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20VC: Raising $500M To Compete in the Race for AGI | Will Scaling Laws Continue: Is Access to Compute Everything | Will Nvidia Continue To Dominate | The Biggest Bottlenecks in the Race for AGI with Eiso Kant, CTO @ Poolside
07 Oct 2024
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Who has earned the right to be in the race to AGI? We're going to look back on this moment 10 years from now, just like we would look back to the moment of mobile, internet, and realize that that was the moment where the table got set. You do not want to look back on that moment and not have given it everything you've got because it's a race.
And the latest $500 million round translates to us being able to be an entrant into the race. We don't get the luxury of stumbling on the capabilities race or to go to marketplace.
This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and there could not be a better time for this episode. Just last week, Poolside announced their Series B, a $500 million round, valuing the company at $3 billion. Today, we're joined by their co-founder and CEO, Iso Cant. This is an incredible episode on the future of LLMs, the race for AGI, how the chip and compute layer evolves, and so much more.
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