12 Videos from CVAI: Amjad Masad from Replit, Mike Krieger from Anthropic, xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba & More
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We just wrapped the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco last week.
All 300-plus of our attendees heard from AI leaders like Replit’s Amjad Masad, Kleiner Perkins investor Ilya Fushman, solo capitalist Elad Gil, and Anthropic’s chief product officer Mike Krieger, alongside leaders from Box, Vanta, Harvey, ElevenLabs, and more.
We’re also sharing footage from our first-ever audience participation segment, where hosts Eric Newcomer, Max Child, and James Wilsterman tried to guess our audience’s AI predictions.
We’re sharing all 12 talks from last week’s summit in the newsletter. You can also watch them on our Newcomer Summits YouTube channel.
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Jimmy Ba (xAI)
Jimmy Ba almost didn’t make his panel, he shared on stage, after his Tesla self-driving ride took a wrong turn and ended up on the Bay Bridge.
Once he finally made it, he gave the audience a peek under the curtain at how Elon Musk steers his other cofounders and employees. He touted having X as one of the largest repositories of valuable, human-crafted training data for xAI’s Grok models.
Amjad Masad (Replit)
Replit’s Amjad Masad kicked off the summit on the heels of his company’s explosive growth in the year since the phrase “vibe coding” was coined.
Masad shared how he’s been seeing his tools produce unbelievable value for his customers — two companies that were built on Replit have already reached unicorn status, including MagicSchool. Replit’s tools can help engineers do more than just basic software writing now, and are allowing businesses to build agents on the fly.
Mike Krieger (Anthropic)
Anthropic has been positioning itself as an “anti-slop” AI company, and Mike Krieger explained how the company is designing its chatbots to avoid the sycophancy that many others have been criticized for.
“When we were testing Sonnet 4.5, one of the things that people got most excited about was when Claude was like, ‘this idea is bad.’ Not that you should feel bad about it, but like ‘this idea is not
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