Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance • 199,951 subscribers
Writing at https://t.co/m6EtO60SiY and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die).
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Here, in all its glory, is the exclusive first look at the massive Tesla Semi factory. Our Core Memory crew went to Nevada to see the line come to life, as it gets ready to pump out thousands of all-electric trucks. We saw the new cab and went on a drive too. Wunderbar!
Ashlee Vance15,912,506 views • 1 month ago
New Limit just raised $435 million. This is, in part, because they've had a massive breakthrough on reversing the age of the liver with their new brand of genetic reprogramming drugs. For the first time, NewLimit's co-founder and president Jacob Kimmel details the company's breakthrough here. We also get into the longevity and bio-tech fields more broadly to explain where aging science and AI are heading. If nothing else, come to see some mice get drunk. The Core Memory podcast is available wherever you pod, and I'll put the YouTube link down below in the replies. Our show is sponsored by Brex and SendCutSend. They are both wise and benevolent. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 3:50 What Is Epigenetic Reprogramming? 7:16 Growing a Whole Animal From One Old Cell 13:06 Meet Ambrosia, the AI Hunting for Youth 22:44 $435 Million and the Race to Human Trials 29:26 The Drunk Mice That Skip the Hangover 36:48 Inside the First Human Trial 43:14 Will There Ever Be a Hangover Pen? 49:39 Beyond the Liver: The Delivery Problem 1:03:27 Answering the Skeptics 1:12:42 Will OpenAI Become a Drug Company? 1:23:53 The Health Story Bigger Than AI? 1:35:00 How Far Behind Is the US vs China? 1:53:10 Can We Build Computers From Neurons?
Ashlee Vance83,060 views • 2 days ago
Taking old cars and turning them into electric vehicles is not a new idea. Tinkerers and car enthusiasts have been doing this for decades. Tesla, in fact, can trace its origins back to AC Propulsion, the Southern California-based company whose work on the Lotus Elise inspired the Tesla Roadster. No one, however, turns classic cars into electric gems like Marc Davis and Moment Motor. From their Austin workshop, Moment creates absolute art. Full video -
Ashlee Vance14,138 views • 1 day ago
This might be the coolest real estate business in the world. Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and built a telescope farm. They're managing hundreds and hundreds of scopes for other people and offering super dark skies and fiber internet so that folks can take amazing pictures of space. Behold Starfront Observatories.
Ashlee Vance183,300 views • 27 days ago
Tomorrow, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will be on a podcast together for the first time ever. And they will give an exact date for the arrival of AGI. New models, the trial with Elon Musk, Anthropic beef, Sam personal drama, the future of compute buys, Kylie Robison and I do it all. Core Memory episode 67 hits on the Substack only. If you want the goods, it's time to sub up The Core Memory pod is on all major platforms and brought to you by Brex and @e1ventures because they have great taste.
Ashlee Vance253,443 views • 1 month ago
Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and are trying to turn it into a manufacturing mecca. We took our cameras and spent a couple of days there. I went upside down in a plane and did a study of Texan cults. It's glorious. Welcome to Proto-Town. Full episode here. If you haven't watched our shows yet, you should. No one does tech better. Core Memory on YouTube.
Ashlee Vance200,342 views • 1 month ago
Meta paid $14 billion to pry Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran. The hope - Zuck's hope - was that Wang could fix what ailed Meta's AI program. Over the past year, Meta has spent billions more pulling researchers away from other labs and has raced to create it first new model called Muse Spark under a regime led by Wang, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Shengjia Zhao. This interview is the first time Wang has talked about all the drama of the past year and where Meta is heading with AI. The Core Memory podcast is on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms. Enjoy! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:02 Inside Meta Superintelligence Labs 06:23 The Tahoe Conversation 12:50 How Do You Rebuild a Frontier Lab 24:35 The Soup and Being "Too Young" 32:48 MuseSpark: Appetizer, Not Entrée 48:47 Why Does Everyone Hate AI? 53:50 Open Source and the Manus Question 1:04:59 Robots and Mango 1:11:08 Sci-Fi, BCI, and Do AI Models Deserve Moral Weight?
Ashlee Vance97,018 views • 22 days ago
The Sam+Greg episode. 0:00:00 - The evolution their relationship 0:25:42 - The personal AGI that knows you 0:35:40 - Three futures. Ten trillionaires 0:44:18 - America's hardware problem 0:49:22 - Greg takes the product reins 0:56:00 - Why Sora got cut 1:09:52 - How the AI drama got this toxic 1:11:36 - Sam's worst week 1:17:01 - The Elon Musk trial Sam wants to have Find the Core Memory Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Come to us, friends.
Ashlee Vance101,965 views • 1 month ago
What a story. What a chat. We sit down with Theo Baker who took down Stanford's president with his reporting as a freshman and who has just written a book that provides a deep look into Stanford's culture and where it may have gone off the rails. Venture capitalists do not come off great in this book. . . nor does Stanford's former president. What a rollicking tale!!! All on the Core Memory podcast. Enjoy!
Ashlee Vance38,083 views • 16 days ago
As a freshman, Theo Baker's reporting for the Stanford paper took down the school's president. Now, as a senior, he's written a book that delves into the state of Stanford's start-up first culture. Unlike most of the people interviewing Baker this week, I actually read his book, and so, we really got into it. Here's our full Core Memory podcast. You can, of course, find it as well on all major pod platforms and our YouTube channel. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 05:50 How VCs Hunt Stanford Freshmen 15:33 The Fraud Stanford Still Won't Talk About 19:52 Stanford's War on Fun 25:50 The Tip That Took Down a President 32:39 What Was Actually Wrong With Those Papers? 39:23 Why Won't Tessier-Lavigne Talk? 48:14 What This Story Cost Theo 55:38 The Embargo Betrayal 1:00:42 Hated on His Own Campus 1:08:00 Has Stanford Lost the Plot? 1:17:41 What Stanford Could Still Be
Ashlee Vance30,410 views • 12 days ago
Somehow managed to make myself get weepy on my own show. You're usually supposed to do this to the guest. But Theo Baker moved me with the work and effort put into his new book - How To Rule The World - out this week. Our conversation with Theo about his extraordinary time at Stanford will be out tomorrow on the Core Memory podcast.
Ashlee Vance39,399 views • 17 days ago
Our new Core Memory video on NewLimit, which is finding combinations of proteins that reverse aging across the body. It is perhaps the most exciting work in the bio-tech field. Backed by Brian Armstrong Patrick Collison John Collison Joshua Kushner Nat Friedman and others
Ashlee Vance629,588 views • 10 months ago
