
Rohan Paul
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CNBC interviewer asked Palantir CEO Alex Karp how he would defend Wall Street’s concern that AI could replicate what Palantir is doing. Karp defended by basically saying that AI companies may have great engineers, but they do not deeply understand the messy, high-stakes enterprise problems Palantir solves on the ground. ------ Alex Karp: "No one in enterprise factually is worried. I've spent all my life, for better or worse, dealing with the most complicated, most interesting enterprises. I'm on the ground floor of that, probably like no one else. Those kinds of engineers are great engineers, and I'm telling you, they don't talk to the enterprises or understand the technical challenge. If you want to manufacture a car and you need a part, or you want to send a rocket to the moon, or you want to put a missile on your adversary's head and bring America home safely, that stuff doesn't ship. And by the way, there is not a single high-end enterprise like that that would ever put that in place. That is before you even get to the cultural impasse." ---- From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has only 1 direct report, his chief of staff. The rest of Anthropic’s executive system flows through Dario’s sister, Anthropic President Daniela Amodei, who handles daily operations and reports to the board. For some comparison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has around half a dozen direct reports, while Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang has 60 people reporting to him. --- From "Bloomberg Originals" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Jensen Huang on 'Nvidia vs. custom ASIC' He was answering to UBS research analyst question on how custom ASICs will affect NVIDIA or how they are going to compete with custom ASIC. Basically he says - Your custom chip is a science project in a world where NVIDIA is building revenue-generating AI factories. While the competition is still desperately trying to copy Nvidia's last generation, their roadmap is already at the limits of physics. They don't just sell silicon; they deliver the entire, impossibly complex platform that the industry has already surrendered to and standardized on. When you must bet hundreds of billions on your company's future, there is no alternative—they are the only platform to build on, and everyone knows it. --- From 'GTC Financial Analyst Q&A' session (full link in comment)
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dot-com bubble vs. a possible AI bubble. From the famous "Dean of Valuation", Professor Aswath Damodaran, of NYU Stern School of Business, “And that’s the real big difference between the dot-com boom and bust and the AI boom. We don’t know whether there’ll be a bust. History suggests there will be a bust. The dot-com boom and bust had no huge capital expenditure in that cycle. In fact, there was very little traditional CapEx, or even R&D, driving it. People started apps. They basically started going on it. This has been the biggest infrastructure run-up I think I’ve ever seen in business. You can go back and compare it to the automobile business 100 years ago. The amount of money that’s being put into AI CapEx is immense, which means that when the correction comes, the pain will be more intense. And herein lies the second problem. The dot-com boom and bust was almost entirely equity-funded. You think, so what? Well, when the bust came, those shareholders lost 60%, 70%, 80%, or 90% of their money. You felt sorry for them, but the loss was restricted to the shareholders. The problem with the AI CapEx boom is that not only is it immense, but a big chunk of it is funded with debt, and the debt is coming from private capital rather than banks. There’s a very real chance that if there’s a correction and companies start having problems, that problem is going to show up as distress and default, and that really doesn’t stay restricted. It spills over into the rest of society. I’m not saying it’s going to be 2008, but 2008 is an example of what happens when lenders overreach, when they lend money at too low a rate, and the correction comes. The pain spills over. So that is my concern with this big market illusion: the potential societal cost of having to deal with debt coming due that you’re unable to pay. It’s much more painful than your share price dropping 90% and you feeling the pain." ---- From "Excess Returns" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's new interivew: Explains how the next AI moat will not be the model you use, but the learning loop only your company can run. He is really asking what happens to the firm when intelligence becomes something you can rent. For a century, companies protected value through people, processes, data, routines, customer memory, and the tacit knowledge buried in daily operations. Foundation models threaten to flatten that advantage because the same general intelligence can be used by everyone. Nadella’s answer is that firms need their own “hill climbing machine,” a private loop where models learn from company-specific tasks, traces, evaluations, and outcomes. That means the real asset is not just the model. The asset is the environment that keeps improving the model in ways competitors cannot copy. Private evals become strategic memory. Workflow traces become training signal. Human judgment becomes a way to steer compounding, not just correct mistakes. This also reframes AI adoption: a company that only consumes a foundation model may gain productivity, but it may leak the deeper