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“That ability that humans have, it's the combination of creativity and abstraction. I do not see today's AI or tomorrow's AI being able to do that yet.” Dr. Fei-Fei Li Stanford Professor

Quote: Dr. Fei-Fei Li – Stanford Professor – world-renowned authority in artificial intelligence

“I worry a lot about ... Africa. And the reason is: how does Africa benefit from [AI]? There's obviously some benefit of globalisation, better crop yields, and so forth. But without stable governments, strong universities, major industrial structures - which Africa, with some exceptions, lacks - it's going to lag.” Dr Eric Schmidt Former Google CEO

Quote: Dr Eric Schmidt – Ex-Google CEO

“We need something like 10 terawatts in the next 20 years to make LLM systems truly useful to everyone... Nvidia would need to 100× output... You basically need to fill Nevada with solar panels to provide 10 terawatts of power, at a cost around the world’s GDP. Totally crazy.” - Trevor McCourt Extropic CTO

Quote: Trevor McCourt – Extropic CTO

“You have to be very gentle around people. If you're in a leadership position, people hear your words amplified. You have to be very careful what you say and how you say it. You always have to listen to what other people have to say. I genuinely want to know what everybody else thinks.” - Stephen Schwarzman - Blackstone Founder

Quote: Stephen Schwartzman – Blackstone Founder

“I always felt that somebody was only capable of one super effort to create something that can really be consequential. There are so many impediments to being successful. If you're on the field, you're there to win, and to win requires an enormous amount of practice - pushing yourself really to the breaking point. ” Stephen Schwarzman Blackstone Founder

Quote: Stephen Schwartzman – Blackstone Founder

“If you upgrade that assistant to see video at 1 FPS—think Meta’s glasses—the back-of-the-envelope says you'd need to roughly 10× the grid to accommodate that for everyone. If you upgrade the text assistant to reason at the level of models working on the ARC AGI benchmark (IQ-test-style problems), even just the text assistant would require around a 10× of today’s grid—around 5 terawatts—insanity.” - Trevor McCourt - Extropic CTO

Quote: Trevor McCourt – Extropic CTO

“The idea that chips and ontology is what you want to short is batsh*t crazy.” - Alex Karp -Palantir CEO

Quote: Alex Karp – Palantir CEO

“We have very smart people, and we can put these [AI] tools in their hands to make them more productive... By using AI to reimagine processes, we can create operating efficiencies that give us a scaled opportunity to reinvest in growth.” David Solomon, Goldman Sachs

Quote: David Solomon – Goldman Sachs CEO

“At scale, nothing is a commodity. We have to have our cost structure, supply-chain efficiency, and software efficiencies continue to compound to ensure margins. Scale - and one of the things I love about the OpenAI partnership - is it’s gotten us to scale. This is a scale game.” Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO

Quote: Satya Nadella – Microsoft CEO

“Generally speaking people hate change. It’s human nature. But change is super important. It’s inevitable. In fact, on my desk in my office I have a little plaque that says 'Change or die.' As a business leader, one of the perspectives you have to have is that you’ve got to constantly evolve and change.” - David Solomon - Goldman Sachs CEO

Quote: David Solomon – Goldman Sachs CEO

“[ With AI ] we're not building animals. We're building ghosts or spirits” - Andrej Karpathy - Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

Quote: Andrej Karpathy – Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

“People have said we’re hitting a plateau every month for three years... I look at how models are produced and every part could be improved. The training pipeline is primitive, held together by duct tape, best efforts, and late nights. There’s so much room to grow everywhere.” Sholto Douglas Anthropic

Quote: Sholto Douglas – Anthropic

“The talk about AI bubbles seemed very divorced from what was happening in frontier labs and what we were seeing. We are not seeing any slowdown of progress.” Julian Schrittwieser Anthropic

Quote: Julian Schrittwieser – Anthropic

“AI is so wonderful because there have been a number of seismic shifts where the entire field has suddenly looked a different way. I've maybe lived through two or three of those. I still think there will continue to be some because they come with almost surprising regularity.” Andrej Karpathy Ex-OpenAi, Ex-Tesla AI

Quote: Andrej Karpathy – Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

“The countries that control compute will control AI. You cannot have compute without energy.” Jonathan Ross CEO Groq

Quote: Jonathan Ross – CEO Groq

“Be the person your dog thinks you are!” - J.W. Stephens Author

Quote: J.W. Stephens – Author

“Oftentimes, if you reason about things from first principles, what's working today incredibly well — if you could reason about it from first principles and ask yourself on what foundation that first principle is built and how that would change over time — it allows you to hopefully see around corners.” Jensen Huang CEO Nvidia

Quote: Jensen Huang – CEO Nvidia

“What I think we have to do going forward...is figure out ways to remove some of the knowledge and to keep what I call this cognitive core. It's this intelligent entity that is stripped from knowledge but contains the algorithms and contains the magic of intelligence and problem-solving and the strategies of it and all this stuff.” Andrej Karpathy Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

Quote: Andrej Karpathy – Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

“I feel like the [ AI ] problems are tractable, they're surmountable, but they're still difficult. If I just average it out, it just feels like a decade [ to AGI ] to me.” Andrej Karpathy Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

Quote: Andrej Karpathy – Ex-OpenAI, Ex-Tesla AI

“I don’t think venture is an 'asset class' in the sense many LPs think... You need dozens of Figma-sized outcomes every year to make that math work; I don't see that many. So the only thing that breaks is the return assumption. Venture is return-free risk, not a risk-free return.” Roelof Botha Senior Steward, Sequoia

Quote: Roelof Botha – Senior Steward, Sequoia

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