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Jason, do you want to tell us about your

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new favorite podcast? Oh, it's so good.

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My feed is now because, you know, since

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cancel culture ended, Sachs, everybody

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uses the R word and the f word right

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now. My entire feed on Instagram is

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either gay or down syndrome or bulldogs.

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It's one of those three. And then I

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stumbled upon the Miss Thing pod,

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Miss Thing. And they do a bit called gay

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name, straight name. Here's gay name or

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straight name for David. This good news

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and bad news freeird. Here we go.

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>> Gay name or straight name?

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>> David.

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>> David to me is straight.

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>> Okay. But he has my perfect body. It can

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be confusing because I'm kind of like,

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are you gay? And it's like, no, I just

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want to be you, David.

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>> Totally. Well, it's so like the

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Michelangelo's David the male ideal.

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It's like incredible body kind of small.

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Sorry.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Oh,

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>> it's a little rough. [laughter]

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>> What?

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>> What are you watching there, Jal?

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>> They basically nailed these two, but

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okay, keep going.

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>> I don't think Chimoth is on their short

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list, but I know Jason will come up at

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some point.

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>> Gay name or straight.

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>> Maybe this is it.

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>> Chimoth

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on the count of three. Yeah.

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>> Three, two, one. gay. [laughter]

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I'm seeing like Italian sweater, like

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really kind of like a loud [laughter]

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vibrant sweater. He like wears it to

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like poker night with his like his boys

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and like not I'm not talking like

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straight poker. I'm talking like gay

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poker nights like at the bar.

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>> Yeah. Always talking about wine.

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>> Talks about wines.

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>> Always sort of like

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Yeah, exactly.

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>> Yep. Also, it's so like the guy at the

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gym taking off his shirt, taking

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selfies.

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>> Yeah. And everyone else is kind of like,

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"Excuse me, Chimoth. I'd like to use the

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mirror. [laughter]

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I'd like to see myself.

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>> See you at the next day." Poker night.

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>> Totally.

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>> You bring the wine. [laughter]

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>> We'll bring the sweater.

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>> Yeah,

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>> there it is. Wow. They did do.

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>> That is fantastic. That is fantastic. A

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shout out to my guys at the Miss Ding

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podcast.

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>> Wow, that was awesome. I think I'm gay.

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>> [laughter]

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>> I never knew. [music]

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>> Let your winners ride.

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>> And it said we open [music] sourced it

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to the fans and they've just gone crazy

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with it.

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>> What did you do like cameo? Did you pay

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them to do that?

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>> Did it for me as a favor. So they did it

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for

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>> That's awesome. Well, thanks to those

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guys to the miss. I've seen those guys

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before in clips. I find them very funny.

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[laughter]

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>> It's so great. Shout out to my guys.

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>> That was awesome.

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>> All right, everybody. Seriously, welcome

2:52

back to the number one podcast in the

2:54

world. It's the All-In podcast with me

2:56

again, David Freebergia, David Saxs, and

3:00

of course, I'm Jason Calcanis. You can

3:01

call me Jay Cal if you're here for the

3:03

first time. Topic one, open AI. They

3:07

missed their targets for chat GPT

3:09

Freedberg both on users and revenue.

3:13

Let's talk about it. The Wall Street

3:14

Journal says in a uh a breaking

3:18

investigative report on Tuesday that

3:21

OpenAI expected to hit 1 billion wows

3:24

weekly active users before the end of

3:26

2025. They missed that and they still

3:28

haven't hit the milestone 4 months into

3:30

2026. Also, Chamath, they missed their

3:33

2025 revenue target for Chad GPT. Exact

3:37

number wasn't specified, but as we've

3:39

talked about here, they're at a 2030

3:41

billion run rate. There's a little bit

3:43

of accounting nuance that is yet to be

3:46

worked out in the industry. Two reasons

3:48

why this matters. Sachs, OpenAI has $600

3:52

billion in spending commitments for

3:54

compute. Just to put that in

3:56

perspective, that's about what they're

3:58

trading for on secondary markets. In

4:00

other words, the entire value of the

4:01

Open AI enterprise equals their spend

4:04

commitments in the coming year. CFO

4:05

Sarah Frier, who is coming to liquidity,

4:08

is reportedly worried, hey, that revenue

4:10

isn't growing fast enough to keep up

4:13

with expense and OpenAI wants to IPO

4:16

later this year. This has put Frier and

4:19

Oughtman in conflict or uh maybe there's

4:22

some natural tension there. Frier

4:24

doesn't think OpenAI is ready for public

4:26

reporting standards. According to the

4:28

Wall Street Journal, Altman obviously

4:30

wants to move faster, so they released a

4:33

joint statement. this is ridiculous yada

4:35

yada yada. Let's go to you Saxs. What do

4:38

you think's going on here? Are these

4:39

major headwinds or is this just managing

4:41

expectations as the leader of the pack

4:44

in the most important race of our

4:46

lifetimes, the race towards super

4:48

intelligence?

4:49

>> Well, I actually have a little bit of a

4:51

contrarian take on this. I know that

4:53

OpenAI had a really bad week. Like you

4:55

said, they had that Wall Street Journal

4:57

article which said that they missed

4:58

their numbers. They missed their 1

5:00

billion user growth target. They missed

5:03

their revenue numbers. That's called

5:04

into question whether they can afford

5:06

the data center commitments that they've

5:08

made. And then in addition to that,

5:10

they've also had the lawsuit with with

5:12

Elon happening this week. So in the

5:14

press, it ended up being I think a

5:15

pretty bad week for them. But I have a

5:16

contrarian take on this, which is I

5:18

think that over the past week or two, if

5:20

you look at kind of what's happening at

5:22

the product level, it's been a pretty

5:23

good couple of weeks for them. They

5:25

released chat GBT 5.5 and the reviews

5:29

from, you know, people I talked to in

5:30

Silicon Valley have been really strong.

5:32

You talk to developers, coders, they're

5:34

very happy with it. At the same time,

5:37

Opus 4.7, which is the latest anthropic

5:40

release, appears to be a bust. People

5:41

are complaining about it. They're in a

5:43

lot of cases are rolling back to 4.6.

5:46

They're saying that Opus 4.7 is

5:48

rationing compute. It's reducing

5:50

thinking time, not as good. there were

5:52

some bugs and clawed. So if you just

5:55

compare chat GPT 5.5 to Opus 4.7, it

6:00

does appear that OpenAI has had a better

6:02

couple of weeks on a product level. And

6:04

I think there's reason to believe that

6:07

the product improvements will continue.

6:09

GPT 5.5 is based on a new base model

6:12

called Spud, which is the first base

6:15

model upgrade they've done in I don't

6:16

know over a year. and having a new base

6:18

model will pave the way for future

6:20

improvements as well. So I think OpenAI

6:23

is feeling pretty optimistic about their

6:25

product right now and I think you're

6:26

starting to see on X some of the

6:29

developer mojo is shifting. I'm seeing a

6:31

lot of people saying that they are

6:33

shifting their their coding usage from

6:36

Opus to GPT 5.5.

6:39

So I think that SAM may end up being

6:43

right but for the wrong reason. And what

6:46

I mean by that is that when he made

6:49

these big compute commitments, it was

6:52

based on those estimates of hitting the

6:54

billion users on the consumer side and

6:56

hitting those revenue targets. The

6:58

consumer business ended up being weak.

7:00

So they missed those targets. But in the

7:02

meantime, coding has become the

7:04

allimportant sector of AI. And because

7:09

they made all these compute commitments

7:11

and they built out these data centers,

7:13

they have more compute than anthropic

7:15

right now. Anthropic is token

7:17

constrained. It's reducing their ability

7:19

to serve mythos, for example. It's

7:21

causing them to engage in compute gating

7:23

with Opus 4.7. And I understand why

7:26

Daario made that decision. I'm not

7:27

saying I mean it was a prudent business

7:29

decision. I'm not criticizing him for

7:30

it, but I think again I think Sam may

7:33

end up being right here for the wrong

7:35

reason, which is he missed on consumer,

7:37

but enterprise is going gang busters and

7:40

is giving him the ability now, I think,

7:42

to catch up on code. your poly market

7:44

>> which is the all important market right

7:46

now

7:46

>> of course and we talked about gro and

7:48

cursor teaming up last week Elon and the

7:50

team over there poly market showing now

7:52

a 32% chance that openai goes public by

7:55

the end of 2026 this is down from 60% in

7:58

December and Shimath you gave a bit of a

8:01

warning hey there's only so many dollars

8:04

to go around SpaceX IPO is obviously

8:06

getting out first and now if openai

8:10

doesn't go out this year and anthropic

8:13

does the sets up an interesting dynamic.

8:14

What are your thoughts here generally

8:16

speaking about the massive commitment

8:19

that OpenAI has made? Are they going to

8:21

run off the cliff or will it wind up

8:24

being brilliant? Uh even if it wasn't

8:26

strategically for the exact reasons,

8:29

>> I think they're going to be fine. I

8:30

think this is a multi-t trillion dollar

8:32

company. I think Anthropic is a multi-

8:34

trillion dollar company. I think the

8:36

thing that's happening right now is uh a

8:39

complete misunderstanding

8:41

of what's actually happening

8:44

inside of the world of AI. And there is

8:46

one very specific choke point

8:49

that is constraining everything which is

8:50

access to the power that's necessary to

8:53

drive these tokens. To the extent that

8:55

open AI missed, I think what that is is

8:58

an insight to not enough compute

9:00

capacity today. And that problem is only

9:03

getting worse. You've already seen that

9:05

with Anthropic as well where they just

9:08

found a way to economically induce

9:11

Amazon to give them enough capacity so

9:14

that you don't have to route through

9:16

bedrock to get to the anthropic models.

9:19

You're also seeing them do

9:20

differentiated deals now with economic

9:23

participation on top of what they

9:25

already had from folks like Google to

9:26

give them more capacity. What is my

9:28

point? Everything in this market is

9:31

power constrained. The reason that these

9:34

folks may miss a number or a forecast

9:36

have nothing to do with demand. It is

9:39

entirely 100% due to the supply of the

9:43

power necessary to generate the output

9:44

token. There is a really interesting

9:46

thing that was just announced today that

9:49

will make this problem even worse, which

9:52

is what you're starting to see now is

9:55

backlogs build up of not just the access

9:59

to the power, but then the componentry

10:01

that's actually necessary. Not just

10:03

resips and not just NAT gas turbines,

10:05

but now you're talking about

10:06

transformers and all the actual tactical

10:08

grid infrastructure.

10:10

Why is this important? If you look at

10:13

the actual amount of gigawatts that are

10:16

under construction, we have a huge

10:18

mismatch now,

10:20

people have announced all these

10:22

projects, Jason,

10:24

but less than half of it is actually

10:26

being built. Less than half. Most of it

10:29

is stuck in red tape.

10:31

Most of that is because there are these

10:33

supply chain delays. So there's no

10:36

credible strategy to turn any of this

10:38

stuff on. Who will this hurt? It will

10:41

hurt Anthropic and OpenAI the most. Who

10:44

will this benefit? It will benefit the

10:47

hyperscalers, specifically Oracle,

10:49

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google. And

10:52

now what you're going to see is a

10:55

negotiation and a trade back and forth.

10:57

How much equity do I have to give up?

11:00

How much control do I have to give up to

11:01

get access to the compute versus how

11:04

badly will I miss my growth forecasts if

11:07

I don't? And now what that means is, and

11:09

we spoke about this last week, that's a

11:10

huge lane for Grock to just run through

11:13

and SpaceX to run through cuz they have

11:16

a ton of excess capacity. And so I think

11:19

the cursor deal was the appetizer. But

11:22

if I were Elon now, I'd be running all

11:24

over this market because if the models

11:27

catch up in quality, I think he could

11:29

also do something really crazy with

11:31

anthropic or open AI right now. Maybe

11:33

not open AI because of the

11:35

>> we'll get into the lawsuit in a bit

11:36

>> the baggage.

