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Eiso Kant

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612 total appearances

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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

I would love to spend a day with the current leadership team of every single one of these and then make a decision. They each have inherent advantages to them. XAI has understood that compute mattered and built an incredible team there and did what no one really had done at that speed. They built 100,000 GPU, three 32K interconnected clusters in Tennessee.

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

I would love to spend a day with the current leadership team of every single one of these and then make a decision. They each have inherent advantages to them. XAI has understood that compute mattered and built an incredible team there and did what no one really had done at that speed. They built 100,000 GPU, three 32K interconnected clusters in Tennessee.

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

I would love to spend a day with the current leadership team of every single one of these and then make a decision. They each have inherent advantages to them. XAI has understood that compute mattered and built an incredible team there and did what no one really had done at that speed. They built 100,000 GPU, three 32K interconnected clusters in Tennessee.

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

In the span of months, XAI showed up with Elon's strength, the ability to build physical infrastructure incredibly fast in the world. OpenAI had the incredible ChatGPT moment and has built this incredible business around both ChatGPT and the usage of their APIs and is clearly ahead in revenue as others, like as publicly stated.

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

In the span of months, XAI showed up with Elon's strength, the ability to build physical infrastructure incredibly fast in the world. OpenAI had the incredible ChatGPT moment and has built this incredible business around both ChatGPT and the usage of their APIs and is clearly ahead in revenue as others, like as publicly stated.

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

In the span of months, XAI showed up with Elon's strength, the ability to build physical infrastructure incredibly fast in the world. OpenAI had the incredible ChatGPT moment and has built this incredible business around both ChatGPT and the usage of their APIs and is clearly ahead in revenue as others, like as publicly stated.

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

And then I think Anthropic has incredible, thoughtful researchers and a very rigorous approach in what they do, a very rigorous scientific approach in terms of moving things forward. And so while I can see strengths in all three of those, it would really be a day with the with my own money.

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

And then I think Anthropic has incredible, thoughtful researchers and a very rigorous approach in what they do, a very rigorous scientific approach in terms of moving things forward. And so while I can see strengths in all three of those, it would really be a day with the with my own money.

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

And then I think Anthropic has incredible, thoughtful researchers and a very rigorous approach in what they do, a very rigorous scientific approach in terms of moving things forward. And so while I can see strengths in all three of those, it would really be a day with the with my own money.

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

I think Sam and OpenAI have understood the importance of compute and have understood the importance of data. What I imagine that $6.6 billion is going towards is exactly those two things. Where from the outside, I think it is tricky to be Sam today. I think it's tricky to be Sam today because general purpose models that aim to be everything for everyone is an incredibly competitive market.

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

I think Sam and OpenAI have understood the importance of compute and have understood the importance of data. What I imagine that $6.6 billion is going towards is exactly those two things. Where from the outside, I think it is tricky to be Sam today. I think it's tricky to be Sam today because general purpose models that aim to be everything for everyone is an incredibly competitive market.

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

I think Sam and OpenAI have understood the importance of compute and have understood the importance of data. What I imagine that $6.6 billion is going towards is exactly those two things. Where from the outside, I think it is tricky to be Sam today. I think it's tricky to be Sam today because general purpose models that aim to be everything for everyone is an incredibly competitive market.

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

And you find yourself with incredible pressures from all sides. And you're building a platform and a consumer product at exactly the same time. And more so than that, you're building a consumer product that from the outside is seeming to be for everyone. And I think that's a really hard thing to do.

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

And you find yourself with incredible pressures from all sides. And you're building a platform and a consumer product at exactly the same time. And more so than that, you're building a consumer product that from the outside is seeming to be for everyone. And I think that's a really hard thing to do.

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

And you find yourself with incredible pressures from all sides. And you're building a platform and a consumer product at exactly the same time. And more so than that, you're building a consumer product that from the outside is seeming to be for everyone. And I think that's a really hard thing to do.

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's one I think about a lot, to be very honest, and you're getting me even with it. It's probably one of the only things you could have said that would have got me a bit emotional, because I think about it a lot. I saw it many years ago, and I think I understand what he means very well. I was earlier today with a founder I really respect.

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's one I think about a lot, to be very honest, and you're getting me even with it. It's probably one of the only things you could have said that would have got me a bit emotional, because I think about it a lot. I saw it many years ago, and I think I understand what he means very well. I was earlier today with a founder I really respect.

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's one I think about a lot, to be very honest, and you're getting me even with it. It's probably one of the only things you could have said that would have got me a bit emotional, because I think about it a lot. I saw it many years ago, and I think I understand what he means very well. I was earlier today with a founder I really respect.

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

And we were funny enough talking a little bit about this, is that building what we're building, it's not a choice, it's an obsession. And you bring everything you've got to it. And we were talking about, hey, how do you deal with waking up at three in the morning and your mind doesn't stop racing?

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

And we were funny enough talking a little bit about this, is that building what we're building, it's not a choice, it's an obsession. And you bring everything you've got to it. And we were talking about, hey, how do you deal with waking up at three in the morning and your mind doesn't stop racing?