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Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 13:17 Erik Torenberg The, what happens to Google? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 Erik Torenberg Alex, I know you've thought about a lot about Google as well. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Erik Torenberg Alex, any reactions to this either on the, on the Google side or on the device side? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Erik Torenberg We just talked about Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 Keith Rabois You know, cloud revenue, sure, for the point about AWS or Google Cloud.
- ▶ 26:02 Keith Rabois Their profits are greater than like Google's revenues or something.
- ▶ 28:16 Keith Rabois So for Google's weakness has always been, they just don't ship products. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 Keith Rabois Um, and then, you know, when did, when did they do maps? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:50 Alex Rampell Like consumer fintech products are so hard because like all of the, I mean, right now, just all of the, the economic rent goes to Google or wherever you find it from.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 45:21 Ali Ghodsi And I said, well, it's Google, you know, it's the fangs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Ali Ghodsi They've been at a Google, they've been at Amazon, they understand the processes so that I understand how to navigate a bureaucracy and work with it. 2 times in the scene
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 16:00 Nathan Labenz I also think a lot about the Google AI co-scientist, which we did an episode with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Nathan Labenz You know, maybe they'll be the ones to surprise on the upside this time, or maybe Google will be.
- ▶ 51:14 Nathan Labenz Um, now with the new nano banana from Google, you have this like basically Photoshop level ability to just say, Hey, take this thumbnail.
- ▶ 1:25:56 Nathan Labenz There was a great moment at, at, um, Google's IO where they brought up some journalist.
- ▶ 1:25:56 Nathan Labenz There was a great moment at, at, um, Google's IO where they brought up some journalist.
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 18:59 Vishal Misra You look at what OpenAI is coming up with or what, uh, Anthropic, Google
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 39:05 Sam Altman Like, you know, on, on Google, I feel like I know what I'm looking for.
- ▶ 40:01 Ben Horowitz And then, how, how big a problem, you know, just, you, extending the Google example is like, um, you know, fake, uh, content that then gets slurped in by the model, and then they recommend the wrong coffee maker because somebody just…
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
- ▶ 0:52 Anjney Midha Doge, you were running some of the physics teams at DeepMind.
- ▶ 1:06 Liam Fedus I believe we met eight years ago at Google Brain flipping over a large tire.
- ▶ 1:14 Liam Fedus At the Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:09 Anjney Midha So when you guys went about designing the team, you know, after you left opening on DeepMind, what was the primary heuristic that you, that you used to guide yourself in figuring out who you wanted on the team?
- ▶ 23:19 Doge Cubuk It's a bit like when DeepMind and OpenAI started and said, we're going to AGI.
- ▶ 34:51 Anjney Midha What makes a great researcher at Periodic that's different from what might make a great researcher at OpenAI or Anthropic or DeepMind?
- ▶ 46:17 Doge Cubuk So, for example, recently a lot of the large-scale simulations have been done in industry labs like Microsoft DeepMind and Meta, but a lot of those tools have been actually developed in academia and then passed on.
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
- ▶ 36:37 unnamed speaker Well, one provocative example could be recently, you know, this new image model came out, which is Nano Banana, right, from Google.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 1:40 Martin Casado It's locked up by the large companies, the consultants, Amazon and Google, um, and like that has to change, and I think a very reasonable way to do it is to, to set price because, you know, you've got, uh, a market and you've got, you need… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:05 Aaron Levie Yeah, I, um, I, I think that the, we will have to have some new form of, of measurement probably in general on this because so much of the, so much of the improvement in productivity will be, will, will sort of be this, like, subtle change…
- ▶ 42:39 Steven Sinofsky And, and I think that, that that's why, you know, it's not crazy to go, wow, is this going to be good or bad for Google?
- ▶ 46:41 Steven Sinofsky Well, like, I assume, like, you, you, when a company is like, we're not worried about if Google does this.
- ▶ 52:30 Steven Sinofsky And of course, you just see it when you use Google search.
- ▶ 55:47 Steven Sinofsky Right, like, it's so early that names that you never heard of existed before Google, and that's gonna be really important. 2 times in the scene
Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
- ▶ 11:13 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Ok, you, you guys are gonna tell me that I don't know anything about Silicon Valley, even though, because I didn't work for A-sixteen Z, but I'll just tell you, my view of this is, is like, the reason why you, you all are so successful is…
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 22:58 Dylan Patel So, uh, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Amazon, Google, and Oracle, right?
