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AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 1:10:35 Jason Calacanis And Sam actually confirmed that part as well, that they heard that anthropic was getting close, et cetera.
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 1:53 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman is?
- ▶ 5:43 David Sacks Look, Sam told us a few months ago, remember when he posted and said that he was expecting the company to have its best 12 months?
- ▶ 1:10:21 Jason Calacanis But people are saying, hey, they're trying to sacrifice kids because they don't want Sam Altman or Dario or whichever service it is, Microsoft, to get a couple of shekels for, you know, software being used in the classroom.
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 23:37 Jason Calacanis And what Sam did by buying out the founder of OpenClaw, right after he bought OpenClaw's founder, Peter, and he started working at OpenAI, just OpenClaw just faded, like no more innovation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Jason Calacanis And I'm not trying to say this to say Sam did something nefarious or that OpenClaw is, you know, terrible or anything, but they just lost their edge.
- ▶ 30:56 Jason Calacanis Based on these two acquisitions, Hugging Face and Poolside, and I think Sam Altman poked the tiger. 3 times in the scene
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 12:39 David Friedberg It seems to me that the proposal from Demis that Dario signed up to, Sam signed up to, Elon all signed up to,
- ▶ 18:13 David Sacks Sam just came out with a post, I believe yesterday, saying that actually they're going to slow down the release of some of their frontier models because they felt that their safety stack was not keeping up with the capability.
- ▶ 23:14 Jason Calacanis Sam Waltman did, you know, studies on, um, universal basic income. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:06 Jason Calacanis Dario and Sam have not done that. 4 times in the scene
Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 11:26 Jason Calacanis Sam Waltman tragically and what's happened at his house twice, you know, but I have my own security cameras.
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 28:10 Jason Calacanis He has picked up the abundance crown, which Sam Waltman dropped when he went for the private company.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 35:46 David Friedberg So Brad, like when you put Elon up against a Dario and a Sam and even an Alphabet, which has
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 30:26 David Sacks And the reports are that Sam is going to Washington over the next week to go talk about GBT. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:06 David Sacks Like I said, I mean, Sam is out there saying they got their mojo back.
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 2:36 Jason Calacanis Looks like, uh, on the positive side, we have Elon, who said it was thoughtful, Sam at OpenAI, Jack Clark at Anthropic, Sundar, Satya, Jack Dorsey from Block, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:17 Jason Calacanis As insane as this is, Sam Altman has found a way, found a way to screw yet another party. 3 times in the scene
The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
- ▶ 25:08 Jason Calacanis Let's talk a little bit about, um, being up against some of the greatest entrepreneurs ever who want to take your business from you, specifically Dario and Anthropic, Sam from OpenAI.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 57:23 Jason Calacanis Which, by the way, is exactly what Sam Altman did famously at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:34 Brad Gerstner We do, we, I, I've said on CNBC, you know, I've obviously talked with Dario and Sam and Elon and others about making those donations.
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 10:44 Andrew Feldman One of the things is people like Ilya and Sam in the early days were saying this was coming. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 Jason Calacanis We're now going to be competing with Sam, Dario, Elon, uh, Sergey.
- ▶ 23:27 Andrew Feldman I mean, we, we want Dario and Sam competing like crazy.
- ▶ 31:57 Andrew Feldman I, I, I think, um, I think what, what, what Sam and Ilya and then later Dario and, and, and Dana, Dana saw, um, six years ago or five years ago was that, um,
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 1:35 Alex Karp Sam and, and, and Dario.
- ▶ 2:37 Jason Calacanis Do I want to give all of the secrets in our organization, every piece of intellectual property to Sam Altman, who's got to make a billion dollars a year to keep up with his spend, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:33 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman went to Y Combinator and he said, we'll give you two million dollars worth of free tokens. 5 times in the scene
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 1:10:42 David Friedberg None of us, and by the way, no one's immune to this arrogance from Elon to Sam to Dario to all of us.
Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections
- ▶ 23:07 Jason Calacanis Some of them want to just get the biggest pay package, go work for Sam Altman.
- ▶ 42:14 Jason Calacanis Isn't Sam Altman open to this concept?
- ▶ 47:54 Jason Calacanis So you disagree with Dario, Elon, and Sam that on the jobs thing, just to be clear, and that's totally fine.
