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Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
- ▶ 37:22 Ranjan Roy If you're Dario, and you're worried about, like, where, or even Sam, remember, I feel OpenAI has been kind of, like, talking about this more and more now, because, like,
- ▶ 45:53 Alex Kantrowitz Her departure followed a string of other exits, including former chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, and Fiji Simo, once seen as the heir apparent to chief executive, Sam Altman.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 14:22 David Cahn And so I do think, and if what it's worth, and this is why I talk about kind of the game theory and logic of the people leading these companies, you look at Sundar, you look at Satya, you look at Sam, you look at Elon, you look at Dario. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:09 David Cahn Where you have a committee around the table, and everyone has a different opinion, that's actually much more challenging, because you actually can't consistently execute a strategy, at least for Dario, and I think for Sam, and I think… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:01 unnamed speaker Sam's playing a beautiful game.
- ▶ 49:02 David Cahn It was, you know, there's these stories of, like, Sam went to all the big tech companies, I'm pretty sure, and offered them this deal, and Sayo was the one who did it.
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 29:45 Reed Albergotti Is, is Dario, is Sam, I don't know.
- ▶ 36:40 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, before we go to break, I want to talk to you a little bit about what Sam Altman has been up to this week.
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- ▶ 25:58 Ranjan Roy Well, to Sam and Dario, I say, I think if you re, if you are AGI or BUS,
- ▶ 33:49 Ranjan Roy I thought Sam said AGI is not a thing anymore. 3 times in the scene
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 53:52 Ranjan Roy Just the head of Sam Altman in his hands like, or is this Ternus coming in like killer Ternus?
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 17:47 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman talking about, ah, GBT 5.6 this week said it was 54% more token efficient, ah, than others, right, than its previous model.
- ▶ 32:19 Ranjan Roy That's why it's kind of almost like weird to me that when Sam Altman starts talking about 50%, four percent more token efficient, 2 times in the scene
Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
- ▶ 10:34 Anissa Gardizy But I think, um, I think Sam Altman wants to diversify from NVIDIA.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 26:21 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, just to put a bow on this, it's going to be a very, and I spoke with Sam Altman about this at the end of the year, and for whatever reason, it stuck with me.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 15:10 Alex Kantrowitz I was in your office in December and Sam told me that this is happening.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 23:56 Alex Kantrowitz The maker of Chachipiti hired bankers and lawyers with an eye towards a public offering as soon as the third or fourth quarter of this year, but because that's not going to hit the one trillion dollar valuation that Sam Altman has been…
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 51:57 Anissa Gardizy But I think, um, I think Sam Altman wants to diversify from NVIDIA.
- ▶ 1:57:02 Alex Kantrowitz The cat holding the hands with Dario and Sam is my favorite meme.
- ▶ 3:00:26 Alex Kantrowitz In 2015, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk and Sam Altman started a nonprofit called OpenAI, and the plan was to pursue artificial general intelligence.
- ▶ 3:17:24 Alex Kantrowitz I was in your office in December and Sam told me that this is happening.
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 30:13 Alex Kantrowitz The cat holding the hands with Dario and Sam is my favorite meme the whole year.
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 4:34 Alex Kantrowitz So the question to you Ranjan becomes is, is Elon taking money out of Sam and Dario's pockets? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 Ranjan Roy So maybe Elon shouldn't be going at SAM so aggressively.
- ▶ 40:37 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at a recent event that costs have become a huge issue.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 37:43 Ranjan Roy They have been saying this since the beginning, and I do, I do think there was a moment that they might have believed it, but no matter who is in the lead, OpenAI and Anthropic, Sam and Dario, but now the entire organizations, actually…
- ▶ 52:28 Ranjan Roy That was like a passing comment from Sam.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 10:49 Dick Costolo Data centers in space, which Sam has, and, and, um, on our podcast we've talked about, it's a, it's a, it's a long, long way off from being true.
- ▶ 13:02 Alex Kantrowitz So if Elon is somebody that can sell a vision, Sam Altman is not. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:16 Dick Costolo And the, and the, the public's perception that Claude Code is like the, the, irrespective of what I just said about Codex two minutes ago, that Claude Code is like, this is the, this is the great unlock, and gonna be the real game changer,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Dick Costolo Because, you know, you've got, I mean, what if, what has Silicon Valley spent, you know, the last two weeks gossiping about the Elan, Sam, Brockman, you know, Brockman diaries.
- ▶ 51:05 Dick Costolo You know, like, I'm, Sam's a bad guy. 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 35:50 Ranjan Roy I mean, bringing, what did Sam say? 2 times in the scene
How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
- ▶ 3:06 David Plouffe And the thing what I've seen in focus groups is when you read to people, um, quotes, and it's really from Sam and Elon, but I, you know, but others, that says, don't worry, the companies are going to give everybody six, 8000 dollars a…
- ▶ 9:17 David Plouffe It could also create riots on the streets, you know, so I think that, listen, what you see, I mean, Sam Altman now is singing a slightly different tune about the economy than he was several months ago.
- ▶ 15:26 Alex Kantrowitz And does this extend beyond, you know, Sam and Elon talking and Dario? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:52 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman's, I think,
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 0:26 Alex Kantrowitz We're going to go deep into the documents coming out of the Musk versus Altman
- ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz It sure is, because, you know, one of the, we'll see what happens with this case with Musk and Altman and whether the verdict is consequential or not, but certainly the documents coming out of the case are consequential, and give us a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Alex Kantrowitz This brings me back to the end of the year last year when I was sitting with Sam Altman and speaking with him about Google and Google's, uh, you know, driving open AI into a code red and what his strategy was to win against Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 Alex Kantrowitz Where Kevin Scott is, uh, where all these folks, Kevin Scott, Satya, Sam, uh, are suggesting who should be on the OpenAI board in the future, and then Kevin Scott chimes in with this one.