- ▶ 1:02:35 Dylan Patel Um, not that I necessarily think Amazon's internal models are gonna be great, or hey, their internal chip is better than NVIDIA's or competitive with TPU, like, or their hardware architecture is the best.
- ▶ 1:04:55 Dylan Patel Whereas, you know, Anthropic, Trania, more TPUs. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:39 Dylan Patel It could be Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:12 Dylan Patel OpenAI, Anthropa, Google.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 0:16 Alex Rampell Like Google, they kind of are a tax on GDP. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:52 Alex Rampell Um, and I was just trying to think, well, number one, like, what happens to Google? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19 Alex Rampell It actually predates AdWords and AdSense by a bit of, you just get a share of the, you get a commission, basically, if you send something there.
- ▶ 1:19 Alex Rampell It actually predates AdWords and AdSense by a bit of, you just get a share of the, you get a commission, basically, if you send something there.
- ▶ 4:19 Alex Rampell It's, like, Google News Alerts for pricing.
- ▶ 13:10 Alex Rampell Um, well, then they're just buying, they're buying traffic on Google and Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:16 Alex Rampell Like, that seems like a no-brainer, um, because that's a lot of what Google does. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 unnamed speaker Let's get into, you know, what are some of the things that are going to be taken away from, from, from Google? 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 Alex Rampell And the entire thing that made Google this, like, you know, giant two trillion dollar company was AdWords.
- ▶ 27:24 Justine Moore But, um, that doesn't seem to have hit, like, the traditional Google part of the internet yet.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 5:19 Anish Acharya Or even ChatGPT and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:29 Anish Acharya Interestingly, you know, like Google's top SKU is 250 a month.
- ▶ 40:27 Anish Acharya I think a lot about the early ethos of Android, which felt like it matched Google's sort of open web mindset, and then when it became clear that iOS was beating their pants off by being a closed ecosystem, Android became very closed and…
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 5:08 Mark Cuban Because if it takes two seconds to generate on VO and, and then pretty soon that becomes agentic, and pretty soon it's, ok, everything, just videotape everything that I do and everything and I, you know,
The Little Tech Agenda for AI
- ▶ 0:12 Matt Perault They're trying to build models that might compete with Microsoft or OpenAI or Meta or Google.
- ▶ 5:44 Matt Perault If they're trying to build models that might compete with Microsoft or OpenAI or Meta or Google, and that is unbelievably challenging in AI.
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 32:01 Martin Casado I mean, Google can do it.
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 6:28 Andrew Chen We had, you know, Google Reader, RIP, and then you had kind of basically a phase, you know, Chris, when, when I met, um, uh, you know, your, your co-founder, Hamish, um, initially, and the, and the company was, was three people, um, this…
- ▶ 7:19 Andrew Chen I'm just gonna, you know, plug XYZ, you know, Amazon, uh, book and get affiliate fees, or I'm gonna put Google AdSense, you know, all over my, all over my blog.
- ▶ 17:09 Chris Best Like, like you had to have some top of funnel place, you know, the same way that the, the legacy media was struggling and like you had to have Facebook traffic or you had to have Google traffic or you had to have something.
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 3:59 Justine Moore And there's also a lot of big companies that have products on the list, folks like Google. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:29 Olivia Moore Um, and then one of your favorites also made the list, which was Google Labs, down at number 39. 4 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 44:32 Aaron Levie How many minutes did it take you for, uh, for you to know Google Wave wasn't gonna work?
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 38:20 Erik Torenberg I mean, some people are true believers, it's the Google guy, or like some people.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 12:12 Martin Casado I don't know, but everybody seems to use it because of the brand, and so, like, when you know the name, you do this, and the early internet was like this, like, everybody knew Google, and everybody knew Amazon, and you had these big brand…
- ▶ 21:04 Martin Casado I mean, like with Meta and like Google, et cetera, and so kind of our view is, is you have to be very, very careful before you go into it, and there's a lot of companies you've never heard about that are in this space, right, um, that we…
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 14:36 Dylan Patel Uh, Google's upping hugely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:29 Dylan Patel I think that's the biggest thing, right, is, um, when we look at orders from Google and from, um, Amazon, right, especially their, and, and Meta, their custom silicon is, not, not Microsoft, their custom silicon kind of sucks, uh, but the… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:51 Dylan Patel Google's making millions of TPUs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:59 Dylan Patel Um, internally, I think it would require a big reorg of culture, um, and a big reorg of like how Google Cloud works, um, and how the TPU team works and how the JAX software team and XLA software teams work.
