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7 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
A recent MIT study on AI projects was widely quoted because of its dramatic failure figures, though Tim Crawford advises taking it with a grain of salt.
“you saw the MIT AI study, which a lot of folks want to quote because the numbers are so dramatic.”
2025
Michael Krigsman said the MIT study concerned proofs of concept failing.
“yes, the that MIT study, uh, is about POCs failing.”
2025
Tim Crawford pointed to a separate MIT study about 'meek models' that looks at how smaller models compare with big ones.
“there's an interesting MIT study, different than the MIT AI study that talks about meek models, and so just probably just look for MIT meek models”
Undated
Before joining Porsche, Ulbrich studied digital transformation at MIT and in Saint Gallen, Switzerland.
“So I moved to MIT and Saint Gallen here in in in Switzerland to learn more about the term of, let's say, transformation, digital transformation”
Undated
Courtland Allen says Dropbox went through Y Combinator while he was at MIT, and that Dropbox was also an MIT startup.
“Dropbox like went through and Dropbox was also an MIT startup. So everybody on campus had like a bunch of free Dropbox codes”
Undated
Bret Taylor criticizes the MIT study on enterprise AI spending, saying it conflated companies building their own AI software with companies buying ready-made AI products.
“That study, I don't know the basis for the, um, data in that study. I think it was problematic because it conflated people building their own software with AI and buying solutions off the shelf.”
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Host Matthew DeMello cited reports from MIT and others that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail or stall.
“despite the bad news from MIT and all these places saying 95% of pilots uh uh fail and or die on the vine, yet progress stalls”
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