There’s an ongoing debate about whether AI scaling laws will hold or hit a wall in the near future. However, what’s clear now is today’s models already have the power to increase productivity in ways that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. In this episode of the Lightcone, we dig into the results of a recent o1 hackathon hosted by YC to find out what can be unlocked when founders leverage a SOTA reasoning model.
Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) –
0:00 Intro
1:15 The intelligence age
4:18 YC o1 hackathon
12:09 4 orders of magnitude
14:42 The architecture of o1
21:52 Getting that final 10-15% of accuracy
32:06 The companies/ideas that should pivot because of o1
34:44 Outro
