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Eric Vishria

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

No, I don't. I go back to my software engineer example. Forget about AGI for a second. The prize is so big even without AGI. The prize is so big. And so, yeah, the revenue will materialize. There's a lot to figure out. I was We had a dinner guest yesterday. We do these dinners as a partnership with the guests on Mondays.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And one of the kind of conversations around it was we were kind of unpacking is like if you think about search. So search, we started first seeing the search, the first search engines call it 1995 is when you started to see the first search engines. And then Google Series A was 1998. I believe. And immediately was a better search engine and a better trap and everything else.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And one of the kind of conversations around it was we were kind of unpacking is like if you think about search. So search, we started first seeing the search, the first search engines call it 1995 is when you started to see the first search engines. And then Google Series A was 1998. I believe. And immediately was a better search engine and a better trap and everything else.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And one of the kind of conversations around it was we were kind of unpacking is like if you think about search. So search, we started first seeing the search, the first search engines call it 1995 is when you started to see the first search engines. And then Google Series A was 1998. I believe. And immediately was a better search engine and a better trap and everything else.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

What I think is lost in time is Google didn't figure out the monetization. Of course, they did it through an acquisition. They didn't actually figure it out themselves. They didn't figure out the monetization of search until 2001, I think, or late 2000. And so we had... Five or six years of these search engines, which anybody at that time was using them every day.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

What I think is lost in time is Google didn't figure out the monetization. Of course, they did it through an acquisition. They didn't actually figure it out themselves. They didn't figure out the monetization of search until 2001, I think, or late 2000. And so we had... Five or six years of these search engines, which anybody at that time was using them every day.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

What I think is lost in time is Google didn't figure out the monetization. Of course, they did it through an acquisition. They didn't actually figure it out themselves. They didn't figure out the monetization of search until 2001, I think, or late 2000. And so we had... Five or six years of these search engines, which anybody at that time was using them every day.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

There were crappy display ads all over them and all kinds of stuff that was just totally like people. I think, sure, there were paid search engines. People tried to do all kinds of things to figure out the monetization model.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

There were crappy display ads all over them and all kinds of stuff that was just totally like people. I think, sure, there were paid search engines. People tried to do all kinds of things to figure out the monetization model.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

There were crappy display ads all over them and all kinds of stuff that was just totally like people. I think, sure, there were paid search engines. People tried to do all kinds of things to figure out the monetization model.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And so I don't know that we figured out the monetization model, but I think what we can say very clearly, customers perceive a lot of these products, not all of them, but a lot of these products as magic, which they are basically magic. And they want them. There's a bunch of monetization that needs to be figured out, but I kind of don't worry about it. It's like, we will figure it out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And so I don't know that we figured out the monetization model, but I think what we can say very clearly, customers perceive a lot of these products, not all of them, but a lot of these products as magic, which they are basically magic. And they want them. There's a bunch of monetization that needs to be figured out, but I kind of don't worry about it. It's like, we will figure it out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And so I don't know that we figured out the monetization model, but I think what we can say very clearly, customers perceive a lot of these products, not all of them, but a lot of these products as magic, which they are basically magic. And they want them. There's a bunch of monetization that needs to be figured out, but I kind of don't worry about it. It's like, we will figure it out.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

That's just the delay. And so I feel like And the reason the parallel to search is interesting is because it's like, hey, there was a new technology that was really powerful, web search. And it took a while to figure out monetization. And we have a new technology, alums, that are really, really powerful. And we've got to figure out monetization on them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

That's just the delay. And so I feel like And the reason the parallel to search is interesting is because it's like, hey, there was a new technology that was really powerful, web search. And it took a while to figure out monetization. And we have a new technology, alums, that are really, really powerful. And we've got to figure out monetization on them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

That's just the delay. And so I feel like And the reason the parallel to search is interesting is because it's like, hey, there was a new technology that was really powerful, web search. And it took a while to figure out monetization. And we have a new technology, alums, that are really, really powerful. And we've got to figure out monetization on them.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And it's not going to be a $20 a month subscription. That's not the right way. And it's not going to be just bundled API. There's going to be much, much more sophistication and interesting models than that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And it's not going to be a $20 a month subscription. That's not the right way. And it's not going to be just bundled API. There's going to be much, much more sophistication and interesting models than that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And it's not going to be a $20 a month subscription. That's not the right way. And it's not going to be just bundled API. There's going to be much, much more sophistication and interesting models than that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

Foundational models are the fastest depreciating asset in human history, I think has turned out to be largely true.