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George Sivulka

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I don't think they're loving Ragnar. What makes you say that? I think like 90% of enterprise AI right now is almost like this vapor where we swear it works. Like, look at this amazing demo where we ask, what does the CEO say about the investment? And the minute that they actually go to, you know, try to use it in a real world example, completely just fails.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And so I actually think that the majority of AI usage, a lot of these usage statistics are all kind of one of my favorite phrases. It's fugazi fugazi. And one of the things that Hebbia really tries to put forth in the market is to say, hey, change will take time. But we have a system that is actually starting to drive real measurable value over very specifically defined use cases.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And so I actually think that the majority of AI usage, a lot of these usage statistics are all kind of one of my favorite phrases. It's fugazi fugazi. And one of the things that Hebbia really tries to put forth in the market is to say, hey, change will take time. But we have a system that is actually starting to drive real measurable value over very specifically defined use cases.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And so I actually think that the majority of AI usage, a lot of these usage statistics are all kind of one of my favorite phrases. It's fugazi fugazi. And one of the things that Hebbia really tries to put forth in the market is to say, hey, change will take time. But we have a system that is actually starting to drive real measurable value over very specifically defined use cases.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And our tagline is always, hey, stop experimenting with AI, which everyone's experimenting. They're all really excited about it. Start driving value, like getting value out of it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And our tagline is always, hey, stop experimenting with AI, which everyone's experimenting. They're all really excited about it. Start driving value, like getting value out of it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And our tagline is always, hey, stop experimenting with AI, which everyone's experimenting. They're all really excited about it. Start driving value, like getting value out of it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually am not a big believer in RPA. I think RPA is almost not an AI application in the new sense of AI. It's like AI in the old 10 years ago sense of AI, where RPA is effectively like very simple computation. But some of the things that people are asking Hebbia are over 800 page credit agreements or 230 page SIMs. Confidential information memorandums, this marketing material.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually am not a big believer in RPA. I think RPA is almost not an AI application in the new sense of AI. It's like AI in the old 10 years ago sense of AI, where RPA is effectively like very simple computation. But some of the things that people are asking Hebbia are over 800 page credit agreements or 230 page SIMs. Confidential information memorandums, this marketing material.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually am not a big believer in RPA. I think RPA is almost not an AI application in the new sense of AI. It's like AI in the old 10 years ago sense of AI, where RPA is effectively like very simple computation. But some of the things that people are asking Hebbia are over 800 page credit agreements or 230 page SIMs. Confidential information memorandums, this marketing material.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

They're not actually asking for things like copying numbers. They're saying, hey, tell me what are inconsistencies in this document. Tell me where there's an event of default that we can trigger. There's almost this open-endedness or this new level of computation that people can do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

They're not actually asking for things like copying numbers. They're saying, hey, tell me what are inconsistencies in this document. Tell me where there's an event of default that we can trigger. There's almost this open-endedness or this new level of computation that people can do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

They're not actually asking for things like copying numbers. They're saying, hey, tell me what are inconsistencies in this document. Tell me where there's an event of default that we can trigger. There's almost this open-endedness or this new level of computation that people can do.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And I think that we very much are capturing the agent, the high level, ambiguous decision making and trying to trace it all the way down back to individual citations or individual characters that led the model to that decision.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And I think that we very much are capturing the agent, the high level, ambiguous decision making and trying to trace it all the way down back to individual citations or individual characters that led the model to that decision.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

And I think that we very much are capturing the agent, the high level, ambiguous decision making and trying to trace it all the way down back to individual citations or individual characters that led the model to that decision.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually don't agree with that at all. I think he's completely wrong. I think it depends on how you define business apps. But I actually think that if the new business apps are platforms, you'll actually start to see those platforms really take hold. Like Hebbia is a platform. It lets you build whatever agent that you'd like. And so here's a bit of a mindfuck.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually don't agree with that at all. I think he's completely wrong. I think it depends on how you define business apps. But I actually think that if the new business apps are platforms, you'll actually start to see those platforms really take hold. Like Hebbia is a platform. It lets you build whatever agent that you'd like. And so here's a bit of a mindfuck.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

I actually don't agree with that at all. I think he's completely wrong. I think it depends on how you define business apps. But I actually think that if the new business apps are platforms, you'll actually start to see those platforms really take hold. Like Hebbia is a platform. It lets you build whatever agent that you'd like. And so here's a bit of a mindfuck.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

When building Hebbia or when building all of these foundational primitives for how people use AI over the last four and a half years, Hebbia has always asked ourselves, what are the apps that AGI would want to use? Or what are the apps that agents would want to use themselves? I.e.