Steve Jurvetson has spent 30 years funding the future before it was a category: an early check into SpaceX when space was not a venture sector, Tesla before electric cars were taken seriously, and now a portfolio spanning fusion, analog AI chips, and epigenetic editing at his firm Future Ventures. In this fireside chat he lays out what the next three years of AI actually look like, the three principles he has learned from working alongside Elon Musk for nearly three decades, the question he uses to separate missionary founders from opportunists, and why he thinks alignment of frontier AI systems may simply not be possible.

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Jurvetson argues the 130-year exponential in compute per dollar (Ray Kurzweil’s abstraction of Moore’s Law from his book The Age of Spiritual Machines) will keep running for at least three more years, carried by analog and custom AI silicon, and that this compounding is what makes startups and disruption possible at all. His gut says the next big leap will be “architecturally variant”: a new generation of labs going back to DeepMind’s founding premise of reinforcement learning, continuous learning, and novelty-seeking goal functions rather than bigger LLMs. He relays Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark’s 30 percent odds of superintelligence within a year but notes the crucial missing piece is that humans still set every goal. Adoption will be wildly uneven: anything made of atoms (cars, robots) switches over glacially, while creative work and white-collar categories like call centers (roughly 1 percent of US GDP) flip almost instantly. From Musk he draws three lessons: insane focus and saying no, maniacal attention to the cycle time of learning loops (Tesla gathers more AI training data every 4 days than Waymo has in its entire history), and being a magnet for talent by selling a grander mission. He explains Future Ventures’ current bets (fusion, free diagnostics via phone, slaughter-free meat, epigenetic editing, critical minerals, analog in-memory compute), tells solo founders their 30-day plan is to find a co-founder, predicts a turbulent transition to abundance, doubts Neuralink can keep pace with AI, dismisses Penrose’s quantum consciousness argument, and frames the post-work question with Man's Search for Meaning: humans need symbolic immortality, not just employment.

Thoughts

The most load-bearing claim in this conversation is not about scaling laws, it is about architecture. Jurvetson is telling you where the smart contrarian money is looking: away from ever-larger language models and back toward reinforcement learning agents with continuous learning and self-generated goals, the original DeepMind thesis that got shelved when LLMs took off. His framing of the open problem is unusually precise. The recursive self-improvement loops everyone is excited about are real, but every one of them is still human-directed. The goal-setting layer, what he calls the selection pressure of the evolutionary algorithm, is the “thin veneer of activity” AI does not yet do, and it happens to be the layer where superintelligence either does or does not arrive. That is a much sharper way to track AGI progress than benchmark scores: watch who cracks autonomous goal formation, not who tops a leaderboard.

Almost everything else Jurvetson says reduces to a single metric: the cycle time of the learning loop. It is his explanation for Musk’s edge (launch cadence, the Tesla fleet as a data-collection machine), his filter for which industries flip fast (bits iterate at machine speed, atoms are stuck with 11-to-12-year car replacement cycles and FDA timelines), and even his bear case on Neuralink, which he has invested in. Biology cannot iterate at synthetic speed, so the substrate that learns fastest wins. Once you see the pattern, it becomes a genuinely useful lens for evaluating any company, career, or technology: ask how fast the loop spins, not how impressive the current artifact is.

The aside that deserves the most attention is his flat statement that mechanistic interpretability will not bear fruit and that control and alignment of a cutting-edge system is not possible. His reasoning is structural, not rhetorical: anything produced by an iterative algorithm run billions of times (evolution, neural network training) is inherently inscrutable, and it will always be easier to build a new intelligence than to reverse engineer one you already made. He swaps “teenager” for “AI” whenever he thinks about control, which is funny until you notice he is one of the most connected investors in the Musk orbit saying the safety agenda rests on a false premise. Sitting that next to the 30 percent superintelligence odds he cites from Jack Clark produces an uncomfortable arithmetic that nobody on stage follows to its conclusion.

For builders, the practical gold is the 50-year question. Ask a founder what their business looks like in 50 years: the opportunist laughs at the question, the missionary is relieved someone finally asked. Paired with his other filters (if only two out of ten people think your idea is crazy it is not bold enough, and a good business is one that could not have been started three years ago), it doubles as a hiring screen and a self-diagnostic. And his 30-day plan for a solo founder is refreshingly unglamorous: do not build the MVP, do not pitch investors, go persuade one person to give up their job and join you. If you cannot recruit a co-founder, that is the market’s first answer about your idea.

