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Grant Harvey

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The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

I've also, you know, I guess it's kind of the same, but I've also heard that environments can be data, or data can be environments.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Is that accurate, or is that completely off-base?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So would you say that you fall in the camp where you are more leaning towards Transformers as the path and scaling them up?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Or are you deeply like, no, we need a new architecture, kind of like the Richard Sutton, Andre Karpathy kind of path?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Where do you land on that?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

It makes actually what you did unique because you raised $2 billion on the idea of open source.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

And that was something that was kind of unheard of a couple months ago, I think.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

I mean, this was coming seven months after you raised like at a $545 million valuation, right?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So what convinced investors to double down on you and open source?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

I mean, I guess the question behind the question I was wondering is, do you think that the mentality of open source and how competitive it could be has changed in the industry?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Do you think that, I guess more broadly, do you think that there is a chance that open source could even surpass the big labs, especially if you're financed enough to compete with them?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

So we really believe... More people are using it so they understand the code.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

at a high level like you know most people are like good people who want to ensure that like these models are safe and we want to just like you know work with them to ensure that you know our models are like safer than other models yeah I agree with your thesis like I do think that it makes it safer and I think that there are maybe perhaps more risks from the big labs keeping their technology closed I just think that's it's good that they're publishing stuff but I mean

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Yeah, it seems like what I'm hearing is that your company's thesis is that open source can eventually open or even surpass cloud from the speed that comes with open source when everyone's building on it and contributing to it per the open science idea that you shared earlier.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Do you think that that's accurate?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

And if so, is it just a matter of scale at this point of just scaling up the open science and getting it out there to as many people as possible?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Well, you yourself are an engineer, so you're building tools.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

I assume you're building AI tools with coding AI tools, right?

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Yeah.

The Neuron: AI Explained
This DeepMind Vet Raised $2B to Open-Source Frontier AI

Okay.