"The Cognitive Revolution"
01:18:29 · Nathan Labenz
[01:18:29] S0: That could be a great place to end. Is there any other, aspect of a positive vision for the future? I always say the scarcest resource is a positive vision for the AI future. Any other aspects of your positive vision that we haven't touched on that you'd wanna share?
01:18:44 · Marc Bhargava, Nathan Labenz
[01:18:44] S1: No. I think that's generally it. I think, you know, there's a good question and a fair question around there's just so much investment here being done in the space. Will it really pay off? And maybe we haven't seen that yet. And even last summer, so about a year ago, it sort of felt like a lot of the models were flatlining. I'm sure you were covering that as well, but we weren't really getting a lot of interesting updates. And then I think a lot of that changed honestly at the end of last year, when the reasoning models and there was kind of more context and we've seen now the deep research product from Google and OpenAI and Anthropic releasing their own versions. So I would just say kind of on one maybe positive note is, you know, for a while it did feel like there was a lot of spend and maybe less results even in the productivity of the models. Today, we're seeing a reacceleration of improvements, which kind of you referred to as well. And so I think that's really exciting. And so it's a very, very cool trend to be a part of, and I'm really appreciative of folks like you for covering it. And especially as engineers and students in university or in computer science or thinking what to do next. I think having more and more people look into AI and especially applied AI, which I'm so focused on, is extremely exciting. [01:19:49] S0: This has been excellent. I really appreciate your time and, all the deep dive answers. Marc Bhargava from General Catalyst, thank you for being part of the Cognitive Revolution. [01:19:57] S1: Thanks for having me on.
01:19:57 · Marc Bhargava, Nathan Labenz
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