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Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom

May 08, 2026 / 01:22:02

This episode discusses the political landscape in Los Angeles, featuring Spencer Pratt's campaign ads, the implications of AI on the economy, and potential regulations on AI technology.

Hosts Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and Brad Gersonner analyze Spencer Pratt's political ads, noting their effectiveness and his performance in debates against Karen Bass. They highlight Pratt's critique of homelessness policies and his humorous debating style.

The conversation shifts to the AI sector, focusing on Elon Musk's recent deal with Anthropic, which has implications for AI computing power and competition with major cloud providers. The hosts discuss the growth of AI companies and the potential for monopolistic behavior.

As the episode progresses, the hosts address the need for regulatory oversight in AI, with discussions on the proposed FDA for AI models and the balance between innovation and safety. They express concerns about the messaging surrounding AI and its societal impacts.

Finally, the hosts reflect on the current economic climate, emphasizing the role of AI in driving productivity and the importance of maintaining a competitive edge in the tech industry.

TL;DR

The episode covers Spencer Pratt's political ads, AI's economic impact, and potential regulations on AI technology.

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recent weeks.
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the bags and for my eyes. I mean, this
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audience is brutal.
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>> It's a good thing I'm rich.
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>> Let your winners ride.
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Rainman David
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>> and it said we open sourced it to the
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fans and they've just gone crazy with
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it.
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>> All right everybody, welcome back to the
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number one podcast in the world. It's
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the Allin podcast. With us today,
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Chimoth Polyatia, David Saxs, and our
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fifth bestie, Mr. Brad Gersonner is
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here. I think uh David Freeberg is
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suffering from some socialist related
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flu. He's very sick of reading about
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socialists, but he'll be back next week
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with two incredible incredible
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interviews.
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>> You guys see those Spencer Pratt ads?
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>> Wow.
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>> It's one of the best political ads I've
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ever ever seen.
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>> Oh, there's like three or four of them.
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>> There multiples.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Whoever that social media team is is on
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fire. If you get a good social media
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team and you get a good ad production
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team, I think it's nextgen because these
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things go crazy. And Spencer Pratt, if
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he wins this election, which I think
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he's going to in Los Angeles, the reason
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is what Brad said. Those ads are
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incredible.
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>> Well, he's also quite a good debater.
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Did you see clips from this debate?
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>> Incredible. He's so funny. He's so
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chill.
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>> Yeah. Well, he's up against Karen Bass,
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who's the mayor, who is basically
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extremely leftwing. And then there's
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someone who's a city council woman who's
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even further to the left of Karen Bass.
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I mean, she's
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>> often like Fidel Castro territory. She's
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an Indian Fidel Castro
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>> Ramen. So, she was basically, I guess,
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criticizing the mayor for the
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homelessness problem. And then Pratt
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pointed out that this council woman is
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actually in charge of all these homeless
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programs already.
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>> He eviscerated her.
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>> Eviscerated her. And he basically made
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the key point, which is, look, the
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problem here is not lack of housing.
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It's an addiction issue, and it's a
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mental illness issue. And he said,
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"Look, if you
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>> He said, "If she went to the street,
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she'd get stabbed in the neck."
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>> Yeah.
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>> Which is pretty accurate if you've been
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to Skidro. I mean, you would not want to
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walk through there. It It was like the
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Spider-Man photo.
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>> Wait, Nick's got the clip. Play the
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clip, Nick.
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>> Oh god, this clip is brutal.
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>> This is a different clip, but this went
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super viral. It reminded me of Trump a
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little bit.
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>> Let's see.
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>> I'm not sure how to respond to that
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vision of Los Angeles. This is a MAGA
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Republicans idea of what Los Angeles
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looks like. This is This is really not
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>> unbelievable. For those of you
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listening, he put his hands up and
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wiggled his head like, "Oh my god."
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>> Hey, hey, Sachs. You know, Steven Pratt
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wins mayor.
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>> Spencer Pratt the, you know, the ballot
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initiative, the retirement protection
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and savings act, right? It's going to
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pass. Going to pass with big numbers.
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This is the, you know, referendum that
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effectively is going to knock out the
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wealth tax. Can you imagine if
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California effectively passes a
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constitutional amendment protecting
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retirement savings and personal assets
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and banning the wealth tax and crack
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gets elected? The message that would
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send to the country. That's that's a
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very non-conensus view that I'm becoming
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increasingly optimistic about.
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>> Well, from your lips to God's ears, but
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until that message actually is sent, I
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think I'm going to be uh
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>> in Texas. in Texas.
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>> Yeehaw. Well, I mean, this is also in
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the face of I don't know, just a
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follow-up story here, but Mandami did
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like an attack video on Ken Griffin's
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house. We talked about it on the pot a
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couple weeks ago, and like literally
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stood in front of his house, pointed at
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it, and this is in the face of like a
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CEO getting shot for ideological
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reasons, Sam Alman's house being
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targeted. This is like a really
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dangerous thing for Mandami to do. And
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Ken Griffin came out today and uh or
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yesterday in an interview and said,
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"Hey, listen. I'm out. We're going to be
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putting our efforts into um Florida. And
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this is the same thing that happened to
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Chicago. And he basically said like I
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really felt offended and I was, you
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know, nervous about this because of my
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personal safety. And he called him out.
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Mondami came out with like a a
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mealymouthed response that didn't even
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apologize for what he did. Just double
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down on it essentially. All right, let's
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get to the dot. I don't know if you guys
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saw it or not, but
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>> who cares? New York is becoming a
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flyover city. It's interesting way to
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put it. Uh, don't disagree. All right,
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first story. Elon just leased all of
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Colossus 1, his data center.
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>> He did.
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>> What? WHAT? YES. SHOCKING to Daario and
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Anthropic Chamath on last week's pod.
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Uh, go ahead and give yourself a pat on
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the back. You said Elon and Dario should
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do a deal tomorrow. It didn't happen the
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next day. It happened 5 days later. So,
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you came close, Jimoth. Uh, but no cigar
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because of Anthropic's obvious compute
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constraints. Anthropic just added over
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220,000 Nvidia GPUs, over 300 megawatts
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of energy. The deal is already having an
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impact. As we've discussed here, Claude
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users have been experiencing rate
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limits. Well, Claude has now doubled the
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Claude code rate limits, removed peak
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usage caps for paid users, and increased
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API volumes for Opus models. XAI is now
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trading their models at Colossus 2. So,
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they have more than enough compute. Elon
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made a great bet on compute and built up
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those data centers really fast and that
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is now paying off. We had the cursor
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deal we talked about last week. Let's
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talk about the emergence of Elon Web
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Services EWS Chim. He is now in the
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hyperscaler competing against Google
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Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Azure.
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And uh I don't know if you had inside
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information or just a brilliant uh
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epiphany but uh take us behind the call
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and what do you think about the deal
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itself?
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I think the deal is fantastic. I'll say
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maybe three quick things.
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The first is, as I mentioned a couple
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weeks ago, Anthropic and OpenAI's
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revenue performance has nothing to do
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with demand. Zero. It is entirely to do
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with the supply constraints that exist
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in data centers and specifically in
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power. If they had infinite power, I
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think that their revenues would probably
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be even more parabolic. And so all the
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breathlessness about either exceeding or
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underperforming a forecast, in my
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opinion, mean nothing. I think the
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five-year view for those two companies
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is quite robust. The thing that they
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really need is more compute and more
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power. That's the first thing. The
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second thing is while they need that, we
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have a very big problem which is we
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unfortunately have very poor leadership
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at the head of most of these AI firms.
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I think they are coming off as
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untrustworthy or too self-interested.
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The political reaction now is starting
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to turn negative. The community reaction
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is negative. You have about nine
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gigawatts that are supposed to come
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online this year. Almost 50% of it now
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is being protested. More than likely, if
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if history holds,
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most of that will get turned off. So,
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they will get even more supply
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constraint. So, that's the setup. So,
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what's the opportunity I think for Elon?
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If you look inside of how people try to
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nitpick the SpaceX valuation case, or
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let's not even let's give them sorry,
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let's be more generous. When people try
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to paint the bare case or they tried to
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red team the valuation, the biggest
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element is the onthe-c value around the
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orbital data centers. And by actually
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landing a bunch of terrestrial capacity,
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I think you start to blunt that because
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you can now start to say that even if
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the orbital data centers get delayed by
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a few months or a few quarters, even if
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the technological
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derisking of it takes longer, he now has
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this structural core business that will
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effectively subsidize
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his ability to train Grock, which I
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think is a really important and under
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reportported theme. So you have all this
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infrastructure. He somehow saw the tea
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leaves before most people. He built to a
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level of scale and secured power before
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most people. It has now become the
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critical asset. And now he's kind of
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kingmaking.
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And I think that that's a really
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interesting valuation
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reinforcement as SpaceX goes through
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testing the waters and the and the road
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show.
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>> Brad, your take?
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>> Yeah. No, I think it's well said. I
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mean, first we we know that there's
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nobody better on planet Earth than Elon
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at converting electrons to tokens. It's
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a critically important evolution to the
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story. You know, I think our friend
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Shawn Magcguire, he he he sent out a
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tweet that summed it up well and he said
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SpaceX has this five layer cake, launch,
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connectivity, compute, hyperscaler,
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space data centers, and then
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applications and models and then other
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bets. Right? The question on the road
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show has been but X.AI AI doesn't isn't
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on the revenue trajectory of open AI and
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and anthropic and yet there are huge
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commitments and now we see the ace card
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that Elon's playing. He said he was
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building AWS all along or EWS all along.
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And so I estimate that this is going to
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generate in this year an incremental 4
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to5 billion of revenue on top of what I
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I've seen analysts estimates in the
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mid20s. That's a material amount of
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incremental revenue to offset the cost
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of the investments that he's made here.
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And that will subsidize to Chamas's
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point all that he's investing to build
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the next generation of Groth. Remember
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too that he has three facilities,
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Colossus, Macro hard, and Macro harder.
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1.2 gawatts in Macro hard and macro
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harder in Blackwell. So he's given the
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one that's kind of less connected.
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H100's great for inference to anthropic.
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He's monetizing it in a big way. It's
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terrific for Anthropic and it solves
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what I think was the biggest question in
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the valuation story which is what if he
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spends ahead of X.AI's revenue. It takes
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the pressure Chimath off X.AI delivering
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immediate revenue. Now he becomes uh an
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immediate competitor in the hyperscaler.
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I don't think this is the last
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announcement. I think he's going to make
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a lot more you know moves in this
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direction. I think it will be a material
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part of their story and their revenue
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projections uh as they come together and
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I would just say finally you know again
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everybody has talked about how we don't
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have enough power how we don't have
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enough compute how the revenues would
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not show up this year you know but the
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chaos that is American capitalism
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somehow finds a way okay and there's
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tremendous demand for anthropic and we
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find a way I was so happy to see kind of
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the dant and the kind exchange
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between the team of Anthropic and Elon
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because we need all of this in order to
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produce uh American frontier models to
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stay at the frontier. And then finally,
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I just say, you know, Chimath, you
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referenced these activists that are
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protesting delaying these data centers
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in in these localities. One thing I want
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to dispel this myth, these this is not
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like organic hyper local protests by
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people in a community that aren't being
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spurred on. This is highly organized
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activists that are moving across the
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country to stir up trouble in the exact
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same way they did to stop all fision
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reactors being built 30 years ago in
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America. Now we have no nuclear reactors
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being built. China's got a hundred of
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them. Who was funding those activists? I
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think we need to really look into who's
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funding the activists now. I'm not
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saying that there aren't any concerns,
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but the misinformation about water, the
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misinformation about electricity bills,
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electricity bills are going up in the
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places that are not building data
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centers, New York and California,
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because they haven't built any supply on
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the grid. In Texas, where you're
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building the most data centers in the
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country, electricity costs are going
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down. So, um, I'm I I think that's a
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boogeyman that we got to take on.
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>> Sure. Johnson.
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>> Well, look, the deal is highly
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complimentary. As Chamath and Brad
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pointed out, SpaceX has a profitable, I
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think very profitable space and
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telecommunications Starlink business,
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the satellite business, but the XAI
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business had huge losses. The reasons
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pretty straightforward. You need these
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super large training clusters, but they
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cost a lot of money. And until you have
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a model that's capable of competing at
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the frontier, you're not making any
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revenue. And that problem is compounded
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by the fact that right now all the
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revenue is in enterprise, which is to
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say coding. We know that XAI just did
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that deal with Cursor to try and catch
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up, but they don't have a coding product
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yet. So they're not participating in the
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revenue, but they're participating in
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all the cost. So this deal fixes that
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problem. Elon's now able to have a
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frontier model company, but he's able to
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now not have these massive unpaid for
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capex commitments, right? because he's
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able to kind of lease that capacity. So
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I think it solves a major problem for
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them and their balance sheet. And then
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you have to say that philanthropic this
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is a really great thing because they
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were compute constraint. And just to
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build on that point, I mean I guess let
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me be the first to congratulate Dario on
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winning the AI race.