- ▶ 32:12 Dylan Patel Um, and you even see this like for Google, right?
- ▶ 32:18 Dylan Patel Because the shapes of a TPU are different than a GPU. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:12 Dylan Patel Um, and Google's CapEx is like, eighty billion, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:23 Dylan Patel Like Google has a ton of TPUs sitting, waiting for data centers to be powered and ready as does Meta with GPUs, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:39 Dylan Patel ByteDance is, you know, either the biggest or the second biggest customer of Google Cloud for a reason, right?
- ▶ 59:13 Dylan Patel AI, you know, like this ChatGPT, TakeRay, the shift of search queries, the monetizable ones, especially from two, two purchasing agents is going to really screw Google long-term if they don't, you know, get their act together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:25 Dylan Patel I think they've gotten their act together on DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
- ▶ 0:56 Shlomi Fruchter Google's DeepMind and outside pointed to that direction, but we really wanted to make it happen, and I hope we have.
- ▶ 5:27 Shlomi Fruchter And I think for me, kind of like this, this potential, when I started looking at video models, I think it was pretty early when I think it was one of the models were like imagine video, which was a model by Google research.
- ▶ 20:23 Jack Parker-Holder So if we'd done this sort of by incrementally building like ourselves in, in, in, on an island, it would have taken, I think a lot longer than being part of Google DeepMind where we have these teams that have a lot of knowledge in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Jack Parker-Holder And in robotics, we have this paradigm right now where there's some data-driven approaches, right, where you can collect data in a quite laborious way, but it looks like the downstream task, so it looks real, and there's not so much of a…
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 8:20 Martin Casado I mean, like the difference between like a model and Google is almost nothing, but you know, like that was used as this, you know, straw person argument,
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 32:23 Matt Bornstein So, and it's, like, medium scale, or, like, like, Google is too much personalization scale, right?
This Week in AI: GPT-5 Ships, 4o Pulled Back, Grok Imagine Goes Social
- ▶ 12:33 Olivia Moore Genie three from Google, and then a new music model from 11 Labs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Justine Moore Like, we've seen this for LLMs, like, you know, OpenAI, um, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, like, there's XAI, like, there's all of these companies that have models that are really good at particular things.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 12:33 Balaji Srinivasan And, um, and then you also have like a fuzzy set sort of thing where, for example, Google and Apple compete on operating systems and Google and Facebook compete on, uh, ads and Facebook and Apple compete on, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Balaji Srinivasan Because otherwise, there's literally no way you could possibly have, like, and, you know, the complexity of these systems, every algorithm change, every update, every this, every that, cannot be something that's like, you know, there's…
- ▶ 26:54 Steven Sinofsky But this is, this is like what the New York Times, your favorite, NYT, what they said when Google acquired YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Balaji Srinivasan Like Google had Google video, but it had to buy YouTube for 1.6 bill, which certainly caused, I'm sure some churning internally by the Google video guys. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Balaji Srinivasan Like Google had Google video, but it had to buy YouTube for 1.6 bill, which certainly caused, I'm sure some churning internally by the Google video guys. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 Balaji Srinivasan US versus Google is a giant interest case still going. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:44 Balaji Srinivasan Google Books was amazing, and then all these copyright lawsuits gelled at it enough so that you could get like some little snippet preview, and then you couldn't see the whole thing, right?
- ▶ 1:09:12 Steven Sinofsky That, so China is just doing, and I can look at this very emotionally and personally, which is, this is Google releasing Google Docs for free. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:47 Balaji Srinivasan I mean, they, they make money from G suite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:13 Balaji Srinivasan Like, you know, Google was search 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:18 Balaji Srinivasan And like essentially Google, you know, with Chrome, it kind of became something as, as, as Steve is aware, it built those things.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 39:46 Martin Casado Google makes chips now, man, so, so then they over time.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 0:00 Balaji Srinivasan We want to build Googles and Facebooks and, you know, AI and giant companies, giant cryptocurrencies, and now internet communities.