Key Takeaways

• Jurvetson invested early in SpaceX and Tesla precisely because space and automotive were not venture categories at all; a software-centric systems engineering approach applied to a sleepy industry that has not changed in decades unlocks enormous value, and that playbook is now rippling through every industry.
• The Kurzweil curve plots 130 years of compute per dollar across five substrates (mechanical, relay, vacuum tube, discrete transistor, integrated circuit) and shows a 10,000 billion billion X improvement; Jurvetson calls it the most important thing ever graphed.
• Customers buy compute capacity and memory, not transistors, and both have been “on rails” for 130 years; the default prediction for the next three years is simply that the curve keeps going.
• When an incumbent declares Moore’s Law dead, it usually signals they are losing their business to someone new, as Intel was to Nvidia 15 years ago.
• Analog chips and customized AI silicon that do discrete matrix multiply-and-add extremely efficiently will carry the mantle of Moore’s Law over the next three years.
• Without exponential technological change there would be no startups: if business is predictable, the big get bigger and incumbents block new entrants; disruption is almost always computationally based.
• Over the next three years AI ripples through energy, agriculture, and construction: three enormous industries that are growing as a percentage of GDP and are the least digitized on the planet, with healthcare close behind.
• His gut says the next driver will be architecturally variant, possibly subsuming today’s models the way mixture of experts subsumes other architectures or massively parallel diffusion models reinterpret the transformer.
• A whole new generation of neural labs is returning to the founding premise of DeepMind: reinforcement learning with continuous learning, let loose on the internet’s data sets, hunting for the algorithm that bootstraps intelligence.
• The open question for these systems is the goal function: what plays the role of evolutionary selection pressure? Candidates include understanding the universe (the xAI mission) or a novelty-seeking algorithm that uses new discoveries as its measure of progress.
• Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, gives roughly 30 percent odds that superintelligence arrives within a year; Jurvetson declines to put odds on it himself and admits “I do not know” is the honest answer.
• Today’s self-improving AI loops (automated verification, hyperparameter adjustment between training runs, AI-mediated experimentation) are real but still human-directed; goal setting remains the thin veneer AI does not do, and it may be the most important layer.
• Human intelligence was bootstrapped on top of reactive limbic systems and emotional centers with cortex layered on top; it is an open philosophical question whether AI systems need to recapitulate that functional specialization to take on purpose and meaning.
• Anything involving atoms switches over slowly: fully autonomous vehicles are inevitable (every car, train, and airplane), but people keep cars 11 to 12 years, so the physical swap-out cycle makes the transition feel glacial.
• Physical robotics faces the same constraint: making a billion robots takes time even with recursive manufacturing techniques.
• The domains that flip like wildfire are the ones we held as uniquely human: creative arts, moviemaking, and imagery came first, which Jurvetson finds somewhat shocking.
• Call centers represent roughly 1 percent of US GDP and can switch over almost entirely and almost instantly; white-collar work generally has no physical swap-out cycle to slow it down.
• People will increasingly prefer AI to human interactions when the AI is better: studies of physician bedside manner and customer service already show AIs doing a better job with emotional connection than humans.
• Musk principle one is an insane ability to focus: running many companies forces ruthless prioritization, and he says no to anything that is not mission-critical right now, including a Craig Venter brainstorm on terraforming Mars because “none of this stuff on Mars matters” until Starship flies.
• Musk principle two, the most important: maniacal focus on the cycle time of innovation, the core learning loop, whether launch cadence or fleet data; Tesla cameras gather more AI training data every 4 days than Waymo has collected in its entire history, because every vehicle collects data whether or not the customer paid for full self-driving.
• Musk principle three: being a magnet for talent, screening for mastery by drilling into engineering crises a candidate actually solved rather than leaning on credentials (which are often an albatross), and framing the company as something grander (sustainable energy, multi-planetary humanity, understanding the universe) so the best people want to join.
