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$1,100,000,000. The Machine Age Fund | a16z

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Isaac Newton spent 20 years looking for

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this key to what he called alchemy. The

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idea of alchemy was to transmute

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something that was very common into

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something that was very rare. There was

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this thing called the philosopher's

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stone that he kept trying to discover.

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Imagine a form of alchemy that turns

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sand

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into thought. And so AI quite literally

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is that. It's it's thought at scale for

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everybody

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in perpetuity.

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>> So now almost everything is a

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bottleneck. Like America's got to

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rebuild its entire [music]

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infrastructure like right now.

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>> The whole supply chain is just

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>> feeling immense pressure.

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>> The bottom line is this is a very unique

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moment in time. The entire computer

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[music] ecosystem is being rebooted for

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AI.

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>> Yeah, these data centers were built for

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SAS. And so you really have to be cool

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and all

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>> The United States is short [music]

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power, short compute, short chips, and

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there's going to be shortages in all

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three.

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>> We don't have enough anything to be in

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this future world and somebody's got to

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fund it.

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>> [music]

Interactive Summary

The video discusses the transformative power of AI, comparing it to the historical pursuit of alchemy, while highlighting the current critical shortages in infrastructure, power, and computing capacity necessary to support this technological shift.

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