Sonya Huang quotes on AI, with sources

Partner, Sequoia Capital · 5 quotes · latest Jan 14, 2026

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Jan 14, 2026	An AI that can figure things out has some baseline knowledge (pre-training), the ability to reason over that knowledge (inference-time compute), and the ability to iterate its way to the answer (long-horizon agents).Jan 14, 2026· Essay	Essay2026: This is AGI	Source
Jan 14, 2026	If there’s one exponential curve to bet on, it’s the performance of long-horizon agents. METR has been meticulously tracking AI’s ability to complete long-horizon tasks. The rate of progress is exponential, doubling every ~7 months.Jan 14, 2026· Essay	Essay2026: This is AGI	Source
Jan 14, 2026	Today, your agents can probably work reliably for ~30 minutes. But they’ll be able to perform a day’s worth of work very soon – and a century’s worth of work eventually.Jan 14, 2026· Essay	Essay2026: This is AGI	Source
Sep 20, 2023	In generative AI, we have reached a modern marvel, our generation’s space race.Sep 20, 2023· Essay	EssayGenerative AI's Act Two	Source
Sep 20, 2023	Last year, we anticipated it would be nearly a decade before we had intern-level code generation, Hollywood-quality videos or human quality speech that didn’t sound mechanical. But a quick listen to Eleven Labs’ voices on TikTok or Runway’s AI film festival makes it clear that the future has arrived at warp speed.Sep 20, 2023· Essay	EssayGenerative AI's Act Two	Source

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