11:37

>> Yeah.

11:38

>> But man, he and Dario should do a deal

11:40

tomorrow.

11:41

>> So you're framing, hey, the the limited

11:44

resource here is compute. The demand is

11:47

off the charts.

11:48

>> No, the limiting resource is power.

11:50

power which then powers compute which

11:52

then provides tokens which then services

11:55

the massive uh developer and co-work and

11:59

all these other projects that consumers

12:01

and enterprises can't get enough of. Got

12:03

it.

12:03

>> And Jason, the other factor that

12:05

complicates that for anthropic and open

12:07

AI is all the stuff that's sort of

12:09

sitting around thumb twiddling. 40% of

12:13

that is going to get cancelled because

12:14

they've done such a poor job of creating

12:17

a good positive halo around AI that 40%

12:20

of all the announced projects get

12:22

cancelled because 40% of all projects in

12:25

the last four years have been cancelled.

12:28

Yeah. And there's there there are some

12:30

bad feelings about data centers, AI,

12:33

jobs, etc. And that's causing some

12:35

headwind. People are you literally doing

12:39

violent things in society and blaming

12:41

data centers and AI for it. I don't want

12:43

to give it too much air time. Freeberg,

12:45

what's your take on the chessboard we're

12:47

looking at here? Either through compute,

12:50

energy or through going public on a

12:53

business level, you know, the strategic

12:56

nature of capital, compute and energy

12:59

now playing a role in this massive

13:01

amount of demand. still a ball in the

13:04

air kind of game. BCG had this theory, I

13:09

think I talked about this once before,

13:10

called the rule of three where they've

13:12

shown time and again that any stable,

13:14

mature, competitive market evolves to a

13:18

4:21

13:20

ratio of market share for basically 90%

13:22

of the market. So there's a market

13:23

leader that has four times the market

13:26

share of the second place, that's two

13:28

times the market share of the third

13:29

place. This is the case in pretty much

13:30

every mature kind of competitive market.

13:33

So you can kind of think about AI

13:34

probably evolving into a consumer market

13:36

and an enterprise market. Open AAI, even

13:39

if they're not at a billion, they're

13:40

still at 900 million weekly users, which

13:43

is well ahead of whatever Claude is at.

13:46

I think Claude is like probably subund

13:48

million sacks, you may know. And then

13:49

Gemini is probably closer to them at 700

13:52

to a billion somewhere in that range.

13:54

Probably pretty neck and neck with open

13:56

AI. So, you know, the consumer market

13:59

looks like it's trending towards a chat

14:02

GPT/Google

14:04

fight for first place and second place

14:06

and then probably anthropic in third

14:08

place and maybe Elon emerges and takes

14:10

off enabled by his compute capacity and

14:13

then the enterprise market is a little

14:14

bit of a different story and that's its

14:16

own market which is kind of anthropic or

14:18

probably Google in the lead actually if

14:20

you look at all the vertex use. Google

14:22

claims that 75% of GCP customers are

14:26

active users of Vertex. So there's

14:29

probably a pretty sizable

14:32

market share that Google's captured on

14:33

the enterprise side as well. This is

14:34

also probably why Google stock has

14:36

absolutely ripped over the last couple

14:38

of months is they're literally in first

14:39

place or fighting for first place in

14:42

enterprise and consumer.

14:44

But I still think that there's a lot of

14:46

opportunity to Chimoff's point about the

14:48

compute and energy capacity constraints

14:50

in improving how we actually scale and

14:53

deploy models in both the enterprise and

14:56

the consumer setting. And it is such

14:57

early days and I just want to highlight

14:59

this paper that came out from MIT from

15:02

these two scientists and these guys

15:05

published a paper on pruning techniques

15:07

and neural networks. This paper showed

15:09

that you could actually reduce the size

15:10

of these networks by 90%.

15:13

And get the same accuracy out by pruning

15:17

very large models down to smaller

15:19

models. And then you can make a

15:20

selection on which model to run for

15:22

inference. And by doing this, you can

15:24

actually reduce inference costs by 10x.

15:27

You can get 10x the output per energy

15:29

unit that goes into the data center with

15:31

no loss of accuracy. And so it's a

15:34

really interesting call it algorithmic

15:35

technique that can be applied to the

15:38

existing large models to actually make

15:40

them much lower energy use. So if you

15:42

think about it, you're firing up a very

15:44

large model to answer a very simple

15:46

question. You can actually prune away

15:48

that model. Now this is probably going

15:51

to be the case in AI applications as it

15:54

is in traditional Google search. There's

15:56

a long tale of searches, but there's a

15:58

few searches that account for a large

16:00

percentage of search volume. It's like

16:02

what is the weather? What are the movies

16:04

times? You know, what's the stock price?

16:06

Like there's a certain set of things

16:08

that make up the bulk of consumer

16:10

energy. And there's probably a certain

16:11

set of things that probably make up the

16:12

bulk of coding output as well. And so if

16:15

you can get that 80% of searches or chat

16:18

interfaces or coding requests reduced

16:22

down through pruning techniques to

16:23

smaller models and then you have a whole

16:25

set of smaller models that can be called

16:26

dynamically and you reduce inference

16:28

cost by 90%. you can make much more use,

16:31

call it 10 times the use on data center

16:34

and energy capacity than we can today.

16:36

So I would argue that we're still in the

16:37

very early days of getting efficiency in

16:40

terms of output and tokens and we're

16:42

just in the very kind of early stage of

16:43

that which also unlocks the opportunity

16:45

for guys like Elon to reinvent how this

16:47

is done and potentially compete pretty

16:49

aggressively.

16:50

>> There are two ways to win. You could

16:51

throw compute at it or you can do SLM's

16:54

small language models and V SLM's

16:57

verticaliz small language model. So if

17:00

you had a verticalized small language

17:01

model for the weather, let's say that

17:03

doesn't exist, but uh you can you can

17:05

use it as an example. They will have one

17:07

for travel as an example. When you hit

17:09

Google for flight information, it's

17:11

obviously going to route you to

17:13

something lighter and faster that uses

17:15

Google flights. And Google flights has

17:16

been incor incorporated into Gemini.

17:19

Gemini now is right behind 700 750

17:23

million users

17:25

>> and it's exactly what we discussed I

17:27

don't know 18 months ago on this podcast

17:28

Freeberg that what if they put it at the

17:30

top

17:31

>> and what would that do to their search

17:33

revenue search revenue is surging and

17:37

they're also surging so they figured out

17:39

a way to balance those two competing

17:41

forces having search results that are AI

17:43

enabled and still getting people to

17:46

click on links they've done it

17:47

brilliantly apparently and the stock is

17:49

rewarding.

17:50

>> I'll just add one statement to what you

17:51

said, which is like you're using what I

17:53

would call a humanistic on

17:58

humans don't intuitively know what this

18:01

model is. It's not just a verticalized

18:02

model, but there are going to be models

18:05

that will be discovered through

18:07

automated pruning techniques that will

18:09

then be working in concert. So, lots of

18:12

small models that link together. And we

18:13

don't define each model by some human

18:15

heristic like this is a search travel

18:17

model.

18:18

>> This is a maps model. We don't we don't

18:20

know why these models work the way they

18:22

do when they get broken down. But I do

18:24

think that that's really where the

18:25

evolution is happening. So effectively a

18:27

model becomes a macro model. It's got

18:29

lots of smaller models underneath it

18:31

that can be dynamically called and that

18:33

allows you to have 10x the inference for

18:35

the same unit of energy.

18:36

>> Sax,

18:37

>> let me just build on your point about

18:38

Google. Jcal, I would say that if

18:40

there's a single reason why OpenAI did

18:44

not hit its user targets and its revenue

18:48

targets, certainly around consumer,

18:50

you'd have to say it's because Google

18:52

managed to take meaningful share, you

18:55

know, they were basically nowhere a year

18:58

or so ago. Sergey came out of

19:00

retirement, helped focus the company,

19:03

and like you said, they did a brilliant

19:05

job improving Gemini and putting it at

19:07

the top of search, incorporating it.

19:09

Now, that being said, again, I don't

19:11

think the news is all bad for OpenAI

19:13

because I do think that the 5.5 release

19:15

was great. We're hearing really good

19:17

things about Codeex. I do think that

19:19

Codeex is taking share in coding tokens

19:23

right now. And I just think we're in a

19:25

really interesting place where these

19:27

companies are constantly oneuping each

19:29

other. I mean, two weeks ago it looked

19:31

like Anthropic was going to be

19:32

completely dominant, right? I mean,

19:34

Anthropic was growing at 10x. Open AAI

19:36

was growing at 3x and it looked like

19:38

>> and then the servers started going down.

19:39

Did you see that this week? The server

19:41

going down. People were in my office

19:43

were complaining we can't get on claud.

19:45

>> Listen, competition brings out the best

19:47

in everyone. Anthropic forced open AI to

19:50

compete. Google's forced open AI to

19:52

compete in consumer. I just hope the

19:54

market stays competitive for as long as

19:55

possible. I do think that's what's best

19:57

for consumers, our economy, and for our

20:00

country overall. Let me just say one

20:03

other area where I think OpenAI had a

20:06

good week is in this red-hot area of

20:10

cyber. Obviously, Anthropic made a huge

20:13

splash with Mythos. It hasn't been

20:14

commercially released. Their compute

20:16

constraint, but as a proof of concept or

20:18

training model, it hit a new level of

20:20

capabilities with cyber. But now OpenAI

20:22

has released a new model called GPT 5.5

20:25

cyber which has just been through a

20:26

bunch of tests and they've shown this

20:29

was testing done by the AI security

20:31

institute that GPT 5.5 is the second

20:34

model to complete one of their

20:36

multi-step cyber attack simulations end

20:38

to end. So it has the same level of

20:40

capability as Mythos and it does appear

20:43

to be commercially

20:46

ready. You know, they've got the compute

20:47

to serve it. So I do think that that's a

20:51

big accomplishment. I mean, look, we

20:53

knew that other cyber models were

20:55

coming. It wasn't just going to be

20:56

Mythos. In fact, within 6 months or so,

20:59

all the Frontier models are going to

21:00

have Mythos level cyber capability. But

21:03

it's impressive that OpenAI got this GPT

21:07

5.5 cyber out. so quickly and I think

21:11

5.5 might be the first cyber model that

21:14

cyber defenders actually get to use

21:17

because again I don't think they're as

21:18

compute constrained as anthropic is

21:20

>> and this is an incredible opportunity

21:22

you know for the crowd strikes and

21:24

PaloAlto networks of the world both of

21:26

which have been on the program they come

21:29

out and they start attacking this space

21:31

man you could really

21:33

see everything get tightened up and this

21:37

could be an incredible revenue stream

21:39

for everybody who's got whether it's

21:41

cursor claude or open eye or Gemini.

21:44

This is an amazing opportunity to

21:45

tighten up as much as it is to get

21:48

attacked.

21:48

>> Can I make a point about that? Cuz look,

21:50

there is so much fear right now almost

21:52

the level of panic about mythos. People

21:54

are treating it like a doomsday weapon

21:56

or something like that. It's not. is

21:58

simply that the frontier models have

22:00

reached the point where they're capable

22:02

of automating cyber activities just like

22:05

they're capable of automating coding.