- ▶ 58:44 David Sacks We didn't get Sam. 7 times in the scene
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 0:40 Bill Ackman I think Sam should be chair. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
- ▶ 8:42 Sarah Friar So we, I'm very grateful that I got to work alongside Greg and Sam. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 36:27 David Sacks Remember that Anthropic was basically a spin-out of open AI, and they felt that Sam and the company leadership weren't taking their point of view seriously enough.
- ▶ 1:02:01 Jason Calacanis Uh, a publication called Fortune is apparently still publishing AI slop, and they say both Sam Wattman and Dario have walked back their AI job apocalypse predictions as they gear up for an IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:52 David Sacks Sam is backing off this.
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 43:16 Jason Calacanis Personal job news from Sam Altman.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 49:03 Jason Calacanis And do you trust Sam Altman in OpenAI? 3 times in the scene
Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
- ▶ 3:56 Jason Calacanis For ideological reasons, Sam Altman's house being targeted.
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 4:18 Jason Calacanis This has put Friar and Altman in conflict, or maybe there's some natural tension there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:40 David Sacks So I think that Sam may end up being right, but for the wrong reason. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:03 Jason Calacanis In other OpenAI news, Musk versus Altman, the trial of the century, maybe the decade, has started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:39 Jason Calacanis And then you have this Sam Altman New Yorker story and people finding out that so many different people feel they got screwed by him.
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence
- ▶ 29:03 Jason Calacanis I believe when Sam Altman bought it, it was, uh, and he didn't buy Open Claw itself.
Two Legendary Founders: Travis Kalanick & Michael Dell Live from Austin, Texas
- ▶ 55:35 Jason Calacanis They don't want to give it to Sam Altman, put it in a cloud somewhere.
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 52:41 Jason Calacanis So they're in compliance in terms of what you're looking for as a partner, and then I guess the last one is OpenAI, and Sam seems to be just characteristically playing both sides a bit. 8 times in the scene
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 15:27 Jason Calacanis It's cost savings plus, do I wanna give all of the secrets in our organization, every piece of intellectual property to Sam Altman, who's gotta make a billion dollars a year to keep up with his spend, right? 2 times in the scene
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 1:02:28 Jason Calacanis We don't have to worry about our information going up to Sam Allman.
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:55:53 Jason Calacanis Because obviously Elon, Sam Altman, I'm sure AWS, I'm sure, well, I think Google does their own, yeah?
- ▶ 1:58:51 Jason Calacanis There's been a lot of talk of, and I, I think Brad Gerstner kind of started this discussion on his BG two podcast when he had Sam Altman on how does a company with 20 or at the time, twelve billion. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 17:25 Jason Calacanis Sam wasn't, Sam Altman wasn't too thrilled with that.
- ▶ 40:39 Andrew Feldman Yeah, I think anybody except maybe Sam and Ilya, who really saw it.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 20:12 Jason Calacanis But you did a deal with open AI and probably one of the most savvy slash controversial deal makers of all time, Sam Altman.
Iran's Breaking Point, Trump's Greenland Acquisition, and Solving Energy Costs
- ▶ 31:46 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman is an investor in the company, so, uh, he knows it well.
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 51:15 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:17 David Sacks By the way, that, that whole UBI narrative, I think Sam was like telling that a couple years ago. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 0:12 Jason Calacanis All right, first up on the docket, a code red has been called by Sam Altman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:36 Chamath Palihapitiya And so I think if Sam can use different points in time to tighten the core focus, they'll be better off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 David Sacks Well, first of all, let me give credit to Sam for calling this code red, breaking the glass and pulling the, the alarm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 Jason Calacanis Now you have to look also at the competition and what Sam is facing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:12 Jason Calacanis They're going to take the main revenue stream of OpenAI, and they're going to suck the oxygen out of the room, and they're going to try to strangle Sam and the team over there by making it free. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:26 David Sacks I mean, I think this might be the only thing that Sam and Elon have agreed on in the last year.
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 55:01 Jason Calacanis And when you hear, when you hear Sam. 2 times in the scene
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 1:12:15 Jason Calacanis I'm not sure Altman is the greatest.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 30:02 Andrew Ross Sorkin But then you tell me, I mean, I think Sam Altman and Elon
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 44:13 Jason Calacanis Obviously, uh, two companies are, are run by friends of the pod, Lisa from AMD and Sam from OpenAI, both been on the pod.
