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Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
- ▶ 20:46 Joe Lonsdale So one of, like, the very simple, like, but interesting theories here is that LLMs, like, everyone, Anthropic, Gemini, like, OpenEye, everyone has access to, like, massive amounts of data online, as they all can use this data, which is…
Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
- ▶ 8:57 JD Ross They do everything through Codex, Cloud Code, or Cursor.
- ▶ 12:49 JD Ross One, like, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, they're all gonna, in the same way that you probably don't want to build an email company while Google's on its arise, because they're gonna come and eat that, like, every one of these companies is…
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:38 Joe Lonsdale I think you helped launch Sora with OpenAI.
- ▶ 15:00 Joe Lonsdale I think you helped launch Sora with OpenAI.
How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:17 JD Ross They do everything through codex, cloud code, or cursor.
- ▶ 17:57 JD Ross They do everything through codex, cloud code, or cursor.
- ▶ 21:48 JD Ross I think one, like, Anthropix, OpenAI, Google, they're all gonna, in the same way that you probably don't want to build an email company while Google's on its arise, because they're gonna come and eat that.
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:26 unnamed speaker OpenAI would likely continue being a consumer business.
- ▶ 9:55 Joe Lonsdale It's actually Anthropic and Gemini and OpenAI and XAI and, you know, a bunch of stuff there.
- ▶ 10:52 Joe Lonsdale They also seem to be ahead on certain computer use things, I think, although opening eye claims differently right now, but I think that Anthropics have that too. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Joe Lonsdale OpenAI is consumer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 unnamed speaker So OpenAI has an enterprise business where they go and sell access to the underlying model capability. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 34:29 Joe Gebbia It doesn't make any sense to me that we have a nation where you can have ideas like XAI and OpenAI and be on the forefront of technological innovation, and in the same nation, government websites, some of them turn off at six p.m.
From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:06 Joe Lonsdale Although that approach didn't end up being the one that created open AI, but, but it is related to it.
Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 14:47 Reid Hoffman Then we open AI, obviously moving to scale, uh, Anthropic, et cetera, but it's going to be a very limited number. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 Reid Hoffman Um, but, like, OpenAI, I mean, there's already been multiple, multi-billion dollar spin-offs of OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:01 Scott Wu Um, I mean, I think, like, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, I mean, a lot of these folks are, like, the, the folks running all these big labs, and then, of course, like, the folks running a lot of these, these startups are actually,
- ▶ 42:28 Scott Wu Um, and then opening, I had a really great result where they, um, got to approximately the top
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:57 Zach Bookman And whether it's Salesforce or open AI, the governments are innovating themselves.
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:16 Brendan McCord Well, I think if you're in an AI lab in particular, if you're in Anthropic open AI, increasingly the kinds of problems that you confront are not technical, not business.
- ▶ 34:20 Joe Lonsdale And so we have the doomsayers, the accelerationists, we have the regulators, such as the Europeans who are banning OpenAI, by the way, which is very funny for the latest launch.
- ▶ 40:29 Brendan McCord So, so you have systems like O-one, this latest thing from OpenAI, they talk about thinking, you know, talk about like reasoning as being a central property.
- ▶ 40:29 Brendan McCord So, so you have systems like O-one, this latest thing from OpenAI, they talk about thinking, you know, talk about like reasoning as being a central property.
Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:46 Elad Gil Diversity of stuff happening, and then often those cohorts of people go off to then do amazing things in Silicon Valley later, and so maybe right now that's OpenAI, maybe that's Stripe.
- ▶ 37:38 Joe Lonsdale So you really don't think of it in terms of man-machine symbiosis stuff, like stuff we're building now to do these services and when, will those companies still be valuable in five years because they can replace it with AI as it goes…
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 28:28 Emil Michael Um, you know, I was, you know, when I, when I had been to open AI, I feel some of that intensity.
Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:07 Joe Lonsdale He joined OpenAI first in 2016, full time in 2017. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39 Joe Lonsdale So you joined OpenAI what year?
- ▶ 2:42 Joe Lonsdale So for the last six years you've been helping run things at OpenAI, but let's talk about Palantir a little bit.
- ▶ 6:25 Joe Lonsdale Well, we all did very well from that, but you may even be doing even, even, uh, better financially from OpenAI.
- ▶ 6:36 Joe Lonsdale How'd you find OpenAI? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Bob McGrew So I think that the thesis behind open AI when I joined in 2017 was that neural networks were the final architecture that could take AI all the way to human level intelligence or AGI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:55 Bob McGrew You know, as I was starting at OpenAI, first I worked on robotics and then I worked on, we did some problems with math and then programming. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:31 Bob McGrew Yeah, so we ended up beating Duda too, and I think what, what, for me, what was really crazy about this is that when I wanted to open AI, you know, Ilya Suskova, our chief scientist, sat me down and was like, we're gonna build AGI, it's…
- ▶ 23:06 Bob McGrew I spent, I actually spent a lot of time at open AI thinking about three D worlds and, you know, ultimately the, the problem with the three D world is it's very limited because you have to create everything interesting that's in there.
- ▶ 28:58 Joe Lonsdale Similarly with open AI, there's all sorts of concerns with AI.
- ▶ 39:41 Joe Lonsdale That's partnered with open AI and suddenly sold for like eight times the last round valuation to Thomson Reuters. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:38 Bob McGrew Well, if they're a really great programmer, they should come work at OpenAI.
Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:06 Joe Lonsdale I have friends who used to be in Palantir and other places, you know, involved in open AI and event.
Alex Karp On The Future Of AI And Building A Multi Billion-Dollar Company · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:31 Joe Lonsdale Well, Bob obviously went on to open AI to do very important work there.
Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:10 Joe Lonsdale My friends are working a lot on this AGI stuff with OpenAI and with these other areas, and right now it takes, I think, about fifteen million dollars, fourteen million dollars to, to train these models right now.