22:08

But that means that a model could power

22:11

up a cyber attacker or cyber defender

22:13

the same way they can power up a coder

22:16

and allow them to discover a lot more

22:18

vulnerabilities. So there is obviously a

22:20

risk there. But I think it's important

22:22

to understand that Mythos or GPT 5.5, it

22:26

doesn't create the vulnerabilities. It

22:28

just discovers them. The bugs were

22:30

already in the code. They were sitting

22:31

there waiting for some hacker to

22:33

discover. If we can now use AI to find

22:37

these bugs in advance, these

22:39

vulnerabilities and patch them, then you

22:41

actually harden our infrastructure and

22:44

and you harden our security. I also

22:46

believe that this leap from let's call

22:49

it preAI cyber to post AAI cyber it's

22:52

going to be I think a big one-time

22:53

upgrade cycle because again you're going

22:55

to find all these dormant bugs and

22:57

vulnerabilities but I think that once we

23:00

get past that upgrade cycle you're going

23:02

to reach a new equilibrium between AI

23:04

powered cyber offense and AI powered

23:06

cyber defense it's going to become a lot

23:08

more normal it's not going to feel like

23:10

this huge disruption which is to say I

23:12

think you know people are treating this

23:14

as like some existential threat. I don't

23:17

think it is as long as everyone does

23:18

what they're supposed to do, which is

23:19

use the new capabilities to harden their

23:22

code bases and infrastructure and

23:24

security before the hackers get a hold

23:25

of these capabilities.

23:27

>> Yeah. And if Chimath, if you were to

23:29

look at this to build on Sax's point,

23:32

there are about 5 million or so security

23:34

experts in the world. We talked about

23:36

token cost. 40 hours of tokens just

23:39

pounding it, you know, a week. You could

23:42

create another five million for a

23:44

hundred dollars per chief security

23:47

officer per security expert. So it's the

23:50

volume of security expert agent saxs to

23:52

your point. Yeah. You could have 50 50

23:55

million of them 100 million of them.

23:57

They're not finding something unique.

23:59

They're just they never sleep. They're

24:01

relentless in their pursuit of these

24:03

problems. It's a really great point.

24:05

>> Just kind of just refine that. So yeah,

24:06

there's probably 5 million people in the

24:07

cyber industry, but there's probably

24:09

only a few thousand really elite

24:10

hackers.

24:11

>> Sure,

24:12

>> those hackers didn't have the time to go

24:14

after the entire surface area of every

24:17

possible attack vector out there. And so

24:19

if you train a model to do what they do,

24:22

obviously, like you said, it can operate

24:24

with a scale and speed that a human

24:26

hacker can't. So obviously, you know,

24:28

what you need to do is get these tools

24:30

in the hands of the white hats, let them

24:33

do the cyber attacks themselves to then

24:35

find the vulnerabilities and patch them

24:37

before the black hats get a hold of

24:39

these capabilities. But I think it's

24:41

just just one last point on this, I'll

24:42

stop. It's just it's really important to

24:44

understand that the Chinese models are

24:46

going to have these capabilities within

24:47

approximately 6 months.

24:49

>> Oh, they have them now in Deep Seek 4

24:50

for sure. They've got some level. Well,

24:52

no. Deepc4, I mean, Dec 4 is impressive

24:55

in a lot of ways, but its capability is

24:57

not at the frontier. It's maybe 80 80

25:00

85%. Let's call it the American

25:02

frontier.

25:02

>> Chimoff, you wanted to get in on this.

25:03

Let's get Chim in.

25:04

>> Two things. The reason that this is even

25:08

possible is because humans are

25:10

errorprone and when humans code, they

25:12

create holes. And so, humans exploiting

25:15

humans is where we've been for a long

25:18

time. Now we have computers exploiting

25:20

humans because the computers go and seek

25:21

out all these bugs that humans wrote.

25:25

In the next phase it'll be machines

25:27

versus machines.

25:29

And so I think the nature of cyber is

25:31

going to completely change. Probably in

25:32

the next five or six years there'll be

25:34

so much reason to rewrite all of the

25:38

software that runs the world.

25:41

In one part because you're going to be

25:42

asked to show more operating leverage

25:44

and revenue growth, but in another part

25:47

because everything else that was

25:48

handmade in the past is just

25:50

fundamentally insecure. Either way, all

25:52

roads will lead to all the operational

25:54

software that runs the world will get

25:56

rewritten. More and more of it will be

25:58

written by machines. More and more of it

26:00

will be impregnable as a result. But

26:02

then the cyber threat actually will only

26:04

increase because then you're going to

26:06

try to figure out how to use a machine

26:07

to inject something into another machine

26:09

so that some agentic loop inject some

26:11

malware or injects a bad token. And I

26:14

think that's a very complicated thing.

26:16

What I will tell you is

26:18

I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to say

26:19

this, but

26:22

a very good probably the best cyber

26:24

security company in the world run by one

26:26

of the very best CEOs in the world who

26:29

may or may not be speaking at liquidity

26:31

[laughter]

26:32

would tell you that they have penetrated

26:36

and can essentially

26:39

manipulate every model. Let me just let

26:42

me just say it roughly that way.

26:43

>> Okay, perfect. Yeah. And I uh at the

26:46

breakthrough prize uh which three of the

26:47

four of us were at I talked to George

26:49

Kurtz the other person you were kind of

26:51

describing was not that

26:52

>> sitting beside Nash. Yeah I'm talking

26:54

about

26:54

>> Nash and George are the two guys leading

26:56

this Palo Alto Networks Crowd Strike and

26:59

they understand the what George told me

27:01

was there is just a line out the door of

27:03

people who want this product or service.

27:06

And if you look at it, Freeberg, like

27:09

the murder rate, like we're sitting here

27:11

with the lowest murder rate in the

27:12

history of humanity. It has gone down

27:15

massively in our lifetimes, but

27:17

massively over the arc of history. I

27:18

think that's what's going to happen with

27:19

cyber. There is only so many attack

27:21

vectors, and the remaining attack

27:23

vectors are just going to be human

27:24

factors, right, Freeberg? That's always

27:26

been the case. And as we make the

27:28

software more resilient, then the the

27:31

weak link is, you know, the secretary

27:33

who puts her post-it note, you know,

27:36

with the password there or the

27:38

accountant who, you know, uses their

27:40

dog's name plus one, two, three for

27:42

their password, right? That's the the

27:44

historical one. Okay, let's any anything

27:46

you want to add, Free Bird, as we wrap

27:48

there? Oh, that's

27:49

>> Why is your bed so messy, by the way?

27:50

Why can't you just ask the room service

27:52

to come in?

27:52

>> Listen, I'll tell I can tell you what

27:54

happened. Listen, I'm here in Atlanta.

27:55

And also, why don't you have a suite

27:57

like where there's two rooms? Like, is

27:58

it just one room? This hotel only has

27:59

one.

28:00

>> It's just one room. [laughter] Yes.

28:01

>> You know, either you're cheap or poor.

28:03

Which one is it? I'm cheap. Here's I'll

28:06

tell you what. [clears throat] Here's a

28:07

situation. I'm in Atlanta for the Knicks

28:09

game tonight.

28:09

>> You're in one room.

28:10

>> Here's what I do. I just want to explain

28:12

to you value for value. Some people

28:13

spend their money on private jets and

28:15

they spend $30,000 flying to Atlanta. I

28:18

spend 30,000 on courtside seats. I don't

28:20

want the suite. I want to put it into

28:21

the seat side.

28:23

>> You can do both. I guess I could do

28:24

both, too. I don't I'm I'm in the

28:26

process of becoming

28:28

>> I don't understand

28:29

>> of embracing my richness. Okay.

28:31

>> If you've already convinced yourself

28:32

that you should spend $30,000 for

28:35

courtside tickets, which I think is

28:37

outrageous, but okay. You've already

28:38

convinced yourself like 10k each, but

28:40

yeah. Yeah.

28:40

>> A hotel room that has two rooms. Okay.

28:44

>> Probably cost 15% more than what you're

28:46

paying.

28:46

>> It's 2x, but yes, you're right.

28:48

>> I'll get the I'll get the hotel room. 20

28:50

or 20% more, but you room like 200 bucks

28:53

a night. So you pay 400 a night. You get

28:54

another hotel.

28:55

>> I mean it's it's Atlanta. The most I'm

28:57

in the best hotel the most expensive

28:58

hotel is 500 a night in Atlanta. It's no

29:00

big deal. But everything's sold out

29:02

because all the Knicks people are coming

29:03

here.

29:03

>> So you're selling me double that would

29:04

have been a thousand and you couldn't

29:05

spend,000.

29:06

>> Everything is sold out because the

29:08

Knicks are here.

29:08

>> So we have to look at your dirty beds.

29:10

>> It's gross.

29:11

>> The bed's not that dirty. Come on. Just

29:13

deal with it. Okay. Take it out and

29:14

post.

29:15

>> I have a private jet story about flying

29:17

to Atlanta.

29:20

>> You reminded me. Okay. So yeah, there

29:22

was some event there. So I I flew my

29:23

team there, you know, there's a few

29:26

people on my plane and it's kind of a

29:28

long flight. Was it like 4 hours or

29:29

something

29:30

>> from the back? Yeah.

29:31

>> Yeah. So I went in the back to to sleep.

29:34

Well, first, you know, we we started the

29:35

flight and I had a few bottles of Papy

29:37

Van Winkle on on the plane. And so we

29:40

started off with like a drink and then I

29:42

went in the back and and fell asleep and

29:43

I woke up basically when we landed.

29:45

>> So I come out and like all three bottles

29:47

are basically cashed of like [laughter]

29:49

Happy Van Wink.

29:50

>> Oops. Those were like two grand a

29:52

bottle.

29:53

>> No, no, they're more. These were like

29:54

antique bottles. Like one of them was

29:56

>> I have one of those from your plane. I

29:57

have one of those from the old Falcon.

29:58

Yeah.

29:59

>> Yeah. They were like these vintage

30:01

>> $4,000. I remember. Yeah.

30:03

>> Anyway, you can't even find this

30:04

anymore. So these guys, they asked me

30:07

like when we land like, "Hey, Sax, how

30:09

much did it cost for you to fly us to

30:12

this event?" And I said, "Well, about

30:14

$8,000 in jet fuel and about $12,000 of

30:17

Happy [laughter] Van Winkle."

30:20

Well, you gota you got to fuel the the

30:22

vibes as well as the plane. It's uh

30:25

>> Is Atlanta nice? I've never really

30:27

>> Do those people still work for you or

30:28

are they are they uh [laughter]

30:31

>> they called in Atlanta? Um is Atlanta

30:33

nice? Listen, last year I went to the

30:34

Detroit games and that city was on the

30:36

rebound. Atlanta has an incredible

30:37

opportunity to rebound. I'll say it that

30:40

way. There's a great opportunity for

30:42

them to upgrade the city. I I went to

30:44

Waffle House at midnight last night.

30:46

There was no shootings. Okay, let's keep

30:47

moving. By the way, do you get royalty

30:49

points at the Best Western Atlanta or

30:51

No, [laughter]

30:52

>> I get double points because I use my

30:54

Best Western uh Visa card. Yeah, it's

30:56

everywhere you want it to be. All right.

30:59

Use the promo code Jcal and get a

31:01

thousand extra points. In other Open AI

31:04

news, Musk versus Alman, the trial of

31:08

the century or maybe the decade has

31:11

started. Elon is of course accusing Open

31:13

AI of breach of charitable trust, unjust

31:15

enrichment. He's accusing Open AAI of

31:18

essentially flipping a nonprofit into a

31:21

for-profit. He's seeking 150 billion in

31:23

damages that they revert back to a

31:25

nonprofit that Alman and Brockman be

31:28

removed. And there were some fireworks

31:30

between Elon and the Open AI lawyers.

