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The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 41:11 Jerry Murdock They hadn't proved it yet, but they convinced them that they knew enough to do it, and Elon was pretty desperate to, to solve his problem with XAI, and so it was a great fit, and they got the sixty billion, so you hit 2 times in the scene
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.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 49:50 Anastasios Angelopoulos We're bigger than, like, XAI.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 48:18 Rory O'Driscoll Now, as it happened, you got a three X because he rolled it into X.AI and rolled out X.
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:12 Mike Mignano I'm talking about OpenAI, Anthropic, XAI, SpaceX, et cetera.
- ▶ 1:05:08 Mike Mignano Again, they've done Anthropic, they've done XAI, they've done SpaceX, they've done amazing, amazing, uh, investments over the past, you know, uh, I mean, over the history of the firm, but really over the past four years of AI, they've been…
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:40 Everett Randle I remember both for the X deal and when XAI was fundraising, um, there were a lot of people that were, you know, again, on, on like, 2 times in the scene
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:41 unnamed speaker They nailed it on Compute, but maybe should have spent a little more time, you know, on the enterprise features of their model, so they're behind there, and obviously, you know, if you look at the X.AI part of SpaceX, leaving aside the…
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:26 Andrew Feldman And that it was impossible for, for, for XAI and OpenAI and et cetera to get public before.
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:32 Chad Peets Like at XAI, for example, um, it was pretty important to us that we hire people when you're selling an API, that's not an out of the box product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:46 Chad Peets I mean, I'll tell you, at SpaceX and XAI, uh, they have done an incredible job of having people that believe in the mission.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:54 Rory O'Driscoll The S-One will tell us everything about SpaceX as it existed in December of this year, which was without X.AI, without the Cursor deal, without the Antropic deal. 2 times in the scene
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. 6 times in the scene
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:34 Harry Stebbings Rory, going back to this that you mentioned earlier, uh, Musk admits XAI distilled open AI models partly, importantly that he said partly, um, also Greg Brockman claims that his stake is now worth thirty billion dollars, um, another…
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Jason Lemkin I'm not sure they're buying them for sixty billion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20 Harry Stebbings Cursor is being acquired by XAI, SpaceX in other words, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, to say it succinctly, I'd have been pissed at the X.AI merger because I didn't need that dilution, but having done the X.AI merger, I'd be like, clever deal with Cursor, dude. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Rory O'Driscoll But what you're selling now, what they were selling is a ticket to matter, and x.ai wanted a ticket. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:03 Harry Stebbings Um, the loss is driven by the XAI acquisition, not by operations, important to add. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:22 Harry Stebbings This obviously includes XAI, otherwise known as Twitter, um, which they obviously incorporated earlier this year. 7 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:16 Marc Andreessen and, you know, XAI and so, like, Silicon Valley.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:06 Jason Lemkin And then their competition opening XIA and said, we don't have these problems.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:21 Lucas Swisher You can own some things in the public markets, but you may say, I want to own OpenAI in Anthropic and SpaceX, which now owns XAI, right?
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:14 Jason Lemkin Just like Elon said, whatever, six months ago, I wish we could delay AI three to four years, but since we can, I'm going all in on XAI.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Would you prefer to be a SpaceX investor taking 20% dilution here or a Twitter slash x.ai investor rolling into the largest market cap private company on the planet, maybe six months before it goes public?
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings Last few hours, or 24 hours, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of XAI, valuing the combined private company at 1.25 trillion, as Elon moves to pair the businesses together. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 unnamed speaker For, um, X.AI, because he's basically taken that, which would have been the orphan little Chucky in the storm, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:49 Jason Lemkin When I read, when I read, I read the press release about the tests going back to the Tesla XAI acquisition, right?
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings Anthropik's ten billion dollar fundraise, XAI raising twenty billion dollars, Andreessen Horace raising fifteen billion dollars.
- ▶ 11:08 unnamed speaker Even little things like, like Anthropic cutting off XAI's access to Anthropic this week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 unnamed speaker Gemini, massive cashflow and, um, XAI crazy, but you know, it, it'll get a trillion of Trump contracts.
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
- ▶ 8:24 Chad Peets XAI is incredible. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:15 Chad Peets And the guys that are associated with XAI from an investor standpoint are the exact same way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Harry Stebbings How has your time at XAI changed how you think about sales talent?
- ▶ 23:09 Harry Stebbings On talent-wise, when you look at the team that you're building with XAI, has your views on sales talent changed? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:25 Chad Peets Like, I'm at XAI.
- ▶ 58:26 Chad Peets If you look at the guy that we brought in to run enterprise sales, Graham over at XAI, where does he come from? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:06 Chad Peets Look, I mean, XAI is going to have Optimus, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:03 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started advising at XAI?
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:22 Jason Lemkin I mean, Anthropics is a Spite startup, XAI, and Twitter is a Spite startup.
