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Jack Farley

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155 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

What about some of the other models?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

What are the trends that you're seeing in terms of spend on models that maybe people aren't nearly as aware of?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

I mean, that sounds like a pretty big bear case for just for spend on AI.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

To what extent do you think people are figuring out that, oh, these tasks, now that we're getting better at creating and training our own agents, that they just don't need the frontier models?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Like,

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

how much of our work that we do doesn't require a frontier model.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

And up to this point, it's always just been like, let's just throw compute at the problem and that will solve it.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

And that it's actually just going to be like thinking a little harder about what the process should be.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Have we seen like a software plugin that

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

that basically determines what sort of model your task should go to?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

I mean, Cursor does that.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

So on the Ramp AI Index, you know, in public markets, Index Inclusion Day is a big deal.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

People speculate, what's the company that's going to be added to the S&P 500?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

It's going to create all this.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

What is going to make a model?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Obviously, there's a huge gap between Anthropic, OpenAI, and everybody else.

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

Who's on the short list to be added to the Ramp AI Index?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

And what are the sort of criteria that you're looking at to say, hey, this is a company that deserves to be, you know, on the list with the big boys?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

What have you seen in this early stages of this research?

The a16z Show
Why AI Isn’t Killing SaaS Yet

There's been speculation a lot of these layoffs that CEOs are attributing to AI adoption are really just regular old layoffs.