Jacob Helberg
Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State. On 4 shows, 6 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jacob Helberg is the author of The Wires of War and founded the Hill & Valley Forum. He previously served as a senior advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies and as a commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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58statements
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11said about them ↓ Everything Jacob Helberg said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Helberg: DeepSeek lied about compute capacity and distilled ChatGPT weights
“The main takeaways of how DeepSeq achieved the performance its performance was Incremental efficiency gains. They lied about their compute capacity because they have a billion dollar cluster, and they distilled ChatGPT's model weights.”
Helberg: Belt and Road countries frequently default, yielding equity to China
“It is Chinese workers, Chinese companies, you know, and a lot of the times it's Chinese equity because the debt converts to equity if, you know, the host country defaults. They do a lot of the times.”
Helberg: China is actively decoupling from the US and de-risking failure points
“China is on a path to decoupling from us and de-risking all of its single points of failure.”
Helberg: France Has Long Lacked an Actual Right-Wing Government Option
“Frankly, in France for a long time, I think one of the frustrations that the public has had is that the options that a lot of people have had in politics is a left, is a left wing leftist government and a right wing leftist government. And there has lacked, yo…”
Helberg: Pax Silica Countries Are Growing 4% YoY Versus 1% for G7
“The Paxilica countries are growing roughly around four percent year on year compared to G seven countries that are growing somewhere in the zone of one percent.”
Helberg: US Software Companies Objectively Lead China in AI Model Development
“With that being said, our software companies are better by a lot. I mean, it's, we are objectively leading in, in AI and in model development.”
Helberg: China Criminalized Due Diligence on Official Economic Indicators
“You know, their data is really falsified, and they actually tried to hide their books so much so that they've made it illegal for people within China to ask too many questions or do due diligence on their economic indicators.”
Helberg: Philippines is granting 4,000 acres for forward-deployed industrial base
“We made this arrangement with them where they are granting us 4000 acres, which is obviously very substantial. It's a third of the size of Manhattan. To do a very large industrial build out that's one of a kind that, that helps combine the predictability and c…”
Helberg: Pax Silica's private-sector model is more ethical than state-led alliances
“And because we're approaching it by putting our companies in the driver's seat it's actually, you know, in, in a lot of ways, it's much more ethical because the deal is structured in a way that's really meant to be you know, a true joint venture and one that w…”
Helberg: AI is driving over a third of US GDP growth
“You know, the American economy has been proven incredibly resilient, and a big part of that is AI being this incredible, you know, incredibly strong economic force that is already fueling over a third of our economic GDP growth right here in the US.”
Helberg: Replicating Semiconductor Fabs Abroad Makes No Sense Before US Completion
“There's a whole host of reasons why it wouldn't necessarily make sense to try to replicate that elsewhere because it's highly technical. The global talent supply of talent available in that area is very finite and limited. And it's also extremely capital inten…”
Helberg: US will resolve minerals pricing issue before term ends
“And I'm incredibly confident that we actually will resolve the pricing issue For the minerals market before the end of this administration.”
Helberg: State Department will use VC investments to guide government capital
“We actually would really love for the venture capital ecosystem to help be part of the solution because I think, you know, you guys are better positioned to assess, you know, who are the best players in the space. And we can take that, you know, as an importan…”
Helberg: Regulating model distillation is critical to protecting AI investments
“The whole model distillation debate, which is super important to actually protect the economic value of these hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in AI companies.”
Helberg: US CapEx is over 2% of GDP and will probably double next year
“Massive CapEx investment, as you guys know that has really picked up in a statistically significant way. It's over two percent of GDP right now, and it's probably gonna double by next year.”
Helberg: AI infrastructure accounted for one point of US GDP growth
“I, I've seen analysis that has, ah, that basically says that it's added a full point of GDP just for AI in the last year which is a lot because the economy grew three percent, so if a third of that came from AI infrastructure, that's that, that's a lot.”
Helberg: DoD off-take agreements and price floors can break China's rare earth monopoly
“The solution to help put the genie back in the bottle is, I think actually the DoD's deal with MP Materials offers a good template, which is you need an anchor buyer and an end customer, and you need a price floor. So you need to agree with the supplier, in th…”
Helberg: AI productivity will erode developing nations' labor cost advantage
“If we increase productivity, it will totally erode the competitive advantages in labor costs that developing countries have, and we have an opportunity to re-industrialize.”
Helberg: AI Will Drive Companies to Increase Output Rather Than Lay Off Workers
“And I actually think companies will choose, far from laying off workers, I think companies will choose to increase output. Because if they don't, their competitors will.”
Helberg: AI first-movers will drive a 'Second Great Divergence' over lagging economies
“I think we're going to, we're likely to see a second great divergence. So, for the first time since the first industrial revolution, I think we're gonna see the economies that are first movers in integrating AI into their economy reap massive productivity and …”
Helberg: EU AI Act ensures Europe will not be a first mover in AI
“I think the AI act is basically single-handedly ensuring that Europe will not be a first mover in AI, because it's now subject to these incredibly punitive set of rules”
Helberg: Nuclear energy offers the best path for US power expansion
“I think we need nuclear energy. There's no doubt in my mind that nuclear energy is, offers the best path.”
Helberg: US must signal CFIUS won't block trusted foreign energy investment
“Has to basically signal to the market that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, CFIUS, will not block foreign investment, you know, from trusted partners into this sector.”
Helberg: Meeting 2030s US data center power demand definitely runs through nuclear
“Some statistics say that our data center capacity will require us to double our overall electricity production in the 20 thirties. We could, I think it's possible to do that, and Sarah, you pointed out that if we want to re-industrialize, you know, the, those …”
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 NO PRIORSLEDGER | Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State | 2 | 42 | 63% 10/16 | full record on No Priors → |
 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State | 1 | 16 | 86% 6/7 | full record on American Optimist → |
 a16zLEDGER | Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State | 1 | 0 | — | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State | 2 | 0 | — | full record on All-In → |