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Alexandr Wang (Alexandr Wang) started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster. It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn messy, real-world data into something AI could learn from. Today, that...

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Jai Jalan1 年前

@alexandr_wang I believe prioritize building tools that don’t just automate but amplify human judgment, because messy real-world data won’t clean itself. Layering solid APIs on human-in-the-loop workflows is where the real magic starts.

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Joshua Pi'Rwot1 年前

@alexandr_wang Wow, that's amazing! I'm curious, what do you think sets Scale AI apart from other companies in the AI industry?

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@alexandr_wang This journey is founder fuel. Want me to turn it into a landing page in 3 min?

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@alexandr_wang Incredible journey. From labeling data to powering AI at national scale — true infrastructure play. @vendorapp, we’re on a similar path in vendor ops: turning messy workflows into structured, scalable systems that teams can actually build on. ⚙️📊 #AIinfra #StartupToScale

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unicorn breeder1 年前

@alexandr_wang In the future there will be only “ai stacks”. Tech stacks are dead

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X-FLOOD1 年前

@alexandr_wang I love seeing people win 😍 this man probably had hundreds of sleepless nights and kept pushing tru!! My journey just started and it has a small greenlight from grok himself publicly! I wonder what my journey will bring me.🙏

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@alexandr_wang Fantastic interview. I learned quite a bit. Also, thank you for the YC Startup AI event yesterday. It’s was so great to see the all the brilliant next gen thinkers and leaders gathered here together in SF.

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evan dickinson1 年前

@alexandr_wang I don't think we should compare ourselves to alexander, what he did is insanely impressive but it's a mix of right time and an outlier scenario, like the dot com bubble I feel. 99% of founders aren't the bill gates, the zuck, but wang is in that 1% for sure.

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Leigh Marie Braswell (joined Scale AI at 3 employees) shares Alexandr Wang's vision & intuition: "Alex & his ability to put himself in the right rooms, know the right people, & be able to see.. where's all the revenue going to come from? From the next wave of what's going on in machine learning, human intelligence & data will always be needed. And I have full confidence, because he's done it time & time again, that Alex is always going to be able to figure out where is that place where Scale needs to build a product to sort of be able to bring the humans to the models." "Leigh Marie" Braswell Alexandr Wang Scale AI
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Leigh Marie Braswell (joined Scale AI at 3 employees) shares Alexandr Wang's vision & intuition: "Alex & his ability to put himself in the right rooms, know the right people, & be able to see.. where's all the revenue going to come from? From the next wave of what's going on in machine learning, human intelligence & data will always be needed. And I have full confidence, because he's done it time & time again, that Alex is always going to be able to figure out where is that place where Scale needs to build a product to sort of be able to bring the humans to the models." "Leigh Marie" Braswell Alexandr Wang Scale AI

