Khosla Bets on Ex-Tesla Engineer's Startup To Build More Logical, Reasoning-Focused AI
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Vinod Khosla is investing in Symbolica, an AI startup led by former Tesla autopilot engineer George Morgan, who believes smaller, more efficient models that can reason like humans are key.
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Symbolica is applying mathematical category theory to build a new architecture that aims to improve on current transformer models used by OpenAI and others.
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The goal is to enable models to logically process and generate information, rather than just predict the next word. This could improve reasoning abilities.
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Morgan believes today's AI is like "alchemy" and lacks transparency into how models work. Symbolica's approach offers more rigor and control.
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While optimistic, Khosla acknowledges Symbolica's approach may not succeed, but he's willing to take risks on innovative ideas advancing AI.