Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedEdwin Chen: belief
7 Dec 2025 Lenny's Podcast The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
“I have an idea in my head, but I think the answer to that question maybe reveals certain things about what kinds of AI models those companies want to build and what direction and what future they want to achieve, yeah, so I think about that a lot.”
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- Edwin Chen
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- 7 Dec 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I was thinking that's what you're imagining. Yeah, what it entails, and so it's kind of interesting. It's like which companies would build Sora and which wouldn't? And I think that answer to that... Well, I don't know if answer is myself. I have an idea in my head, but I think the answer to that question maybe reveals certain things about what kinds of AI models those companies want to build and what direction and what future they want to achieve, yeah, so I think about that a lot. The steel man argument there is, it's like fun, people want it, it'll help them generate revenue to grow this thing and build better models, it'll train data in an interesting way, it's also just really fun.…
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