value of its operating knowledge. A company that builds a disciplined learning loop can turn everyday work into accumulating IP. The future firm may therefore be measured by how well it converts its unique activity into durable model improvement. The frontier will not belong only to whoever owns the largest model. It will belong to whoever owns the best loop. ---- From "Stanford Online" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Aravind Srinivas just explained why China’s open-source AI may become more powerful than ever. And why Anthropic has lobbied very hard for export control. "the only reason why there is even a 12-month gap between open source and frontier models is export controls. But there is a chance that, because of that, they now get really good at the physical layer. One advantage they (China) have is that they can actually build data centers a lot faster. Power is not a problem. Permits are not a problem. People are not a problem. Labor is not a problem. Expertise is not a problem. And so, by forcing them to go out there and build all this, you are converting them into a far more potent competitor." --- From "20VC with Harry Stebbings" YouTube channel (Harry Stebbings ), link in comment
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"Anything that involves information, anything short of shaping atoms, AI can do 50% of all those jobs right now" - Elon Musk He says white-collar work goes first because it only manipulates information, not atoms. If a job is basically typing, clicking, researching, writing, analyzing or teaching on a screen, AI can do it. The shift will lag due to inertia, but competition will force faster adoption when AI-heavy firms outperform AI-light firms. And then humanoid robots will take most blue-collar jobs. Once machines can “shape atoms,” robots will do physical work in factories, logistics, maintenance, construction, and even run data centers. He expects far more humanoid robots than humans, initially scarce then plentiful, with the main bottlenecks being power, cooling, and materials, not software. --- Video from 'Peter H. Diamandis' YT channel (full link in comment)
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei : "Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free. The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false. But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that we've built for decades that may not be present. And, you know, I think we can deal with it. I think we can adjust to it. But I don't, I don't think there's an awareness at all of what, of what is coming here and the magnitude of it." --- From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)
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🦿Xpeng showed a humanoid robot called IRON whose movement looked so human that the team literally cut it open on stage to prove it is a machine. IRON uses a bionic body with a flexible spine, synthetic muscles, and soft skin so joints and torso can twist smoothly like a person. The system has 82 degrees of freedom in total with 22 in each hand for fine finger control. Compute runs on 3 custom AI chips rated at 2,250 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second), which is far above typical laptop neural accelerators, so it can handle vision and motion planning on the robot. The AI stack focuses on turning camera input directly into body movement without routing through text, which reduces lag and makes the gait look natural. Xpeng staged the cut-open demo at AI Day in Guangzhou this week, addressing rumors that a performer was inside by exposing internal actuators, wiring, and cooling. Company materials also mention a large physical-world model and a multi-brain control setup for dialogue, perception, and locomotion, hinting at a path from stage demos to service work. Production is targeted for 2026, so near-term tasks will be limited, but the hardware shows a serious step toward human-scale manipulation.
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Perplexity’s CEO Aravind Srinivas is pointing to a quiet shift in AI use: the valuable user is no longer the average user. A single power user can now consume as much compute as an entire small team. "There are real engineers at Meta and other companies spending around $10 million a year per engineer on these coding tools. There are users in Perplexity Computer, who spends upwards of $10,000 a month. Their business runs using agent loops that are running inside these harnesses. Even internally inside our own company, there are some people who have set up these kinds of multi-agent hierarchies and agent loops that look like their own software architecture. I often ask these people to come explain to the rest of the company, “Hey, what are you doing with these tools? You clearly are consuming them way more than what we thought the average person in the company would do.” --- The old software instinct was to chase a billion people doing small actions. Agentic AI changes that math because one skilled operator can create a stream of machine work that runs all day. ---- From "20VC with Harry Stebbings" YouTube channel ( Harry Stebbings ), link in comment
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AI is not going to replace human beings,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes 👨🏼💻🧢🇦🇺 speaking to Lukas Biewald on Weights & Biases’s podcast. And it definitely stayed with me. AI & agents are only going to enable us to do more, build more, and help humanity realize its full potential. #TLVCPartner
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