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Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:17:07 Jason Lemkin Grok could be the next one too. 3 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 32:34 Rory O'Driscoll You know, if I just optimize for inference, just like service and Grok did, 2 times in the scene
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 57:23 Lin Qiao Um, for example, we're talking about, um, NVIDIA recently acquired company also called Guac with Q.
- ▶ 1:12:30 Harry Stebbings You know, I think it was when I had Jonathan from Grok on the show who said, like, HBM was the greatest bottleneck, and that's why you've seen the five X increase in price.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:12 Jason Lemkin We just talked on this pod before about Figma, twenty billion and about, um, uh, sorry, Grok to, you just said Grok to, to, for, to Nvidia for twenty billion and getting to be, not have to be a public company CEO was the second best gift…
- ▶ 1:36:03 Harry Stebbings Grok sold for twenty billion? 3 times in the scene
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings The debrief on Grok's twenty billion dollar deal to NVIDIA and much, much more.
- ▶ 33:07 Harry Stebbings Speaking of like the world hating billionaires, Grok announced, uh, essentially the debrief on the twenty billion dollar deal to Nvidia, uh, less than a hundred million dollars in ARR on being acquired. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:14 unnamed speaker Cause you just outstrew, they're just, they're not, you know, Salesforce and, and Amazon, I mean, Grok is great, but a lot of the stuff is not Grok.
NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:50 Jason Lemkin So, uh, part of it is Jensen saying we're gonna, and this is probably part of the, um, you know, big part of the Grok acquisition.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:43 Harry Stebbings Acquisition of Grok, moving into inference layer, I don't fucking sell Janssen.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:35 Jerry Murdock Well, it's the thing that wasn't mentioned as to why he bought Grok. 4 times in the scene
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:51 Jason Lemkin The Grok guys he sued.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Grok acquired for twenty billion dollars, Manus acquired for two billion dollars, and so much more.
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings I want to start with one of the most prescient, Grok being acquired for twenty billion in cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:16 Rory O'Driscoll Grok had a particular edge for a certain kind of inference where it was very low latency, very deterministic. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:57 Rory O'Driscoll A company started in 2016, 17. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:46 Jason Lemkin Or do you do what grok was, which is you invest on one of the guys that invented the TPU, Jonathan Ross. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:50 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, broadly speaking, at a high level service, um, Grok and NVIDIA in the same space are very different chips, and what service does has a single way for chip.
- ▶ 12:51 Jason Lemkin So when you can walk into a room and say we want to acquire service for twenty five million, it's twice the size of Grok and we need it now, the whole room just get nods. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Jason Lemkin Did you take, did you guys see the grok deal? 2 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:10 Harry Stebbings Like where the scale and the size of money is like, you know, Jonathan Ross from Grok said on the show, they will unwaveringly get to 10 trillion dollars within a five-year timeline.
- ▶ 39:36 Harry Stebbings You know, again, we had Jonathan at Grok on
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings So I'm thrilled to welcome Jonathan Ross, founder and CEO of Grok, back to the hot seat.
- ▶ 24:18 Jonathan Ross For us, you write us a check for a million LPUs, and the first of those LPUs starts showing up six months later.
- ▶ 59:44 Jonathan Ross Best example, PE firms are all over us.
- ▶ 1:04:06 Harry Stebbings Because we're funding talent to the extreme where they can raise huge amounts of money rather than join Grok.
- ▶ 1:15:42 Jonathan Ross The question you should ask is, will Grok be worth 10 trillion in five years? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:09 Harry Stebbings What do you think the market does not understand about Grok that you think they should understand? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:21 Harry Stebbings If you were found in Grok today, with Nvidia at Fortran and the AI boom in full swing, what would you do differently? 2 times in the scene
20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
- ▶ 54:07 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and stay tuned for an incredible episode coming on Monday with Jonathan Ross, founder at Grok.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 14:52 Alex Schultz You had the Grok founder on here who I think is absolutely fantastic, you know, TPUs and everything. 3 times in the scene
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:59 Harry Stebbings You know, when I spoke to, you know, Jonathan at Grock before, he said there were a huge amount of data centers being built that were not actually really equipped properly, and that we've seen this massive supply of data centers that are…
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:30 Harry Stebbings Cause this is one where I have completely disparate opinions from different people, whether it's Alex Wang, or whether it's, you know, Jonathan Ross at Grok.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:49 Steeve Morin Actually, that's why Grok achieves, ah, not Grok, but Grok, Cerebras, and all these folks, they achieve very high performance single stream is because the data is right in the chip that doesn't have to get it from memory, which is slow,…
- ▶ 25:14 Harry Stebbings Or actually, as Jonathan at Grok said in the show, you know, Nvidia is not meant for inference. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:24 Steeve Morin And if you look at, for instance, Grok, they have on their generation, this generation, they have
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings I want to talk about the landscape, where we're at, and then I want to dive specifically into Grok, where you're at.
- ▶ 9:16 Jonathan Ross When we started, the first misconception, which people don't hold anymore, is that training was more expensive than inference.
- ▶ 11:30 Jonathan Ross And the algorithmic enhancements happen that get the hallucination rate down, you are perfectly positioned, just like Grok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Jonathan Ross There was a point where we were so close to running out of money. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Jonathan Ross And so, and in terms of inference, just to give you a sense of our scaling, we started 2024 with about 640 chips in production. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:08 Jonathan Ross Um, our architecture, the observation that we had when we started Grok, everyone knows Moore's law.
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings So do we see a world of LPU and GPU 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Jonathan Ross I think it worked because it's what people are used to, but our counter was, we, we did a press release to that, that said, um, Grok, still faster.
- ▶ 38:42 Jonathan Ross So we started off last year, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:23 Harry Stebbings Like obviously with the Grok, you know, you want to be one of the mags, you want to be one of the most important companies in the world.
- ▶ 1:02:39 Jonathan Ross We talked about how Grok almost died.
- ▶ 1:13:33 Jonathan Ross Um, so everyone at Grok carries this, um, twenty five million token per second challenge coin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:23 Harry Stebbings If you had to bet on one company other than Grok to define the AI era, who would it be?
- ▶ 1:23:00 Jonathan Ross It depends on how risky the industry is that you're in, on whether or not you can get started trying to position for the wave early and generating, um, but if you're in the right position, we were in the right position 2 times in the scene
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:10 Harry Stebbings We had the founder of Grok on the show last week and he said he has to open source.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:58 Harry Stebbings I just had Jonathan from Grok on the show and he said, if I was Sam Altman, I would open source today.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:46 Jonathan Ross Well, my background, so I started the Google TPU, the AI chip that Google uses, and in 2016 started an AI chip, um, startup called Grok, with a Q, not with a K, um, that builds, uh, AI accelerator chips, which we call LPUs.
- ▶ 1:46 Jonathan Ross Well, my background, so I started the Google TPU, the AI chip that Google uses, and in 2016 started an AI chip, um, startup called Grok, with a Q, not with a K, um, that builds, uh, AI accelerator chips, which we call LPUs.
- ▶ 13:43 Jonathan Ross And so, in 2016, when Grok started, we decided that we were not going to do business in China.
- ▶ 15:50 Jonathan Ross We now have it on our, um, API, you know, at Grok.