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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine Aug 29, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:10 Jason Calacanis By the way, Optimus, have you guys, has, have you guys seen the latest Optimus videos from Elon by chance? 4 times in the scene

The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:31 Jason Calacanis When people are making the Optimus, the Neo, the Atlas from Boston Dynamics, those standup robots,

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding Jul 15, 2026 · 1 mention

Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs Jul 10, 2026 · 1 mention

AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie Jul 3, 2026 · 5 mentions

Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter Jun 27, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming? May 29, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis? May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:48 Jason Calacanis Another example that's been given is if you put Optimus into Amazon factories or the figure robot just did like a week of just sorting packages.

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:44 Jason Calacanis And here we are the most important company in the history of, uh, the United States space, X, X, X, AI and Tesla now on the verge of just creating the greatest products in the history of humanity between space X clusters in space and…

Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick Feb 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:25 Jason Calacanis Brad, your thoughts on this transaction and the eventual, perhaps, creation of dollar sign M-U-S-K, put Tesla, SpaceX together, which includes X, and then you've got Optimus robots on the Moon base building data centers in space that are…

ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping Jan 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:25 David Friedberg So now everyone in my family, we're all on Tesla because the experience is so good, but they're shutting down the Model S, Model X lines to make Optimus. 2 times in the scene

Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos! Jan 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:50 Jason Calacanis Obviously Amazon also is the one I'm watching because the idea that somebody's going to drive packages or pack packages in the age of Optimus and RoboTaxi and Waymo sounds crazy.
  • ▶ 1:24:53 Jake Loosararian Now, I haven't built, we haven't gotten into building the humanoids or playing the humanoid game, and that's actually, when I was on your podcast, actually the summit, I talked about, we're gonna be the biggest purchasers of the Optimus… 2 times in the scene

All-In's 2026 Predictions Jan 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:34 David Sacks I'm talking about the, you know, the Tesla Optimist robot that'll be here in a few years.

AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment Nov 5, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 25:52 Ari Emanuel I just actually, on Tuesday, uh, you know, I went up to see the robots, because I want to do 5 times in the scene

Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias Oct 24, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 47:59 Jason Calacanis Now we're going into general robotics, like the optimist, like the figure, and those are designed to be able to learn anything. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:05 Jason Calacanis I think they're up to forty billion in cash, which is always great when you're going into some big capital intensive projects like Optimus and like Self-Driving. 4 times in the scene

Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America Sep 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:35 Jason Calacanis So you're investing in this drone technology, and then do you think Optimus and humanoid robots are the next, you know, volley in this, um, new warfare?

Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding Sep 10, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:01 Jason Calacanis I believe Optimus is going to be the greatest product ever created by humanity.
  • ▶ 2:49 Jason Calacanis Um, Optimus is, um, I think, gonna be the greatest, uh, product in the history 8 times in the scene

Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025 Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:03 Jason Calacanis For every optimist robot or humanoid robot that eventually makes it into a factory, that'll be five or six factory jobs.

Which Company Is Going To Win The AI Race? - David Friedberg Jun 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:53 unnamed speaker That might become super important, not just in cars, but in Optimus.

IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate Jun 21, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 30:32 Thomas Laffont That might become super important, not just in cars, but in Optimus. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:47 Jason Calacanis That seems like that's obviously the next giant consumer market is having optimists or figure in your house. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:28:48 Jason Calacanis And then you have Optimus and Robots figure that are going to be in their factories. 2 times in the scene

Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran? Jun 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO May 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations Mar 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:14 Jason Calacanis And isn't where the puck's going that we're going to have Optimus robots, figure robots, pick a robot company doing all this work.

Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy Mar 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:53 Jason Calacanis I do think Optimus and this figure and the other, there's about a dozen of these doing it credibly.

The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private Feb 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:13 Jason Calacanis I don't think there's a person on the planet who knows more about factories now, having built a battery factory, a space factory, an engine factory, and a car factory, and now building Optimus on top of that.

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant Feb 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:33 Jason Calacanis Do you think it's too early, Freeburg, given Optimus and all these robots being created, what we're seeing in self-driving?

Dueling Presidential interviews, SpaceX’s big catch, Robotaxis, Uber buying Expedia?, Nuclear NIMBY Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 30, 2024 · 1 mention

Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit Sep 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:29 Jeffrey Sachs Damn if you can make ChatGPT, or you can make Optimus, or you can make all the rest, we can avoid nuclear war.

Marc Benioff | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 15, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:17 David Friedberg Um, he said, he was, we got him talking about Optimus, you know, his, his robot. 3 times in the scene

Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024 Sep 10, 2024 · 9 mentions

Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections Jul 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:13 Jason Calacanis I think there's going to be some incredible gains with Optimus and some of the other robots that are occurring, and those things are only going to cost 20 grand.

Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax Apr 26, 2024 · 13 mentions

E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO Apr 5, 2024 · 4 mentions

E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more Mar 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:58 Jason Calacanis And, you know, the 20 year view of this and making a general person purpose robot like Elon's doing with Optimus or figure AI is doing with their robot.

E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis Feb 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:07 Jason Calacanis Or is Elon with Optimus and some of Humane, I think is the other one. 2 times in the scene

Elon Musk: Ukraine, X, the creator economy, China, AI, & more | All-In Summit 2023 Sep 13, 2023 · 1 mention

E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more Oct 7, 2022 · 1 mention

E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap! Aug 28, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:19:21 Jason Calacanis So in related, in a related story, Elon then revealed the Tesla bot plans at his AI day, he's in a couple of his AI days, and I think they're primarily designed, um,
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