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I don't think we can have a centrally planned solution. We've got to rely on market forces and that includes regulation, that includes government incentives to ensure that the right outcome is the…

John Doerr ·Early investor in Google and Amazon ·Apr 2022

I think offsets are a last resort. They're an important piece of the puzzle, particularly if they are durable and authenticated. But we have to take the 59 gigatons per year of emissions to half that…

John Doerr ·Early investor in Google and Amazon ·Apr 2022

Climate change has been under hyped. We are underestimating it in two really profound and contrasting ways. The first I like to say that climate change is the greatest economic opportunity of our…

John Doerr ·Early investor in Google and Amazon ·Apr 2022

I think when I think about what Anthropic is trying to do, there's these sort of two pillars. The first is around how do we develop this transformative technology in a way that is good for everybody.…

Dario Amodei ·CEO and Co-Founder ·May 2026

There's an enormous ability for one person or a tiny set of people to do a set of things that are incredible, right? Where before if you just had an idea and you had a vision, there's so many…

Dario Amodei ·CEO and Co-Founder ·May 2026

It was about roughly a year ago there was an event like this where Mike Krieger asked me, you know, when will there be the first billion dollar company with one person and I said 2026. And I think…

Dario Amodei ·CEO and Co-Founder ·May 2026

In the first quarter of this year, we saw, if you were to annualize it, 80x growth per year in revenue and usage. And so that is the reason we have had difficulties with compute, right? We've planned…

Dario Amodei ·CEO and Co-Founder ·May 2026

Develop a hobby. Anyone who has a hobby has something that they're passionate about and that they know more about than most people. And with that hobby, you can have curiosity, you can have ideas,…

Jack Clark ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Many of the regulations and policy frameworks of today were not built on the assumption that artificial intelligence systems would exist, let alone get this powerful.

Jack Clark ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

I am worried for my kids if we as a society don't don't don't have a serious conversation about what the implications of AI's continued advances mean.

Jack Clark ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

So 80% of the code that goes into anthropic now comes from claude. It comes from claude and claude related systems. So the majority of the code in our organization is now written and derived from our…

Jack Clark ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Right now it's like the AI industry has a gas pedal but it doesn't have a brake pedal in the car. And what we're saying is we want to do some of the work required to build that brake pedal. So we in…

Jack Clark ·Cofounder ·Jun 2026

Today I would like to release the latest achievement of the chip that is the Kunlun 2 chip. Back in 2018 we're able to release the first version the version one Kunlun chip and we keep up with our…

Yanhong Li ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer BIDU ·Aug 2021

Today I would like to release one new brand... release this service platform the Robotaxi, it already open to the general public. So for example if you saw some of the cars have a logo with Robotaxi,…

Yanhong Li ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer BIDU ·Aug 2021

The most important part for this car is it can realize the autonomous driving and also we adding some new functions into this car that's why we call this AI car or robotic car so this car could move…

Yanhong Li ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer BIDU ·Aug 2021

In the future, automobile will become AI automobile. So in the future, the robot will be in the shape of a automobile.

Yanhong Li ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer BIDU ·Aug 2021

They will understand things from limited data, they will not get confused, all the things which are really big limitations. I'm not saying how by the way, and I'm not saying when, I'm saying that it…

Ilya Sutskever ·Cofounder ·Dec 2024

It will actually reason and by the way I want to mention something about reasoning is that a system that reasons, the more it reasons the more unpredictable it becomes. The more it reasons the more…

Ilya Sutskever ·Cofounder ·Dec 2024

The thing about super intelligence is that it will be different qualitatively from what we have. And my goal in the next minute to try to give you some concrete intuition of how it will be different…

Ilya Sutskever ·Cofounder ·Dec 2024

Pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end. Pre-training will end. Why will it end? Because while computers growing through better hardware, better algorithms and larger clusters, right, all…

Ilya Sutskever ·Cofounder ·Dec 2024

When I look at the world of Agentic in enterprise, we have this concept of lawful and lawless agents. Lawful being done the right way. Lawless going directly against the data and getting results that…

Aneel Bhusri ·Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board WDAY ·Jun 2026

I've also thought a lot about how Workday wins in this new chapter. I've met with dozens of customers since I've been back and I keep hearing the same thing. Not one of them is looking to replace…

Aneel Bhusri ·Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board WDAY ·Jun 2026

I've said before, chapter 4 is a refounding moment for Workday. With AI, we are essentially a startup again. We're a startup sitting on one of the most important enterprise platforms ever built and…

Aneel Bhusri ·Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board WDAY ·Jun 2026

We had a great first quarter. In fact, it was the best first quarter of new ACV growth in 5 years, anchored by the strength of our core business and the traction we're seeing with AI.

Aneel Bhusri ·Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board WDAY ·Jun 2026

I now have a full quarter under my belt since returning as CEO, and I truly feel the energy building at workday every day, both around our path forward on AI and the company as a whole.

Aneel Bhusri ·Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Board WDAY ·Jun 2026

Part of why I think we're leaned in so much is we feel very invested in ensuring that people that are using Claude are getting out of it everything that they can. And so I think our um you know our…

Daniela Amodei ·President and Co-Founder ·May 2026

I think that is really the underpinninging of the majority of actions that we take is is sort of grounded in across those two pillars.

Daniela Amodei ·President and Co-Founder ·May 2026

There's some risk to um just labor disruption. there's risks to ensuring that the technology is developed safely that it's good for people and I think anthropic's job or what we try to do is really…

Daniela Amodei ·President and Co-Founder ·May 2026

I think in many ways developers are the most important users of Claude. Um I think for a variety of reasons you know one is anthropic ourselves are majority developers right if you think about um how…

Daniela Amodei ·President and Co-Founder ·May 2026

I just think that, uh, there's, uh, if you have, like, big dislocations happening and there's big things happening, you know, election year, there's, you know, there's macroeconomic indicators that,…

Ali Ghodsi ·Cofounder and CEO ·Jun 2026