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Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, on why the most overlooked layer of AI became its biggest competitive advantage: Wang left MIT in 2016 to start Scale AI, becoming the world's youngest self-made billionaire by betting on AI's unglamorous infrastructure layer while others chased flashier opportunities. His framework for understanding AI is simple. There are three major components: "You have compute, which folks like Nvidia work on. You have algorithms which folks like OpenAI or Google or Anthropic build. And then you have data." Compute had Nvidia. Algorithms had the major labs. Data had no one. That's exactly where Wang and his team made their bet: "We recognized early on that data was going to be a limiter. And there was nobody really working on it." What looked like a gap in the market turned out to be the foundation of it. Years later, Wang says every serious player in AI has arrived at the same conclusion: "Fast forward today, everybody I talked to recognizes that data is gold. Whether it's our customers, the major labs like the OpenAIs or the Metas of the world, or large enterprises like Morgan Stanley or Mastercard, or our partnership between Cisco and Scale." Alexandr Wang continues: "Data is going to be what will differentiate and power the next generation of powerful AI capabilities."
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DeepSeek: How US Sanctions Help Chinese Innovation | Tyler Cowen on the Paradox of Control tylercowen was the first columnist to break the news on DeepSeek, an advanced Chinese AI, weeks before the markets reacted. His claim is that by restricting China’s high-end chip supply, the U.S. unintentionally encouraged China to pioneer techniques in cost-effective AI training. We kick off this interview by discussing what this “Sputnik moment” has to teach us about U.S.-China relations, counter-espionage, and the philosophy of innovation. Later in the conversation, Tyler shares his predictions on how AI will transform philosophy, knowledge work, warfare, economics, and everything in between. For example, Tyler thinks that OpenAI’s o1 pro is ALREADY better at reflecting on complex questions at the frontier of economics. We discuss what that means for the future of work and philosophy, and where you should invest your skills and time today. For me, the most valuable takeaways from this conversation are all the practical tips Tyler has to share about how we can stay ahead of the AI curve and not be made obsolete. Timestamps: 02:37 AI Is Neither Libertarian nor Communist, but chaotic 03:53 Can the U.S. Restrict China's AI Advances? 04:47 How the U.S. Unintentionally Jump-started China’s Space Program 05:29 The Only Way to Protect American Technology is Openness 10:35 Girard’s Philosophy of Innovation 13:26 The American Case for Stealing Technology 15:55 How to Live in “Moving History” 24:34 Why Most Reactions to AI are Cope 33:20 Can Democracy Survive AI? 37:19 Why Tyler Writes Primarily for AIs (not Humans) 49:58 Most Intellectual Work will be Automated 01:00:03 Why Travel Will Matter More in the AI Era
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DeepSeek: How US Sanctions Help Chinese Innovation | Tyler Cowen on the Paradox of Control tylercowen was the first columnist to break the news on DeepSeek, an advanced Chinese AI, weeks before the markets reacted. His claim is that by restricting China’s high-end chip supply, the U.S. unintentionally encouraged China to pioneer techniques in cost-effective AI training. We kick off this interview by discussing what this “Sputnik moment” has to teach us about U.S.-China relations, counter-espionage, and the philosophy of innovation. Later in the conversation, Tyler shares his predictions on how AI will transform philosophy, knowledge work, warfare, economics, and everything in between. For example, Tyler thinks that OpenAI’s o1 pro is ALREADY better at reflecting on complex questions at the frontier of economics. We discuss what that means for the future of work and philosophy, and where you should invest your skills and time today. For me, the most valuable takeaways from this conversation are all the practical tips Tyler has to share about how we can stay ahead of the AI curve and not be made obsolete. Timestamps: 02:37 AI Is Neither Libertarian nor Communist, but chaotic 03:53 Can the U.S. Restrict China's AI Advances? 04:47 How the U.S. Unintentionally Jump-started China’s Space Program 05:29 The Only Way to Protect American Technology is Openness 10:35 Girard’s Philosophy of Innovation 13:26 The American Case for Stealing Technology 15:55 How to Live in “Moving History” 24:34 Why Most Reactions to AI are Cope 33:20 Can Democracy Survive AI? 37:19 Why Tyler Writes Primarily for AIs (not Humans) 49:58 Most Intellectual Work will be Automated 01:00:03 Why Travel Will Matter More in the AI Era

