In recent AGI history, smaller startups with a coherent AGI vision have sometimes outperformed larger, better-funded companies despite having less compute, fewer researchers, and running fewer experiments.

“but there's also things on the other side. Like, think about the recent history of AGI,”

“where there is deep mind.”

“deep minds yeah there's various other like”

“companies then there's open ai there's anthropic and like there's just this repeated story of like big bloated company with tons of money tons of smart researchers etc flailing around trying a ton of different things at different points smaller startup with a vision of we're going to build agi and like overall working towards that vision more coherently with a few cracked engineers and researchers and then they crush the giant company even though they have less compute even though they have less researchers they're able to”

“able to do fewer experiments,”