• Jurvetson filters founders with one question: what does your business look like in 50 years? Opportunists chuckle at the absurdity; missionaries are relieved and finally tell you what has been driving them all along. He passes on the ones who laugh.
• The best startups hold two things in tension simultaneously: an audacious 50-to-500-year vision and a concrete plan to iterate with real customers over the next three years, chaining backward from the future to what must be built now.
• The perpetual surprise of great companies is expanding option value: autonomous driving was nowhere in Tesla’s founding plan, and Starlink, direct-to-cell, and orbital data centers were not on SpaceX’s dance card even five years ago. Exploring the option space beats purposeful ten-year planning.
• Future Ventures invests in things unlike anything they have seen before yet adjacent to what they know, ideally companies that are literally one of a kind.
• Current bets include nuclear fusion and subcritical fusion that avoids NRC regulation, because energy is the third bottleneck for AI after talent and compute.
• Other 500-year-problem bets: free healthcare via a cell phone (all diagnostics as a free global service, probably launching outside the US to bypass FDA and insurance), slaughter-free meat via cellular agriculture and mycelium, and construction, where labor productivity has been flat for 30 years.
• Recent investments span epigenetic editing (the software of biology rather than the firmware of the genome, applied to crops, pesticides, and human health), critical minerals from deep sea mining to copper refining, and reshoring US industrial capacity.
• Three separate analog AI chip investments approach the same goal from different angles, including Mythic’s in-memory compute doing 8-bit multiplication in a single transistor, each chasing 100X and then another 100X reduction in power per calculation.
• The portfolio is roughly 40 percent life sciences and 60 percent IT, deliberately hunting the weird edge cases that fall through the cracks of traditional pharma VC: organ harvesting for transplant, a male birth control pill, dramatically improved IVF.
• Old industries with no new entrants are the best targets: the four largest tunnel boring companies competing with the Boring Company were all started in the 1800s.
• The 30-day plan for a single person with an idea: find a co-founder. Great startups tend to have a dynamic duo at the founding (Jobs and Wozniak, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Larry Ellison and Bob Miner), and persuading one person to quit their job for your mission is the first real test of the idea.
• A founding pair with diverse backgrounds and mutual respect sets the culture for everyone hired afterward and creates cognitive diversity that ripples through the whole firm.
• Calibrate boldness by the crazy ratio: if 100 percent of people say your idea is crazy, take the feedback; nine out of ten is pretty good; if only two out of ten think it is crazy, it is not bold enough. Also ask whether the business could have been started three years ago; if yes, that is a bad sign.
• Co-founders most often meet at universities, one of the few places where people cross academic disciplines; breakthrough innovation happens at the interstices between formally discrete fields, and LLMs are exceptionally good at exactly that cross-domain translation, opening a fountainhead of idea discovery.
• Roughly 19 percent of global employment involves driving vehicles, and that work is going away, just more slowly than people imagine.
• Humans have a fundamental desire for symbolic immortality: contributing something that outlasts our brief time here, whether children, books, philanthropy, or companies. Accumulated cultural knowledge, not biology, is the primary vector of human evolutionary progress.
• There is no peaceful path from full employment to no employment: passing through 30, 40, 50 percent unemployment will be turbulent, and no politicians are taking a long-term perspective on it.
• On Neuralink (which he invested in): expanding the sensory periphery is very doable (higher data rates, restoring hearing and spinal function, seeing more wavelengths), but upgrading core intelligence requires reverse engineering an inscrutable iterated system, and biology’s FDA-and-wetware timescales cannot keep up with synthetic learning loops.
• Any product of an iterative algorithm run billions of times (evolution, neural networks, genetic programming) is inherently inscrutable; Jurvetson doubts mechanistic interpretability will bear fruit and does not think control or alignment of a cutting-edge AI system is possible, likening it to mind-controlling a teenager.
• On Penrose’s quantum consciousness argument: there is no clear mechanism and no evidence of quantum processes in the brain, and arguments that consciousness requires our specific substrate are uncompelling; machines may one day have consciousness, just not necessarily human consciousness, the same way computer memory is real memory without being human memory.

