Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Eiso Kant

👤 Person
612 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

Because they're not on the forefront of the world scene of AI. Actually opening up some of that research is the game theory optional, you know, optimal thing to do to be able to continue to attract talent. Because that's really what opening up your research does, right? It attracts talent to you.

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 China is at an incredible level of capabilities and in no way could be discarded or thought of as years behind on AI or AGI progress. We're working on technologies that we can see have massive societal impact. I think it's really important to be good stewards of that technology and that progress. And I think part of that is acknowledging that what we know about is the technology.

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 China is at an incredible level of capabilities and in no way could be discarded or thought of as years behind on AI or AGI progress. We're working on technologies that we can see have massive societal impact. I think it's really important to be good stewards of that technology and that progress. And I think part of that is acknowledging that what we know about is the technology.

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 China is at an incredible level of capabilities and in no way could be discarded or thought of as years behind on AI or AGI progress. We're working on technologies that we can see have massive societal impact. I think it's really important to be good stewards of that technology and that progress. And I think part of that is acknowledging that what we know about is the technology.

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

What we know about is our users, our customers. But we should be careful in terms of trying to know what's best for the world and how to think about massive geopolitical conflicts and things like that. And so what I have said in the past is that the best thing that we can do is the West.

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

What we know about is our users, our customers. But we should be careful in terms of trying to know what's best for the world and how to think about massive geopolitical conflicts and things like that. And so what I have said in the past is that the best thing that we can do is the West.

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

What we know about is our users, our customers. But we should be careful in terms of trying to know what's best for the world and how to think about massive geopolitical conflicts and things like that. And so what I have said in the past is that the best thing that we can do is the West.

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

is to keep making it as attractive as possible for talent from china we consider as a competitor right on a very large skill to come to our countries the easier we make it for one of those four major ingredients in the capability race and frankly one of the most important ones to you know help us accelerate i think is probably the the most practical advice i can give

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

is to keep making it as attractive as possible for talent from china we consider as a competitor right on a very large skill to come to our countries the easier we make it for one of those four major ingredients in the capability race and frankly one of the most important ones to you know help us accelerate i think is probably the the most practical advice i can give

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

is to keep making it as attractive as possible for talent from china we consider as a competitor right on a very large skill to come to our countries the easier we make it for one of those four major ingredients in the capability race and frankly one of the most important ones to you know help us accelerate i think is probably the the most practical advice i can give

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 in the last 12 months, it's a continued realization of the importance of scale of data and not only computing. Do you regret not selling Source to GitHub? It was probably the dumbest financial decision of my life, considering it was an all-stock offer and GitHub sold to Microsoft, I think, less than a year later. And it would have 3x the price. Far higher than that.

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 in the last 12 months, it's a continued realization of the importance of scale of data and not only computing. Do you regret not selling Source to GitHub? It was probably the dumbest financial decision of my life, considering it was an all-stock offer and GitHub sold to Microsoft, I think, less than a year later. And it would have 3x the price. Far higher than that.

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 in the last 12 months, it's a continued realization of the importance of scale of data and not only computing. Do you regret not selling Source to GitHub? It was probably the dumbest financial decision of my life, considering it was an all-stock offer and GitHub sold to Microsoft, I think, less than a year later. And it would have 3x the price. Far higher than that.

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

But I'm really grateful I didn't.

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

But I'm really grateful I didn't.

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

But I'm really grateful I didn't.

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'm sitting here.

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'm sitting here.

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'm sitting here.

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 the question is, what could I have been able to do continuing on Source's mission? Because Source's mission was the mission we're talking about today with Poolside. And back in 2016, there were very few people who believed it was ever possible for AI to write code. But no, I don't think there's really no regrets there. I wouldn't be sitting where I am today.