Sequoia's AI Ascent — The Cognitive Revolution
Guillermo Flor's summary of Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent event — a gathering of 150+ top AI minds, including Demis Hassabis, Andrej Karpathy, Greg Brockman, Boris Cherny, Dmitri Dolgov, and Jim Fan. The core thesis: AI is not another software wave but a new foundation layer — a computation revolution, not a communication revolution — and the biggest, fastest wave in the sequence from semiconductors to mobile. Three inflections frame the moment: ChatGPT (2022), reasoning models, and long-horizon agents. Commercial AGI is defined as a system that can be dispatched to a job, recover from failure…
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