Detailed Summary

Betting on Sectors That Do Not Exist Yet

Asked what he saw in SpaceX that other investors missed, Jurvetson flips the question: there were almost no investors even considering space, just as automotive and nuclear energy were not venture sectors. The bet was on Elon Musk, whom he has known for 29 years and backed across all his companies (“and his cousins, too”), and on a thesis that has since crystallized: a software-centric systems engineering approach applied to a sleepy industry that has not changed in decades unlocks extraordinary value. Aerospace and automotive proved it, and the same conversion of industrial low-margin businesses into information businesses is now playing out across the economy.

The 130-Year Compute Curve and the Next 3 Years

Jurvetson polls the room on Kurzweil’s famous graph, first published around 1999, and finds only a quarter have seen what he calls the most important thing ever graphed: five successive technology substrates delivering a 10,000 billion billion X improvement in the computation a dollar buys, sustained over 130 years. Moore’s Law is just the most recent refraction of a longer, almost cosmological trend that transcends the dramas of individual companies. His baseline prediction for the next three years is that the curve keeps going, carried by analog chips and custom AI silicon optimized for matrix math, and he notes that when a company like Intel declares the end of Moore’s Law, it usually means they are losing to someone new, as they did to Nvidia. The deeper point: exponential technological change is the precondition for startups existing at all, because predictable business favors incumbents. AI is the most intense crucible of compute-centric innovation yet, and over the next three years it flows into energy, agriculture, construction, and healthcare, the largest and least digitized sectors.

Architecturally Variant: The Return of Reinforcement Learning

Pressed on what technology drives the next wave (better LLMs, world models, robotics), Jurvetson shares a gut feeling he stresses he has not yet invested in: something architecturally variant that may subsume today’s models. He points to a new generation of neural labs returning to DeepMind’s founding premise, reinforcement learning, which was set aside when LLMs took off. The open design problem is the goal function: what is the multi-decade agentic drive, the selection pressure, the definition of success beyond reproductive fitness? He floats understanding the universe (the Grok and xAI framing) and novelty-seeking algorithms that treat new discoveries as progress. The question these labs chase is whether a single reinforcement learning algorithm with continuous learning, let loose on the internet’s data, could bootstrap intelligence. He adds a caution about today’s chatbots: we ascribe consciousness and meaning where there is none. “There’s no light on inside,” at least for now.

Superintelligence Odds and the Missing Goal-Setting Layer

On whether self-directed, goal-setting AI arrives within three years, Jurvetson cites Jack Clark of Anthropic giving 30 percent odds of superintelligence next year, which he finds fun mostly because at least someone put a stake in the ground. The recursive self-improvement debate is live, but he insists on a distinction: the huge improvements in the current self-improving loop (automated verification, hyperparameter tuning between runs, AI-mediated experimentation) are all still directed by humans. Goal setting remains human, and while that may be only a thin veneer of remaining activity, it is arguably the most important part, and nobody is sure how the transition happens. It may require recapitulating the brain’s functional specialization, the limbic-then-cortex layering that produced our bootstrapped consciousness. His honest answer: he does not know and does not even have odds, because three years out is genuinely hard to predict.

Atoms Move Slowly, Bits Sweep Like Wildfire

The gap between what the technology can do and how we use it is governed by physics and replacement cycles. Fully autonomous vehicles are, to him, obviously inevitable for everything that moves on Earth, yet cars stay on the road 11 to 12 years, so the switchover feels glacial; a billion robots likewise take time to manufacture. What flips fast is the world of bits, and strangely it started with what we considered most human: creative arts, movies, and images. White-collar work follows because there is no physical swap-out cycle: call centers, about 1 percent of US GDP, can convert almost overnight. And people will increasingly prefer the AI when it is better, showing more emotional understanding and better reading of the situation, something already visible in comparisons of physician bedside manner and customer service quality.

Three Principles from Working with Elon Musk

Jurvetson opens with humility (even Maye Musk cannot explain how Elon became Elon, and the books piling up on his bedside table may not have been written by humans), but offers three observations from close range. First, an insane ability to focus. Running multiple companies paradoxically helps: nobody questions Elon skipping a holiday party, and he says no to fascinating distractions, including Jurvetson’s attempt to connect him with Craig Venter to brainstorm terraforming Mars with gene sequencers. Musk’s answer: none of it matters until Starship flies. Second, and even more important, a maniacal focus on the cycle time of innovation: how fast the core learning loop runs, whether launch cadence or fleet learning. The Tesla data flywheel is the exemplar: every car collects training data whether or not the owner paid for FSD, so Tesla gathers more data every 4 days than Waymo has in its history. Third, a well-honed talent stack: pattern recognition that ignores credentials (often an albatross), drills candidates on the engineering crises they actually navigated to test for real mastery, and wraps the company in a mission grand enough (sustainable energy, multi-planetary life, understanding the universe) that the best people want in, which compounds because great people attract great people.

