People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers
SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY
NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world
Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA
"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein
AI ASCENT IV
4/20/2026
Our best event yet. This year's theme: AI AT THE FRONTIER. Robots. Data centers in space. New chips. BCI.
Hosted by @Konstantine@gradypb@Alfred_Lin and all of us at @sequoia 💚
So thankful to all the friends who came. We'll share videos soon!
Reading @deepseek_ai 's v4 paper.... absolute hats off.
Every problem has a mathematical solution, nothing is left to chance.
I have so much respect for them, putting out months or years of efforts entirely for free, in the open for anyone to benefit. Real goats 🫡
@FarzaTV chamath was literally just asking for this exact thing. personal LLM knowledge bases that sync across chats. there's clearly a gap in the market right now