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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 16:38 Harry Stebbings And when you say your AI, it's like your models, it's using GropBod, it's using.
- ▶ 29:44 Matteo Franceschetti Yeah.
Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
- ▶ 35:33 Jean-Denis Greze There is the, there's the, like, Apple, Google, SpaceX, Grok, GrokBot, Cursor, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic starting gates.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 51:31 Cliff Weitzman You have Speechify, 11 Labs, Gemini, uh, Grok, so SpaceX is now in the race, and, uh, Cartesia, and that's kind of it.
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 9:23 Jason Lemkin Grok and opening
- ▶ 11:57 Jason Lemkin Anthropic, Grok, Twitter, these are like great grudge companies.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:14:46 Jason Lemkin Cause it's part of Grock.
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 51:03 Alex Atallah Um, and like a focus on people, uh, you know, it, it's like something for the brand that maybe Grok and like space, like X, SpaceX AI have it too.
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 8:47 Harry Stebbings I think it was Grok or X or one of Elon's companies put budgets on per user head.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 16:33 Rory O'Driscoll If this is, I mean, where's Grok?
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:25 Rory O'Driscoll Um, you know, we'll actually have that discussion again when we come to Grok slash SpaceX, but, you know, this is an aggressively priced product, and, you know, good on them.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:14 Harry Stebbings Grok, what is a harness?
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:42 Harry Stebbings Glad to see that his liquidity is coming this year with Grok and Indigo.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:43 Harry Stebbings I would love just your thoughts on some market composition that I'm struggling with, which is like when you look at cognition, you look at Claw Code, you look at Kodak, you look at Cursor now with Grok.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:12 unnamed speaker Well, can they now post-acquisition by Grok? 2 times in the scene
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:44 unnamed speaker It says this is a market consolidating, and even though they will deny it till the day they die, what this is is x.ai slash SpaceX slash Grok basically saying we're not going to be right now a leading edge model contender. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Jason Lemkin The wall street journal today published the market shares in the enterprise for open AI, Claude, Gemini and Grok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:01 Jason Lemkin Um, and it, and if, if, if NVIDIA Grok is better and they can get the chips, they'll use it.
- ▶ 1:15:39 Jason Lemkin You don't want to do Cerebus, you want to do Grok, as we talked about.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:57 Cliff Weitzman Inside of this research, from talking to Gemini, and talking to Grok, and talking to Chachupiti, I realized that there was a machine that could help us.
- ▶ 1:45:56 Harry Stebbings Is, is, is Groot gonna be a meaningful competitor?
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:59 Rory O'Driscoll My takeaway from that is every time you look at the evaluations, it says, you know, you've got the big two, obviously, Anthropic and OpenAI, and then, oh, close behind, you've got Gemini, you've got Grok, and then you've got the open… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Rory O'Driscoll Grok is obviously nowhere until it gets cursor done, and even the open sources, when you rec, I mean, you, you do see people using them, and you do see the Palantir perspective, which is you can get something done with the open source,…
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:46 Harry Stebbings Do you worry about that moving forwards when the most common response on Twitter is, at Grok, is this true? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:15 Tobi Lütke The add clot, the Grok thing is sort of a primordial version of this, that's what I'm saying.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:03 unnamed speaker See Grok for details, right?
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:22 Jason Lemkin Um, it appears, like, it appears that Cursor may be, at least notionally, the largest customer for Grok for coding, ok?
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:28 Jason Lemkin I mean, they're on fire on everything and all the things where you see, and they're at risk, they're at risk from their customers using, uh, using, um, TPUs from, uh, from, uh, Google and from Amazon, but man, everything from already…
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:35 Harry Stebbings Um, you've got, you've got OpenAI, you've got Anthropic, and you've got Grok.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:18 Harry Stebbings What happens to Elon with Grok?
- ▶ 1:11:55 Harry Stebbings Do you use it? 5 times in the scene
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:31 Anish Acharya Every product in companionship has been, you know, both well received by customers, and a little uncomfortable for the labs to build, perhaps modulo groc.
- ▶ 26:17 Anish Acharya You look at Grok, heavy, it's 300 a month.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:56 Harry Stebbings And we're not going to throw Grok in there at all? 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:54 Rory O'Driscoll He feels shafted because of, because he does feel that he got mistreated in this process, and you're right, it's good for Grok if it slows it down, and you might win a hundred billion,
20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- ▶ 57:28 Chad Peets Cause you can go into Grok. 2 times in the scene
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:38 Jonathan Siddharth Um, and I say that about, um, the Gemini Pro models, the Grock models, the Claude models, like these models are amazing.
- ▶ 1:12:01 Jonathan Siddharth And, um, everything I see about like the, the Grok team, uh, I feel like their goals are much like any of the frontier labs, like quite noble in terms of having this powerful AI that can help humanity understand the universe, solve some of…
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:01 Harry Stebbings And, and it is the largest use case for Grok on their image and video generation is erotic creation.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:50 Harry Stebbings And you don't need, you don't need that anthropic could and Grock couldn't.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:04 Harry Stebbings Do you think Elon Musk is able to pull it off with Grok and Axe?