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>> And you've been, let's be honest, Saxs,
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you have been on this podcast, you've
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been moderately critical of that company
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and Daario himself for being um, you
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know, a little P Doomer 110. And on your
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ex account, you've been even a little
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spicier. So now that there's peace in
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the Middle East of uh of the AI
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business, what's your take here?
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>> My take is look, let's just honestly and
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accurately assess where the state of
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this AI market is at right now and
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Anthropic's place within it. So for the
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last 3 years, Anthropic has been growing
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at a rate of 10x a year. I think going
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into this year, probably the
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conventional wisdom was that there'd be
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no way to sustain that kind of rate of
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growth at this level of scale. And what
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happened in the first four months of the
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year? First, we find out that from
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January 1st to March 31st, they grew
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from roughly 10 billion of ARR to 30
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billion. So, it tripled. And then in
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April, if anything, the rate of increase
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seemed to accelerate. They went from 30
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to 44 billion of ARR. Nobody in Silicon
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Valley has ever seen anything like it.
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Forget about the rest of the country. I
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mean, all we do in Silicon Valley is
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deal with exponentials. And still,
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people have never seen that kind of
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growth at that level of scale. The only
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thing holding them back in the future
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was compute. Now they've made this deal.
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They've made other deals as well to get
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that compute. I think it's pretty much a
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foregone conclusion that they will hit
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that forecast of 10x this year exiting
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the year. Call it roughly 100 billion of
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ARR. And now the only question is
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whether they hit a trillion in 2027.
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And we can debate
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>> getting on board. We can we can debate
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whether that's true or not. But look, if
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they do that, I think they'll easily be
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the most valuable tech company in
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history. In fact, they might even be
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more valuable than the rest of the Mag 7
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put together. Just to give people some
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basis for comparison here, you know, the
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biggest tech companies, Apple,
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>> Nvidia,
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>> Nvidia, Google. I think they kind of do
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around 4 to 500 billion a year right now
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>> of of revenue. I guess Nvidia is in a
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little bit of a different category, but
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you look at
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>> you look at the hyperscalers, the three
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hybrid scalers. Yeah. I mean, Google is
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doing what, like 120 billion a quarter,
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something like that. 100 billion a
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quarter.
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>> Correct.
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>> But growing at what, 20% year-over-year?
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Not 100%. It's certainly not a
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thousand%.
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So, the fact that anthropic could be on
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track. In fact, let me correct.
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>> You see them going to the track. It'll
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be a Maggie. I'm saying something else
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which is that unless something about
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their current trajectory changes
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anthropic will be the most powerful
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monopoly ever created in human history.
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>> Oh,
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>> again it will be, you know, a trillion
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dollars of ARR growing at some
00:16:32
exponential.
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>> Interesting.
00:16:34
>> Dario calls it AGI. I call it the
00:16:36
biggest monopoly in human history.
00:16:38
>> Interesting to hear that word monopoly.
00:16:40
Sachs, very interesting placement.
00:16:42
Chimath go ahead and then I'll move
00:16:45
in 2025 was 420 billion Microsoft was
00:16:50
300 billion Alphabet was 390 billion
00:16:53
Amazon 700 billion Nvidia 190 billion
00:16:56
Meta 185 billion Tesla 110 billion total
00:17:00
about 2.3 to 2.35 trillion so if Sax is
00:17:03
right and Anthropic you know can tack on
00:17:08
a trillion it won't be the mag seven
00:17:10
it'll be the mag
00:17:12
Just to put it in perspective though,
00:17:13
Daario on Dwarkkish said he thought the
00:17:16
combined AI revenue of the market
00:17:19
leaders would be about a trillion in 29.
00:17:21
I love what you're saying. Sachs, I
00:17:23
think there is unlimited TAM. We may be
00:17:25
over our skis a little bit in terms of,
00:17:27
you know, the forecast. If you back your
00:17:29
way from compute, right, they're they
00:17:31
expect to have 5 gigs by the end of this
00:17:33
year, 10 gigs by the end of next year.
00:17:34
It's kind of hard to get to those
00:17:36
numbers for a single company, but I do
00:17:38
believe that the, you know, trajectory
00:17:40
that they're on, I totally agree with
00:17:42
you, is on an exponential um that not
00:17:44
many people believed in 4 months ago.
00:17:46
>> Right. So then the question is, okay, I
00:17:48
think we all agree they're on an
00:17:49
exponential curve and that the TAM is
00:17:51
big enough to support that. Just one
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data point on TAM. My understanding of
00:17:56
the total market size just on coding is
00:18:00
one trillion meaning that a trillion
00:18:02
dollars a year roughly is spent on
00:18:04
software developers and all things
00:18:06
related to the creation of software.
00:18:08
Now, I'm not saying that they eat that
00:18:10
entire market, but I can easily see the
00:18:12
market for software doubling.
00:18:14
>> Well, hold on. Doubling from a trillion
00:18:16
to two trillion given that coding tokens
00:18:20
basically 10xes or 100xes the value of
00:18:24
that market and the ability to generate
00:18:26
code. So, I think we all agree that the
00:18:28
TAM here is large enough to support a
00:18:31
trillion dollars of revenue. Brad, I
00:18:32
think you bring up a couple of really
00:18:34
important constraints. First, there may
00:18:36
not be enough comput and there's not
00:18:37
enough energy. I'd say the second big
00:18:38
one is what's the competitive reaction
00:18:40
going to be? Totally.
00:18:41
>> Because I would say at the beginning of
00:18:43
this year, all these frontier labs were
00:18:45
playing around with a lot of different
00:18:46
things. I mean, Anthropic was the
00:18:49
porcupine. They believed in one thing.
00:18:51
All these other companies were kind of
00:18:53
acting like the fox who thinks they're
00:18:54
good at a lot of different things. They
00:18:56
were doing Nano Banana. They were doing
00:18:58
Sora. They were doing, you know, they
00:18:59
were doing image generation. They were
00:19:01
doing fantasy character chatbots. In
00:19:04
hindsight, they were doing a lot of
00:19:06
things that appear to be kind of a waste
00:19:07
of time. The whole market appears now to
00:19:10
be coding and the things that will be
00:19:12
built on coding tokens like co-work like
00:19:14
agents. And so there is going to be a
00:19:16
competitive response here where all the
00:19:18
other guys realize, oh wait a second, we
00:19:20
were misfocused. They're going to get
00:19:22
focused. I just don't know how much
00:19:24
share they're going to be able to take.
00:19:26
It does look like OpenAI has already
00:19:28
made the pivot. We hear very good things
00:19:30
about Codeex now based on GPT 5.5. 5.5
00:19:34
is based on a new base model called
00:19:36
Spud. I think they're very optimistic
00:19:37
about continuing improvements. Their
00:19:40
rate of growth appears to be
00:19:41
accelerating now because of uh 5.5.
00:19:45
So look, there's reason to believe that
00:19:47
OpenAI can take some share here. I'm
00:19:49
sure that Google won't be asleep at the
00:19:52
wheel. They're very very good at coding.
00:19:53
They've got a really good team and Elon
00:19:55
just tied up with Cursor. So there is
00:19:57
going to be more competition but still
00:19:59
what you have to say and I think all of
00:20:01
us know this from Silicon Valley is you
00:20:03
always want to be the company in the
00:20:05
lead that's on that trajectory where all
00:20:08
you have to do is maintain inertia
00:20:10
whereas the other people have to change
00:20:12
something
00:20:13
>> in order to put themselves back in the
00:20:14
race. So this is when I say somewhat
00:20:17
sort of faciciously congratulations
00:20:19
Dario on winning the AI race. I don't
00:20:22
mean that he's won it but he is winning
00:20:24
it right now. Well, here's the the
00:20:26
brilliance of what Elon's doing. If you
00:20:28
look at the existing business, which is
00:20:30
Starlink and basically the launch
00:20:31
services at SpaceX, incredible business.
00:20:34
Obviously,
00:20:36
20 billion this year, I think is the
00:20:37
estimate. But if you look at the
00:20:39
footprint of Amazon Web Services, Azure
00:20:41
and GCP, you're looking at, you know,
00:20:44
300 billion dollars in revenue and a
00:20:49
market cap of combined 5 trillion, 4
00:20:53
trillion if these were independent
00:20:54
companies. And if you look at what is
00:20:57
Elon's core competency at Tesla, it's
00:21:00
building factories. And if you look at
00:21:02
the footprint of these factories,
00:21:04
they're huge. What are data centers?
00:21:05
They're basically big giant factories.
00:21:07
And then if you look at energy, what
00:21:10
else is Elon extremely good at? This is
00:21:12
the battery deployment and he's also got
00:21:14
solar deployment from the Solar City
00:21:16
often criticized acquisition he did
00:21:18
years ago. So you put this all together.
00:21:21
If this is 5 billion, as I think you
00:21:23
referenced, Brad, if it's $5 billion in
00:21:25
incremental
00:21:27
Elon Web Services business and he's a
00:21:29
Neocloud, what could he build on planet
00:21:33
Earth? What could he build inside of
00:21:35
Teslas in terms of extra compute? What
00:21:37
could he build inside the power wall?
00:21:38
What if the power walls had his new fabs
00:21:41
in them and you built a distributed
00:21:42
system from home to home? The power wall
00:21:45
has compute in it. The cars have comput
00:21:48
in it. And of course, the ultimate
00:21:50
manifestation of this where nobody can
00:21:52
complain is you go right out into space.
00:21:55
And that's what he's going to do. And
00:21:57
the the sneaky small part of this
00:21:59
announcement from Elon and uh from
00:22:01
Anthropic and Daario was they're also
00:22:04
interested in space. So look for the
00:22:07
race to go from factories and data
00:22:10
centers to homes. The power wall with
00:22:12
comput in it. It's already online,
00:22:14
right? And Starlink also gives him the
00:22:16
ability to do distributed comput's
00:22:19
homes. Again, you could be paying people
00:22:21
to put power walls with computing in it.
00:22:23
That's going to be the next shoe to
00:22:24
drop, I believe. Did you guys see the
00:22:26
deal that was announced
00:22:28
yesterday between PY Homes, which is a
00:22:31
huge builder
00:22:33
>> and SPAN?
00:22:34
>> Yes.
00:22:35
>> Nick, just throw this up here. It's
00:22:36
super cool. What's happening is that
00:22:38
these guys
00:22:39
>> are putting many data centers with
00:22:42
Nvidia GPU clusters
00:22:44
beside every home and then allowing
00:22:46
people to actually run those things. And
00:22:47
that's just incredible. I thought that
00:22:49
was so cool.
00:22:50
>> It's a great pivot. What this company
00:22:51
did originally, Chimamoth, was they did
00:22:53
the power panel. They made smart power
00:22:55
panels. So, you know, when you flip your
00:22:56
breakers, all those breakers are in an
00:22:59
app. I looked at it for my house, but I
00:23:00
guess they pivoted to add this and I
00:23:02
think base power, Brad, you're an
00:23:03
investor in it. They're going to do the
00:23:04
same thing.
00:23:05
>> Zack Dell is doing that. One of the
00:23:07
things I just say in response, Jason, to
00:23:08
what you just said about Elon, right?
00:23:10
This is why the SpaceX IPO is going to
00:23:13
trade at 40 to 50 times revenue. Okay.
00:23:17
So next year if they do 40 to 50 billion
00:23:20
and this thing goes out at 2 trillion
00:23:22
right that they're going to trade at a
00:23:24
really high revenue multiple compared to
00:23:26
the mag five that are trading at like 25
00:23:29
times earnings and there's only one
00:23:31
person on the planet who has a future
00:23:34
pipeline of innovation and the largest
00:23:37
TAM in the world because he's playing in
00:23:38
all these different spaces that can
00:23:40
command that multiple and it's Elon and
00:23:43
it's deserved and it's great for the
00:23:44
country
00:23:45
>> has that same Tesla has that same Elon
00:23:48
uh variable in it as well which is
00:23:50
people value his companies at I would
00:23:52
say two times market three times market
00:23:55
four times market because of the future
00:23:57
pipeline and they devalue Apple because
00:23:59
they don't have somebody like Elon or
00:24:01
Steve Jobs there who is giving them the
00:24:03
future
00:24:03
>> I don't think it's devalued I think
00:24:04
>> or properly valued if you don't have an
00:24:06
Elon and you have somebody like I think
00:24:08
that's exactly what it is we talked
00:24:10
about this last week but explain why you
00:24:11
think it's different
00:24:12
>> I think all of these companies are
00:24:13
actually very fairly valued and then
00:24:16
Elon World gets a premium
00:24:18
>> totally
00:24:19
>> and that premium is because of what you
00:24:21
guys said that I agree with. The big
00:24:23
message that I take away from this which
00:24:25
the markets and retail are telling you
00:24:28
is you guys have stopped innovating.