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:58 David George 11 Labs has this, ChatGPT has this, XAI has this, uh, where it's organic customer acquisition, uh, or, you know, very low cost sales acquisition, Abridge, Harvey, companies where, like, the market is just absolutely starving for their…
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:47 Harry Stebbings Uh, Elon's AI company XAI developing its own AI inference chips.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:19 unnamed speaker But the dollar, if you, if you include Anthropic and OpenAI and XAI, it's got a double, right?
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 1:04:01 Harry Stebbings What happens to XAI? 3 times in the scene
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 53:37 Chris Degnan My friend Chad Peetz has helped me build the, the sales team at, at XAI. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:45 Jason Lemkin I don't know if XAI would exist if it wasn't for his bone to pick with Sam Altman.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:35 Jonathan Ross So, uh, if you look at, uh, XAI, um, they have a social network, and they've integrated their chatbot with that.
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:37 Brendan Foody Um, XAI definitely much more so on the consumer side as well.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:49 Byron Deeter I think the numbers right now, the top three LLMs, if you include, um, you know, Anthropoc, OpenAI, and, and X in there, ah, are gonna raise a hundred billion dollars in this six month period, um, which is just an inconceivable number by…
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:21 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you have, interestingly enough, in some deals, Meta gets reported as an investment in scale AI because they quote, put the money in, you know, so in theory it's a venture investment, which is absurd, but you have big runs for…
- ▶ 1:31:42 Harry Stebbings Will XAI sue Apple? 5 times in the scene
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?
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:27 Edwin Chen yeah, I mean, we, we work really closely with the XAI team and it's actually just incredibly refreshing to see how they operate. 2 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:20 Rory O'Driscoll And so you, you can never discount a rage quit, I suppose would be that, especially when you have the fun of SpaceX and XAI to go to. 2 times in the scene
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:27 Bucky Moore There's a lot of talk around how it's going to be OpenAI and Anthropic, maybe XAI.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:04 Steeve Morin Uh, the XAI cluster.
Jonathan Ross: DeepSeek Special - How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | E1253 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:32 Harry Stebbings If you're Elon and x.ai, how are you feeling, and do you feel better or worse post this?
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:26 George Sivulka XAI, again, just, just created the largest GPU cluster of all time, and they're gonna try to train larger and larger models.
- ▶ 42:59 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Xsort AI's GPU cluster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:41 Harry Stebbings Or Axe AI XAI at 50. 5 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:58 Harry Stebbings OpenAI at one 60, Anthropic at 40, Axe at 50.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:44 Victor Riparbelli Like if, if, if we're seeing like X and Elon Musk catching up like pretty quickly and Frobek has a really great product. 5 times in the scene
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:31 Harry Stebbings OpenAI at one 60, Anthropic at 40, or XAI at 50.
Daniel Dines, UiPath CEO & Founder: Why Agents Do Not Mean RPA is F*** | E1240 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:05 Harry Stebbings Um, ok, you can buy OpenAI at one 60, you can buy Anthropic at 40, or you can buy X.AI at 50.
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:43 Zachary Bookman I, I, somebody offered me the chance to put some money in XAI, and I'm like, is raising at eighteen billion as a seed round?
- ▶ 1:03:22 Harry Stebbings XAI at 50, which is what it's supposedly raising at now, or Anthropic at 40.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:46 Harry Stebbings You got Chat or OpenAI at one 50 or one 60, you have Anthropic at 40, or you have X.AI at, I mean, latest pricing says it's 50.
Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:48 Eiso Kant I mean, XAI is very unlikely to be acquired, but they're a very capable player in this space, and, and look when we, and, and I focus of course on, on work in, in large language models, and then work towards AGI.
- ▶ 46:19 Harry Stebbings So you can buy OpenAI at one 56, Anthropic at 40, which is their suggested new round, or X.AI at 24. 4 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:26 Harry Stebbings When you have x.ai raising eighteen billion, I mean, these are potential trillion dollar companies where with dilution, you'll get less than a hundred X.
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:30 Eric Vishria Um, and you know, and then there's a whole bunch of others coming, XAI and Mistral and, um, and so forth, SSI now.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:42 Michael Eisenberg It's like Elon Musk is talking about XAI is going to be the place of truth.
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,
- ▶ 15:51 unnamed speaker And then, um, XAI recently hired this guy, uh, Eric Zeligman from, from Stanford, who's written these papers on something called the STAR, um, self-taught automated reasoner.
- ▶ 23:06 unnamed speaker Um, Google, and Anthropic, Meta, uh, Mistral, and, and, and you can say, uh, uh, to, like, after XAI's new funding round, maybe you can include them too.
- ▶ 27:31 Aravind Srinivas And now XAI also has like pretty good amount of money and good talent, but they're playing very far from behind in terms of timelines.