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:26 Harry Stebbings You can buy OpenAI at 300, Anthropic at one 70, or Grok at one 20. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:37 Harry Stebbings Cliff, if I would ask you, you've got OpenAI at 500, you've got Anthropic at one 83, and you've got Grok at a hundred.
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:04 Anton Osika I'd invest in GroK, and I would probably short Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:01 Harry Stebbings Grok, Anthropik, OpenAI. 6 times in the scene
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 9:47 Harry Stebbings So swarms of LLMs are another problem is when you take a Grok, Anthropic, and OpenAI model.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:06 Harry Stebbings Do we think OpenAI or, um, Anthropic or Grok or you name it are going to win?
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:49 Jason Lemkin Massively competitive with Google, with Microsoft, with Amazon, we have OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, and Friends, like,
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:09 Harry Stebbings I find it ridiculous that we are supposed to choose which model, like Grok three, Grok four, Grok five, Grok shopping, Grok weather.
- ▶ 47:09 Harry Stebbings I find it ridiculous that we are supposed to choose which model, like Grok three, Grok four, Grok five, Grok shopping, Grok weather.
- ▶ 47:09 Harry Stebbings I find it ridiculous that we are supposed to choose which model, like Grok three, Grok four, Grok five, Grok shopping, Grok weather.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:29 Rory O'Driscoll You've got, you know, Grok's XAI.
- ▶ 1:24:53 Harry Stebbings Will XAI release a Grok macOS app before end of year? 8 times in the scene
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:32 Harry Stebbings When you look at, like, Grok obviously announcing their recent developments and how they performed in the latest benchmarks and came out as number one, are those benchmarks bullshit then? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 Edwin Chen And then Grok, like, yeah, Grok is willing to maybe answer certain questions that maybe, maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but it's willing to, uh, be a little bit transgressive in ways I actually think are very, very, 2 times in the scene
Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:51 Rory O'Driscoll And then in the middle you have, and you will talk about in a second, the Grop release where amazing achievement,
- ▶ 35:13 Harry Stebbings But before we move to Grok, I'm just intrigued there.
- ▶ 48:35 Harry Stebbings Jason, I, I, I just want both of your perspectives on this before we move on to Grok, because it's important.
- ▶ 58:57 Harry Stebbings Okay, boys, we're gonna do Grok. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:10 Harry Stebbings Grok four 38.6%.
- ▶ 1:03:15 Jason Lemkin When, when Grok launched, I thought it was a spite app. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:44 Rory O'Driscoll Can you just spend 10 minutes telling me how Grok's going to take over the world?
- ▶ 1:22:33 Harry Stebbings He's invested in Grok and Lovable today.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:21 unnamed speaker She's managing advertisers and the PNL.
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
- ▶ 1:11:59 Harry Stebbings An example, for me, I was like, you know what, chat GPT, whatever, fuck it, we'll go to Grop, perplexity, you name it.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:01 Harry Stebbings I also think when you look at the time difference there, 18 months now till 2027, you look at how XAI and Grok are going for him, their recent raise as well.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 53:47 Harry Stebbings Open AI at 300, Anthropic at 60, or Grok at 50.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:36 unnamed speaker And remember, the risk level for people who didn't have the secret recipe and not figuring out, with the exception of Grok, which is
20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
- ▶ 40:34 Harry Stebbings And I've no idea what any of them are, and Grok have them too, and I'm just like, this is, I think it's ridiculous.
- ▶ 51:06 Aatish Nayak Uh, Grok does too, actually. 2 times in the scene
Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:20 Harry Stebbings To grok, perplexity, um, OpenAI.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:32 Harry Stebbings Open AI at 300, Grok at 50, or Anthropic at 60.
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:53 Harry Stebbings And I do it across Grok, I do it across Perplexity, uh, Open Hour Deep Research, and Claude.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 32:54 Harry Stebbings You can invest in Anthropic at 60, OpenAI at 300, or Grok at 50. 3 times in the scene
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:13 Harry Stebbings Anthropic at 60, Grok at 50, OpenAI at 300. 2 times in the scene
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:37 unnamed speaker You've got Anthropic at sixty billion, you've got OpenAI at 300, or you've got Grok at 50. 4 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:22 Mike Krieger Like, uh, Grok III was, you know, just a week prior.
- ▶ 24:28 Harry Stebbings When Grok III releases theirs, like jokes aside, like, does everyone at Anthropic and OpenAI get by, oh, shit, they beat us again?
- ▶ 34:08 Mike Krieger And I think Grok does as well now.
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:40 Harry Stebbings Why then does so many people tell me, including Jonathan at Grok, that actually synthetic data is often more high quality.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:11 Harry Stebbings To what extent is Grok's lack of layers of control a problem or a benefit?
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:46 Aravind Srinivas Uh, like, like when XAI released the model, uh, the open source first GROC,