At @cerebras, we like building the platforms on which other people’s ideas take flight. Yesterday at @TechCrunch Disrupt, I was asked how my grandkids will use AI. I told the room I don’t know. In the late ’90s, I was building some of the first hardware-based switches and routers. A whole community of us were doing it, and between us we made IP networking almost free. None of us knew the result would be WhatsApp or Viber. And that people around the world, even the poorest among us, could talk to and see loved ones far away.  Once moving data was cheap, other people built great things. I am not a builder of consumer products. I have a rule: if my mother buys it or uses it, I don’t want to make it or sell it. I love building infrastructure that makes other people’s ideas take flight. Most of my career has been about making networking faster or compute faster. At Cerebras, we make inference 15 to 30 times faster. And we make it fast so other people’s ideas and products can shine. Thanks to TechCrunch for having me.