00:24:32
There's a lot of incrementalism
00:24:34
and we as a society aren't benefiting
00:24:37
broadly the way that you told us we
00:24:39
would be. And so maybe this is the best
00:24:42
way for them to get this message, which
00:24:44
is to whack their valuation. And by the
00:24:46
way, I'll just say it again, when Tesla
00:24:48
and SpaceX merge and we have all things
00:24:51
Elon and Elon Corp, okay, which will
00:24:53
happen probably by the end of the year.
00:24:55
Maybe it'll happen in the middle of next
00:24:57
year.
00:24:59
It's going to then break everybody's
00:25:00
brains again because you'll have this
00:25:02
one asset, as you guys said, that will
00:25:05
trade at a valuation premium. And some
00:25:08
people will say it's unexplainable. And
00:25:10
I think it's logically explainable,
00:25:11
which is everybody else has stopped
00:25:14
innovating. People know how to draw more
00:25:17
blood from the stone, how to target
00:25:19
better ads.
00:25:21
That does nothing for society anymore.
00:25:23
>> That's it. Literally, in fact, it does
00:25:25
the opposite. It there is no good left.
00:25:27
That was literally the exact point I was
00:25:29
making when you cut me off. If you look,
00:25:31
Tim Cook's greatest innovation Tim
00:25:33
Cook's greatest innovation before you
00:25:35
cut me off was Apple TV. Not even the
00:25:38
hardware product. It was just spending
00:25:39
money and making a Netflix knockoff.
00:25:41
There's been no other product in
00:25:43
>> Hold on. Let me finish again before you
00:25:45
interrupt me making my
00:25:46
>> You don't like that? Oh, you like me?
00:25:47
>> Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Well, okay. Okay. Go
00:25:49
back to
00:25:50
>> meat kettle.
00:25:52
>> If you look at their track record and I
00:25:54
think this is why we had a change there
00:25:57
is they have not done anything
00:25:59
innovative and in fact the things they
00:26:00
were doing that were innovating in AI or
00:26:03
self-driving cars, they shut down. They
00:26:05
won't take any swings for the bat. So
00:26:06
they are getting penalized in their
00:26:08
valuation penalized. They're just not
00:26:10
getting a premium. They're not getting
00:26:11
penalized.
00:26:12
>> I think they're getting penalized.
00:26:13
>> Every metric they're trading at
00:26:14
incredible valuations. Just look at
00:26:16
them.
00:26:17
>> Oh no. I don't I mean if you compare the
00:26:19
two valuations, I think they're being
00:26:20
penalized. Anyway, let's Anybody else
00:26:22
want to get in on this before we move on
00:26:24
to the next one? Yeah.
00:26:25
>> There is no world in which Google and
00:26:27
Meta and Apple and Amazon could be
00:26:32
viewed as being penalized in valuation.
00:26:35
There is very clearly a world where Elon
00:26:37
gets a massive premium because he's
00:26:39
innovating.
00:26:41
>> You're saying the same things. You're
00:26:42
saying the same thing the same thing.
00:26:44
It's not the same.
00:26:45
>> Listen, we're I think we're we're
00:26:46
debating semantics here. I'm not letting
00:26:48
you off the hook, Saxy Poo. When Sax is
00:26:52
very deliberate in how he speaks, they
00:26:54
said he's the captain of the debate club
00:26:55
in his 20,000word article this week and
00:26:57
that he's a master debater. He's a
00:26:59
masturbator. And you slipped in. You
00:27:03
slipped it in. Are you saying that the
00:27:06
FTC or whoever should be going in and
00:27:08
looking at anthrop Oh, Brad's book is
00:27:11
getting attacked headwinds. You said
00:27:13
they're a monopoly or they're heading to
00:27:15
monopoly tactics s is that what you're
00:27:18
saying?
00:27:19
>> Well, look, I mean, we know that tech
00:27:22
markets have a history of consolidating
00:27:25
down and turning into either monopolies
00:27:27
or duopolies. And if you just look at
00:27:29
the revenue right now, there's only two
00:27:31
companies making substantial revenue on
00:27:35
AI. It's Enthropic and Open AI. We know
00:27:38
that OpenAI is growing at 3 to 4x, which
00:27:40
is incredible at the level of scale
00:27:42
they're at. Enthropic though, we said,
00:27:43
is growing at an exponential 10x a year.
00:27:46
And if they just do that for 18 more
00:27:49
months, they'll be by far the most
00:27:51
valuable company in human history. And
00:27:53
they'll have unprecedented control over
00:27:55
the most important technology of our
00:27:57
time. So, I don't know what you call
00:27:59
that, but it is something to think
00:28:02
about. And I guess I do have a thought
00:28:03
experiment for you guys, which is I just
00:28:07
want you to think for a second about the
00:28:10
case of of John D. Rockefeller, who I
00:28:13
think is known as probably the most
00:28:16
successful, most ruthless
00:28:18
>> monopolist in in American history. But
00:28:21
he wasn't very good at PR. He was
00:28:22
terrible at PR. Everyone sort of
00:28:24
recognized how ruthless he is. We've
00:28:26
seen movies like There Will Be Blood,
00:28:28
which is basically about him. In any
00:28:29
event, imagine if John D. Rockefeller
00:28:32
was way better at public relations, and
00:28:35
instead of calling his company Standard
00:28:37
Oil, he called it safe oil. Okay, let's
00:28:40
just let's just play this thought
00:28:41
experiment.
00:28:42
>> Clean, beautiful coal. Yes,
00:28:43
>> safe oil. He called it safe oil because,
00:28:46
as we know, kerosene is dangerous. Their
00:28:48
first big product was kerosene. And
00:28:51
kerosene can light your house or it can
00:28:53
burn it down. and in the wrong hands it
00:28:55
can torch a city or you can use it to
00:28:57
make a bomb. So John D, let's say should
00:29:02
have called for the creation of a new
00:29:04
government agency to regulate the safety
00:29:06
of his product and they could have done
00:29:08
rigorous testing, licensing, common
00:29:10
sense regulation. There would have been
00:29:12
a very intense debate over safety
00:29:14
standards, you know, what should the
00:29:15
proper wick thickness be and should we
00:29:18
allow all those dangerous independent
00:29:21
refiners, right? And I think people
00:29:23
would have gotten so wrapped up in this
00:29:25
debate over what constituted safe oil or
00:29:29
safe kerosene that they would have
00:29:31
missed what was really going on, which
00:29:33
is that Rockefeller was building the
00:29:34
richest, most powerful monopoly of all
00:29:36
time. In fact, people might even have
00:29:38
called Rockefeller an effective altruist
00:29:41
because of course he was so concerned
00:29:43
about the safety of his product.
00:29:46
>> I love it. Shout out to David Sax's
00:29:48
writers. Great great writers. Newman.
00:29:51
Newman wrote this.
00:29:52
>> No, I wrote it.
00:29:53
>> Emmy award for best writing in a
00:29:55
dramatic monologue goes to Newman. Wow.
00:29:58
Sax writing. He landed it. Very good.
00:30:00
Sax,
00:30:01
>> I thought after the Elon anthropic dant
00:30:04
where Elon said, you know, complimented
00:30:06
anthropic that and David started off
00:30:08
with a bit of a compliment. I thought we
00:30:10
maybe were past this first. It's
00:30:11
ridiculous to think of this as a
00:30:13
monopoly. You know, we're talking about
00:30:15
annual run rate revenues, David, but on
00:30:18
a gap basis, they're doing about the
00:30:19
same revenue as OpenAI in the month of
00:30:21
March. Okay? So, we're way ahead of
00:30:23
ourselves. By the way, 5 months ago,
00:30:25
everybody thought Open AI was going to
00:30:27
run away with this. Google's revenues
00:30:29
are very substantial in AI. And by the
00:30:32
way, Google, Amazon, etc., these
00:30:34
companies are producing hundred billion
00:30:36
dollars of free cash flow to justify
00:30:38
their incremental investment. At the
00:30:39
same time, you have these two startups
00:30:41
that are still fledgling, that are still
00:30:43
fragile in the scheme of things. You of
00:30:46
all people should know we've got the
00:30:47
best competition in AI on the planet,
00:30:50
which is why we're at the frontier and
00:30:52
kicking the tail of everybody else on
00:30:54
the planet. So, I just want to see these
00:30:56
companies compete. I want to see DC stay
00:30:58
out of the way. The last thing I want to
00:31:00
be doing is is is, you know, seeing
00:31:03
people talk about this and throwing
00:31:04
roadblocks into the way of the
00:31:05
competition. Um, I think I agree.
00:31:08
>> Well, let me let me hold on. Let me
00:31:10
translate Brad for you. Don't [ __ ] with
00:31:12
my paper is what he's saying. He's got
00:31:14
bets on these. So, Sachs, Washington,
00:31:16
DC, don't [ __ ] with Brad's paper.
00:31:19
>> Saxs, uh, do you want to get into the,
00:31:21
uh, regulation stuff right now as a
00:31:23
segue or
00:31:24
>> Let me respond to Brad and also
00:31:25
translate what I'm saying satirically.
00:31:28
Okay.
00:31:29
>> First of all, nobody wants to see these
00:31:32
companies compete vigorously more than
00:31:35
me. That was the whole premise
00:31:38
>> of the action plan that we worked on
00:31:40
last year is we want to bring out the
00:31:41
best in everyone. This is how America's
00:31:43
going to win the AI race. We have five
00:31:45
major labs vigorously competing and as
00:31:48
long as that competition is taking place
00:31:50
that I think that's a good thing.
00:31:51
Doesn't mean we can't have guardrails
00:31:52
and the rest of it, but basically
00:31:54
competition should be our northstar. All
00:31:57
of that being said, okay, what I am
00:32:00
pointing out and I I think it's
00:32:01
historically true that people in
00:32:03
Washington have woken up to monopolies
00:32:07
on the late side, not early, right?
00:32:10
Because I mean, once a company has won
00:32:12
80% of the market, that's when they wake
00:32:14
up and say, "Oh, we have a monopoly
00:32:15
here." And I'm not saying that they have
00:32:18
a monopoly yet. But if the trajectory
00:32:20
continues for just 18 more months,
00:32:23
>> then I think it will be in this
00:32:25
unprecedently powerful position. I mean
00:32:29
>> and and hold on and I don't think people
00:32:31
should be distracted from that fact by
00:32:34
this rhetoric around safety because
00:32:36
someone like Rockefeller could have used
00:32:38
it too. And I do think I mean just like
00:32:41
one one last point on this. I do think
00:32:43
that if you actually look at what a lot
00:32:46
of the the safetiest policies are
00:32:49
calling for, they're basically calling
00:32:51
for a form of regulatory capture and
00:32:53
they're calling for things that would
00:32:54
create a stronger moat around this
00:32:57
monopoly or duopoly that's in the
00:32:59
process of being created and it would
00:33:01
get in the way of competition. So again,
00:33:04
I think that people might not have such
00:33:07
a charitable view of all this safety
00:33:09
rhetoric if they understood that what
00:33:12
was being created here is the biggest
00:33:14
monopoly in human history. And I think
00:33:16
we should just be a little bit more
00:33:17
skeptical about some of these altruistic
00:33:20
claims. I can't believe that David is
00:33:24
like, you know, talking monopolies when
00:33:27
we haven't even left the starting gate
00:33:29
of AI. I I I I think this is a uh I to
00:33:34
me
00:33:34
>> there's only two companies with revenue.
00:33:36
>> The last thing I want is DC trying to
00:33:39
preemptively preemptively, which would
00:33:41
be like a disastrous consequence, get in
00:33:44
the game of picking winners and losers
00:33:46
at the starting line of AI. That would
00:33:48
be a disaster.
00:33:49
>> Brad, did you just put another soap box
00:33:51
on top of the soap box you were standing
00:33:52
on?
00:33:54
>> Look, Brad, like I said, my northstar is
00:33:57
competition. As long as there's
00:33:58
competition going on, I support it.
