Michael Kratsios

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"The Department of War has extensive R&D programs like DARPA for example."

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"SpaceX with the challenges they were having for sort of launch permits and what the FAA and Department of Commerce were doing — no matter what kind of industry you're looking at, there was this government angle where policy actions could actually unlock technology."

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"Whether you were thinking about Lyft and the challenges they were having at a sort of state and local level, SpaceX with the challenges they were having for sort of launch permits — no matter what kind of industry you're looking at, there was this government angle."

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"Earlier some of you may have heard from the founder of Boom Supersonic. I've been obsessed with supersonic flight for years. I think it's the most obvious in-your-face example of technological stagnation. We had the Concorde flying years ago and we're flying slower than we were back then — absolute tragedy."

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"The rule was passed and finalized before ChatGPT was ever invented. So now all of these large language models, everything that's happened since November of 2022 when ChatGPT came out, have to abide by this rule that was written before LLMs were even a thing."

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"Even early this year, Opus wasn't even out yet. Anthropic revenue — what is it, was it 10 billion — and it's now the fastest growing company on the planet."

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"There are amazing opportunities for people on one extreme to be participating in things like Alpha School, where you do — what is it — 3 hours or 4 hours of AI in the morning and then the rest of the day is on social skills and other stuff. And for some sets of families that works amazingly and people get really hands-on with this technology."

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"And a lot of us who were part of the first Trump administration saw this very firsthand with the telecom wars of that era of what Huawei was able to do globally."

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"The best example of that in the world right now is the EU AI Act. When we were in the first Trump administration, the EU went through a lot of fanfare and spent many years putting together this EU AI Act — and the rule was essentially passed and finalized before ChatGPT was ever invented."