The Mixture of Experts panel discusses Anthropic's major investment in Google's TPUs for inference, debates the feasibility of insuring superintelligence, critiques OpenAI's approach to handling sensitive user conversations, and explores the futuristic concept of data centers in outer space.
Gavin Baker, CIO of Atreides Management, and David George, General Partner at a16z, provide a macro view of the AI landscape. They discuss the trillion-dollar data center buildout, compare the current AI boom to the 2000 telecom bubble, analyze the competitive dynamics in AI infrastructure between Nvidia and Google, and explore the evolving business models for AI applications and the future of SaaS.
IBM's Granite 4.0 models introduce a groundbreaking hybrid architecture combining Mamba-2 and Transformer blocks with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) design. This approach enables smaller models to achieve superior performance, speed, and memory efficiency, even outperforming much larger models on key enterprise tasks while running on consumer-grade hardware.
A deep dive into OpenAI's AgentKit, demonstrating how to visually build, deploy, and optimize multi-step, tool-calling agents using Agent Builder, ChatKit, and the integrated Evals platform.
Sam Altman and Yakob present OpenAI's updated strategy, detailing a concrete research roadmap towards an automated AI researcher by 2028, a vision for an open AI platform, and massive infrastructure plans totaling $1.4 trillion. They also introduce a new corporate structure with a non-profit foundation focused on using AI to cure diseases and build AI resilience.
Tanay Tandon, co-founder and CEO of Commure, discusses his journey from building a medical device in college to creating an AI operating system for healthcare. He covers the pivot from hardware to software, the power of LLMs in automating revenue cycle and clinical documentation, and his vision for a future where AI liberates physicians from administrative burdens and fundamentally reshapes patient care.