31:32

Elon kind of leveled up the discussion.

31:34

He said, quote, "If we make it okay to

31:37

loot a charity, the entire foundation of

31:39

charitable giving in America will be

31:42

destroyed. That's my concern."

31:44

Obviously, there's a ton of interesting

31:47

nuances here. Specifically, Greg

31:49

Brockman keeping a diary where he was

31:52

journal maxing his plans uh like a Bond

31:55

villain here. And uh the excerpts from

31:59

his diary include conclusion, we truly

32:02

want the BC Corp. The true answer is

32:04

that we want Elon out. If 3 months later

32:07

we're doing BCorp, then it was a lie.

32:09

Can't see us turning this into a

32:11

forprofit without a nasty fight. I'm

32:13

just thinking about the office and we're

32:15

in the office and this story will

32:16

correctly be that we weren't honest with

32:19

him. In the end, it's still about

32:20

wanting a for-profit just without him.

32:22

yada yada yada. Freeberg, your thoughts

32:24

on this case? Is Elon going to win? I

32:27

just don't know why Greg Brockman's got

32:29

a freaking diary where he's like

32:31

literally documenting. I mean, I love

32:33

the guy, but what the is he

32:34

thinking? Like, you're just sitting here

32:36

at home and like, let me write about the

32:38

the crime I'm committing or let me write

32:40

like and let me record it. And by the

32:42

way, let me never delete it. I don't

32:44

understand this.

32:45

>> It's not just journal maxing. It's

32:47

discovery maxing. [laughter]

32:49

>> It's smoking gun maxing.

32:51

>> I don't get it. I don't get it, man.

32:54

>> I mean, do you guys remember from the

32:57

wire in that scene where the guy's like,

33:00

"Is you taking notes on a criminal

33:02

conspiracy?" [laughter]

33:04

He's got everybody in the room. Can we

33:06

play that clip? It's like,

33:08

>> "What are you doing, Greg? is you

33:10

taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?

33:14

What the is you thinking, man?

33:16

>> If you're going to commit a crime, you

33:18

do not write down the date and time of

33:21

the crime in your journal.

33:23

>> Well, look, we don't know it's a crime.

33:24

Let's not.

33:25

>> Okay, sure.

33:27

>> A crime, but yes, you keeping

33:30

shenanigans. Jamat, do you keep a diary?

33:32

>> What do you think, Juel? Do you keep a

33:34

diary?

33:35

>> I I believe ruminate. [laughter] No,

33:38

I'll tell you right now, rumination is

33:40

the path to unhappiness. Nobody gives a

33:43

about your feelings. Writing your

33:44

feelings down is only going to make you

33:46

miserable. Talking to your spouse about

33:48

your feelings.

33:50

>> Just go to a beautiful dinner, sit

33:52

courtside at the next, and do what I've

33:54

been doing for 30 years.

33:56

maxing.

33:57

maxing. And the register goes up.

34:00

All you have to do is work. Start new

34:02

projects. Nine out of 10 foul. Place

34:04

nine out of 10 bets. One wins and you're

34:06

golden. Go sit courtside at the Knicks

34:08

game.

34:09

>> Keep going. Life's too short.

34:10

>> And just keep moving forward. Don't

34:12

write anything down. Period. Full stop.

34:15

>> It's good advice. Yeah, I just The

34:17

biggest surprise to me was this guy's

34:18

got a diary. I just I don't know anyone

34:20

that has a diary. I've never heard of

34:21

this. So anyway, that was shocking.

34:24

Besides that, I have no view on what's

34:26

going to happen with the case or what

34:27

the judge will do.

34:28

>> I have no comment on the case either. I

34:30

think it's weird that Poly Market hasn't

34:33

budged even as all of this discovery has

34:35

been published. It's effectively at 42

34:37

or 43% that Elon wins. So, one of the

34:41

friends in our group chat said what may

34:44

just happen is that Elon technically

34:45

wins and he's just credited back the $40

34:48

million. And so, maybe that's what this

34:51

poll is front running.

34:54

But on a totally separate note, I think

34:56

Jason, I know you say it as a joke, but

34:59

this idea of just keep moving forward,

35:02

don't ruminate, I think is very good

35:03

general life advice for everybody to

35:06

follow.

35:06

>> The modern-day therapy industrial

35:09

complex and the medication industrial

35:11

complex, I believe, is

35:14

>> around rumination. Well, it does pivot

35:15

around rumination.

35:16

>> Yes.

35:17

>> That is the gateway drug to all these

35:18

things.

35:19

>> Yep. Talk about your problems.

35:21

You know, when these people go to

35:22

therapy, you ever hear these people?

35:23

Howard Stern's like, "I've been in

35:24

therapy with the same person 2 or three

35:25

days a week for 40 years." I'm like,

35:27

"Okay, what's the incentive for the

35:28

therapist to stop charging you $1,200 an

35:31

hour? There is none." Then they lose a

35:33

revenue stream. They lose a customer.

35:34

It's all a giant fraud. Facts.

35:37

Uh, in terms of this case,

35:38

>> I wouldn't go that far. I do think that

35:40

there's a lot of value in kind of

35:42

untying some of these Gordian knots that

35:44

people have because of how they grew up.

35:47

But there's a difference between that

35:49

and being specific and just randomly

35:51

ruminating cuz I don't think there's a

35:53

lot of productive.

35:53

>> You've got an acute issue like in trauma

35:57

in your life. Yeah, sure. Unpack it,

35:59

figure it out. I'm just talking about

36:00

this neverending self-improvement,

36:03

you know, ruminating thing. Uh but

36:05

getting back on topic here, Saxs,

36:09

what's the And we're we're talking about

36:11

a jury, I believe, in Oakland.

36:13

>> No, but it's a bench trial. This is

36:14

important. It's a bench trial where the

36:16

jury is advisory in capacity,

36:19

>> but ultimately that judge, she will make

36:21

the final call

36:22

>> and she'll do the damages. And so, is

36:25

this a case sacks of like we've got a

36:28

Bay Area jury judge and we've got Elon

36:33

who's considered, you know, a bit

36:35

right-wing and people don't all agree in

36:37

that area in terms of his politics. And

36:39

then you have this Sam Alman New Yorker

36:42

story and people finding out that so

36:45

many different people feel they got

36:47

screwed by him. You put these two things

36:48

together, it's impossible to handicap

36:50

where this turns out. Sachs, your

36:52

thoughts?

36:53

>> Well, yeah, I don't think this is about

36:55

politics. I mean, I guess you could

36:58

argue that what Elon is seeking, which

37:01

is to protect the charity, is if

37:03

anything a left-coded sort of principle,

37:06

although I don't really think it's left

37:07

versus right. Look, I don't want to take

37:09

sides on this trial. I'm just watching

37:11

like everyone else. The last time I

37:12

weighed in on some Elon litigation, I

37:16

got deposed for six hours. Remember

37:18

that? Cuz they just assume that somehow

37:20

I know something,

37:21

>> right?

37:21

>> I've never talked to Elon about the

37:22

case. I don't know anything about it.

37:24

>> Yeah.

37:25

>> I'm going to see what happens like

37:26

everyone else. Now, one thing I I will

37:29

say having just read some of the

37:31

coverage is that apparently the company

37:35

at some point did offer Elon shares in

37:38

the company, but he thought that there

37:41

was something kind of icky about it. Do

37:43

you remember this that

37:44

>> Yes. Because at at one point I said on

37:46

our show when this dispute started

37:49

happening but before it became a court

37:50

case I said look if Open AAI at a

37:53

certain point decided they had the wrong

37:54

structure they should just gone and done

37:56

a make right with Elon and he should

37:59

have been a shareholder on the cap

38:00

table. What I didn't know is that

38:02

apparently they did try to do something

38:04

like that but Elon turned it down

38:06

because he did want the entity to remain

38:10

a charitable entity. In other

38:13

>> had a principled view of it according to

38:15

the reports and was like no we're trying

38:17

to save humanity and then you're giving

38:20

this keys to the kingdom to Microsoft

38:21

that's all come out

38:24

>> and I I also have not talked to Elon

38:26

about any of this but my guess is like

38:30

most of these things there'll be some

38:32

sort of settlement or something here but

38:34

maybe he takes it to the mat who knows

38:36

Judge Rogers who's doing this

38:38

61-year-old Obama appointee politics has

38:42

played a role. Saxs, they have had to

38:44

tell the jury like however you feel

38:45

about these individuals politically,

38:47

whatever, please put that aside. But of

38:49

note is that she oversaw the Epic Games

38:51

versus Apple trial over App Store

38:54

exclusively ruled in favor of Apple with

38:56

some caveats um that they don't have a

38:59

monopoly, etc., etc. So, this is going

39:02

to be a really interesting one. And I

39:04

think the worst case scenario is open AI

39:07

for for OpenAI is they have to unravel

39:09

this somehow and that would delay the

39:12

IPO. That would cause chaos in

39:14

shareholders and I guess the best case

39:16

is some sort of settlement. And if Elon

39:19

put the first 40 or $50 million in, he's

39:21

he's due 10 20 30% of the company after

39:24

dilution.

39:26

All right, let's keep moving through the

39:27

docket. Lots more to discuss and uh good

39:30

luck to everybody in their lawsuit and

39:31

those of you betting on market all-in

39:34

summit selling up fast. Our fifth

39:37

edition Los Angeles September 13th to

39:39

15th. Go to allin.com/events

39:41

and uh speakers are going to be top

39:43

tier. Apparently Freeberg is having this

39:47

as his major creative outlet. I heard

39:49

some back channel chimoff today that

39:51

he's going to be doing Broadway musical

39:55

uh illusionist. tap. I got a tap dancing

39:58

situation.

39:59

>> He's literally going fullon entertainer.

40:02

This is going to be vaudeville sachs

40:05

wrapped up. He's just going to take it

40:07

to a whole new level. Musical numbers

40:10

>> like Nathan Lane.

40:12

>> I think if you're coding that it's going

40:15

to be his big gay summit. Yes, it could

40:17

be a big gay summit.

40:19

>> Might be our last year in LA, guys.

40:22

>> Why?

40:23

>> Not might be.

40:24

>> Might be. Oh, everybody wants to go to

40:25

Vegas apparently.

40:28

Those bones, baby. Can you imagine

40:31

leaving the summit for lunch and going

40:33

and playing crabs? Jimoth, we get a

40:35

fresh. Yes, I can. Yes, I can imagine.

40:39

>> I got some bricks. Oh, I got some bricks

40:41

right here. Let's go. Yum, yum.

40:44

>> That way Sachs can come.

40:46

>> Yeah, [laughter] Sax is like, I'm never

40:48

setting foot in California, but I will.

40:52

You know, we're doing a couple live

40:53

events. Are you coming to them?

40:54

>> Liquidity or something different?

40:56

>> Liquidity. And then there's the the

40:57

all-in summit happens in September.

40:59

>> Yeah, I'm going to do those, too.

41:00

>> All right. Big tech smashed their

41:02

earnings on Thursday. Google, Microsoft,

41:05

Amazon, and Meta all reported. I don't

41:07

know why they do this on the same night,

41:09

folks, but they do. And performance was

41:11

spectacular. It was great. However, the

41:14

capex announcements were really the

41:19

story here. Let me just cue this up and

41:23

show the chart.

