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Published · transcript-backedJohn Collison: belief
14 Apr 2026 Cheeky Pint The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
“I think we've mostly moved away from just raw parameter count, but I think the leading edge LLMs are in the hundreds of billions of parameters.”
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- John Collison
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- 14 Apr 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…A few billion to tens of billion per meter models. For context, I think the… CPUs moved away eventually from gigahertz as the metric as they move to more cores. I think we've mostly moved away from just raw parameter count, but I think the leading edge LLMs are in the hundreds of billions of parameters. I think the leading ones, yes, but of course, you have the variations that you will use at lower scale. CapEx is still pretty high. We've, of course, raised recently a half a billion at 11 billion valuation.…
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