This podcast episode features insightful conversations with Andrew Feldman (CEO of Cerebras) and Robin Rombach (CEO of Black Forest Labs). Feldman discusses the unprecedented scale of AI infrastructure buildout, with a $25 billion backlog for Cerebras chips, and argues that AGI has effectively been achieved. Rombach details the evolution of generative image and video models towards multimodal world models, his collaboration with Martin Scorsese for creative visualization, and the potential of open-source models for IP holders.
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Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman reveals a $25 billion backlog for AI chips, driven by "insatiable" demand from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Feldman declares that AGI has been achieved, stating AI has surpassed any definition of general intelligence from 20 years ago.
Robin Rombach of Black Forest Labs discusses co-developing AI tools with Martin Scorsese to help directors visualize scenes from their imagination.
Rombach explains the convergence of generative models into multimodal world models, predicting they will eventually be deployed as "brains" on robots.
The gap between open-source and frontier AI models is narrowing, with open-source becoming viable for many enterprise tasks, boosting sovereignty.
"We are in the race for super intelligence. — Chamath"
"There is a shot that our children, nor anyone they love, will die of cancer. ... That's something that we can work on with this technology. — Andrew Feldman"
"It's about getting the mental picture of something out of your head and communicating it in a visual way. — Robin Rombach"