The Ledger, every show
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Murdock: Flipboard Turned Down ~$1B Acquisition Bids From Twitter and ByteDance
“They had two bidders going for them at the time. And that was very, very interested in them at around, I'll say within 20% of that number, and, ah, one of them was Twitter, and the other one was TikTok, the founder of ByteDance, and founder just, you know, he …”
Jerry Murdock: Meta rejected Nvidia GPUs to bet on custom ASIC chips
“I mean, look, you know, a lot of people like to criticize meta here and there about being behind the game, but they had the balls to say no to Jensen. Sorry, Jensen. We don't need you. So why did he do that? Because he's betting on a six chips. No question abo…”
Murdock: Hyperscalers Have Taken on Record Debt Levels
“All the hyperscalers have taken on much more debt than they ever have before”
Murdock: OpenAI and Anthropic Do Not Permit Frontier Model Customization
“What's happening is, is that you can't customize anthropic models or open AI models right now. Not the big frontier models. You're not allowed to do that.”
Murdock: Open-source models have never beaten frontier models on innovation
“There's never been a time yet where the open source model has trumped a frontier model on innovation yet. They might be better at specialization, but they certainly don't compete yet in sort of Complex and being able to do complex tasks.”
Jerry Murdock: Cursor will pivot strategy toward autonomous AI agents
“Now, my view is, yeah, well, but that team is really smart. They've got a lot of money and a lot of customers. They've got time to embrace autonomous agents, which is what I think they'll do. And they've got shots to pivot and figure out what the next directio…”
Jerry Murdock: Twitter had 30 employees and zero revenue when Insight invested
“When I invested in Twitter in 2009 there was 30 something people, no revenue.”