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23 Apr 2025 Conversations with Tyler Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet
“Llama’s already great, and they’ll pump it through all their channels, and so will Google, and they have more data and so forth. That would be the — I don’t know — the degenerate outcome from the venture capitalist perspective.”
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…Or the Boston Celtics. [laughter] Yes. That turned out to be the winner of the mobile era with incumbents. I think one way to frame your question is, will AI be like mobile or like the internet? The concern would be — the concern, quote-unquote — I work in venture capital; I’m biased. We invest in small companies. The concern would be, it’s more like mobile and it just ends up reinforcing the strengths of the big companies: Google and Microsoft and Facebook. They have more data, they have more money for the training, they have the infrastructure, they have the distribution. How is somebody going to create a competitor to Facebook? Llama’s already great, and they’ll pump it through all their channels, and so will Google, and they have more data and so forth. That would be the — I don’t know — the degenerate outcome from the venture capitalist perspective. It could be great for the world though. I think a lot of this will be consumer benefit, consumer surplus. That’s good, and I’m happy about that. There’ll always be some vertical thing or some other thing for VCs to invest in. I think that might actually be a really good societal outcome. Do NFTs have a future?…
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