00:34:00
However, hold on, hold on. We know
00:34:03
>> that monopouists want to stop
00:34:06
competition and they use regulatory
00:34:07
capture to do it. And furthermore, they
00:34:09
do things like ban their competitors
00:34:11
from using their product. What
00:34:12
conceivable reason did Anthropic have
00:34:15
for banning OpenClaw using its models?
00:34:18
That is anti-competitive, is it not?
00:34:21
>> I I I would double click on it. I would
00:34:23
double click on it. I might not, you
00:34:24
know, file, but I would double click.
00:34:26
Okay, listen. Chimoth, the girls are
00:34:28
fighting. Let's keep moving through the
00:34:30
docket. We're going to be here all day
00:34:31
with these two. And uh one thing that
00:34:34
you're going to need to act on very
00:34:35
quickly is the all-in summit. It's
00:34:37
selling out fast. Don't miss it.
00:34:38
Speakers are top tier again. Freeberg
00:34:40
busy working on some amazing speakers.
00:34:43
Saxs will be there. Uh he's flying in
00:34:44
and out every day for four hours. And
00:34:46
then we're we're going to have a lot of
00:34:49
networking stuff going down. We're
00:34:50
building some networking software. So
00:34:52
when you come to our events, you get to
00:34:53
meet people. That's what we always say.
00:34:55
my playbook for events. If you learn
00:34:57
something from the speakers every day,
00:34:59
one or two things, if you meet somebody
00:35:01
new and you eat some great food and have
00:35:03
some fun, you get two or three of those
00:35:05
things. Ah, man. Even if you get one,
00:35:06
you're going to come back to the event,
00:35:07
you're going to get all three all day
00:35:09
long. allin.com/events. Los Angeles,
00:35:12
September 13th, 14th, and 15th.
00:35:15
Apologies to everybody asking, but
00:35:16
liquidity is sold out and we've shut
00:35:18
down the wait list. There's just no more
00:35:20
room. All right. The White House
00:35:22
allegedly, possibly is considering,
00:35:25
according to reports, an FDA for AI that
00:35:29
would vet, you heard that correct,
00:35:31
folks, that would vet new models for
00:35:33
safety. The thing we've been talking
00:35:35
about not doing here, the thing David
00:35:37
Saxs has spent the last year on, the
00:35:39
White House is considering. New York
00:35:41
Times reported Trump is considering an
00:35:43
executive order to create an quote AI
00:35:46
working group. This group would include
00:35:47
tech exeacts and government officials
00:35:49
who would quote examine potential
00:35:52
oversight procedures
00:35:54
including quote a review process for new
00:35:57
AI models. Oi according to the report
00:36:00
the catalyst was wait for it anthropics
00:36:03
mythos model which reportedly scared
00:36:06
spooked made people really nervous at
00:36:09
the White House. quote, "The White House
00:36:11
wants to avoid any political
00:36:13
repercussions if a devastating AI
00:36:16
enabled cyber attack were to occur. They
00:36:18
want a CYA, according to the New York
00:36:20
Times." Kevin Hassid, that guy, the
00:36:23
director of the National Economic
00:36:25
Council, confirmed the report on Fox
00:36:27
Business. Here's your 15-second clip.
00:36:28
We're studying possibly an executive
00:36:31
order uh to give a clear roadmap to
00:36:33
everybody about how this is going to go
00:36:35
and how future AIs that also potentially
00:36:38
create vulnerabilities uh should go
00:36:40
through a process so that you know
00:36:42
they're released to the wild after
00:36:43
they've been proven safe just like an
00:36:45
FDA drug.
00:36:46
>> Additionally,
00:36:48
friend of the pod Scott Bessen had
00:36:51
something to say. What we had in the
00:36:52
past month was a step change in the
00:36:55
power of one large language model, but
00:36:58
we're going to see it from the other a
00:37:00
AI companies. What we are determined to
00:37:02
do is work with our AI companies to
00:37:05
allow them to continue innovate. But our
00:37:08
charge of the US government is
00:37:09
maintaining safety. And there there is a
00:37:12
very important calculus here between
00:37:15
innovation and safety. And at the the US
00:37:18
government, we're going to make sure
00:37:19
that things stay safe. There you go.
00:37:21
Kevin Hasset and Bessant. Slightly
00:37:25
different positions here. Brad, what do
00:37:26
you think?
00:37:27
>> Actually, I don't think they're slightly
00:37:28
different positions, but I I I would
00:37:30
agree that Kevin bringing up the FDA
00:37:32
kind of muddied the waters. I talked to
00:37:33
Kevin last night after that clip ran,
00:37:37
you know, and I asked him I I just said,
00:37:38
"Do you think FDA is the right analog
00:37:41
here?" And he said, you know, I was I
00:37:42
was only bringing it up to say that they
00:37:44
we want them to show us the models so
00:37:46
that we can coordinate them. Obviously,
00:37:48
our job is to make sure that the
00:37:50
government is prepared, that we harden
00:37:52
our systems, that our intelligence
00:37:54
agencies are up to speed. But he does
00:37:56
not think, and I can't find anybody on
00:37:59
the right, you know, uh, that believes
00:38:01
that we're going to move to an approval
00:38:03
regime, right? The approval regime, this
00:38:06
idea that you're going to have to share
00:38:08
every model with an FDA in Washington
00:38:10
and they're going to have to pre-approve
00:38:12
the model is a disaster. Sachs has been
00:38:14
effectively fighting against this
00:38:16
correctly over the course of the last
00:38:18
year. It would just it would lead to
00:38:20
three bad things. Number one, we do not
00:38:22
want to put the wa Washington in in the
00:38:24
position of picking winners and losers
00:38:26
when it comes to these models. We're
00:38:27
winning. We're on the winning horse in
00:38:29
America. We're out in front of the rest
00:38:31
of the world. There's no reason to
00:38:33
change horses and regimes at this point.
00:38:35
And we don't want to burden this with
00:38:36
more democracy. But at the same time
00:38:39
obviously I call these pre-agi or agi
00:38:41
models mistral spud etc. I see a lot of
00:38:45
coordination going on between the
00:38:46
industry and government. I think we can
00:38:48
do an even better job of evolving that
00:38:50
framework so that everybody in
00:38:52
government is on the same page. We need
00:38:54
to build more capacity in government to
00:38:56
quickly be able to do the cyber review
00:38:58
on these models. Right now it takes too
00:39:01
long when the coordination does occur.
00:39:03
So we need to have a finite amount of
00:39:04
time that they get government feedback
00:39:07
etc. But the last thing that we want is
00:39:09
an FDA of models sitting in Washington.
00:39:12
Kevin understands that. Scott Besson
00:39:14
understands that. So I expect that we
00:39:16
will continue down the path that we've
00:39:18
been on. Chimoth obviously I think we
00:39:21
all agree we don't need an FDA for AI
00:39:23
but there are things that reasonably
00:39:27
people would want to have guard rails
00:39:30
around a AI. I'm sure you would agree it
00:39:33
shouldn't be a total free-for-all. So,
00:39:35
what's your take on this? Is it just
00:39:37
somebody gave a bad analogy here or
00:39:39
maybe some people were weasling their
00:39:41
way into the White House to try to shift
00:39:42
things when Sax was back at home or
00:39:44
something? What What's going on here?
00:39:46
Give us the uh cuz that's what that's
00:39:48
what people say. They say the last
00:39:49
person to talk to Trump kind of has his
00:39:52
ear and that things can bend a certain
00:39:54
way.
00:39:55
>> I don't think it's that. I think that
00:39:56
there's a pretty profound vibe shift
00:39:59
with respect to tech, tech oligarchs,
00:40:03
Silicon Valley, and particularly the AI.
00:40:05
That vibe shift has already happened on
00:40:08
Main Street, and I think that that's
00:40:11
starting to seep into Washington. I
00:40:13
think that regulations are coming. I
00:40:16
think they'll be worse under a
00:40:18
Democratic regime, but I think that some
00:40:20
form of oversight is going to exist
00:40:22
under a Republican regime.
00:40:25
The question that I think is worth
00:40:26
asking is why.
00:40:29
And if you listen to everybody's tone,
00:40:33
it's all around the negatives of AI.
00:40:36
So I think we suffer from two things.
00:40:38
Number one is we have horrible
00:40:39
messaging. Nobody spends the time and
00:40:43
the money to articulate the positive
00:40:46
upside case so that there's broad-based
00:40:49
support. And two, the idea that there's
00:40:52
going to be, as Sach said earlier, a few
00:40:55
winners and many, many, many potential
00:40:58
losers, I think is really disconcerting
00:41:00
to everybody. And the response from the
00:41:03
tech community again should be the
00:41:06
leadership of the tech world coming
00:41:09
together and actually reinvesting in
00:41:12
America at large. They're not doing that
00:41:14
in enough of a scale that blunts this.
00:41:17
So what you're seeing is the buildup of
00:41:19
antibodies. Is it avoidable? Yes. Are we
00:41:23
doing a good job of avoiding it?
00:41:25
Absolutely not. We're doing a horrible
00:41:26
job. I'd give the community, the tech
00:41:28
leaders a Dminus, trending to an F. The
00:41:33
response is what we're seeing. So I
00:41:34
think the question, Jason, isn't
00:41:37
regulation, no regulation. It's why did
00:41:39
we get here? And I think we got here
00:41:42
because the other version, the glass
00:41:45
half full version, the demonstrated
00:41:47
investment, the broad-based uplifting of
00:41:50
American society hasn't happened. And if
00:41:52
it has, it's been very poorly
00:41:54
communicated. And so the response is,
00:41:56
hey, hold on. We're going to give three
00:41:58
guys trillion dollar net worths and
00:42:01
we're going to allow them to control the
00:42:02
keys. That's why this is happening.
00:42:04
>> Exactly. Correct. And it's very easy,
00:42:07
Sachs, to imagine all the bad things
00:42:09
that can happen. Our minds are
00:42:11
constructed to do that. We're vigilant.
00:42:13
We look out for the tiger or, you know,
00:42:15
the tornado to keep ourselves safe.
00:42:18
Humans have a bias towards safety and
00:42:21
they're going to think about, you know,
00:42:22
deep fakes. They're going to think about
00:42:24
robotics. They're going to think about
00:42:25
self-driving cars, taking people's jobs.
00:42:27
They're going to think about, you know,
00:42:28
all the dark things that could happen,
00:42:30
boweapons, etc. And we don't have
00:42:32
anybody out there really talking about
00:42:34
all the positives that could happen.
00:42:37
What's your take on the palace intrigue
00:42:40
we all have here? What's going on in the
00:42:43
palace in the 47th administration around
00:42:46
this debate? Who's leading Trump down
00:42:49
the path of regulation and creating this
00:42:52
AI FDA? We know you're part of the camp
00:42:55
that wants to keep this train moving and
00:42:58
not overregulated, not have regulatory
00:43:00
capture. Who are the people trying to
00:43:01
slow this down?
00:43:02
>> Well, look, I I think there's several
00:43:04
things going on here. The first one is
00:43:06
there's a lot of fake news. This whole
00:43:08
idea of an FDA for AI, I don't think any
00:43:11
senior official supports it. Just like
00:43:13
Brad was saying, I spoke to Hassid as
00:43:15
well. That's not where his head is at.
00:43:17
So, I don't think anybody in the
00:43:19
administration is saying they want an
00:43:21
FDA for AI. Certainly, I don't think
00:43:24
that's the way the president thinks
00:43:25
about these issues. He's the most pro-
00:43:27
innovation president we've ever had. And
00:43:29
the White House chief of staff, Susie
00:43:30
Wall, just put out a statement last
00:43:32
night that I think pretty much shoots
00:43:33
this down. So I think there's a big fake
00:43:35
news component. Remember it was not
00:43:37
really the White House who was saying
00:43:38
it. It was the New York Times and there
00:43:40
and really I think actually Andrew Ross
00:43:42
Sto I'm not criticizing him but he's a
00:43:45
commentator and he's the one who said
00:43:47
this first and then somehow that spin or
00:43:50
that gloss somehow took on a life of its
00:43:53
own. And I think Silicon Valley reacted
00:43:57
accordingly. There's a very visceral
00:43:58
negative reaction here because we know
00:44:00
how damaging that would be to
00:44:01
innovation. But look, I think the good
00:44:03
news is that that was fake news. Second,
00:44:06
I think that there's another thing going
00:44:08
on, which is a straw manning of what the
00:44:12
Trump administration did on AI in its
00:44:15
first year. And in the same way that
00:44:18
they want to spin this FDA for AI,
00:44:20
they're also trying to spin what we did
00:44:22
as this completely lazy fair attitude
00:44:25
where there'd be no regulations
00:44:26
whatsoever, no guardrails. It's a way of
00:44:29
criticizing what we did. They're trying
00:44:31
to portray it as unsafe. In fact, if you
00:44:33
look on March 20th, the White House
00:44:35
released a national AI regulatory
00:44:38
framework that I worked on in which we
00:44:41
put out a four-page bulleted list of
00:44:43
legislation that we would support if
00:44:46
Congress wants to pass it. So, we have
00:44:49
not been against every conceivable
00:44:52
regulation or every conceivable law. We
00:44:54
just believe that there should be
00:44:56
specific solutions to specific problems
00:44:59
as opposed to a giant power grab by
00:45:01
Washington that would squash innovation.