Johnathan Bi

49,815 次观看 • 1 年前

The biggest driver of AI compute now is real-world deployment. At NVIDIA GTC, IREN's Kent Draper, alongside Lenovo's Vlad Rozanovich, shared what they’re actually seeing on the ground from AI infrastructure demand, and the signal is coming from enterprise use. He pointed to agents, internal enterprise models, and real-world deployments as the workloads now driving demand, and explained that the challenge isn't finding customers, it’s how quickly they can build capacity to keep up. Their strategy? A vertically integrated model focused entirely on power-dense computing, which allows them to scale faster, control the environment, and deliver infrastructure purpose-built for AI rather than multi-tenant data centers trying to support dozens of different workloads.
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The biggest driver of AI compute now is real-world deployment. At NVIDIA GTC, IREN's Kent Draper, alongside Lenovo's Vlad Rozanovich, shared what they’re actually seeing on the ground from AI infrastructure demand, and the signal is coming from enterprise use. He pointed to agents, internal enterprise models, and real-world deployments as the workloads now driving demand, and explained that the challenge isn't finding customers, it’s how quickly they can build capacity to keep up. Their strategy? A vertically integrated model focused entirely on power-dense computing, which allows them to scale faster, control the environment, and deliver infrastructure purpose-built for AI rather than multi-tenant data centers trying to support dozens of different workloads.

Six Five Media

7,422,478 次观看 • 3 个月前

AI has solved software. Biology is the next frontier. We're hiring across every team at Adaptyv. We’ve built the best automated lab for protein designers to experimentally test their AI-designed proteins. Today, the most advanced protein design companies run their wet-lab work on Adaptyv, from the biggest biopharmas to frontier AI labs to dozens of virtual biotech startups. Demand has grown faster than we have, so we’re hiring across the board: • Bio: Research associates, scientists and lab technicians to develop and run new assays at scale. • Lab automation: Engineers and interns to onboard new lab instruments and scale our automation infrastructure. • Software: Product and backend engineers to scale LabOS, our internal lab orchestration platform, our API for agents and the data pipelines that turn messy physical-world data into clean results. • Partnerships, customer success and operations: Building partnerships with AI & pharma labs, making sure customers understand their data and can run more campaigns, making sure the company operations run smoothly
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AI has solved software. Biology is the next frontier. We're hiring across every team at Adaptyv. We’ve built the best automated lab for protein designers to experimentally test their AI-designed proteins. Today, the most advanced protein design companies run their wet-lab work on Adaptyv, from the biggest biopharmas to frontier AI labs to dozens of virtual biotech startups. Demand has grown faster than we have, so we’re hiring across the board: • Bio: Research associates, scientists and lab technicians to develop and run new assays at scale. • Lab automation: Engineers and interns to onboard new lab instruments and scale our automation infrastructure. • Software: Product and backend engineers to scale LabOS, our internal lab orchestration platform, our API for agents and the data pipelines that turn messy physical-world data into clean results. • Partnerships, customer success and operations: Building partnerships with AI & pharma labs, making sure customers understand their data and can run more campaigns, making sure the company operations run smoothly

Adaptyv Bio

13,446 次观看 • 1 个月前

The German Federal Innovation Agency is running a €125m competition to fund 3 new Frontier AI labs in Europe! "Next Frontier AI" is a pan-European initiative led by SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation to create three globally relevant Frontier AI labs. It starts with a €125m challenge where up to 10 teams receive funding over 24 months to build frontier-lab capabilities, including team, infrastructure, prototypes, evaluation discipline, and early pilots. The best-performing teams will then receive structured support toward raising ~€1 billion each. Europe has some of the top AI companies in the world, but as a continent we are massively dependent on frontier labs from other countries. This initiative seeks to change that and I am HERE FOR IT.
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The German Federal Innovation Agency is running a €125m competition to fund 3 new Frontier AI labs in Europe! "Next Frontier AI" is a pan-European initiative led by SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation to create three globally relevant Frontier AI labs. It starts with a €125m challenge where up to 10 teams receive funding over 24 months to build frontier-lab capabilities, including team, infrastructure, prototypes, evaluation discipline, and early pilots. The best-performing teams will then receive structured support toward raising ~€1 billion each. Europe has some of the top AI companies in the world, but as a continent we are massively dependent on frontier labs from other countries. This initiative seeks to change that and I am HERE FOR IT.

