Amazon with their own silicon is not the demand for chips, it's the demand for AI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The demand of the world for AI for a Google and an Amazon with their own silicon is not the demand for chips, it's the demand for AI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The demand of the world for AI for a Google and an Amazon with their own silicon is not the demand for chips, it's the demand for AI.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way I look at this is that we're going to be in a world where those three and possibly new entrants or possibly, you know, AMD maybe catching up, but I think really those three and Microsoft with their own silicon one day are going to be the driving force in this industry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way I look at this is that we're going to be in a world where those three and possibly new entrants or possibly, you know, AMD maybe catching up, but I think really those three and Microsoft with their own silicon one day are going to be the driving force in this industry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way I look at this is that we're going to be in a world where those three and possibly new entrants or possibly, you know, AMD maybe catching up, but I think really those three and Microsoft with their own silicon one day are going to be the driving force in this industry.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Why? Because I'm training on H200s. And so the compute that I brought online at the end of August, these 10,000 H200s, mean that the longer the next generation chips is delayed, it helps me in a competitive nature in the world. But also there's a lot of marketing around the next generation of chips. And again, we have to separate training and inference.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Why? Because I'm training on H200s. And so the compute that I brought online at the end of August, these 10,000 H200s, mean that the longer the next generation chips is delayed, it helps me in a competitive nature in the world. But also there's a lot of marketing around the next generation of chips. And again, we have to separate training and inference.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Why? Because I'm training on H200s. And so the compute that I brought online at the end of August, these 10,000 H200s, mean that the longer the next generation chips is delayed, it helps me in a competitive nature in the world. But also there's a lot of marketing around the next generation of chips. And again, we have to separate training and inference.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Pretty much what we've seen consistently with every two-year generation of training from NVIDIA is about a 2x performance increase. But training is about 2x every two years. On inference, though, I think there's a lot of hope on Blackwell because it looks like for inference, Blackwell might potentially unlock a much, much larger gain.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Pretty much what we've seen consistently with every two-year generation of training from NVIDIA is about a 2x performance increase. But training is about 2x every two years. On inference, though, I think there's a lot of hope on Blackwell because it looks like for inference, Blackwell might potentially unlock a much, much larger gain.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

Pretty much what we've seen consistently with every two-year generation of training from NVIDIA is about a 2x performance increase. But training is about 2x every two years. On inference, though, I think there's a lot of hope on Blackwell because it looks like for inference, Blackwell might potentially unlock a much, much larger gain.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way we think about this, and I think the way to think about it, is that these chips, when they come two times more efficient, The operations we're doing on them is still the same. It's matrix multiplications and additions and such. It's math that we're doing on these chips. The Blackwell generation for us from a training perspective doesn't unlock anything new.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way we think about this, and I think the way to think about it, is that these chips, when they come two times more efficient, The operations we're doing on them is still the same. It's matrix multiplications and additions and such. It's math that we're doing on these chips. The Blackwell generation for us from a training perspective doesn't unlock anything new.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

The way we think about this, and I think the way to think about it, is that these chips, when they come two times more efficient, The operations we're doing on them is still the same. It's matrix multiplications and additions and such. It's math that we're doing on these chips. The Blackwell generation for us from a training perspective doesn't unlock anything new.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

It just means that we have to, we can do more with a certain set of chips. My H200s become less valuable in the world, but it does not necessarily mean I have to go upgrade to the next generation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

It just means that we have to, we can do more with a certain set of chips. My H200s become less valuable in the world, but it does not necessarily mean I have to go upgrade to the next generation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

It just means that we have to, we can do more with a certain set of chips. My H200s become less valuable in the world, but it does not necessarily mean I have to go upgrade to the next generation.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

GPT-5, what it won't deliver, isn't a question we're going to look back on in a decade from now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside

GPT-5, what it won't deliver, isn't a question we're going to look back on in a decade from now.