00:45:03
So I think that's point number two.
00:45:06
Point number three is there is a
00:45:08
legitimate thing happening here with
00:45:10
let's call it mythos or cyber. Okay, we
00:45:13
know that it's not just mythos. Open AI
00:45:17
now has a model that's just as cyber
00:45:19
capable as mythos. And within 3 to six
00:45:22
months, all the major frontier labs and
00:45:24
including Chinese models will have cyber
00:45:27
capabilities.
00:45:28
In response to that, we do need there to
00:45:31
be a hardening of systems and we do need
00:45:35
there to be a scanning of code bases to
00:45:37
find these vulnerabilities and patch
00:45:40
them before the hackers do it because
00:45:42
the hackers will have these capabilities
00:45:44
in a matter of months. That's a
00:45:46
certainty because the same capabilities
00:45:48
you use for cyber defense can also be
00:45:50
used for cyber offense. It's the same
00:45:52
tool set and the open source models will
00:45:55
have these capabilities anyway.
00:45:56
>> They already have it to a certain
00:45:57
extent. Let's be honest, they have 80%
00:45:59
of it.
00:46:00
>> It's simply the case that AI will be
00:46:02
good at cyber and so we do need a
00:46:04
response to that. Now my view on what
00:46:07
should that response be should be first
00:46:10
of all we should want the government and
00:46:13
the private sector to work cooperatively
00:46:15
and I think they are we have a giant
00:46:18
cyber security industry in the United
00:46:20
States whose sole job it is to protect
00:46:23
systems and protect against breaches.
00:46:26
>> We have the best companies in the world
00:46:28
at doing that. We have Crowd Strike. We
00:46:30
have Palo Alto Networks. We talked about
00:46:32
that before. We have the best defense.
00:46:34
>> Right. Exactly. And so what we should be
00:46:36
doing I think is getting these tools
00:46:38
mythos and then the open AI model and
00:46:41
and others like it in the hands of our
00:46:43
cyber security industry. And by the way
00:46:45
not just the public companies like Palo
00:46:47
Alto Networks and Crowd Strike although
00:46:49
certainly they're two of the most
00:46:50
noteworthy but there's also some
00:46:52
incredibly strong startups on the way up
00:46:55
there that are at the cutting edge of
00:46:57
doing AI powered pen testing and all the
00:47:00
rest of it. We need to get these tools
00:47:02
into their hands as quickly as possible
00:47:03
because they're a force multiplier for
00:47:05
all the companies out there that aren't
00:47:07
that good at cyber security or maybe
00:47:10
they've got IT departments. They can use
00:47:12
these companies as vendors. So I think
00:47:14
that there is a role for
00:47:15
>> Can I ask you a question? Yeah.
00:47:16
>> Do you think that the models should
00:47:20
have a KYC rapper going forward?
00:47:22
>> KYC for the audience is know your
00:47:25
customer.
00:47:25
>> Yeah. So really what it would mean is
00:47:27
that before you can use mythos you have
00:47:30
to identify yourself so that we can try
00:47:32
to know that you're not a state
00:47:35
sponsored actor or you know a bad guy.
00:47:38
>> I think that's the type of thing that we
00:47:39
should be thinking about. So first of
00:47:41
all I want to say that both anthropic
00:47:43
and open AI acted responsibly here. No
00:47:46
one was trying to release these super
00:47:48
powerful models. So, in a way, all the
00:47:51
people who are saying that we need
00:47:52
pre-release approvals for models,
00:47:54
they're trying to solve a problem that
00:47:55
didn't exist regulated.
00:47:57
>> Yeah, they probably wasn't trying to
00:47:58
release. I wasn't trying to release
00:48:00
this. They all understood the power and
00:48:01
they were all acting responsibly.
00:48:03
>> They understood the ramifications. They
00:48:05
would have been sued. So, they there is
00:48:06
a self-p policing going on here, which
00:48:08
is the ultimate way to do this.
00:48:10
>> Yes. And but to your point, Jimoth,
00:48:12
yeah, look, I think that before giving
00:48:15
your API for a super powerful model, you
00:48:17
should not give that to a company or an
00:48:19
actor. You don't know who they are. So,
00:48:21
yeah, some basic KYC makes sense. They
00:48:23
should know who they're giving these
00:48:24
tools to. And I guess my view on the
00:48:27
mythos preview and whatever the
00:48:28
equivalent is of what OpenAI is doing is
00:48:32
that we very rapidly need to get these
00:48:34
tools into the hands of more good guys.
00:48:36
You need to know who those good guys
00:48:38
are. You need to know who they are. So
00:48:40
yeah, KYC is like a predicate for that,
00:48:43
right? You got a new
00:48:44
>> just to be clear, we'd all agree that if
00:48:46
you did have identity for those frontier
00:48:49
models, which they're probably doing
00:48:50
anyway right now, and you logged what
00:48:52
people were doing with them to look for
00:48:53
security breaches, that wouldn't
00:48:54
necessarily happen when you released it
00:48:56
to the public because of privacy issues.
00:48:59
Here's your Poly Market for Trump
00:49:01
ordering a federal review of AI models
00:49:03
by May 31st. 21% chance I think uh to
00:49:07
our partner at Poly Market. Man, I I got
00:49:09
to get in here. I don't Do I have inside
00:49:11
information here being uh the world's
00:49:13
greatest moderator on this podcast or I
00:49:15
can Can I collect this money? Chimoth,
00:49:16
what am I going to do here?
00:49:17
>> I would not do not do not place a bet.
00:49:19
Jal,
00:49:20
>> don't place a bet.
00:49:21
>> Don't place a bet. But anyway, Chim's
00:49:23
point, I mean, look, I think we're kind
00:49:25
of workshopping this in real time.
00:49:26
>> We are.
00:49:27
>> I think that I think that for the
00:49:28
preview period, we should definitely
00:49:30
have KYC.
00:49:31
>> Maybe.
00:49:31
>> What about logging? What about logging?
00:49:33
Well, look, once you're past the preview
00:49:35
period and it's in general release, I'm
00:49:38
not sure if the KYC matters as much
00:49:39
because so many people are going to have
00:49:40
it. But during the preview period, there
00:49:42
should be KYC.
00:49:43
>> Let me let me just say one thing. All
00:49:45
the labs are already tracking API use.
00:49:48
Okay? And anything suspicious because
00:49:50
they there there are major
00:49:52
anti-distillation efforts going on by
00:49:54
all the labs. There's a ton of
00:49:56
coordination going on with the
00:49:57
government. there's way more happening I
00:50:00
think in terms about API and API use um
00:50:03
and anything suspicious is being flagged
00:50:06
and being shared with the government. So
00:50:07
the idea that we have no idea who's
00:50:09
doing it I think is not the case and in
00:50:12
fact in some cases we may want to allow
00:50:15
people to use it so that we can see
00:50:17
exactly the types of things that they
00:50:19
are extracting. So I would just I would
00:50:21
say we're already down that path but
00:50:23
better coordination
00:50:25
may may in fact be called for.
00:50:27
>> Yeah. And just one last point in this
00:50:28
whole thing is I just want to build on
00:50:30
my point that pre-release approvals is
00:50:32
solving a problem that didn't really
00:50:33
exist because again anthropic and open
00:50:35
AI weren't trying to release these
00:50:37
models yet is that there is a
00:50:39
substantial faction of let's say AI
00:50:42
idologues or doomers who
00:50:45
are basically employing the classic
00:50:47
never let a crisis go to waste strategy
00:50:50
right that yes we do have this cyber
00:50:53
issue that is real you know everyone
00:50:55
needs to harden their systems now
00:50:56
>> totally over the next 3 to 6 months.
00:50:58
That is a real issue. But that is a
00:51:01
problem that we will solve over the next
00:51:02
6 months. We have to. But what they're
00:51:04
trying to do is use that issue to try
00:51:08
and create a permanent new
00:51:09
infrastructure in Washington. Again, I
00:51:11
don't think the admin that's not the
00:51:12
administration's intention. That's not
00:51:14
the administration's agenda. But you saw
00:51:16
a lot of people on social media, a lot
00:51:19
of the think tanks and even Bernie
00:51:21
Sanders weighed in and he said for the
00:51:23
first time, I like something that the
00:51:25
Trump administration wants to do.
00:51:26
>> The administration understands the 1% of
00:51:29
the 1% of Sachs and everybody understand
00:51:31
that this is out of control. The AI is
00:51:33
going to take the jobs. They're going to
00:51:34
take my summer home. It's going to be
00:51:36
terrible.
00:51:37
>> So, there are people who have this
00:51:38
agenda. Look, Bernie Sanders just wants
00:51:40
to stop the progress. I mean, he's
00:51:43
>> he wants to ban data centers. He's put
00:51:44
out a bunch of
00:51:46
He he basically has bought into the
00:51:47
whole doomer narrative. So look, that's
00:51:50
why he likes the FDA idea is because it
00:51:54
would put the kibos on innovation.
00:51:56
>> It's enough already. Let's give let's
00:51:57
have a go back to paper and pen. It was
00:51:58
a better society. Saxs
00:52:00
>> Jason, what do you think?
00:52:01
>> I think there's two really interesting
00:52:03
things I want to build on here. The
00:52:04
first is your point Shamath around how
00:52:07
do we turn around the sort of bad vibes
00:52:11
around AI? I think we have to have two
00:52:14
strategies here. One is giving what
00:52:16
you've been working on Brad with your
00:52:18
project we should see more people
00:52:19
giving. There's no reason why Nvidia
00:52:22
SpaceX when they go public
00:52:25
anthropic when they go public open AAI
00:52:27
if and when they go public or if they
00:52:29
become stay as nonprofit there's no
00:52:31
reason those folks in an IPO couldn't
00:52:33
give a portion of the IPO to every
00:52:35
American citizen. So IPO K, IPO for
00:52:38
kids, they all take, you know, whatever
00:52:40
it is, 5%, 1%, whatever they choose, and
00:52:43
they put it into the Invest America
00:52:45
accounts and we should see some major
00:52:48
giving from the people who are becoming
00:52:50
trillionaires, 100 billionaires,
00:52:52
whatever it happens to be. There's no
00:52:53
reason not to. But those people haven't
00:52:55
been doing that. We had this giving
00:52:56
pledge which was a little bit of virtue
00:52:58
signaling and it wasn't real. It was
00:53:00
just, you know, at the end of your life,
00:53:01
you promise to give away half your
00:53:02
money. So let's have something real.
00:53:04
Let's have something where you know
00:53:05
people say I'm going to give away 1% of
00:53:07
my stock over the next 20 years of my
00:53:09
life every year 1% will go into invest
00:53:11
America whatever it is it won't cost
00:53:13
anybody anything you can't spend this
00:53:15
money whether it's Bezos or whoever
00:53:17
second in that same thing in terms of
00:53:19
giving back we have not talked about how
00:53:22
massive this could be for health and
00:53:24
extending people's life and reducing
00:53:26
suffering we need to work on that that's
00:53:28
where contributions to basic science
00:53:29
could come in and obviously education
00:53:32
and lowering the cost of education And
00:53:34
if you look at what Americans on the
00:53:36
bottom half, you were talking about the,
00:53:38
you know, cup half empty, there's really
00:53:40
two or three things they really feel
00:53:42
anxiety about. One of it is income and
00:53:45
the second is healthare and on the
00:53:48
margins, housing and their kids, you
00:53:50
know, their kids' education, the cost of
00:53:52
those things. We should really take a
00:53:53
look deeply at, and I know this is very
00:53:56
unpopular amongst capitalists, including
00:53:58
myself. We should really look at the
00:53:59
minimum wage and study what happened in
00:54:01
New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, uh,
00:54:04
Australia when they raised it. What
00:54:06
actually happened when they raised it,
00:54:07
and there was a lot of hand ringing
00:54:08
about it, but when they slowly raised
00:54:09
it, what they found was those consumers
00:54:11
don't save money. They spend it. They're
00:54:13
always behind the eight-ball in terms of
00:54:15
their spending. We should opt in to
00:54:17
trying to raise the minimum wage company
00:54:20
by company by company. and just give
00:54:22
people who are at the end of the
00:54:24
spectrum that understanding that, hey,
00:54:26
year-over-year, whether it's Amazon or
00:54:29
Target, etc., restaurants, we're all
00:54:32
collectively going to add a little bit
00:54:34
to that minimum wage and try to lift the
00:54:36
bottom third of society. That's the
00:54:38
stuff we're not talking about. We don't
00:54:40
talk about it here on this podcast. We
00:54:41
don't talk about universal healthcare.
