Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMartin Casado: belief
19 Feb 2026 Latent Space Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
“Sorry, what am I, one more thing I think is, is underused in all of this is like, to what extent every task is a GI complete.”
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…I, I do wonder though, to your point, um, if there’s a certain task that. Getting marginally better isn’t actually that much better. Like we’ve asked them to it, to, you know, we can call it a GI or whatever, you know, actually, Ali Goi talks about this, like we’re already at a GI for a lot of functions in the enterprise. Um. That’s probably those for those tasks, you probably could build very specific companies that focus on just getting as much value out of that task that isn’t coming from the model itself. There’s probably a rich enterprise business to be built there. I mean, could be wrong on that, but there’s a lot of interesting examples. So, right, if you’re looking the legal profession or, or whatnot, and maybe that’s not a great one ‘cause the models are getting better on that front too, but just something where it’s a bit saturated, then the value comes from. Services. It comes from implementation, right? It comes from all these things that actually make it useful to the end customer. Sorry, what am I, one more thing I think is, is underused in all of this is like, to what extent every task is a GI complete. Mm-hmm.…
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