Garry Tan

It's almost there, but honestly, it's still expensive.

It's still expensive, you know?

So are we talking about years away or months away?

I think it's years away still.

Like what you can do today, spending a million dollars a year on tokens.

At that point, you're talking about doing the work of like a hundred people.

So this would normally cost you like a million dollars as a multiplier to like hundreds of millions of dollars in software value, right?

Or billions even.

And that's happening for, I don't know,

1,000 people on the planet right now.

Then the good news from the AI researchers is that it turns out like these much smaller, cheaper models, they can be a lot smarter.

I think that's where open-source comes into play.

That's how that's going to happen.

Yeah, there's sort of this difficult interplay right now where a lot of lawyers in America want to say we should ban Chinese models.

And then the awkward thing about that is that will actually play exactly into this other, like there's only one player in the entire world that has access to the best models in the world, and that would be quite disastrous.

For some of the YC's success stories, how far out did some of the ideas sound when pitched?

Bitcoin, I think, Coinbase clearly was.

I mean, DoorDash seemed kind of crazy.

Airbnb was probably the most famous one.

Brian Chesky's on my board now.