41:25

$725 billion in capex guidance in 2026

41:30

from but four companies. Amazon,

41:32

Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Amazon

41:34

leading the pack with 200 billion, 190

41:37

billion each for Microsoft and Google,

41:38

145 billion for Meta. You add Grock, you

41:42

add OpenAI and some other players to

41:45

these plans. And we haven't heard from

41:46

the new Apple CEO yet, but he's going to

41:48

be taking over. And he's going to have

41:50

some plans here. I'm sure we are going

41:53

to see the large a trillion dollars a

41:55

trillion dollars in buildout over the

41:57

next year. I don't know if this is even

41:58

possible, but this is all being driven

42:02

by AI and cloud computing. Google Cloud,

42:06

which includes the Google Suite, that

42:08

grew 63% year-onear.

42:11

Let that number sink in. 63% on 20

42:14

billion in revenue. That's in a quarter.

42:16

Microsoft cloud, that includes Azure,

42:18

Windows Server, SQL Server, they bundled

42:20

some things together there to get the

42:22

number to go up. Uh that grew 30% on

42:25

34.7 billion in revenue. Amazon Web

42:28

Services, the original cloud, that grew

42:31

28% on 37.6 billion in revenue. That's a

42:34

bit of a pure play. Just counts Amazon's

42:37

web services. Obviously, these are all

42:39

moving to NeoClouds. These are all

42:41

serving AI jobs and tokens now. They

42:44

have a massive customer base and the

42:46

customers from the smallest startups all

42:48

the way to the biggest frontier models

42:49

cannot get enough compute and it is

42:52

going to the bottom line. But this is

42:54

shrinking Chimath cash flow massively.

42:57

These were free cash flow machines, the

43:00

largest money printing machines in the

43:02

history of humanity. But they are giving

43:05

up on free cash flow, stock buybacks and

43:07

dividends and the focus on those three

43:11

to invest in infrastructure. Amazon's

43:13

free cash flow down 97%

43:16

Google, Microsoft and Meta down 12, 12

43:18

and 8% respectively. your thoughts on

43:21

this free cash flow, the end of the free

43:23

cash flow deluge and the massive massive

43:27

investment we're seeing in capex.

43:30

I think we're seeing a very important

43:33

structural shift in the capital markets.

43:36

I think the last 20 or 30 years, well 20

43:39

years, it's been that the mag 7 just

43:42

kind of ran away with it. that these big

43:45

companies got bigger and bigger and it

43:47

absorbed all of these investment dollars

43:49

and the biggest reason was that it had

43:52

these very assetike business models,

43:55

right? You just built some more software

43:56

and it just has all this leverage and it

43:58

all just kind of worked except maybe for

44:00

Amazon cuz they needed physical

44:01

infrastructure for warehouses and

44:03

delivery and whatnot. But by and large

44:04

it was a very asset light investment

44:07

cycle. Now all of a sudden the pendulum

44:09

is swinging violently in the other

44:11

direction. And there's something that I

44:13

think people misunderstand which is as

44:15

it moves back to these asset heavy

44:18

infrastructure investments.

44:22

The hyperscalers are signing checks that

44:25

I mean I suspect their body can cash but

44:27

there's a world in which they can't.

44:29

I'll give you an example. You know when

44:31

Microsoft convinced the owners of three

44:33

Mile Island to turn their

44:37

>> nuclear site back on?

44:38

>> Yeah.

44:39

>> Do you know what their Ford purchase

44:41

agreement was? It was for more than 2x

44:43

the prevailing spot rate for energy.

44:45

More than 2x. The problem is that's not

44:47

for an enormous percentage of their

44:50

overall energy needs.

44:53

So if you play that out and you think

44:56

these five or six companies all of a

44:58

sudden are not just spending Jason 700

45:01

billion a year of capex which they are

45:05

but then from an operating cash flow

45:07

they're going to be spending 2x the

45:09

prevailing spot rate because they just

45:11

want guaranteed demand into the future.

45:15

Where's all this cash going to go? It's

45:18

not going to go

45:20

to the shareholder and it's not going to

45:22

stay on the balance sheet. These

45:24

companies will now get levered. They're

45:26

going to get highly sophisticated around

45:29

the financial engineering. They'll have

45:30

more debt. They'll have all kinds of

45:33

different vehicles and term loans and

45:35

revolvers and all of this stuff.

45:37

And so, they're going to look like this

45:39

big bulky industrial business in five

45:41

years. And I'm not sure that there's a

45:44

good valuation case to be made at that

45:46

point.

45:47

And so I think it may be simpler and

45:50

this is what I tweeted to just follow

45:52

the dollars like a trillion dollars a

45:55

year going out of the hyperscalers.

45:57

Where is it going? Just follow those

45:59

dollars and buy those companies because

46:00

those companies are already underpriced.

46:03

This is uh obviously reminiscent of

46:05

something we all experienced. Uh Nick,

46:07

can you pull up the Cisco chart I just

46:08

sent you and put it at max? uh we had a

46:11

massive buildout of the infrastructure

46:14

of the internet in the late 1990s and

46:17

into 2000. And what that caused was a

46:20

lot of aggressive companies to do

46:21

massive amounts of spending, a lot of

46:23

retail investors to embrace these stocks

46:25

like we're seeing with people trying to

46:28

get into these private companies and

46:30

saxs. Look at the 2000 peak of Cisco.

46:33

This is the most extraordinary chart

46:35

ever. It took them 25 years to get back

46:37

to that peak and uh they had a lost two

46:41

decades and we had a massive amount of

46:44

fiber that wound up getting bought. We

46:45

talked about that a couple years ago on

46:47

the program. But there's something for

46:48

you to build off of here when you look

46:50

at this massive infrastructure. You

46:52

think it's going to be Cisco systems all

46:54

over again, World Warcom, etc.?

46:55

>> No, I really don't. The issue we had in

46:58

2000 was dark fiber. You had all this

47:00

infrastructure being built out and it

47:02

wasn't being used. There's no dark GPUs

47:05

today as you know Brad Gersonner likes

47:07

to say. So what's driving the capex now

47:11

is the voracious demand for compute for

47:15

tokens and the demand is now pulling

47:19

forward this additional um investment in

47:22

infrastructure. So I think what's

47:25

happened here is that the bull thesis

47:26

for AI just got validated in a single

47:30

afternoon. I mean again you got

47:31

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon

47:34

AWS, Meta, they're all basically

47:37

exceeding expectations, exceeding

47:39

guidance in terms of where their cloud

47:42

revenue would be and therefore how much

47:44

they're going to reinvest in capex this

47:47

year. I think we were supposed to have

47:48

660 billion of hyperscaler capex up from

47:52

350 last year. I think there's now the

47:54

new estimate is it's going to be over

47:55

700. So this is you know again it's more

47:58

than 2% of GDP. This is a huge tailwind

48:00

to GDP. There's another article saying

48:02

that I think in the last quarter

48:05

AI was 75% of GDP growth. And by the

48:08

way, this is just the capex part. This

48:10

is the physical infrastructure. This is

48:12

not the economic impact of the tokens

48:14

that are generated inside the token

48:16

factory. This is the building of the

48:18

factories. How do those tokens get used?

48:20

like we're seeing they're being used not

48:23

just to do research or to answer

48:25

questions but to create code. And so

48:29

we're seeing this explosion of

48:31

productivity in software development.

48:33

And we're seeing an explosion of bespoke

48:36

software being created and that's going

48:38

to accelerate every part of the economy.

48:40

Every business that now wants to get

48:42

code will be able to get code for the

48:44

first time. Before they couldn't even

48:45

hire the engineers, they needed to

48:47

generate it. Now they will be able to.

48:49

So that is a huge unlock of productivity

48:52

across the economy. Then you're getting

48:54

into these new use cases like the the

48:56

co-working use cases and agents, right?

48:59

So the the workflow automations that are

49:01

happening, it's still early. I don't

49:04

believe that this is going to replace

49:05

humans. We had that um in the past week,

49:06

we had that crazy case of an agent

49:09

deleting a production database in 9

49:11

seconds because because of a bug. Look,

49:13

what that said to me is that

49:16

>> it's not that agents aren't valuable.

49:18

They are valuable, but they have to be

49:19

supervised. You know, this idea that

49:21

you're just going to be able to like

49:22

automate all the jobs away. It is a

49:24

massive amount of handwaving over the

49:27

real technical problems and issues. The

49:29

agents have to be supervised. Someone

49:31

has to be accountable. It's not going to

49:33

be the CEO. The CEO doesn't want to be

49:35

accountable for thousands of agents. You

49:38

need people

49:38

>> despite what Jack had block said.

49:40

>> Yeah. Thousand direct reports is a great

49:43

like goal, but it's not realistic. Yeah,

49:46

>> you need IT people who are savvy who can

49:49

supervise this and make sure it's

49:50

working. They have to be accountable to

49:51

the CEO. Someone has to drive the

49:53

productivity. It's like Bology always

49:56

said, AI is not end to end is middle to

49:58

middle. You have to have someone to do

49:59

the prompting and you have to have

50:00

someone to do the validating and I would

50:02

add the supervision and accountability.

50:04

So anyway, the larger point though is

50:06

I'm speaking to the fact that I don't

50:08

think there's going to be this huge job

50:10

loss associated with this productivity

50:12

boom that we're going to get. And in

50:13

fact, I think what's actually happening

50:15

now is that AI is becoming synonymous

50:18

with the American economy. I mean, the

50:20

fact that it's generating 75% of GDP,

50:23

you have this capex explosion, this

50:26

energy explosion that feeds it, and

50:28

again, just the beginning of the

50:31

applications that are being unleashed by

50:33

these new token factories. I think it's

50:35

all a very, very positive thing. and all

50:38

these doomers who are trying to throw a

50:40

wet blanket on it or constantly scaring

50:43

the daylights out of people. I mean,

50:45

what do they want the American economy

50:47

to do? Just to stop I mean, they just

50:49

don't want any progress. I mean, like

50:51

again, you know, when you talk about

50:52

stopping AI or halting AI progress? What

50:55

you're really doing is stopping the

50:57

American economy now. You're basically

50:59

saying you don't want economic growth.

51:01

AI is now synonymous with the growth of

51:04

the American economy. And if there's no

51:06

economic growth, there's not gonna be

51:07

money to pay for all the social

51:08

programs. There's not gonna be money to

51:09

pay down the national debt. There's not

51:11

gonna be money to basically build up our

51:13

national defense. All these things we

51:14

want to spend money on. We have to have

51:16

a vibrant economy. And that is now

51:19

synonymous with AI. So I know that AI

51:21

may not be popular. I see those polls.

51:23

But having a strong economy is popular.

51:26

And I believe that those things are now

51:28

synonymous. It's almost like there was

51:30

some architect or ZAR who set up the

51:33

chessboard in the first year of this to

51:35

make sure that it was ultra competitive.

51:38

>> President Trump set the table on this.

51:39

>> Absolutely. With some good advice, I

51:41

think. Maybe.

51:42

>> Freeberg, your thoughts?

51:43

>> It's always good to have good advisors.

51:45

>> Always good to have good advisors.

51:46

Absolutely. Absolutely.

51:47

>> No, but look, I've said it before. The

51:49

president just wants America to win.

51:50

>> Literally, there are people who if we

51:52

were looking at this, you know, I don't

51:54

know, a hundred years ago, it'd be like

51:56

people were like, "Yeah, you know what?

51:57

we shouldn't build the highway system or

51:58

we half built the highway system. Let's

52:00

stop let's stop building the highways.

52:02

>> No, the highway system was funded by the

52:04

federal government. There was no

52:05

competition. It was the most expensive

52:07

on a on a inflationadjusted basis. I

52:10

think it was the most expensive project

52:11

in US history.

