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a16z|Sep 18, 2026 20:27
Databricks' @alighodsi on why most companies wouldn't even notice if frontier AI models stopped advancing: "The models are smart enough, but they just don't have the context that exists inside any organization. They have not been in every meeting. They don't know what's in everybody's heads. They don't know all the processes." "There's always a couple of employees who know everything in every organization. You go tap on their shoulder, and everybody's like, 'Oh my God, what would happen if he or she quits?' [The models] don't have that context." "If you just fused that and gave that context to the AI models... I think there are so many productivity gains you could get for any organization on the planet. For that, we actually don't need smarter models." "We don't need a smarter model that can solve Navier-Stokes or conjectures or do better on Humanity's Last Exam." "If the frontier doesn't advance, it doesn't actually matter, I think, for the vast majority of organizations on the planet. They're just so far behind in the adoption curve of actually automating things and getting value out of this stuff." @alighodsi
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