“"At the end of the year, I should really be transitioning right now to being in founder mode," Hoffman said on a podcast alongside Nadella that was released Friday.”
2026-06-05
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“She previewed what Thinking Machines is calling “interaction models,” which she described as a fundamentally different kind of AI interface. Rather than the turn-based, prompt-and-response…”
“Her worry, she said, is less about the character of any individual leader (though she acknowledged that matters) and more about the absence of structural checks. Good people make bad…”
“When I wake up in the morning, I am not thinking about how to kill the competitor.”
“One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode.”
“He believes the startup is making progress on “Move 37” AI, meaning AI that supersedes human creativity in chemistry, especially to combat various cancers, he added.”