The 50-Year Question and Expanding Option Value

How do founders stay true to a mission when 99 percent of the world says it is too early? Jurvetson admits selection bias: for 30 years he has tried to back only people with a sincere, almost messianic mission rather than arbitrage-seeking opportunists. His filter is to ask what the business looks like in 50 years. Opportunists laugh (“I’ll be on my third startup by then”); the best founders are relieved to finally unload the dream they have been hiding because “colonizing Mars is an uninvestable proposition” as a day-one pitch. The best startups pair an audacious 50-to-500-year vision with a plausible path of customer iteration over the next three years, chaining backward from the future. What still surprises him is how the option value of frontier companies keeps expanding: autonomous driving was not in Tesla’s founding plan at all, and SpaceX kept unfolding from cheap launch to Starlink to direct-to-cell to orbital data centers, none of which was on the dance card five years ago. Exploring the light cone of possibilities beats designing a ten-year plan.

Where Future Ventures Is Betting Now

The firm looks for companies unlike anything it has seen before yet adjacent to familiar ground, targeting problems that will obviously be solved 500 years from now. In energy: multiple fusion investments plus subcritical fusion that sidesteps NRC regulation, because energy is the third bottleneck for AI after people and compute. In health: free diagnostic healthcare delivered by cell phone as a global free service, likely launched outside the US to bypass FDA and reimbursement. In food: slaughter-free meat via cellular agriculture and mycelium. In construction: still looking, after trying and failing a few times in an industry where labor productivity has been flat for 30 years. Recent themes include epigenetic editing (the software of biology rather than the firmware of the genome, spanning crop health, pesticides, herbicides, and human health), critical minerals and metals from deep sea mining to copper refining as part of reshoring, and three separate analog AI chip bets, including Mythic’s in-memory compute doing 8-bit multiplication in a single transistor, each chasing successive 100X reductions in power per calculation. The mix runs about 40 percent life sciences, 60 percent IT, with a taste for the weird edge: organs grown for transplant, a male birth control pill, radically improved IVF. His favorite hunting ground is old, crappy industries with no new entrants, like tunnel boring, where the Boring Company’s four largest competitors were founded in the 1800s.

Advice for Founders: Find Your Batman and Robin

His 30-day plan for a single person with an idea is not an MVP or a pitch deck: find a co-founder. Startups tend to be founded by dynamic duos (Jobs and Wozniak, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Larry Ellison and the lesser-known Bob Miner), and a pair with diverse backgrounds and mutual respect creates a rapid iteration loop and sets the cultural template for every future hire. Persuading one person to quit their job for your crazy idea is the first proof the mission can recruit. On calibrating craziness: if literally everyone thinks the idea is crazy, take the feedback; nine out of ten is pretty good; only two out of ten means it is not bold enough, because obvious ideas get done by others. Ask whether the business could have been started three years ago; the right answer is no. Co-founders most often meet at universities, where students (unlike professors in their stovepipes) cross-pollinate between academic disciplines, and breakthrough innovation lives at those interstices. As an aside, he notes LLMs excel at exactly this translation between domains, opening a new fountainhead of idea discovery we are only beginning to tap.

When Machines Do Everything: Meaning, Abundance, and Turbulence

Asked the closing question (when machines do everything, what is the meaning of life?), Jurvetson starts with scale: roughly 19 percent of global employment is driving vehicles, and it is going away. But humans want meaningful work, driven by what he calls a fundamental desire for symbolic immortality: children, books, philanthropy, companies named after founders, all instantiations of the urge to contribute something that outlasts us. Translating the question into humanity’s mission statement, he lands where Yuri Milner and Musk do: to understand the universe and add to accumulated knowledge, because culture, not biology, is the primary vector of human evolutionary progress. If we could hyperspace-jump to Peter Diamandis-style abundance, where everything physical costs a dollar a pound and machines do all labor, we could all be philosopher kings and artists. But he refuses to end on false comfort: there is no visible peaceful path from full employment through 30, 40, 50 percent unemployment, that transition will be turbulent, and no politicians are taking a long-term view of it.

