Ep 57: Former CTO of Meta Mike Schroepfer on the Path to Powering the AI Revolution

On today’s Unsupervised Learning, Mike Schroepfer (ex-CTO of Meta and founder of Gigascale Capital) reveals why energy is a key bottleneck holding AI progress back. Mike discusses how we can scale energy production to democratize AI globally and explores AI’s role in climate change. He also reflects on a decade as Meta’s CTO and how AI coding is transforming the CTO role. Finally, he offers predictions on the future of AI developer tools, VR, and open-source models.

[0:00] Intro

[0:43] AI's Role in Energy and Climate Change

[4:32] Innovative Energy Solutions

[14:50] Open Source and AI Development

[22:35] Challenges in Chip Design

[24:04] Balancing Data Center Capacity

[25:55] The Future of VR and AI Integration

[29:41] AI's Role in Climate Solutions

[31:41] AI in Material Science and Beyond

[34:31] Personal AI Assistants and Their Impact

[38:47] Reflections on AI and Future Predictions

[41:23] Quickfire

With your co-hosts: 

@jacobeffron 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health 

@patrickachase 

- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn 

@ericabrescia 

- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) 

@jordan_segall 

- Partner at Redpoint