00:54:43
We don't talk about the minimum wage,
00:54:44
but that's what capitalists should be
00:54:46
talking about. And if we did that, if we
00:54:48
increased the minimum wage, and I'm not
00:54:50
a socialist. I'm a capitalist who think
00:54:51
this is good for capitalism. If we
00:54:53
increased the minimum wage just modestly
00:54:55
each year and we opted into doing that
00:54:58
and we figured out a way to give
00:54:59
universal healthcare, companies wouldn't
00:55:00
have to deal with universal healthcare
00:55:02
and we would have customers and we're a
00:55:04
customer-driven economy. Like 60 70 80%
00:55:07
of what happens in this country is
00:55:08
driven by the consumer. We need consumer
00:55:10
spending. It's great for companies if we
00:55:13
had more people being able to buy
00:55:15
Netflix or order [ __ ] on Amazon. Anyway,
00:55:18
that's my that's my TED talk. Thanks for
00:55:19
coming. How do we get from AI to the
00:55:22
minimum wage? I'm still
00:55:23
>> No, because of the black eye. No, the
00:55:25
black eye we have in this country with
00:55:27
polarization of wealth and people scared
00:55:29
of losing their jobs. We We should look
00:55:31
at why are they scared, David. And I've
00:55:33
talked to you privately and you said to
00:55:35
me privately, you can strike this if you
00:55:36
want, but you said to me privately, you
00:55:38
wouldn't be against necessarily figuring
00:55:41
out a way to un do universal healthcare
00:55:43
if there was a way to do it. You want to
00:55:45
see every human have healthcare. Yes.
00:55:48
>> Sure. Sure. I mean the issue is not the
00:55:50
desiraability of it. It's the cost. I
00:55:52
mean
00:55:53
>> and so you're a great entrepreneur of
00:55:55
our time. How would you do it? Have you
00:55:56
given any cycle to it?
00:55:57
>> I just I haven't studied that issue. So
00:55:59
I don't know. I just know.
00:56:01
>> How about you study the country's
00:56:03
>> I remember what PJ Oor once said which
00:56:05
is if you think healthcare is expensive
00:56:07
now just wait until you make it free.
00:56:10
>> Yeah.
00:56:11
>> So you take away all the incentives and
00:56:13
you have an even bigger problem.
00:56:15
>> Minimum wage. Yeah. Go ahead. Well, let
00:56:16
me just please get back to AI. Listen,
00:56:19
you guys are right about the
00:56:20
unpopularity of AI. We've all seen those
00:56:22
polls, but I want to just put up this
00:56:24
additional poll that came out about the
00:56:27
salience of this issue, which is how
00:56:29
important do people think it is? And AI
00:56:32
ranked 29 out of 39. So although AI is
00:56:35
not very popular, it is certainly not
00:56:37
top of mind for voters. It's not in the
00:56:39
top 10 issues. It's not in the top 20
00:56:41
issues. What is top of mind for voters?
00:56:43
Number one, cost of living. Number two,
00:56:45
the economy. And we know that AI is
00:56:48
deflationary. It helps with the cost of
00:56:50
living and it's creating an economic
00:56:53
boom right now. Okay? It's 75% of GDP
00:56:57
growth in Q1. By the way, that that
00:56:59
economic growth is not just limited to
00:57:01
startups in Silicon Valley. We're seeing
00:57:02
a construction boom. We're seeing a blue
00:57:04
collar boom. We're seeing 25 to 30% wage
00:57:07
increases for uh construction workers.
00:57:09
>> Absolutely.
00:57:10
>> And so on down the line. So,
00:57:12
>> and Brad, if you if you look at that
00:57:13
chart, there's healthcare in there, too.
00:57:15
>> So, look, my point is that AI may not be
00:57:17
popular, but the effects of it actually
00:57:20
are popular if the media would honestly
00:57:22
report what was happening, which is AI
00:57:25
is creating an economic boom right now.
00:57:27
>> It couldn't be better said, David. You
00:57:29
know, Bernie Sanders calling for a
00:57:31
moratorium, shutting out all data data
00:57:33
centers. We'd have negative GDP growth
00:57:35
this year. The stock market would be
00:57:37
down 15 to 20%. Unemployment would be on
00:57:40
the rise. You know there is a
00:57:42
consequence to the government
00:57:43
controlling through command to control
00:57:45
the economy. In 1929 we had 4%
00:57:48
unemployment. 3 years later it was
00:57:50
unemployment was 23%.
00:57:52
Because government got involved in
00:57:54
regulating everything and shutting down
00:57:56
you know what was working. That is the
00:57:58
greatest threat we have here. AI is
00:58:00
delivering huge net benefits today in
00:58:02
terms of unemployment rate in terms of
00:58:04
economic growth and productivity growth.
00:58:06
We need to tell the story. But to Chamas
00:58:08
earlier point, we also need to deliver
00:58:10
net benefits. Jason, thanks for the
00:58:12
shout out. Yes, every American having an
00:58:14
investment account that compounds with
00:58:16
the upside of AI. We're going to do
00:58:18
that. Going to deliver that and that's
00:58:20
going to be massive. But I also think
00:58:21
ideas like if we're going to put a data
00:58:24
center in Abalene, Texas, let's make
00:58:25
electricity in Abalene free for the
00:58:27
households in Abalene, Texas. Right?
00:58:29
There are ideas that can deliver net
00:58:31
benefits. We got to deliver those. I
00:58:33
think we're optimism will be on the
00:58:35
march. I think we're in the trough right
00:58:37
now.
00:58:37
>> What's your take on minimum wage and
00:58:39
universal healthcare? Brad, how do you
00:58:41
think about it as a capitalist, as an
00:58:43
innovator, and in the face of AI, which
00:58:45
could have a dramatic impact on these
00:58:46
issues?
00:58:48
>> You know, like Zach, I, you know, to me,
00:58:50
I haven't spent a ton of time thinking
00:58:52
about those except that as a society,
00:58:54
we're $38 trillion in debt. We haven't
00:58:56
been able to afford to deliver those
00:58:58
things. I generally think the market
00:58:59
works out those issues better than the
00:59:02
government top down trying to you know
00:59:04
the government gets more and more
00:59:05
involved in healthcare and the only
00:59:06
thing that happens it gets more
00:59:07
expensive. So we've all seen the charts
00:59:09
of the most expensive categories where
00:59:10
we've had inflation education healthcare
00:59:13
etc. It's where the government's
00:59:14
involved. I actually think if you just
00:59:16
let the markets work entering an into an
00:59:18
age of abundance a lot of these problems
00:59:20
are going to be solved. People are going
00:59:21
to have a lot of AI coaches in
00:59:24
healthcare and education etc. Let the
00:59:26
market work. government stay at bay,
00:59:28
keep things safe. We're on a good march.
00:59:31
>> I think this proves my point perfectly.
00:59:33
If you talk to any founder, they're not
00:59:35
thinking about housing. They're not
00:59:37
thinking about higher education costs.
00:59:39
They're not thinking about minimum wage,
00:59:41
you know, and they're not thinking about
00:59:42
healthcare all that often. Some some do,
00:59:44
though. There's some innovation there.
00:59:45
And it's because it's so regulated that
00:59:48
entrepreneurs and VCs are just like,
00:59:49
"That's kryptonite. The government has
00:59:51
poisoned the well. We can't participate
00:59:53
in that." And that's the roadblock. And
00:59:54
that's where Americans are suffering.
00:59:56
And that's where it would be great if
00:59:58
founders actually put their minds to it.
00:59:59
And the government's got to get rid of
01:00:01
all that regulation and let us cook in
01:00:03
those specific verticals. All right. The
01:00:05
market is in hyperdrive. Hyperscaler
01:00:08
revenue has made the markets move up. We
01:00:12
hit on this briefly, but we didn't have
01:00:14
you here. Fifth best EBG. Cloud
01:00:17
computing on a tear. I referenced it
01:00:19
earlier, but AWS is now on $150 billion
01:00:22
run rate. Azure 108 billion. GCP, Google
01:00:26
Cloud, 80 billion. There's a little bit
01:00:27
of fun with numbers there because Azure
01:00:29
and Microsoft include some of their
01:00:30
software products in there and Google
01:00:31
Cloud includes things like Google Office
01:00:33
or Google Suite in there. But the growth
01:00:36
numbers are tremendous. AWS, which is
01:00:39
the more pure play of the three, 28%
01:00:42
growth on a very big number. Azure 39%,
01:00:45
Google Cloud stunning everybody with 63%
01:00:49
growth. It is incredible what the ARR
01:00:52
numbers are. Google Cloud Edit 10, AWS
01:00:55
10, Azure 9.5. So basically 30 billion
01:00:57
collectively. Jammond Ball who works for
01:00:59
you uh I think put out some data on the
01:01:03
Twitter. Brad markets at all times high
01:01:06
all-time highs. Mag 7 cooking
01:01:11
Uber blowing out growth. Disney blowing
01:01:14
out growth. The consumer seems absurdly
01:01:17
strong based on those two bell weathers.
01:01:20
Tech seems extremely strong based on the
01:01:22
cloud computing. What's your take on the
01:01:24
overall market and overall economy?
01:01:26
Obviously, inflation up a bit, people
01:01:28
hand ringing about the never-ending war
01:01:30
and the cost of oil.
01:01:32
>> Let's just telescope way up. You know,
01:01:35
the level of criticism directed to this
01:01:37
administration, right? Tariffs were
01:01:39
going to cause hyperinflation. We're
01:01:41
going to destroy GDP. Uh conflicts in
01:01:44
Venezuela and Iran were going to do the
01:01:46
same. You know, we've heard all of the
01:01:48
negative stories, but what's happening?
01:01:50
Accelerating GDP, a tenure that's
01:01:53
sitting at 43, inflation totally under
01:01:56
control. AI, AI, AI, comput, compute,
01:02:00
compute. We're leading the world. It's
01:02:02
contributing massively, right, to GDP
01:02:05
growth in the country. We see the S&P
01:02:07
only up 8% this year, right? So, we're
01:02:09
not into bubble territory here. Meta's
01:02:12
trading at 17 times, fully tax gap
01:02:14
earnings. Nvidia at 19 times, Microsoft
01:02:17
at 20 times, Google at 24 times, and
01:02:20
then the memory stocks that everybody's
01:02:22
excited about. We have 25% of our
01:02:24
portfolio in SKH Highix five times fully
01:02:28
taxed gap earnings. Samsung six times,
01:02:31
Micron 7 times. Right? This is not the
01:02:34
stuff that bubbles are made of. You
01:02:36
know, David referenced it earlier. We
01:02:38
started the year Open AI and Anthropic
01:02:40
were doing combined about 30 billion in
01:02:43
revenue. Now combined 4 months later 80
01:02:46
billion in revenue. The the policies of
01:02:49
this administration on the economy are
01:02:52
working. They're working in in spades.
01:02:54
Our gap on the rest of the world in AI
01:02:56
is growing. And so from from my
01:02:59
perspective, you know, uh you know,
01:03:01
we've been all in on the market. I
01:03:02
talked about it earlier in the year.
01:03:04
We're heavily.
01:03:05
>> When did you make that switch to go all
01:03:06
in on the market? Because you were
01:03:07
bearish.
01:03:09
>> I would say toward the toward the end of
01:03:10
last year. The market had run up a lot.
01:03:12
We had a lot of these questions. Listen,
01:03:14
entering this year, there was a huge
01:03:16
question hanging over the market. Would
01:03:19
the AI revenues show up? If the
01:03:22
anthropic revenues hadn't shown up and
01:03:24
we didn't see this reaceleration out of
01:03:26
the hyperscalers, the market would be
01:03:28
down 10 to 15%. Because people would say
01:03:30
there's no ROI on all of this
01:03:34
infrastructure. Exactly. When I saw the
01:03:36
numbers start showing up in December and
01:03:39
into January, we went from medium to
01:03:41
large in terms of our exposures and 80%
01:03:44
of our exposures or more have been in
01:03:47
compute, AI, memory, etc.
