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This Week in AI659,110 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
"Big tech doesn't want to train people anymore. They're taking their 10x employees and making them 11x, 12x, 13x." - @jason This week's roundtable: 1. Kanjun Qiu Kanjun 🐙, CEO of Imbue, open source agents. 2. Jeremy Fraenkel Jeremy Fraenkel, CEO of Fundamental, large tabular models for enterprise data. 3. Karri Saarinen Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear, product development system for teams and agents. TWiAI Episode 14 out now
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"Nobody has actually lost their job to AI. They lost it due to the promise of AI." - Tanay Kothari Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month for compute. China is winning the open-source war. And the Pope just called for AI to be disarmed. This week we covered these topics and more with: - Erik Bernhardsson (Erik Bernhardsson) is running the GPU cloud powering it all at Modal. - Tanay Kothari (Tanay Kothari) is running $100M in marketing with two humans and a swarm of agents at Wispr Flow. - Richard Socher (Richard Socher) is building recursive self-improving superintelligence at Recursive and the future of AI search at You.com. They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 15, out now.
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"The iPhone will not be disrupted by AI at all" - Aravind Srinivas Aravind believes the better AI gets, the stronger Apple's position becomes. @jason Why? 1. Years of capacity already locked in for Apple Silicon. 2. Your data stays secure 3. People trust Apple as their digital passport This Week in AI Episode 10 is out tomorrow at 8 AM PT.
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"Any feature we release, a competitor could release within two weeks." Matan Grinberg (Factory) on why the moat isn't software anymore. dsa (LiveKit) on building the framework for voice, video, and physical AI. George Sivulka (@HebbiaAI) on what it takes to win in vertical AI. They join @jason on This Week in AI, Episode 11: 00:00 Intro & AGI debate 03:30 Factory: autonomy for software engineering 04:29 LiveKit: open source to ChatGPT voice 10:31 Hebbia: AI for capital markets 13:21 SpaceX-Cursor $60 billion deal breakdown 26:28 Moats in the age of vibe coding 38:10 Deterministic agents vs. open chaos 45:56 DeepSeek V4 01:05:23 OpenAI's spend problem 01:12:08 P-doom scores
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"Just because you're using a ton of AI doesn't mean you're producing good things." - Alex Finn Anthropic filed to go public. The layoff wave keeps rolling. Data centers are getting protested in middle America. And a single GPU now burns more power than ever, with energy about to become AI's hard ceiling. This week, we covered these topics and more with: - Naveen Rao (Naveen Rao), building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of compute at Unconventional AI. - Alex Finn (Alex Finn), building an AI agent for everyone at Henry Intelligent Machines (Henry Intelligent Machines). 7 moments worth your time: 0:00 Welcome back to This Week in AI 1:23 The AI cost panic: real, or just token maxing? 8:19 Surgeons vs. shotguns: how to actually use AI 17:16 How energy overtook chips as the cost of compute 20:13 The energy wall nobody is pricing in 24:31 AI's PR problem & the data center backlash 29:17 Data center taxes & the politics of AI upside 36:33 The Anthropic IPO & if the guests would buy They join alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 on This Week in AI Episode 16, out now. @jason
This Week in AI27,790 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
"The 1% aren't going to be able to just afford a G650. They're going to be able to afford a $10 million data center for themselves" - @jason This week's roundtable: 1. Anastasios Angelopoulos @ML_Angelopolous, CEO of Arena.ai. 2. Nick Harris Nicholas Harris, CEO of Lightmatter, photonic computing chips. 3. Philip Johnston Philip Johnston, CEO of Starcloud, building megawatt data centers in space. TWiAI Episode 13 out now: On YouTube
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“AI is going to create polarization of wealth; next, we are going to have the polarization of compute.” @jason would spend $250k instantly on a compute closet. It's not just about wealth inequality anymore. Nick Harris says the gap is compute. The 1% can build their own data centers and beat anyone on any knowledge task on the planet. Full episode:
This Week in AI33,039 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
$250k of investments in one minute Two guests showed @jason their OpenClaw projects live on This Week in Startups, and he offered them both $125k each! xiaoan shows how his project takes what Meta glasses see and completes actions using voice and OpenClaw. Vishnu (An Engineer's Log) built which allows you to launch an OpenClaw instance for just $4.00/month!
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"My kids are going to have access to the workforce equivalent of millions of people worth of labor at their fingertips” The AI infra buildout, AI in warfare, open source mania, and the future of labor with special guests: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos (Arena.ai), Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI), & @jason. 00:00 Welcome & Guest Introductions 02:22 Crusoe's Stargate partnership: 1.2GW campus 12:05 Qwen running on an iPhone in airplane mode 25:40 Crusoe Spark: modular data centers 36:51 Jevons Paradox & the $2M/month token bill 41:17 The coming labor crisis 55:51 Should you learn to code? 1:03:09 AI in warfare & the Dario debate Watch on on Apple: Watch on Spotify: Watch on YouTube:
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"You should really treat having your own agent as having your own child. It's not one-click automation, you're raising it." Demi Guo (Demi Guo ), CEO of Pika on why agents need taste, not just prompts. Lin Qiao (Lin Qiao), CEO of Fireworks AI on why 95% of the world's data is still locked inside enterprises and why open-source models are converging with frontier. They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 9: 00:00 Intro to Lin Qiao and Demi Guo 08:43 95% of private data locked in enterprises 16:03 The interface for creation is a human-like agent 22:07 The death of middle management 28:03 Taste, judgment, and why "slop" is the real risk 33:40 Agents aren't tools, they're children you raise 39:36 How close is open-source to frontier? 53:04 Agents as self-expression 63:17 Meta's Muse model goes closed-source
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"AI is going to be the last technological innovation. There's nothing beyond this." Naveen Rao is rethinking the computer from first principles to make compute more power efficient for AI at Unconventional AI. Trey Holterman is automating healthcare's referral black hole at Tennr. They get into AI beating ER doctors at diagnosis, recursive self-improvement, and the cult-like belief inside frontier AI labs. They join @jason on This Week in AI, Episode 12: 00:51 Intro to Naveen Rao & Trey Holterman 05:43 Tennr & the healthcare black hole 09:09 The radiologist that wasn't replaced 15:31 AI beats ER doctors 67% to 55% 20:16 Plaud Pin in the exam room 25:20 Epic & the FHIR protocol 34:21 Disrupting Epic with open source 37:20 Abridge vs Ambience scribe wars 42:06 Jack Clark on recursive self-improvement 53:41 $1.1T hyperscaler CapEx 1:04:53 Anthropic & the AI religion thesis
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"LM Arena is a cancer on AI. Labs have entire teams dedicated to hacking it." Edwin Chen (echen), CEO of Surge AI, on why the industry's favorite benchmark is broken and how Surge hit $1.2 billion in revenue without ever raising. Aravind Srinivas (Aravind Srinivas), CEO of Perplexity, on Apple's AI advantage, Claude Code economics, the endgame of coding, and Perplexity Computer. They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 10: 00:00 Intro to Aravind Srinivas and Edwin Chen 05:25 Edwin on Surge: School for AGI 10:47 What Apple's next CEO should do 21:20 "The iPhone is not getting disrupted by AI" 23:55 Bootstrapping Surge past $1B without raising 30:58 Claude Code as a loss leader 33:30 Are we in the endgame for coding? 41:34 30% headcount growth, 5x revenue 50:29 "People don't buy models, they buy products" 58:00 "LM Arena is a cancer on AI" 1:05:41 Model Council and orchestrating frontier models Full episode on YT, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts below: Perplexity Surge AI
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