Seb Johnson

24,124 次观看 • 3 个月前

Bob McGrew (Bob McGrew) helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. He was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir—where he helped pioneer the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model— and was recently Chief Research Officer at OpenAI - where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and o1. On this episode of Lightcone Podcast, he explains how FDEs became central to today's startups, why "doing things that don't scale at scale" works, and where he sees the biggest opportunities for founders working in AI. 00:29 – From PayPal to Palantir to OpenAI 02:19 – The Role of a Forward Deployed Engineer 03:19 – How Palantir Invented It 07:56 – Product Discovery in the Field vs. Sales 09:51 – Echo and Delta Teams Explained 13:34 – Training Ground for Founders 14:35 – Consulting or Real Software? 17:54 – The Birth of Palantir’s Ontology 23:04 – Why AI Companies Adopt It 36:17 – What Success Metrics Look Like 41:14 – Building with Demo-Driven Development 44:56 – Joining the US Army Reserve 47:43 – Opportunities for Founders
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Bob McGrew (Bob McGrew) helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. He was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir—where he helped pioneer the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model— and was recently Chief Research Officer at OpenAI - where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and o1. On this episode of Lightcone Podcast, he explains how FDEs became central to today's startups, why "doing things that don't scale at scale" works, and where he sees the biggest opportunities for founders working in AI. 00:29 – From PayPal to Palantir to OpenAI 02:19 – The Role of a Forward Deployed Engineer 03:19 – How Palantir Invented It 07:56 – Product Discovery in the Field vs. Sales 09:51 – Echo and Delta Teams Explained 13:34 – Training Ground for Founders 14:35 – Consulting or Real Software? 17:54 – The Birth of Palantir’s Ontology 23:04 – Why AI Companies Adopt It 36:17 – What Success Metrics Look Like 41:14 – Building with Demo-Driven Development 44:56 – Joining the US Army Reserve 47:43 – Opportunities for Founders

Y Combinator

408,714 次观看 • 10 个月前

“What if the real unlock for AI x crypto is not speculation — but proving intelligence can be trusted?” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ for a deep dive into the intersection of AI and crypto, from DC’s work building the ZKML community to why zero-knowledge machine learning could become a core trust layer for AI on the internet. They break down how ZKML makes it possible to prove that a machine learning model produced a specific output from specific inputs — without forcing everyone to rerun the full computation themselves. The conversation also explores why this matters for model accountability, transparency, and verifiable AI at scale, plus the projects pushing the space forward, from Modulus Labs and Giza to EZKL and new research around proof of inference.
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“What if the real unlock for AI x crypto is not speculation — but proving intelligence can be trusted?” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ for a deep dive into the intersection of AI and crypto, from DC’s work building the ZKML community to why zero-knowledge machine learning could become a core trust layer for AI on the internet. They break down how ZKML makes it possible to prove that a machine learning model produced a specific output from specific inputs — without forcing everyone to rerun the full computation themselves. The conversation also explores why this matters for model accountability, transparency, and verifiable AI at scale, plus the projects pushing the space forward, from Modulus Labs and Giza to EZKL and new research around proof of inference.