01:03:49
>> And this is why it's great to operate in
01:03:50
the private market and the public market
01:03:52
because you can see things in the
01:03:53
private markets that inform the public
01:03:55
markets. But the question remains, Brad,
01:03:57
how much better would the economy have
01:03:59
been doing? you know, as much credit as
01:04:02
you're giving to the administration if
01:04:04
they didn't start a hundred billion
01:04:05
dollar war that we did not need to go
01:04:07
into according to all reports. And if we
01:04:10
didn't do a bunch of tariffs that wound
01:04:13
up being unconstitutional by the Supreme
01:04:15
Court, which Trump himself put in, we
01:04:18
would have been further ahead. That's uh
01:04:20
my take on it. We would be ripping even
01:04:22
more if we didn't have those uh
01:04:24
>> Jason, it's hard to it's it's hard to
01:04:26
imagine. Okay, just to set up again
01:04:28
here. It's hard to imagine a more
01:04:31
goldilock situation for the United
01:04:33
States of America. We have reset the
01:04:35
table geopolitically. The discount rate
01:04:38
globally is actually coming down, not
01:04:40
going up. Evidenced by markets at
01:04:42
all-time high and the bond market in
01:04:44
control. And then look at the private
01:04:46
markets. We have multiple trillion
01:04:48
dollar companies that have been created
01:04:50
in the private markets that are now
01:04:52
coming public. SpaceX coming public is
01:04:54
going to be a multi-trillion dollar, you
01:04:56
know, open AI anthropic. Like at some
01:04:59
point, you just have to acknowledge USA
01:05:01
is winning. Of course, there are always
01:05:04
things that we could be doing better,
01:05:05
but there's not a country on the world
01:05:07
that wouldn't trade all of its fortune
01:05:10
for the United States fortune today.
01:05:12
>> 100% in agreement, American
01:05:13
exceptionalism as embodied by the great
01:05:16
companies in America, SpaceX, Google,
01:05:19
etc., all the ones we've been talking
01:05:20
here. That is the story. And I give
01:05:23
infinite credit to this administration
01:05:24
for being businessfriendly. I do think
01:05:26
they've made two critical mistakes. I
01:05:28
think the tariffs were poorly executed
01:05:29
and I think we shouldn't have gone to
01:05:30
this war. Um, and we should find a quick
01:05:33
resolution to it, which the
01:05:34
administration seems to be desperately
01:05:36
doing. Sax, your take on the economy?
01:05:39
>> Well, look, we have an AI boom going on
01:05:40
right now, and I think that's thanks to
01:05:42
President Trump's policies. Remember the
01:05:43
first week he was in office, he
01:05:45
rescended the Biden policies on chips
01:05:47
and models. And what were those
01:05:49
policies? It was the approval regime
01:05:51
that we're talking about. Models would
01:05:54
have to go to Washington to get approved
01:05:55
if they were trained with some number of
01:05:57
flops. And then every sale of a GPU
01:06:00
worldwide would have to be licensed from
01:06:02
Washington unless it fit into some
01:06:04
narrow exemptions. So the whole approach
01:06:07
of the Biden administration that
01:06:09
President Trump inherited was everything
01:06:11
approved in Washington. He rescended
01:06:14
that. He declared that we had to win the
01:06:15
AI race and he unleashed uh our
01:06:17
companies to do that. Now one other
01:06:19
really important thing is energy.
01:06:21
Remember it was this president going
01:06:23
back a decade who said drill baby drill.
01:06:25
He said we have to unleash American
01:06:27
energy. That's the basis for the
01:06:28
American economy. It's also the basis
01:06:30
for AI. He also has said that he wanted
01:06:34
to allow our AI companies to become
01:06:36
energy companies so they could bring
01:06:38
their own power to these data centers.
01:06:40
So they're not drawing off the grid.
01:06:41
They're not competing with consumers for
01:06:43
electricity. They're generating their
01:06:45
own power. And it's thanks to this
01:06:47
president that we have seen this
01:06:50
bluecollar construction boom right now
01:06:53
powering all of this infrastructure.
01:06:54
What would the alternative have been? We
01:06:57
know I mean Bernie Sanders has said it
01:06:59
would have been ban on data centers. So
01:07:01
>> yeah raise tax data centers. It's that
01:07:04
would be a much a much worse choice. Uh
01:07:07
Chamal, I'll give you the last word here
01:07:08
as we wrap on the economy generally. I
01:07:12
think the markets are going to keep
01:07:13
going up for a while
01:07:15
and then at some point they're going to
01:07:16
go down.
01:07:19
>> Okay, I wrote it down. Uh, Chimath, you
01:07:21
said markets are up and then eventually
01:07:24
they're going to come down. Those are
01:07:26
the two things up and we put a U here
01:07:28
and then a D here.
01:07:29
>> He's got the I think you're doing an
01:07:31
impression of the taking notes emoji. Is
01:07:34
that what you're doing?
01:07:34
>> Yes. Okay. Ups and down. Wow. Thank you
01:07:38
for tuning in to AllIn where you can get
01:07:40
your great calls and market action
01:07:42
advice. It's going to go up and then
01:07:43
down folks act accordingly. Go Chamat in
01:07:46
all seriousness but what what what makes
01:07:47
you bullish you know let's say in the
01:07:50
next uh 6 months 12 months catalyst and
01:07:52
then what do you think the headwinds are
01:07:53
as well? Let's take the you know the
01:07:54
short to midterm 6 months to two years.
01:07:58
I think that in the short term the
01:08:01
people that makes the new thing
01:08:06
needs to get valued and needs to
01:08:10
demonstrate value. So who are the people
01:08:12
making the new thing? It's the Nvidias,
01:08:15
it's the memory makers, it's the
01:08:16
anthropics, it's the SpaceX's and uh
01:08:19
it's the open AIS. But eventually it all
01:08:21
comes home to roost. And
01:08:25
you can't just make things for a market
01:08:28
who then doesn't have a measurable
01:08:30
benefit themselves.
01:08:32
To be very clear and blunt, there is
01:08:34
literally not a cintilla of evidence
01:08:37
that AI has helped lift the operating
01:08:39
margins of the S&P 500. There's all
01:08:42
kinds of bluster. There's going to be an
01:08:44
important fork in the road. It's
01:08:46
probably two or three years from now.
01:08:48
One path will be opex shrinks, hence
01:08:52
margins increase and the other path is
01:08:54
revenues grow and margins expand and
01:08:57
opex stays flat but or maybe it even
01:08:59
goes up. Those two things are very
01:09:01
important differences because in the
01:09:03
former you're talking about shrinking
01:09:06
workforce and shrinking opex as a
01:09:07
percentage of operating margin and
01:09:10
revenue. In the latter you're actually
01:09:11
growing through it. The answer to that
01:09:13
question I think is critical about how
01:09:15
the markets will respond and how society
01:09:18
will respond. So I think we have kind of
01:09:20
call it 500 days where you just got to
01:09:24
be net long. But I think it's literally
01:09:28
in the hundreds of days from now 500
01:09:33
you're going to have to have an
01:09:34
important reckoning moment. The people
01:09:37
that are paying for all these tokens
01:09:38
need to see an actual benefit.
01:09:41
>> Yeah. That that's reasonable. Yeah,
01:09:42
>> that's a really interesting point. Let
01:09:43
me connect a couple of dots here between
01:09:45
something Jamal said and what Brad said,
01:09:46
which is Brad said at the beginning of
01:09:48
the year, we went into this year with
01:09:50
this massive capex, this massive
01:09:52
investment infrastructure, but people
01:09:54
weren't sure that the ROI was going to
01:09:56
be there in terms of model revenue. And
01:09:59
that was true and then the model revenue
01:10:00
has proven out. And now what Schmoth is
01:10:03
saying is that we're going to be at
01:10:04
another fork in the road soon in terms
01:10:05
of whether there's going to be ROI on
01:10:08
all those tokens that are being sold and
01:10:11
generating the revenue for those model
01:10:13
companies. And I agree with you that
01:10:15
that is not proven out yet. But I'm
01:10:17
optimistic that it is going to be proven
01:10:20
out and otherwise these you wouldn't be
01:10:22
seeing
01:10:23
>> look I
01:10:23
>> enterprises continue to to buy hold on
01:10:26
let me just point you wouldn't be seeing
01:10:28
enterprise continue their month
01:10:29
overmonth spend on coding tokens if they
01:10:33
didn't feel like the ROI was going to be
01:10:34
there but you make a good point which is
01:10:37
what is the impact on the economy going
01:10:38
to be when all of this new software this
01:10:42
bespoke software that's being created
01:10:44
through again all these coding tokens
01:10:45
are being bought It's going to power a
01:10:47
wave of productivity like I think we've
01:10:49
never seen before. So I think what
01:10:51
you're seeing is the ROI is getting is
01:10:54
sort of trickling down from
01:10:55
infrastructure to model to application
01:10:58
to end user and I think it's going to
01:11:00
create an economic boom.
01:11:02
>> I I got to I'm with you Saxs. This is
01:11:04
deja vu all over again. We watch this
01:11:06
happen with the PC revolution, the
01:11:08
internet revolution, cloud revolution,
01:11:10
mobile revolution. We had all this hand
01:11:11
ringing. Will this ever pay off? Should
01:11:12
I build an app? Should I build a
01:11:14
website? Should I not? Should I move to
01:11:15
the cloud? Should I keep it on prem? All
01:11:17
of these questions over and over and
01:11:18
over again. And then they went from
01:11:20
question marks to exclamation points. I
01:11:21
can tell you inside of my firm, we have
01:11:23
started, we were using agents, then we
01:11:25
started building code. And I've got
01:11:26
three people on the team who are making
01:11:28
all the interfaces and products that a
01:11:30
22 person investment firm should not be
01:11:33
making internally. They should be using
01:11:35
SAS software. And they are shipping
01:11:38
product day in and day out. The ROI is
01:11:40
fate complete. Brad, it is fat or
01:11:43
complete. I think this has been decided.
01:11:45
I think it's been decided.
01:11:46
>> It has not been decided at all. It has
01:11:48
not been decided at all.
01:11:49
>> You have 8090. You're working with the
01:11:51
big enterprises. I invest in 100
01:11:52
startups a year. I work with the small
01:11:54
ones. It is fate a complete with
01:11:56
startups. They are building software.
01:11:57
They're shipping. They are getting
01:11:58
massive value from these tokens. And
01:12:00
they're getting so much value that they
01:12:02
don't have to add, you know, but half
01:12:04
the number of employees that they would
01:12:06
with the same amount of capital. They're
01:12:08
getting further with less money. It is
01:12:10
working in startup land. I don't know
01:12:12
what's happening at 8090. you would have
01:12:14
a better picture obviously of the
01:12:15
enterprise. Tell us what you see there.
01:12:16
>> I mean, our business is doing well, but
01:12:20
what I'm trying to get across to you
01:12:22
guys is that you can't will profits to
01:12:26
go up.
01:12:28
Okay? So, ultimately what happens is I'm
01:12:31
just going to take a company randomly.
01:12:33
Annheiser Bush, they have to eventually
01:12:37
sell more beer.
01:12:39
Okay? Take Nike. they ultimately have to
01:12:43
sell more shoes. Take a medical devices
01:12:46
company. They have to sell more
01:12:47
artificial hips and knees. So the point
01:12:50
I'm trying to get across is right now
01:12:52
there's an enormous amount of very
01:12:54
constructive and creative
01:12:56
experimentation.
01:12:58
But I think it's what is also true is a
01:13:02
lot of that has not yet proven value. I
01:13:05
don't think that means it's going to
01:13:06
stop. All I'm just trying to say is
01:13:09
until a company can trace very directly
01:13:12
I spent X and I made Y where Y is now
01:13:14
greater than X and it's lifted my
01:13:16
margins.
01:13:18
That is the thing that causes the
01:13:20
flywheel to spin faster.
01:13:22
And right now we've started the first
01:13:24
part of that equation. We've spent the X
01:13:28
and we have not seen the Y.
01:13:31
You would see it in global GDP. You
01:13:33
haven't. You would see it in global
01:13:35
productivity. You haven't. You would see
01:13:37
it in the global profit margins of the
01:13:38
S&P 500. We haven't. It doesn't mean
01:13:41
it's not coming.
01:13:41
>> Brad, you want you want to pick up on
01:13:43
this because yeah, I'm definitely taking
01:13:44
the other side of it because I'm seeing
01:13:46
with a lot of these companies,
01:13:48
>> massive lowering of costs. Their ads are
01:13:50
getting more effective. At the same
01:13:52
time, they've stopped hiring. They're
01:13:53
not adding positions in a lot of cases.
