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How Much Bigger Will Robotics Be Than Coding Agents? · The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: Why Robotics Will be 100x Bigger than Coding Agents | Inference Will Be a $10TRN Market: What No One Sees | Why Software Investors are F***** Today with Naveen Rao, Unconventional

AGENDA: 05:00 Will we run out of energy? 19:00 Will specialised chips threaten NVIDIA's dominance? 26:00 Can we trust AI agents more than humans? 31:00 Will data companies become commodities? 36:00 What comes after transformers? 41:00 Are software investors f****** in a world of infra and compute? 52:00 How big will the inference market be in 10 years?…

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  1. Have Physical Efficiency Gains in Chips Stopped? at 11:33

    Naveen Rao says physical efficiency gains in chips have largely stopped. Full answer

  2. Should I Trust AI Agent Decisions Yet? at 27:51

    Naveen Rao says people should not trust AI agent decisions as much as human decisions in a lot of cases just yet. Full answer

  3. Why Are Big AI Model Companies a Data Problem? at 31:40

    Naveen Rao says the big AI model companies are largely a data problem. Most of their capabilities have not come from advances in the model itself. Full answer

  4. Is Reinforcement Learning Less Efficient Per Dollar? at 33:36

    Naveen Rao says reinforcement learning is more inefficient. Full answer

  5. Are Pure Software Investors in Trouble? at 41:43

    Naveen Rao thinks hardware is the place to be over the next 10 years and is confident a pure software investor is in trouble. Full answer

  6. Why Does AI Leave Developer Budgets About the Same? at 47:06

    Naveen Rao says the share of developer salary that shifts to coding tools may stay roughly stable, because training people to judge good code is the hard part. Full answer

  7. How Much Bigger Will Robotics Be Than Coding Agents? at 53:07

    Naveen Rao thinks robotics is going to be 100 times larger than agentic coding. Full answer

  8. What Did Naveen Rao Change His Mind About? at 57:12

    Naveen Rao changed his mind in the last 12 months on the useful metric for progress in investing. Market validation is an old way of looking at it. Full answer

  9. How Did Naveen Rao Feel Meeting Steve Jurvetson? at 1:01:26

    Naveen Rao walked into an early meeting with Steve Jurvetson nervous. He had heard Jurvetson was super smart and expected to be taken apart. Full answer

  10. Why Is Naveen Rao Excited About AI? at 1:04:47

    Naveen Rao is personally pumped that AI is a tool and capability for asking much bigger questions about the universe. Full answer

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