- ▶ 52:24 Chamath Palihapitiya Sam was in Korea, and you saw him shaking hands with SK Hynix and Samsung. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:57 Brad Gerstner It won't all work, but the risk capital, the entrepreneurial boldness of Sam and Nvidia and Lisa, this is what's going to keep us ahead in the global AI race. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:09 David Sacks I mean, Sam, Elon. 2 times in the scene
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 2:53 Roelof Botha Sam Altman was in that group as well. 2 times in the scene
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 38:48 Jason Calacanis Here's Sam Altman. 7 times in the scene
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 7:27 Eric Schmidt Um, Sam Altman indicated that the smallest version of the O three model would be released, uh, I believe open weights and they have done so. 2 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
- ▶ 6:22 Jason Calacanis So, uh, Did Sam give you a call? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 David Sacks First of all, the companies, like you're saying, they do care who their shareholders are, and they do generally restrict those things, and that's why you probably got the phone call from Sam, and then the regulators care also because…
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 17:43 unnamed speaker Can you break down what's missing and maybe relate it to the point of view shared by Dario, Sam, others about AGI is a few years away.
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 1:46 Jason Calacanis Followed by Saxipoo and Chamath and Amore, sitting right across from Sam Altman and Tim Cook.
- ▶ 10:52 Chamath Palihapitiya And so you have like Tim and Sam and Satya sitting on the couch over here by these two chairs, just like Dylan Field and Alexander Wagner.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 9:08 Jason Calacanis AI stocks were down across the board because of this MIT study that went viral, as well as Sam Altman's comments about a bubble and Zuck instituting a hiring freeze in AI after going on a complete
- ▶ 17:28 David Sacks Sam Altman was sort of teasing this concept by posting photos of the Death Star.
- ▶ 20:01 Jason Calacanis Altman appeared to compare the AI craze to the dot-com bubble, according to CNBC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman claimed Zuck was making hundred million dollar offers regularly for open AI talent.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 7:42 Jason Calacanis Sammy the Bull Altman dropped GPT-V and, uh, two openweight models. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:07 Jason Calacanis And so, anyway, Sam did this tweet.
- ▶ 13:55 Jason Calacanis Because, hey, Sam the Bull Altman, Sammy the Bull is pretty competitive. 3 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
- ▶ 18:16 Chamath Palihapitiya One was from Elon where he said in five years he projected fifty million H-one hundred equivalents just for XAI, and the second was Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:29 Jason Calacanis You got E you got, uh, uh, Sam Altman. 4 times in the scene
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 42:57 Jason Calacanis Individuals, which by the way, was what he backed before Sam Altman corrupted the original missionary basis of opening. 3 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:10:47 Jason Calacanis Sam Altman bought two companies at OpenAI and tons of M&A happening at the same time.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 45:44 Chamath Palihapitiya And the reason I bring this up, and I'm sure we'll talk about this is it's impressive what Sam Altman is doing right now at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:29 Jason Calacanis Here comes Sam. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:10 Jason Calacanis The founder.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 0:20 David Friedberg OpenAI has SAM, XAI has Elon, Meta has Zuck, Microsoft has Satya.
- ▶ 30:40 David Friedberg OpenAI has SAM, XAI has Elon, Meta has Zuck, and, um, Microsoft has Satya.
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 31:44 Naval Ravikant Sam Altman famously said that AI will capture the light cone of all future value.
- ▶ 1:32:31 Jason Calacanis And I'm just hoping that Sam Waltman loses this lawsuit and they get an injunction against it. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47:17 Naval Ravikant And it's an inspiration to all of us, despite Sam Altman and Elon's current fighting. 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 16:13 Jason Calacanis And, uh, Sam claims they're gonna spend a billion dollars training GPT-V.
- ▶ 33:20 Jason Calacanis Yeah, but if it was, if it was stolen as, um, and the IP was stolen as Sam is claiming, that would be, like, you'd think he'd be able to call up Socta and say, hey, can you not put the stolen IP on your server and promote it to everybody… 4 times in the scene
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