52:13

>> Yeah. And the railroads before that like

52:15

you can't stop these things. They have

52:17

to keep going. It's interesting point

52:20

you know there is so much demand for the

52:22

resource of tokens of intelligence

52:24

freeberg and it's quite different than

52:26

the fiber situation as Sax correctly

52:28

points out where we [snorts] built all

52:30

this but we didn't actually have an

52:32

application here the application is

52:34

pretty um pretty wellnown and you've got

52:37

a large number of people in businesses

52:39

who are trying to vibe code their way to

52:42

success trying to push this stuff and we

52:45

had an interesting story referenced

52:46

earlier in the show

52:48

where

52:50

uh Claude ate somebody's homework. This

52:52

is the nightmare of all nightmares.

52:55

Somebody was vibe coding. Uh it was the

52:57

founder of Pocket OS. Apparently, they

52:59

make software for rental car companies.

53:00

He was using Opus 4.6 through Cursor's

53:03

AI platform, their coding platform, and

53:07

uh you know, which is like the most

53:09

expensive tier. Uh and he said he

53:12

configured it with enough safety rules,

53:13

but the agent was working on a routine

53:16

task. They saw some sort of credentiing

53:18

mismatch and they decided to fix the

53:20

mismatch by deleting a railway volume

53:22

without user confirmation and uh they

53:25

pushed the code from a repo to a live

53:27

app and they deleted everything

53:28

including the backups. Literally a scene

53:32

from Silicon Valley's HBO clip of Son of

53:36

Anton. Hilarious.

53:37

>> You gave your AI permission to overwrite

53:39

code in the internal file system. Were

53:42

you going to tell me about this? No, I

53:44

thought that was the company policy

53:46

these days.

53:47

>> Okay, well, your AI just failed

53:50

epically.

53:51

>> That's unclear.

53:53

>> It's possible the Son of Anton decided

53:55

that the most efficient way to get rid

53:56

of all the bugs was to get rid of all

53:58

the software, which is technically and

54:01

statistically correct. But artificial

54:03

neural nets are sort of a black box. So,

54:05

we'll never know for sure.

54:06

>> How did they get that so right, Zach?

54:08

Five or six years ago, art and neural

54:10

networks are a black box. So, I guess

54:11

we'll never know. But technically, it

54:14

was correct. Freeberg, when you blow up

54:16

a hollow system with your vibe coding,

54:19

which you were absolutely showing off in

54:21

front of Jensen a couple of weeks ago

54:23

about how much code you're pushing, who

54:24

are you going to blame? You going to

54:26

take responsibility yourself? Are you

54:27

going to blame Cla Claude or Kurser? Who

54:30

are you going to blame when you blow up

54:32

the entire stack over at Ohio?

54:36

>> Who you blame?

54:37

>> Yeah, I'll blame Dario.

54:38

>> You blame Dario. Okay, that's what I

54:40

thought. That's a correct answer.

54:41

Correct answer. Blame Daario. He's the

54:42

one who says it's a doomsday machine.

54:44

Uh, come on the prodio.

54:47

17th invitio. [laughter]

54:50

>> I mean, I've invited the guy like 17

54:52

times. He is totally going to me. He

54:54

wants nothing to do with this podcast.

54:57

>> Actually, let me speak to that. So, I

54:59

think I think that um there's maybe a

55:02

misperception that this error occurred

55:05

because of, you know, quote unquote AI

55:07

scheming,

55:09

>> like kind of in that video that the AI

55:12

decided that the best way to get rid of

55:13

bugs is to basically eliminate the

55:14

codebase. This is kind of like the, you

55:16

know, AI is going to turn the world into

55:18

paper clips type thing where somehow

55:19

it'll like miss scheme. That's not

55:21

really what happened here. This is a

55:22

case of just a of old-fashioned bugs

55:26

occurring at an edge case. You know,

55:28

you've got the fact that this API was

55:30

not designed for permissioned usage.

55:34

You've got the fact that a credential

55:36

was left kind of lying around. Probably

55:38

it should not be. There's kind of like a

55:40

perfect storm that caused the AI to do

55:42

something or the agent to do something

55:43

that didn't quite understand it was what

55:44

it was doing. I think that if there is a

55:48

systemic problem here rather than just

55:50

kind of a like a random edge case is

55:53

that AI still doesn't know what it

55:58

doesn't know. You know, like a human

56:00

would stop before deleting a production

56:03

database and just say, "Oh, I'm about to

56:04

do something like really serious, really

56:06

destructive. Am I sure I want to do

56:08

this?" You know, and a human would have

56:10

stopped and said, "Oh, wait a second.

56:11

like I need to be more confident in what

56:13

I'm doing before I take that action. And

56:16

AI still has this issue where again it

56:18

can be kind of overcon. This is where

56:19

like the hallucinations come from is it

56:22

doesn't know when it should have a low

56:24

confidence in its output, right? But

56:26

this is why it has to be supervised. You

56:29

know, the longer the time horizon for a

56:31

task, the more likely it is to go off

56:34

the rails.

56:35

>> And a drift. Exactly. And this is why I

56:38

think people are starting to realize

56:40

that this idea of eliminating all

56:41

software developers was the peak of

56:44

inflated expectations. Yes.

56:45

>> Right. There was actually a really good

56:48

tweet on this by Aaron Levy who's got

56:50

the right take on this. Aaron retweeted

56:53

Matthew Glacius who sort of sardonically

56:56

tweeted that 5 months in I think I've

56:59

decided I don't want to vibe code. I

57:01

want professionally managed software

57:02

companies to use AI coding assistants to

57:05

make more better, cheaper software

57:07

products that they sell to me for money.

57:08

>> Just lower your prices. Don't make me

57:10

vibe code is the translation.

57:13

>> Yeah. I mean, I think like rare win for

57:15

for Madaglacius there. Anyway, Aaron

57:17

Levy then says

57:19

Agent Coding is a huge win for software

57:21

developers that want to get more done

57:23

and it's fantastic for anyone curious to

57:26

learn how to start coding. What it's

57:28

less great for is casually building

57:30

complex software that you have to

57:32

maintain on an ongoing basis and take

57:33

all the risk for upgrades, maintenance,

57:36

keeping up to date with latest security

57:37

issues, you know, the bugs, cyber, those

57:40

are taxes on most knowledge workers who

57:42

aren't familiar with the system.

57:45

>> It's not a tax. It's a huge risk.

57:47

>> Yes, it's a risk has to be managed if

57:49

you don't. People will get fired because

57:52

there will be some public companies

57:53

where some goofball tries to vibe code

57:55

their way out of something and they're

57:56

going to torch the enterprise value.

57:58

It's going to be glorious to watch

58:00

because we're all going to laugh and

58:01

realize that was stupid and should never

58:02

have happened in the first place.

58:04

>> Yeah. I mean, it's there is a chance

58:07

that this improves to the point passes

58:10

trial of disillusionment and becomes

58:11

super productive and you'll be able to

58:13

get an agent to do reasonable things

58:15

without deleting your data set. But we

58:17

have a way to go. Here is your, you

58:20

know, this is the tech adoption chart.

58:22

Basically, you got a technology gets

58:23

triggered. You have the trial, you have

58:24

this peak of inflated expectations. You

58:26

go into the trial of disillusionment and

58:27

then the slope of enlightenment invest

58:29

and eventually it becomes deer and it's

58:32

an opportunity. Hey, uh, Freedberg,

58:36

you have become reddit tide curious. You

58:41

have and also

58:43

>> tell me tell me about rea cuz I want it.

58:46

I want to get on it. M

58:47

>> I want to use it and I need you to tell

58:50

Nat that it's okay for me to take it.

58:52

>> I I have a friend who has some advice as

58:54

well.

58:55

>> Freeberg, the coverage is coming out of

58:57

this phase three clinical trial data

58:59

release that Lily put out last month. So

59:01

everyone's going crazy over the data

59:05

which continues to show pretty amazing

59:08

results. So unlike trazepatide which is

59:11

kind of Lily's main

59:15

product today, it's a which is a dual

59:16

agonist. It's got two peptides in it

59:18

that that bind to different receptors,

59:20

the GLP1, the GIP receptor. This other

59:22

one now also binds to glucagon, which is

59:24

a third receptor. And that glucagon

59:27

receptor binding peptide causes the

59:30

cells to increase their metabolism,

59:31

which actually accelerates fat energy

59:34

consumption

59:36

over what would typically be muscle

59:38

energy consumption. It's more likely to

59:40

burn up fat early on, which causes more

59:44

quick fat loss, but also reduces muscle

59:47

loss. And some of the other data that's

59:50

now coming out shows non-HDL cholesterol

59:53

down 27%, triglycerides down 41%.

59:57

>> Liver fat down 80% to

60:00

>> 80% reduction of liver fat. A1C drops

60:04

from 7.9% to 6% in 40 weeks, which is

60:08

amazing, by the way. If you're diabetic

60:09

and your A1C drops that much in a couple

60:12

of months, it's literally a life-saving

60:14

product. The average user in this phase

60:17

3 trial saw their weight decline from

60:20

214 pounds. They lost 37 pounds. That's

60:23

compared to six pounds on placebo

60:26

in 40 weeks. And you know, modest side

60:29

effects. 20% people felt more nauseous

60:32

than the people that were on the

60:33

placebo. There's a lot of other separate

60:36

studies that are being done now that are

60:37

showing significant reductions in

60:39

inflammatory signaling molecules. So

60:42

systemic signaling of like hey cells are

60:46

in distress triggers this kind of

60:49

inflammatory process that can have a lot

60:51

of other damage to your body can

60:53

accelerate aging. And so one of the

60:55

other conversations is that retride

60:57

might actually be kind of a deaging drug

61:00

as well.

61:02

Hercules, Hercules, Hercules,

61:05

you know, and a lot of the studies, by

61:06

the way, are done on the the the very

61:08

high dose, 12 milligram dose, but you

61:10

could probably get this thing dosed down

61:11

to 2 milligrams and still see a lot of

61:13

the anti-inflammatory

61:14

maintenance and other benefits. I'm no

61:16

doctor, but people are going nuts over

61:19

this being more widely useful than just

61:22

for clinical obesity or type when the

61:24

FDA when's the projected date for

61:27

>> 2027. Mid 27.

61:28

>> That's what they're saying. Could happen

61:30

sooner. I mean, the data is in the, you

61:32

know, the FDA will take their time to

61:36

evaluate it, but I think given the way

61:37

this is all looking,

61:39

>> could happen sooner, could happen

61:40

sometime later this year. Swim Chimath

61:43

Swim said it's incredible and that uh

61:47

it's living up to the hype in their

61:49

experience.

61:50

>> Who?

61:51

>> Swim.

61:52

>> What is that? What is that?

61:53

>> Someone who isn't me. Swim.

61:55

>> Oh,

61:55

>> this is a Reddit term. Someone who isn't

61:57

me said who has a guy swim has a guy and

62:02

has cycled on reddatride and does

62:06

push-ups and says muscle gain has been

62:09

spectacular

62:10

no muscle loss and a lowering of fat.

62:14

>> If you go on X and you just search up

62:16

rea

62:17

>> Mhm.

62:19

>> it's like incredible. You see these like

62:21

65 year old guys that go from a dadbod

62:24

to looking like an incredibly ripped

62:27

athlete in weeks. And and I

62:31

I mean I'm shocked. And then for me I

62:34

don't need that help per se, but my

62:36

liver health is important to me. My

62:37

cardiac health because I'm South Asian

62:39

and it just looks like a wonder drug. I

62:41

can't wait. When you starve your body,

62:43

when you turn off the the appetite,

62:45

which is the GLP-1 agonist function,

62:47

normally your body goes into this kind

62:49

of mode of starvation and you have this

62:52

process by which your body tries to

62:53

generate energy from your existing

62:55

cells. And because muscle is much denser

62:59

than fat, you can have a favoring of

63:01

muscle tissue being kind of broken up

63:03

over fat tissue. But what this new

63:05

agonist, this glucagon agonist that they

63:07

put into this neutrutide

63:10

is it favors fat burning over muscle

63:12

burning. And so that actually can drive

63:15

short-term use at low dose for people to

63:18

cut weight and maintain muscle and get

63:20

ripped. And so that's why a lot of

63:21

people in the kind of fitness community

63:23

are talking about, hey, I want to get

63:24

access to this and get on it for a

63:26

while. So you'll see a lot more hype

63:27

probably in that community as well as

63:30

the all the health effects. It just

63:32

feels like we're about to have an

63:34

absolute avalanche of peptides to choose

63:36

from.

