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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

So NVIDIA has, you know, I think that the best moats aren't technological moats. They're not data moats. They're actually people moats. People and networks have the most friction to change. One of the things that NVIDIA does best is the fact that they made this early bet on machine learning.

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

So NVIDIA has, you know, I think that the best moats aren't technological moats. They're not data moats. They're actually people moats. People and networks have the most friction to change. One of the things that NVIDIA does best is the fact that they made this early bet on machine learning.

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

So NVIDIA has, you know, I think that the best moats aren't technological moats. They're not data moats. They're actually people moats. People and networks have the most friction to change. One of the things that NVIDIA does best is the fact that they made this early bet on machine learning.

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 created CUDA, which is the way that, as I mentioned before, almost everyone learns how to train models. Like they learn how to, you know, how to interface with NVIDIA chips for training.

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 created CUDA, which is the way that, as I mentioned before, almost everyone learns how to train models. Like they learn how to, you know, how to interface with NVIDIA chips for training.

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 created CUDA, which is the way that, as I mentioned before, almost everyone learns how to train models. Like they learn how to, you know, how to interface with NVIDIA chips for training.

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

As you're starting to see, maybe that prediction that I made earlier, the shift away from training to inference as a fundamental, almost macro shift in how people deploy AI, I actually think that will destabilize slightly the dominance of NVIDIA chips.

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

As you're starting to see, maybe that prediction that I made earlier, the shift away from training to inference as a fundamental, almost macro shift in how people deploy AI, I actually think that will destabilize slightly the dominance of NVIDIA chips.

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

As you're starting to see, maybe that prediction that I made earlier, the shift away from training to inference as a fundamental, almost macro shift in how people deploy AI, I actually think that will destabilize slightly the dominance of NVIDIA chips.

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

You can start to actually use AMD chips or even custom architectures, which all the major model providers are also currently exploring to do inference So you have your academics and your researchers, you know, training large models on NVIDIA chips. But the minute they deploy them, they can deploy them on cheaper infrastructure. And that actually I think it will be a big change.

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

You can start to actually use AMD chips or even custom architectures, which all the major model providers are also currently exploring to do inference So you have your academics and your researchers, you know, training large models on NVIDIA chips. But the minute they deploy them, they can deploy them on cheaper infrastructure. And that actually I think it will be a big change.

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

You can start to actually use AMD chips or even custom architectures, which all the major model providers are also currently exploring to do inference So you have your academics and your researchers, you know, training large models on NVIDIA chips. But the minute they deploy them, they can deploy them on cheaper infrastructure. And that actually I think it will be a big change.

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

So I'm actually still bullish on NVIDIA, but I'm even more bullish on other chip makers and custom ASICs to do inference because I think there will be a larger shift to inference moving forward.

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

So I'm actually still bullish on NVIDIA, but I'm even more bullish on other chip makers and custom ASICs to do inference because I think there will be a larger shift to inference moving forward.

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

So I'm actually still bullish on NVIDIA, but I'm even more bullish on other chip makers and custom ASICs to do inference because I think there will be a larger shift to inference moving forward.

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

probably be large tech providers and AMD. I don't know about Intel, right? I would probably bet on them. There's definitely an opportunity in the market, but chips are hard.

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

probably be large tech providers and AMD. I don't know about Intel, right? I would probably bet on them. There's definitely an opportunity in the market, but chips are hard.

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

probably be large tech providers and AMD. I don't know about Intel, right? I would probably bet on them. There's definitely an opportunity in the market, but chips are hard.

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 think that 90% of the market is still in experimental budget phase, but we're starting to see early promises of actual value. And my entire business is focused on just those repeatable 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

I think that 90% of the market is still in experimental budget phase, but we're starting to see early promises of actual value. And my entire business is focused on just those repeatable use cases.