“Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO of generative-AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine, discusses the company's plans after it raised $293 million in its initial public offering in Hong…”
“He talks about using artificial intelligence in early-stage drug discovery, longevity therapeutics, and how Insilico's AI model can simulate different life stages.”
“The tricky thing about AI is that it can give the impression that you've actually learned the basics before you really have,”
“The positive is that when you know all these different tools and approaches to how to think about a problem, AI can often help you find the bit of information that you need,”
“Many of [these concepts] are just tools for thinking about where are we getting fooled. We can be fooling ourselves, the AI could be fooling itself, and then could fool us.”
“I don't think anyone's matching those things.”
“I think that Zuck's taken a particular approach that involves sort of hiring a lot of individuals rather than maybe creating a team, and I don't really think that's the right approach.”
“Suleyman said he was "very selective" about new hires when he previously worked at DeepMind. At Microsoft, he said he has hired "incrementally," prioritizing candidates who aligned with…”
““You know, I have this long-term mission to continue to see Moore’s Law in the semiconductor industry... We think this is the technology that will wake up Moore’s Law.””
““About half of the capital goes into lithography. In the middle of a lithography machine is light . . . [and] this ability to keep innovating for shorter wavelength, higher power light is…”
“He’s more focused on his bet that xLight can solve what he sees as the semiconductor industry’s biggest bottleneck: lithography, the process of etching microscopic patterns onto silicon…”
“It gets a little bit blurry, but I think what is absolutely true is that if you have unfettered rapid and reliable access to space and you can build whatever spacecraft you want to build,…”
“But the thing is the most difficult thing to do, and the most transformational thing you can do is have access to orbit. That's the biggest problem you have to solve in all of this.…”
“We're like, "How can anybody be disruptive in this industry when it takes 12 months to get just a simple star tracker?"”
“It is treating the process of colliding things together and forming new particles as a quantum processor,”
“And if you’re using quantum mechanics, you can’t test for quantum mechanics.”
“The goal of the startup is to bring about the next big revolution in AI: systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action…”
“Pursuing the goal of AMI in an independent entity is a way to maximize its broad impact.”
“You have to pay them a lot because there's not a lot of these people for the world. And so there's tons of demand for these people, but there's not enough of those people to do the work…”
“It's still so early for the enterprise. We're still doing the super foundational, super — Summarize this email for me. Summarize these meeting notes for me. It's so basic, low-level. I…”