63:36

>> On November of 2025, Lily cut a deal

63:39

with the Trump administration. I saw

63:40

this to drop the price on Drespatide

63:43

pretty significantly. I think it's like

63:44

50 bucks on Medicare.

63:45

>> 50 bucks from Medicare. Yeah.

63:47

>> Yeah. Which is a pretty cheap price

63:48

point, but it starts to make sense as

63:50

you think about the portfolio of Lily

63:51

products. You get Tzepide for 50 bucks,

63:54

but if you want to upgrade, get the

63:56

Retatride. That's the high premium

63:57

product and that's where they're going

63:58

to start the Mercedes to the Honda. I'm

64:01

sure if I'm Lily and I'm sitting there

64:02

and I'm looking at this data coming out,

64:03

I'm like, "My god, people will pay for

64:05

this and that starts to become sort of

64:07

like the upgrade to the BMW or the Model

64:09

S plat if you will."

64:10

>> Yeah. The Trappetide is like the one

64:12

bedroomedroom messy bed hotel room

64:15

>> and the other one's the sweetide

64:18

is like the twobedroom suite.

64:20

>> Well, you can also, by the way, you guys

64:22

know I'm a spokesman for Row. They also

64:26

have the Waggoi pill uh row.co/twist

64:28

cotwist uh to get your

64:31

>> Wait, are you a paid talking about

64:33

[laughter] Are you a paid What are you

64:35

talking about? We're putting Charles

64:37

Barkley and

64:38

>> we're not having sales team

64:42

and then you come over on Allin and you

64:44

start promoting.

64:44

>> No, no, no, no. Trust me, we'll get one

64:46

of those as well. We'll get a row.

64:48

Sponsorship here.

64:49

>> What was the ro pill that you had me

64:50

get? What was it called?

64:51

>> Oh, sparks. Sparks. Sparks. Did you take

64:53

it?

64:54

>> I have taken it and now

64:56

>> Amore please. No, not

64:58

>> maybe just a half of a lousy.

65:00

>> I want to hear the story. I want to hear

65:01

the story. Go.

65:02

>> It's so out of control.

65:04

>> I told what I told you.

65:06

>> So then what happens is Nat and I are

65:08

like, you can't you can't just randomly

65:09

use it. It's scheduled. We discuss it.

65:11

We put it on the calendar.

65:12

>> You need a plan.

65:13

>> You need a plan.

65:14

>> You need a plan. Can't go in

65:16

>> because otherwise otherwise it's too

65:17

much. You just can't randomly take it.

65:19

>> What do you mean?

65:20

>> It's going to be a sesh.

65:22

>> It's a whole thing, man. It's like I

65:24

don't have the energy for that.

65:25

>> It's an extended session. You you have

65:26

to be well rested. This don't do this at

65:29

1:00 a.m. This is like a 10 p.m. This is

65:31

like a No, this is more like a This is

65:33

more like on vacation, you know, like

65:35

>> 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., you know, to

65:37

noon, you know, you got to really

65:40

>> you got to really schedule it.

65:42

>> Schedule it because kids around

65:44

>> otherwise it's got to be empty.

65:46

>> Otherwise, it's unfair to her and it's

65:48

just a li it's a lie. Put it [laughter]

65:49

out.

65:50

>> It's a It's a big commitment literally.

65:52

>> You You look embarrassed, Jim. Do you

65:54

feel embarrassed talking about it? It's

65:56

just a lot, man. It's like It's a lot to

65:57

handle. It's a lot.

65:59

>> It's If you want to get the extra 20% in

66:02

your performance,

66:03

>> it's a lot, bro.

66:04

>> It's a [laughter] lot. It's basically

66:06

over time.

66:07

>> What happened? What happened was I was

66:08

like, "Oh, what is this thing?" Jason's

66:10

like, "Dude, you must get it. You must

66:11

get it." So, we got it. We tried it and

66:14

>> we were like, "What the was that?" And

66:17

so, [laughter] then I've been trying to

66:18

bleed the pills out. So, I gave some to

66:20

Stant Tang. I'm like, "Stanley, you try

66:21

it." Literally, he's dealing them like

66:24

cards

66:25

>> but when we're having poker dinner, I'm

66:27

like, does anybody want to try these

66:28

things? But these what is it? Rose

66:30

sparks. Is that rose sparks? Shout out

66:31

to my friends out. All right, let's keep

66:33

moving here. Freedberg, guys. Friedberg

66:36

had his own personal Super Bowl. You see

66:38

me getting ready for Nick's playoff

66:40

season. I get my courtside. Freeberg had

66:43

the equivalence acts. He went to the

66:45

Supreme Court in order to hear them talk

66:49

about chemicals. This was a big deal for

66:52

him. The Supreme Court coming together.

66:54

Did you wear it? Yes. The Monsanto trial

66:57

happened in the Supreme Court and he

66:58

went he got courtside. He went to the

67:01

Supreme Court and listened in the

67:02

building. Have you guys ever seen a live

67:04

Supreme Court hearing?

67:05

>> No. I'd love to.

67:06

>> I'd love to. Tax, have you been?

67:08

>> No, I haven't actually.

67:09

>> I mean, honest honestly, I think it was

67:11

one of the most amazing experiences I've

67:13

ever had. There was a massive protest

67:14

out front. We went through the

67:16

marshall's office to get in. And that

67:18

building, you walk in, it's like sacred.

67:20

It's all marble. It's you're not allowed

67:23

to talk. You have to be super quiet when

67:24

you're in the building. Like they keep

67:25

going like you're in some quiet library.

67:28

It's like people treat it with this

67:30

level of kind of sanctity that that and

67:32

respect. And they're like, there is no

67:34

politics here. There is no

67:36

There is no freedom of speech. This is

67:38

the court. When you come into this

67:40

court, the justices tell you how you

67:43

will speak, how you will behave, what

67:44

you will do, and you will not speak

67:46

unless spoken to. You put all your stuff

67:48

in a locker, you go up the stairs, you

67:50

go into the the courtroom. And the

67:52

courtroom, it's just so amazing being in

67:54

there. They have this amazing marble

67:55

freeze above the justices that has some

67:57

of the great people of human history,

67:59

Moses and these kind of amazing

68:01

historical figures. And then below them

68:03

are the nine justices and the court

68:05

case. If you guys haven't watched the

68:07

case, you can listen to them, I think,

68:08

online. on you. Is it worth listening

68:10

to?

68:10

>> Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. I have a

68:11

question. So,

68:12

>> does Robert sit in the middle cuz he's a

68:14

chief? Yes.

68:15

>> And then do all of the right justices

68:17

sit on the right?

68:18

>> No, they're mixed. So, they're I think I

68:20

don't know I don't know the exact

68:21

seating, but they're mixed in terms on

68:24

appointments of the court. Is

68:25

>> that right? I think that's right. And

68:27

then so yeah, that's right. And then it

68:29

kind of goes out from the middle with

68:30

Roberts in the middle. Roberts

68:32

occasionally will name the justices and

68:35

say, "Hey, do you have a question? Do

68:36

you have a question?" if no one's

68:37

talking, but otherwise the justices will

68:39

jump in with their questions when they

68:40

want and they'll ask. Now, honest to

68:42

God, watching this is like watching

68:44

LeBron James play basketball. These

68:46

lawyers are so mind-blowingly impressive

68:50

on both sides that you would just like

68:52

sit there and I was like in awe. It was

68:54

so I I felt like my energy was

68:57

completely sapped from me at the end of

68:58

this process because you were just so

69:00

engaged and so caught into the way that

69:02

these guys are thinking and talking.

69:04

>> Did you take a rose sparks? Did you take

69:05

a rose sparks when you were there?

69:06

>> No. And if you're familiar if you're

69:08

familiar enough with the case or the

69:10

case history or the law that's being

69:12

debated because again when when you get

69:13

to the Supreme Court, you never debate

69:14

the case. What you're debating is the

69:17

legal interpretation of the the

69:19

decisions that were made on the case.

69:21

And so is this constitutional? How do

69:23

you interpret this particular act, this

69:25

law, this federal law? What's the right

69:27

way to think about it? So you don't

69:28

actually talk about the case. You talk

69:29

about the interpretation of American

69:31

law,

69:33

of our laws, of our constitution, of the

69:36

global.

69:36

>> You're saying the facts have already

69:38

been determined.

69:38

>> That's right.

69:39

>> Right. At a lower court, there's

69:40

questions of fact and questions of law.

69:42

>> The facts have already been determined

69:44

by the lower court. It's just Supreme

69:45

Court is ruling on questions of law.

69:47

>> That's right. And so they have a full

69:49

briefing with the full history of the

69:50

case. And remember, they only hear two

69:52

cases a day. So they're one hour each

69:54

for each hearing.

69:55

>> So you go in and they only do it Monday,

69:56

Tuesday, Wednesday on the last two

69:58

weeks. and they only hear cases from

70:00

October to April. There's only a handful

70:02

of cases that are selected.

70:03

>> Wow. So you're really on a shock clock

70:04

then to make

70:05

>> you're on a shot clock and you only have

70:06

and it's 30 minutes aside and then the

70:08

justices will ask question.

70:09

>> So this was Monsanto and Roundup, right?

70:11

So what was the law that was being

70:13

debated

70:14

>> for yours? The regulatory body, the EPA

70:18

sets the label for pesticides. Does this

70:20

cause cancer or not? What are the

70:22

warnings? This can be damaging for birth

70:23

defects, pregnancy, all the things that

70:25

we're all used to seeing on labels. when

70:27

you buy a product, a chemical product

70:29

and the EPA and their regulatory

70:31

authority determined that Roundup does

70:34

not cause cancer. When you sell a

70:36

pesticide, you first have to register it

70:38

with the EPA, get it approved, and then

70:39

the EPA gives you a label. And the label

70:41

is written by the EPA. It says exactly

70:43

what you're supposed to say. And in this

70:45

case, it said all this stuff doesn't say

70:47

cancer because they determined it does

70:49

not cause cancer. And I'm not going to

70:51

debate whether or not it causes cancer,

70:52

but that's the case that was made is

70:54

that the EPA is the regulatory body

70:56

under a federal act called FIFRA,

70:59

fungicide, insecttoide or denicide act.

71:01

And that's where the EPA is given their

71:03

regulatory authority to put the label on

71:06

these products. And all of the cases

71:08

that have been lost have been state

71:11

failure to warn cases. To date, Bayer,

71:14

which now owns Monsanto, has paid out

71:16

$10 billion in these lawsuits, and they

71:19

have reserved 10 billion on their

71:21

balance sheet. They have 90,000 cases

71:22

still outstanding in the courts. 90,000.

71:25

>> Wow.

