Alfred Lin(@Alfred

2026.05.08 20:24

Jim is always a crowd favorite at AI Ascent. His ability to simplify the latest research into a clear "what and why it matters" while adding humor along the way is unmatched. If you're interested in physical AI, this 20 minutes is a must watch.

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Alfred Lin@Alfred_Lin

2026.04.30 17:26

At @sequoia’s AI Ascent last week, @gdb told me something that stuck: in late 2024, AI wrote ~20% of @OpenAI's code. That number is now 80%. We also got into why human attention, not compute, is the real bottleneck in AI-augmented work, plus what it might mean to run an org of 100,000 agents. We’re grateful to Greg for joining us and many of the top founders/builders in AI. You can watch the full video here: 00:00 Intro 00:49 Compute Hunger Explained 02:13 Scaling Laws Mystery 03:31 New Architectures Ahead 04:42 How Close to AGI 06:46 Startup Playbook for AI 09:24 Inside OpenAI with Codex 11:11 Teams and Governance Shift 14:52 Security and Responsible Deployment 25:33 Science Frontiers and Wrap Up