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Sacks: US will lose AI race to China under pre-approval regulations
“And I think we will lose the AI race to countries like China if, You know, if this is the set of rules that we have.”
Sacks: AI doomerism narrative will be discredited within a few years
“I suspect that's where we'll be with AI dumerism in a few years, but in the meantime, it's a really good narrative to kind of take the place of the climate dumerism.”
Sacks: Top Biden AI officials immediately joined Anthropic after leaving government
“Literally the minute the Biden administration was over, all the top Biden AI employees went to go work at Anthropic, which tells you who they were working with during the Biden years.”
Sacks: SEC enforcement drove the US crypto industry offshore
“And you know, and there, and as a result of that, basically the whole crypto industry was in the process of moving offshore. And America, I think, was being deprived of this industry of the future.”
Sacks: China is the only country capable of beating the US in AI
“China is our, probably our main competitor in this area. They're the only other country that has the technological Capability, the talent, the know-how, the expertise to beat us in this area, and we want to make sure the United States wins.”
Sacks: Crypto company founders faced personal debanking in the US
“And by the way, it wasn't just crypto companies that were being debanked, but their founders were being debanked personally. So if you were the founder of a crypto company, you couldn't open a bank account.”
Sacks: Biden's AI executive order contained 20 pages of DEI language
“That Biden executive order on AI that we rescinded as part of the Trump administration had something like 20 pages of DEI language in it.”
Sacks: AI will boost human productivity rather than eliminate jobs
“I just think that this is going to be a very synergistic tool for a long time. I don't think it's going to wipe out human, human jobs. I don't think the need for human Cognition is going away. It's something that, you know, we'll, we'll all use to kind of get …”
Sacks: US will eventually pass federal AI regulatory preemption
“I think we will eventually get some federal preemption, and I think the question will just again be whether we preempt heavy or preempt light.”
Sacks: Biden administration blocked Gulf allies from purchasing US AI chips
“Starting with the Gulf states in October of twenty-twenty-three. Basically, the Gulf states, you know, I'm talking about countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, long-standing U.S. Allies, they weren't allowed to buy chips from the U.S.”
Sacks: Nuclear power for data centers will take five to ten years
“Nuclear is going to take five or 10 years. It's just not something that we're going to be able to do in the next two or three years”
Sacks: Peak load shedding can free up 80 gigawatts for AI grid
“If we could just shed 40 hours a year of peak load from the grid to, like, backup generators to diesel, things like that, you could free up an additional 80 gigawatts of power”
Sacks: Trump agreed to delay sending the National Guard to San Francisco
“Daniel had a good conversation with the president and asked him to hold back, and you know, the president agreed and is giving him time to implement his solutions”
Sacks: Silicon Valley is pulling back from the imminent AGI narrative
“My sense is that people are in Silicon Valley are kind of pulling back from the, let's call it imminent AGI narrative.”
Sacks: Five major AI model companies are closely clustered in capability
“Fortunately, so far what we're seeing in the market is that it's hyper competitive. There's five major model companies all making huge investments. And the benchmark, the model performance, the evaluations are relatively clustered. And there's a lot of leapfro…”
Sacks: A gas turbine shortage is the immediate bottleneck for AI power
“The issue is there's, like, a shortage of these gas turbines. You know, there's only, like, two or three companies that make these things, and, like, there's, like, a backlog of two or three years, so I think that's probably the immediate problem there that ne…”
Sacks: US Senate will pass the Clarity Act crypto bill
“I think that we will get the Clarity Act done. Like you mentioned, it passed the House with about 300 votes, about 78 Democrats. So it was substantially bipartisan. I think it will ultimately where it's now going through the Senate. I think it will ultimately …”
Sacks: Roughly half of global data center capacity is on-premises
“About half the global data center market is, you know, is on-prem, meaning enterprises and governments create their own data centers.”
Sacks: Huawei's Cloud Matrix networks 384 chips to match Nvidia rack performance
“Back in April Huawei launched a technology called Cloud Matrix in which they compensated for the fact that their chips individually are not as good as NVIDIA's chips by networking more of them together. So they took 384 of them. Now you use their prowess in ne…”
Sacks: Over 1,200 AI regulation bills are in U.S. state legislatures
“There's now something like 1200 bills going through state legislatures right now to regulate AI. 25% of them are in the top four blue states, which are California, New York, Colorado, and Illinois. Over a hundred measures have already passed.”
Sacks: Stablecoins account for only 6% of total crypto market cap
“Stable coins are about six percent of the total market cap in terms of tokens. So, 94% are all the other types of tokens, and the clarity act would apply to all of that and provide the regulatory framework for all those other crypto projects and companies.”