Earlier this month, OpenAI raised the largest venture round ever at $6.6 billion. The company’s CFO says AI is now at the point where orders of magnitude matter and the next generation of models will be capital intensive. In this episode of the Lightcone, the hosts consider what a world with ultra intelligent models would look like and what potential unlocks could be made possible.
0:00 Coming Up
0:54 What models get unlocked with the biggest venture round ever?
5:35 Some discoveries take a long time to actually be felt by regular people
9:53 Distillation may be how most of us benefit
14:26 o1 making previously impossible things possible
21:17 The new Googles
23:47 o1 makes the GPU needs even bigger
25:44 Voice apps are fast growing
27:05 Incumbents aren’t taking these innovations seriously
31:52 Ten trillion parameters
33:15 Outro
