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Harry Stebbings

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
30471 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Is it algorithms?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Is it data?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Is it compute?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Can you help me understand which is most lagging?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

If we just go through them, when we look at that context feedback on the data side, will we see then a generation of vertically integrated foundation model companies, light periodic for a ton of different things?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

My question to you then is, how do I determine what is not going to get claudified in that vertical model company build out?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Because you could look at a cursor and say, well, they've built their own vertical model end to end.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

It's been claudified, if we're being blunt.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Periodic won't be because of the physical data that's being produced in the labs.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

How do I know what will be claudified versus won't in that model there?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

With the greatest of respects, is that the core investment thesis of Mistral for you?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

Do Anthropic and OpenAI just accept that and roll over?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I don't understand because government is a mega portion of their efforts and workload today.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

And like both of them, when I speak to them, are like, oh, we're absolutely coming for Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

So how do they get around that?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

You said about obviously being involved with Anthropic since the earliest of days.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I'm just fascinated.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

I think people kind of forget about their early days almost.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

People talk about like, oh, SBF investing early and what a visionary he was.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anj Midha on Investing $300M into Anthropic | The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Turned it Down | The Four Bottlenecks to Compute | What the China Has Smashed and Why We Should Be Worried

What was Anthropic and Dario like in the early days?