20VC: Why All AI Companies Are Under-Valued | The Future of Foundation Models: Scaling Laws, Generalised vs Specialised, Commoditised? | From Unable to Afford Rent to Raising $130M From Index and Peter Thiel with George Sivulka @ Hebbia

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

George Sivulka is the founder and CEO of Hebbia, is one of the fastest-growing gen AI companies and they recently raised a $130M series B. Investors include the company include hailed names such as a16z, Peter Thiel, Index, GV and others.

In Today’s Episode with George Sivulka We Discuss:

04:47 Three Traits The Best Founders All Share?

08:11 How Cold Calling NASA Changed My Life

12:01 From Stealing Food From Stanford to Pitching Peter Thiel

17:22 Lessons working with Peter Thiel

26:39 The Future of AI and Business Applications

33:03 The Future of Employment with AI

33:45 Debunking the Myths of AI Job Displacement

35:09 The Future of Models: Many specialised or few generalised?

35:56 Scaling at Inference: A New Frontier

38:10 The Impact of Scaling Laws on Foundation Models

40:40 The Future of AI and Enterprise Value

43:43 The Geopolitical Influence on AI

45:03 The Commoditization of AI Models

47:47 Why Foundation Models Will Not Follow the Same Path of Cloud

52:53 Why All Companies, Both AI and Non-AI Are Undervalued