71:25

>> And so, this one case got kind of

71:27

appealed up to the Supreme Court. Last

71:30

year, the White House solicitor general,

71:32

and if the solicitor general steps up

71:33

and asks the Supreme Court to take a

71:35

case, it's more likely the case gets

71:37

taken. So, the White House said, "Please

71:38

take this case. We need to have federal

71:41

preeemption, meaning the federal

71:42

government has the right to set the

71:44

label because all of the cases that have

71:46

been lost and that are being adjudicated

71:49

are in state courts where the state has

71:51

a law like in California called a

71:53

failure to warn law, which means if a

71:55

manufacturer knows that a product

71:57

carries a risk, you have to warn the

71:59

consumer. And so the the lawyers have

72:02

been arguing that Monsanto or Bayer knew

72:04

that this product caused cancer and

72:06

didn't warn the consumer. And they've

72:08

been winning cases. they've been losing

72:09

cases, but they've won enough cases that

72:12

this has now become a multi-dea billion

72:13

dollar problem. And so the argument is

72:16

that the EPA says it doesn't cause

72:18

cancer and they have federal

72:19

preeemption. So the EPA has the right to

72:21

determine. So that's the one argument.

72:24

But then when the other attorney came

72:27

up, this guy was like literally like

72:28

watching LeBron James. And so going in,

72:30

we're like, "Oh, 63 Bayer's going to

72:31

win." And then the other guy comes up

72:33

and he was like, "Well, hey, you guys

72:36

overturned the Chevron doctrine last

72:37

year. You guys remember that case?

72:38

>> Yeah. Where basically when the Chevron

72:40

doctrine got overturned, it basically

72:42

said that no longer

72:44

>> does the federal agency get to decide it

72:46

has to be a direct reading of the law.

72:50

>> Duh. So now, so he's saying like the

72:52

states should have a right to read the

72:55

law themselves. They shouldn't have to

72:57

just defer to the EPA. And that's what

72:59

this will come down to. So at the end of

73:00

it, we were like, "Oh my god, this could

73:02

be a 50/50 coin flip, 54 either way."

73:05

And going into it, we were kind of like

73:06

trying to say, "Hey, maybe this could be

73:08

63." So honestly, the whole experience

73:10

was incredible. The case is interesting.

73:12

>> These are very complicated matters. How

73:13

are these people able to make a

73:16

wholesome argument in like one side gets

73:19

30 minutes, the other side gets 30

73:20

minutes, there's a little Q&A, and then

73:21

you're done in an hour.

73:22

>> There's this whole art and science and

73:24

Sax, you're probably familiar with this

73:26

on how do you distill down a Supreme

73:27

Court case in the briefing dock? Like

73:29

what is it you're petitioning around the

73:31

court? and you try and distill it down

73:32

to the exact legal interpretation you

73:35

want the judges to rule on, not all the

73:37

other

73:38

>> And this is oral arguments. Yes.

73:39

>> Oral arguments, just a discussion. And

73:41

then the judges jump in and all they're

73:42

doing is asking the lawyer questions,

73:44

one lawyer at a time, the one side and

73:46

then the other side. And by the way, the

73:47

solicitor general came up in the middle

73:49

and kind of made a few comments and they

73:50

asked her some questions from the White

73:52

House and she sat down and then the two

73:54

sides kind of went back and forth and

73:55

and they just it's like 30 minutes Q&A

73:57

each on that one specific legal question

74:00

and Katanji Brown Jackson said, "But

74:03

what if after the EPA issued the label,

74:05

they found out information that it does

74:07

cause cancer? Shouldn't they update the

74:09

label?" And he's saying, "Well, no,

74:10

they're not allowed to. They can only

74:11

issue the label the EPA says." And he

74:13

says also and it's it's a criminal case

74:16

if they find out that it does cause

74:17

cancer and they don't report it to the

74:19

EPA and then she's saying well what if

74:21

the EPA doesn't act and shouldn't the

74:23

states have a right to protect their

74:24

people? So those are the legal

74:26

arguments, the discussions that are

74:27

going on in all of this. And there's

74:29

interesting implications which is

74:30

fundamentally if the states get to

74:32

interpret federal law and ignore federal

74:35

regulatory bodies, it opens up a whole

74:37

new can of worms in terms of like all

74:39

the states can start to ignore federal

74:41

regula regulatory bodies like the EPA or

74:44

the FDA or the USDA or and on and on and

74:46

on. So the whole case has a whole bunch

74:48

of really interesting implications wound

74:50

up in it. when you hear these guys and

74:51

they're just talking chimat about that

74:53

exact like interpretation of the law and

74:55

that's what this comes down to. It's not

74:56

the actual case that matters

74:58

>> and after the sachs they oral arguments

75:01

and then they have like a private

75:02

conference where they'll write their

75:04

papers and give their final judgment.

75:05

Yeah.

75:07

>> Saxs.

75:07

>> Yeah. Yeah, I think what happens is that

75:10

so I guess there's some discussion that

75:12

happens behind closed doors and they

75:14

figure out where the majority is and

75:16

then the chief gets to assign who writes

75:18

the opinion for the majority

75:19

>> in that meeting nobody is allowed in and

75:22

in fact you have a double door system

75:24

where like if anything needs to come in

75:25

and out you have to like kind of like

75:27

knock on the door you're led into this

75:28

anti chamber then

75:29

>> oh is it an airlock is an airlock

75:31

>> it's effectively we I had I don't know

75:34

if you were there Jason but we had Ted

75:35

Cruz come to play in the poker game

75:37

>> uh And Ted Cruz clerked for William

75:40

Ranquist and if you want to have an

75:42

incredible dinner, ask him about the

75:45

Supreme Court and Bill Ranquist. He's a

75:48

real student of the Supreme Court and it

75:50

just makes the Supreme Court free to

75:51

your point sound like the most

75:53

incredible body that's ever been created

75:57

anywhere. By the way, more than the

75:59

White House, more than the Capital

76:01

Building, more than any of these other

76:03

big agencies, this place has it's almost

76:06

like being in England, it has these kind

76:08

of ways that people operate. The the the

76:10

security is so different. They kind of

76:12

stand there in the court and they all

76:14

exchange places every 20 minutes. It's

76:16

very coordinated. They're dressed very

76:18

differently than any other

76:19

>> courtroom listening.

76:20

>> Maybe like 150, I would say. How do you

76:23

take it? Are they on

76:24

>> I actually think everyone is a guest of

76:26

a clerk or someone that works at the

76:27

court. I don't think that it's like very

76:29

publicly available to get in there.

76:30

>> You can't line up. There's no lineup.

76:32

>> There's I don't know if there's a

76:33

lineup. Um this was a connection through

76:36

we got in through the chief justice. Um

76:38

he gave us the pass, but I think it was

76:40

like very um

76:42

>> I think at the Elon versus Open AI case

76:45

there's you can line up and then the

76:47

judge gave like 30 tickets to the press

76:50

court. No, no. Yeah, but I think there's

76:52

a lineup for the Supreme Court as well.

76:54

There's some public access that they're

76:55

>> It did not look like anyone from the

76:57

public was in this court. Everyone,

76:59

everyone is dressed respectfully. I

77:00

mean, this court has an incredible

77:02

amount of like,

77:04

>> you know, cool experience.

77:07

>> I would I would just say uh enjoy it

77:09

while you can. I mean, I think the

77:11

Supreme Court is one of the last highly

77:12

functional institutions in the United

77:14

States. And%

77:16

>> you know at some point we're going to

77:17

have like 13 or 21 or some crazy number

77:20

of justices up there

77:23

and get jersey

77:25

after justices there and so enjoy it

77:28

while it's still

77:29

>> in the current in the current form it's

77:31

in.

77:32

>> Can you imagine showing up with jerseys

77:34

with the justices names on them and like

77:36

having sections and like somebody

77:38

selling cracker jacks

77:40

>> theocracy version of [laughter] the

77:42

Supreme Court

77:43

>> version. Exactly.

77:45

>> The popularity of the court really

77:47

depends on whether it's issuing

77:51

decisions that people agree with. That's

77:52

what it comes down to. If like if you

77:54

ask people whether they like the Supreme

77:56

Court or not, it really just depends on

77:58

whether they agree with the decisions

77:59

are recency as opposed to

78:02

>> the process of the decisions and how

78:04

well argued it is and all these things

78:05

that you're pointing to. And actually

78:08

the the court I mean I just checked the

78:09

numbers. The court is relatively popular

78:12

right now. I think that it got as low as

78:16

35% in the 2024 Gallup survey, but I

78:19

think it's back up to, you know, like 44

78:23

to 50% favorability, which for something

78:26

that's involved in politics is

78:28

relatively high, right? Like you look at

78:30

Congress or

78:31

>> any particular politician, they're going

78:33

to be lower than that typically. I just

78:35

felt so assured of like the institution

78:40

when I visited and saw these guys

78:41

interact and behave and how they behave

78:43

the process. It was like

78:45

>> man this what an amazing country. Yeah.

78:48

>> Well, the reason I say what I say is

78:49

there was an interview with James

78:50

Carville recently. Did you guys see

78:52

this? He saidaw he said look when we get

78:54

power we're packing the court.

78:56

>> So we're not even going to we're not

78:57

going to worry about it.

78:58

>> And we're going to get to 13, right? He

79:00

said we're going to make

79:01

>> I think Yeah. They're going to go from 9

79:02

to 13 and then they're going to create

79:04

some new states and all the rest of it.

79:06

So that'll be that.

79:07

>> Uh

79:08

>> enjoy enjoy while it last. Enjoy.

79:10

>> Enjoy while it lasts.

79:11

>> Uh by the way,

79:12

>> end on a high note.

79:13

>> Wait. Yeah. [laughter] It's the end of

79:14

the empire. That'll be that.

79:16

>> By the way, there is uh a Supreme Court

79:19

on I was correct. There is an online

79:21

ticketing lottery. So we can all sign up

79:24

and you can get a fourack of tickets. I

79:26

think they should make this I we should

79:28

talk to Howard Lutnik. Maybe he can make

79:30

this an auction. We get a revenue stream

79:31

from the US. We could sell like 10 of

79:33

the tickets as courtside seats for 20

79:35

grand.

79:35

>> Jason, you're exactly what they're

79:37

trying to protect against.

79:38

>> Exactly. [laughter] Like, how can we how

79:40

do we monetize the Supreme Court?

79:43

>> All right, everybody. That's it. That's

79:44

the world's greatest podcast for you for

79:46

Chimoth Poly Hatia, David Freeberg, and

79:48

David Saxs. I am the world's greatest

79:51

moderator. We'll see you chief justice.

79:54

>> I'm like the chief justice of [laughter]

79:56

the allin podcast.

79:58

>> [music]

79:59

>> We'll let your winners ride.

80:01

>> Rainman David

80:06

and it said we open [music] sourced it

80:07

to the fans and they've just gone crazy

80:09

with it.

80:10

>> Love you queen of

80:13

winners.

80:15

[music]

80:19

>> Besties are gone.

80:21

>> That is my dog taking a [music]

80:23

driveway.

80:26

>> Oh man. My habitasher will meet. [music]

80:29

>> We should all just get a room and just

80:30

have one big huge orgy cuz they're all

80:32

just useless. It's like this like sexual

80:34

tension that you just need to release

80:35

somehow.

80:40

>> Your feet.

80:42

[laughter] We need to get Mercury's

80:44

already.

80:50

[music]

80:52

I'm going all in.

Interactive Summary

This episode covers a range of topics, starting with a discussion about the 'Miss Thing' podcast and the 'gay name/straight name' bit. The conversation then shifts to the business challenges facing OpenAI, particularly regarding compute capacity, energy constraints, and the ongoing legal battle with Elon Musk. The hosts discuss the massive capital expenditure (capex) by tech giants in the AI race and the potential for a 'middle-to-middle' human-supervised approach to AI development. The show also highlights a new weight-loss drug, Retatrutide, and concludes with a discussion about Friedberg's experience observing oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

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