Neuralink, Inscrutable Systems, and the Alignment Heresy

In audience Q&A, Jurvetson confirms he invested in Neuralink (the idea traces to the neural lace of Iain M. Banks’ novel Surface Detail, which he recommends) but offers a contrarian view. Working from the periphery is very promising: restoring broken function, fixing spinal cords, expanding senses, higher-bandwidth communication. Upgrading core functionality, actually making someone smarter, is another matter. His reasoning comes from decades of watching complex systems: any artifact produced by an iterative algorithm run billions of times (evolution, neural networks, genetic programming, cellular automata) is inherently inscrutable. That is why he doubts mechanistic interpretability will bear fruit and flatly does not think control and alignment are possible for a cutting-edge AI system; he mentally swaps “teenager” for “AI” whenever the control question comes up. The same inscrutability applies to the brain: it will be easier to build a new intelligence than to reverse engineer one already made, and FDA cycles plus human biology cannot iterate at the speed of synthetic learning loops, so he lacks faith Neuralink keeps up with AI. Kurzweil’s uploading dream, he suggests, is a case of wanting something to be true within one’s lifetime.

Penrose, Quantum Brains, and Machine Consciousness

On Roger Penrose’s argument that consciousness depends on quantum processes and is therefore unreachable by AI, Jurvetson is respectful of the man and dismissive of the claim: there is no clear mechanism (a speculative lithium isotope coupling aside), and it amounts to wishful thinking. Generalizing, he finds all vitalist arguments that our substrate is uniquely necessary uncompelling; you could make a better case that carbon is special to life than that neurons are essential to consciousness. His favorite reframe swaps in the word memory: computers have memory that is nothing like holographic, gracefully degrading human memory, yet nobody debates whether computer memory is real. Machines may likewise develop a different kind of consciousness without human consciousness. Declaring something impossible is a much higher-order proposition than admitting ignorance, so his position is: he does not know whether the current AI path leads to consciousness, but his gut says machines will get there one day, perhaps via evolution-like reinforcement learning approaches that recapitulate what biology already proved possible.

Notable Quotes

“I have this gut feeling that it’ll be something architecturally variant. It might subsume the models that we know now.”

Steve Jurvetson, on what drives the next three years of AI

“It’s almost cosmological. Like, why has humanity’s capacity to compute compounded for 130 years?”

Steve Jurvetson, on the Kurzweil abstraction of Moore’s Law

“If business is predictable, if there isn’t disruptive technological change, the big get bigger.”

Steve Jurvetson, on why exponential compute is the precondition for startups

“The Tesla cars today in their cameras gather for their AI training set more data every 4 days than Waymo has in its entire history.”

Steve Jurvetson, on the data flywheel behind Musk’s learning-loop obsession

“If it’s like only two people think it’s crazy, that’s bad because it’s clearly not bold enough. If it’s an obvious idea, other people will do it.”

Steve Jurvetson, on calibrating how crazy a startup idea should be

“Despite attempts at mechanistic interpretability in AI, I don’t think that’s going to bear fruit.”

Steve Jurvetson, on why iterated systems are inherently inscrutable

“It’d be easier to build a new intelligence than it is to reverse engineer one you’ve made.”

Steve Jurvetson, on why he doubts Neuralink can keep pace with AI

“I think all humans have a fundamental desire for symbolic immortality, this belief that we’ve contributed something to the world that transcends our brief time on this world.”

Steve Jurvetson, on the meaning of life when machines do everything

“It’s much higher order proposition to say something is impossible than to say I don’t know.”

Steve Jurvetson, on whether AI can ever be conscious

Watch the full conversation here: The Next 3 Years of AI: Lessons from Elon Musk’s First Investor.

Related Reading

• Steve Jurvetson (Wikipedia) background on the investor behind early bets on SpaceX, Tesla, and Hotmail.
• Future Ventures the firm Jurvetson co-founded with Maryanna Saenko, primary source for the investment theses discussed on stage.
• Accelerating change (Wikipedia) the broader idea behind Kurzweil’s 130-year compute curve and the law of accelerating returns.
• Reinforcement learning (Wikipedia) the architecture Jurvetson’s gut says produces the next breakthrough, back to DeepMind’s founding premise.
• The Pursuit of Purpose our guide to the meaning-of-life question Jurvetson closes the conversation on.