BeaconLayer Podcast

73,815 次观看 • 1 个月前

Agentic commerce is coming 🔥 — Emily GlassbergSands, Head of Information at Stripe unpacks how autonomous “buying bots” and MCP are reshaping the very mechanics of online transactions - and how Stripe’s AI models and rails are adapting for tokens, one-time virtual cards, and real-time risk management. 0:00 - Intro, latest Stripe stats 01:45 - Backgroud: The “Head of Information” role at Stripe, and Emily's journey from Harvard to Stripe 08:54 - Why Stripe Built Its Own Foundation Model 13:19 - Cracking the Code: How Stripe Handles Complex Payment Data 16:25 - Foundation Model vs. Traditional ML: What’s Winning, When? 20:09 - Inside Stripe’s Foundation Model: How It Was Built 24:35 - Transparency vs black box AI 28:38 - How to decide when to use AI and when not 34:10 - How Stripe’s AI Drives Revenue for Businesses 41:22 - Real-Time Fraud Detection: Stripe’s Secret Sauce 42:51 - The Future of Shopping: AI Agents & Agentic Commerce 46:20 - How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Stripe 49:36 - Stripe’s Vision for a World of AI-Powered Buyers 55:46 - What Is MCP? Stripe’s Take on Agent-to-Agent Protocols 59:31 - Stripe’s Data on AI Startups Monetizing 3× Faster 1:03:03 - How AI Companies Go Global — From Day One 1:07:48 - The New Rules: Billing & Pricing for AI Startups 1:10:57 - How Stripe Builds AI Literacy Across the Company 1:14:05 - Roadmap: Risk-as-a-Service, Order Intent, and Beyond
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Agentic commerce is coming 🔥 — Emily GlassbergSands, Head of Information at Stripe unpacks how autonomous “buying bots” and MCP are reshaping the very mechanics of online transactions - and how Stripe’s AI models and rails are adapting for tokens, one-time virtual cards, and real-time risk management. 0:00 - Intro, latest Stripe stats 01:45 - Backgroud: The “Head of Information” role at Stripe, and Emily's journey from Harvard to Stripe 08:54 - Why Stripe Built Its Own Foundation Model 13:19 - Cracking the Code: How Stripe Handles Complex Payment Data 16:25 - Foundation Model vs. Traditional ML: What’s Winning, When? 20:09 - Inside Stripe’s Foundation Model: How It Was Built 24:35 - Transparency vs black box AI 28:38 - How to decide when to use AI and when not 34:10 - How Stripe’s AI Drives Revenue for Businesses 41:22 - Real-Time Fraud Detection: Stripe’s Secret Sauce 42:51 - The Future of Shopping: AI Agents & Agentic Commerce 46:20 - How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Stripe 49:36 - Stripe’s Vision for a World of AI-Powered Buyers 55:46 - What Is MCP? Stripe’s Take on Agent-to-Agent Protocols 59:31 - Stripe’s Data on AI Startups Monetizing 3× Faster 1:03:03 - How AI Companies Go Global — From Day One 1:07:48 - The New Rules: Billing & Pricing for AI Startups 1:10:57 - How Stripe Builds AI Literacy Across the Company 1:14:05 - Roadmap: Risk-as-a-Service, Order Intent, and Beyond

Matt Turck

17,720 次观看 • 1 年前

Steve Jobs was a great communicator of technology, and we could learn something from him today, in the context of AI. Sam Altman recently said, "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer." That's a fine quote. The abundance AI promises is super exciting. But Sam is saying that AI is going to figure out how to cure cancer. And if you've used these tools today, and talked to people who are at the labs, the reality is it's much more likely that humans will use AI to cure cancer. Steve might have said: "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, humans can use AI to cure cancer." Small tweak, but a big difference. Steve Jobs was not one to shy away from impressive specs and massive scale, but flipping the final line from "AI will cure cancer" to "Humans will use AI to cure cancer" makes all the difference. Apple under Steve Jobs put human centrality at the heart of everything they did. And we need that spirit to infuse how we communicate about AI today.
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Steve Jobs was a great communicator of technology, and we could learn something from him today, in the context of AI. Sam Altman recently said, "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer." That's a fine quote. The abundance AI promises is super exciting. But Sam is saying that AI is going to figure out how to cure cancer. And if you've used these tools today, and talked to people who are at the labs, the reality is it's much more likely that humans will use AI to cure cancer. Steve might have said: "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, humans can use AI to cure cancer." Small tweak, but a big difference. Steve Jobs was not one to shy away from impressive specs and massive scale, but flipping the final line from "AI will cure cancer" to "Humans will use AI to cure cancer" makes all the difference. Apple under Steve Jobs put human centrality at the heart of everything they did. And we need that spirit to infuse how we communicate about AI today.

TBPN

21,828 次观看 • 6 个月前