01:13:55
And things like, just picked the Nike
01:13:58
example, a lot of the photo shoots they
01:14:01
used to do for their app, excuse me. A
01:14:02
lot of the imagery they used to make,
01:14:04
now they're able to make more of it
01:14:06
without having to hire photographers and
01:14:08
do that stuff. I know this example
01:14:09
because we have a startup that does this
01:14:10
specifically for brands like Nike.
01:14:12
They've seen a massive drop. We have one
01:14:14
that helped Door Dash with their food
01:14:16
pictures. All those pictures used to
01:14:17
have to be taken by photographers. Now
01:14:19
it's all done by AI. Massive reduction
01:14:20
in cost. And they're using ads and ad
01:14:23
creative now. that is, you know, you
01:14:26
know, double digit percentage more
01:14:28
effective while costing half as much.
01:14:30
So, I definitely think we're seeing it
01:14:32
on the earnings, but is is that true?
01:14:34
Are you seeing it in the earnings of
01:14:35
these companies yet?
01:14:36
>> Yeah. So, so two data points. Number
01:14:38
one, we just saw Azure grow 39% in the
01:14:42
quarter. We saw Google Cloud grow 63% in
01:14:45
the quarter. Headcount growth for those
01:14:47
companies the last 3 years, Mag 5
01:14:48
combined is about 3%. So, their
01:14:51
operating margins are all expanding. If
01:14:54
you look at the S&P 500 at large, in Q1
01:14:57
of 24, operating margins were about
01:14:59
11.8%.
01:15:00
That was up from 11% in 23. This year,
01:15:04
they're 13%. So, we've had a 200 basis
01:15:06
point improvement in the operating
01:15:09
margins of the S&P 500, which is
01:15:12
massive.
01:15:12
>> Do you think that's AI across those
01:15:14
businesses? And Chimath, I think that
01:15:16
that's the question where where it could
01:15:20
donuts, it's not AI.
01:15:22
>> Yeah. So, so any amount of money. I bet
01:15:24
you are the same financial engineering
01:15:26
that got these earnings to rise in the
01:15:28
last decade.
01:15:29
>> Yeah. So I I I think that's the
01:15:30
question. Are is this margin expansion
01:15:33
durable? The forecast the consensus
01:15:35
forecast and estimate is that margins
01:15:38
are going to continue to expand over the
01:15:40
course of the next 2 years. You and I
01:15:42
both know back in 22 23 we went from the
01:15:45
age of excess to the age of fitness.
01:15:47
Right? A lot of these companies were
01:15:48
able to shed people, you know, with the
01:15:50
excuse of AI just because they had
01:15:53
become uh, you know, uh, uh, too
01:15:55
excessive during the period of co. So I
01:15:58
I think it's a legitimate question
01:16:00
whether or not that's all from AI. But I
01:16:01
will tell you anecdotally, it maps for
01:16:04
me. I'm hearing like Jason and David, a
01:16:06
lot of these companies that are, you
01:16:08
know, uh, really growing their top lines
01:16:10
at an accelerating rate without
01:16:12
expanding headcount nearly at the same
01:16:14
pace. Okay, Sax, I'll give you the final
01:16:16
word while we're wrap.
01:16:17
>> Brad was talking about how we got all
01:16:19
these operating efficiency improvements.
01:16:21
The unemployment rate stayed at historic
01:16:24
lows during that time. I mean, the
01:16:26
economists consider full employment to
01:16:27
be 4 to 5%. And we've stayed at, you
01:16:30
know, the low low 4% 4.2% roughly during
01:16:34
this time. So, you're able to get these
01:16:36
efficiency improvements while
01:16:38
unemployment is still extremely low.
01:16:40
Moreover, there was just a big article
01:16:43
saying that the unemployment rate for
01:16:45
young college graduates has dropped. So,
01:16:48
you know, there was this whole narrative
01:16:50
recently that recent college graduates
01:16:52
were going to have the hardest time
01:16:53
finding jobs because, you know, there's
01:16:55
going to be no no work left for entry-
01:16:56
level jobs because of AI. And in fact,
01:16:59
it has gotten easier for recent college
01:17:00
graduates to find work recently. Maybe
01:17:03
that's because they're AI natives. Maybe
01:17:04
that's because they know how to use AI
01:17:07
better. So in any event, I mean, we're
01:17:09
just not seeing any evidence yet of
01:17:11
these theoretical downsides of AI around
01:17:14
job loss and unemployment, and we are
01:17:16
starting to see big productivity gains.
01:17:17
>> Yeah, I this is going to be a circular
01:17:19
discussion, but yeah, there's a lot of
01:17:21
conflicting evidence. The last piece of
01:17:23
conflicting evidence obviously is the
01:17:25
labor participation rate because if you
01:17:27
are not even opting in to participate,
01:17:30
then you, you know, don't get counted as
01:17:33
unemployed. And that's been, I think, a
01:17:35
big challenge. 61.9% in March. Labor
01:17:38
participation rate back in uh before we
01:17:41
were at 63.3. Yeah. And college
01:17:43
graduates are hearing different stories.
01:17:45
Certain degrees getting jobs, other ones
01:17:47
not getting jobs.
01:17:49
>> It's too early to tell. Uh I think is
01:17:51
probably what we all agree in. And it's
01:17:53
a it's a mixed bag.
01:17:54
>> Agree with that.
01:17:55
>> No. Look, whenever whenever I have data
01:17:58
to refute one of your narratives, you
01:18:00
always say it's too soon to tell.
01:18:01
>> No, no, no. What I do
01:18:02
>> online Wall Street Journal Nick put it
01:18:04
on the screen. College graduates are
01:18:05
finally catching a break in this job
01:18:07
market.
01:18:08
>> Yeah,
01:18:08
>> Jake, you should be happy about this.
01:18:10
>> I know. I'm Listen, I'm happy anybody
01:18:12
gets a job. But what you do is then you
01:18:13
say we don't trust the numbers and we
01:18:15
should get rid of the Fed and we should
01:18:16
get rid of the numbers. So, we all know
01:18:18
>> we should get rid of the Fed. That was
01:18:19
But you you get rid of the Fed because
01:18:21
we don't like the numbers. Listen, it's
01:18:22
all great. Welcome to the debate club.
01:18:25
>> What did I say?
01:18:25
>> You said abolish the Fed. Abolish the
01:18:28
Fed.
01:18:30
What is the Fed here for? All right,
01:18:31
listen. Enough. We're getting into Trump
01:18:33
derangement syndrome or Trump bend the
01:18:35
knee syndrome. It's the end of the show.
01:18:36
We had a great show, everybody. We had
01:18:38
some laughs. We all learned. We
01:18:40
workshopped some stuff. Let's leave it
01:18:41
where it is. Great job, President Trump.
01:18:44
>> I want to I want to congratulate
01:18:46
>> Oh, here we go.
01:18:47
>> I want to congratulate all of our
01:18:48
innovators. And I want to congratulate
01:18:50
Elon and um Daario D. Rockefeller on
01:18:53
their recent deal.
01:18:55
>> Oh, shots fired. He's getting straight.
01:18:57
Come on anytime, Daario. Hey, you know
01:19:00
Dario well, Brad. Well, get him on the
01:19:02
program next week. I want him on the
01:19:03
program. Have him come.
01:19:04
>> Will you ask him for me?
01:19:06
>> I um
01:19:07
>> Will you ask him for me?
01:19:09
>> Well, sure. I'll ask him. And yeah, you
01:19:10
know, the the fact of the matter is
01:19:13
>> I think our lucky stars that we have
01:19:16
Elon, that we have Anthropic, that we
01:19:18
have OpenAI, that we have Google, that
01:19:20
we have Amazon, all innovating in this
01:19:23
country. And you know, I know we like
01:19:25
to, you know, kind of poke poke fun on
01:19:27
the edges at these things, but the fact
01:19:29
of the matter is, you know, I see them
01:19:32
all showing up, sharing their models,
01:19:35
driving as hard as they can to innovate.
01:19:37
We have the best competitive framework
01:19:38
in the country. David's right. It's been
01:19:41
transformed over the course of the last
01:19:43
14 months. We need to stay the course.
01:19:46
We're on the winning horse. We just had
01:19:47
the derby last week. We're on the
01:19:50
winning horse. Stay on the horse.
01:19:51
America for the win. America for the
01:19:54
win.
01:19:54
>> There it is. Senator Brad Gersonner. I
01:19:56
think if you're gonna run, you got to
01:19:57
get rid of the red glasses. We gota get
01:19:59
maybe to shells in there. But I think
01:20:00
you got a you got a serious shot.
01:20:02
Senator Senator
01:20:04
>> I like I like secretary better.
01:20:06
>> Secretary.
01:20:07
>> Secretary. Who's Yeah. Secretary of the
01:20:10
Treasury. Brad Gersonner.
01:20:12
>> Secretary.
01:20:13
>> Secretary of State David Saxs. Secretary
01:20:16
of Cashmere and Wine. Chamath Paul. what
01:20:19
are you doing with your uh
01:20:20
>> there's so much fake news out there
01:20:21
because I mean look I totally agree with
01:20:22
everything Brad said look I poke fun at
01:20:24
at some of these companies for some of
01:20:26
the things they do but I am happy that
01:20:27
they are American companies and that
01:20:29
they're innovating here congratulations
01:20:32
on your dad
01:20:33
>> yes and look there's so much fake news
01:20:36
out there I mean we just covered on this
01:20:38
podcast how beneficial some of these
01:20:41
economic trends are you never get it
01:20:42
from the media
01:20:43
>> no
01:20:44
>> and they are trying to derail us from
01:20:46
from you know the the policies that have
01:20:48
been so successful Yes, but but they did
01:20:50
some great inspiring coverage of micro
01:20:52
looting. So get your microl looting on.
01:20:55
Congratulations, New York Times. We'll
01:20:57
see you next time, everybody. Bye-bye.
01:20:59
Love you, boys. Love you.
01:21:03
>> We'll let your winners ride.
01:21:06
>> Rainman David
01:21:10
and we open sourced it to the fans and
01:21:12
they've just gone crazy with it.
01:21:14
>> Love you, queen of
01:21:17
all. Winners,
01:21:23
>> besties are gone.
01:21:26
>> That is my dog taking your driveway.
01:21:31
>> Oh man, my appetiter will meet you.
01:21:33
>> We should all just get a room and just
01:21:35
have one big huge orgy cuz they're all
01:21:37
just useless. It's like this like sexual
01:21:38
tension that we just need to release
01:21:40
somehow.
01:21:43
>> Wet your feet.
01:21:46
>> That's going to be good. waiting to get
01:21:47
merch. I'm going
01:21:57
all in.

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    OpenAI and Anthropic are leading the charge in AI, with exponential growth rates.
    “Enthropic is growing at an exponential 10x a year.”
    @ 27m 43s
    May 08, 2026
  • AI Regulation Debate
    Experts discuss the balance between innovation and safety in AI regulation.
    “We’re going to make sure that things stay safe.”
    @ 37m 19s
    May 08, 2026
  • Tech Community's Responsibility
    Criticism of the tech community's failure to communicate the benefits of AI.
    “The tech leaders get a D-minus, trending to an F.”
    @ 41m 28s
    May 08, 2026
  • Raising the Minimum Wage
    Exploring the potential benefits of raising the minimum wage for consumers and the economy.
    “We should really look at the minimum wage.”
    @ 53m 58s
    May 08, 2026
  • AI's Economic Impact
    AI is driving significant economic growth and productivity, reshaping the landscape.
    “AI is creating an economic boom right now.”
    @ 57m 25s
    May 08, 2026
  • Economic Boom on the Horizon
    The discussion centers around the potential for an economic boom driven by technological advancements.
    “I think it’s going to create an economic boom.”
    @ 01h 11m 00s
    May 08, 2026
  • Startup Success Stories
    Startups are thriving by leveraging technology to achieve more with less.
    “They’re getting further with less money.”
    @ 01h 12m 08s
    May 08, 2026
  • College Graduates Finding Work
    Recent college graduates are experiencing improved job prospects despite fears of AI job loss.
    “It has gotten easier for recent college graduates to find work recently.”
    @ 01h 17m 00s
    May 08, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • This is a MAGA Republicans idea of what Los Angeles looks like.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
  • Congratulations Dario on winning the AI race.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
  • We need to build more capacity in government.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
  • We need to harden our systems now.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
  • The market is in hyperdrive.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
  • It is fate a complete.
    Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom

Key Moments

  • Brutal Audience00:13
  • Elon Leases Colossus04:40
  • Anthropic Growth14:34
  • Elon Musk's Innovations21:37
  • AI Safety Concerns36:45
  • Regulatory Challenges45:01
  • KYC Discussion47:20
  • Job Market Trends1:17:00

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