- ▶ 53:13 Alex Kantrowitz In the Satya and the Musk Altman trial.
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 27:04 Alex Kantrowitz I heard, I think it was Sam Altman say that, like, humans have, people have started to talk to him about this. 2 times in the scene
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 22:37 Alex Kantrowitz I actually, the CEO for a moment while Sam was fired.
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 1:01 Alex Kantrowitz I was tempted, very tempted, to begin today's show with a dramatic reading of the text messages between Sam Altman and former OpenAI CTO and former OpenAI interim CEO Miramirati that came out in court this week.
- ▶ 24:35 Ranjan Roy What's Sam saying now? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:30 Alex Kantrowitz We'll see you on the other side with a dramatic reading, reading of Sam Altman and Mira Murati's texts.
- ▶ 36:43 Alex Kantrowitz Ranjan, when these text messages between Sam Altman and Mira Mirati, the former CTO of OpenAI came out, these are the text messages that they were sending to each other during what's called the blip or when Sam Altman was, um, was fired… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:09 Ranjan Roy But it is amazing to know that Sam, knowing how intense and stressful that was, it appears to be firmly in control right now. 4 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 1:01 Alex Kantrowitz We might even cover the Musk Altman case because we have some, uh, breaking news on that front, and it's great to welcome you back to the show, MG.
- ▶ 37:14 M.G. Siegler And, you know, we'll get the Sam and Satya picture tweeted out every once in a while. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:58 M.G. Siegler He has Elon Musk, sorry, not Elon Musk, famously not Elon Musk there, even though he's a part of the new Doge part of the whole administration, he is not there, but there with him is Sam Altman, Elon's big rival, um, Massa son and Larry… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:26 Alex Kantrowitz We, I, we were talking about potentially covering the Musk Altman trial, but I think when you're on in June, we'll actually maybe have a verdict to discuss.
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk and Sam Altman meet in court, and Anthropix valuation is approaching one trillion dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Alex Kantrowitz Board directors have also more closely examined the company's data center deals in recent months and questioned, uh, chief executive Sam Altman's efforts to secure even more computing power despite the business slowdown.
- ▶ 24:50 Ranjan Roy Musk and Sam put on a good show, but do, do you think 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:10 Ranjan Roy And it's a very, the Musk-Altman trial reminds us this is a very, very small group of people that have known each other, competed against each other,
Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
- ▶ 33:10 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, do you see some of yourself in the Sam Altman's and Dario ammo days in the world? 5 times in the scene
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 18:25 Alex Kantrowitz First, there was a night of funny drunk tweets, which, uh, I think Sam tweeted an Anthropic growth employee. 12 times in the scene
OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
- ▶ 18:25 Alex Kantrowitz That's a quote from Sam.
Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman's conflicts are getting at least some open AI investors a bit nervous, and Allbirds is a GPU company now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Ranjan Roy Rather than your Dario heel turn that sounded kind of like an Avengers movie, I want to see it go the other way, where actually Dario and Sam come on stage, and OpenAI has been invited to Glasswing, and together they are giving mythos to…
- ▶ 42:37 Alex Kantrowitz All right, let's take a break and come back and talk a little bit about Sam Altman.
- ▶ 42:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, today's flown by, uh, let's talk about this story in the wall street journal about Sam Altman side hustles, which is interesting because, uh, the headline was Sam Altman side hustles blur the line between open AI's interests and his… 10 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 28:14 Ranjan Roy Sam releases Spud, and again, for if you weren't, haven't followed or weren't listening last week, while Anthropik's codename for their kind of like incredible model is Mythos, OpenAI's codename internally for their next model is Spud. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:47 Alex Kantrowitz Suspect arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home. 3 times in the scene
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 1:18 Alex Kantrowitz There's breaking news that we have coming, uh, you know, basically within our recording window here that, um, there is potentially some discontent between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Fryer. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and this is again, the reporting from the information in recent months, Altman left Friar out of a conversation about service spending with leaders at one of OpenAI's top investors. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:45 Alex Kantrowitz With a range of experience at dynamic companies, it's hard to imagine that Altman could instill the discipline needed here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 M.G. Siegler yeah, I mean, Sam Altman and, and, and Dario have been spending time over there for reasons, right?
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 1:50 Alex Kantrowitz Chief executives who've appeared as guests include meta platforms, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft Satya Nadella, and OpenAI's Sam Altman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 Liz Hoffman This is just a thing Sam wanted to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:01 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, this was the argument that Sam Altman made to me at the end of the year last year, where I asked him about the competition with Google and he goes, basically, there are going to be two types of companies.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 23:06 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, the information said, uh, that you finished, uh, pre-training Spud and Sam Albin, the CEO at OpenAI has told the staff that, uh, they should expect to have a very strong model in a few weeks.
Is AI A Privacy Disaster? And How To Fight Back. — With Andy Yen
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 1:52 Alex Kantrowitz BG Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, previewed the changes to employees in an all-hands meeting, telling them that the top leaders, including CEO Sam Altman and Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, were actively looking at which areas to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:30 Alex Kantrowitz Where's Sam?
Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
- ▶ 16:16 Andrew Ross Sorkin You know, if Sam Altman and Johnny Ive have their way,
- ▶ 1:00:59 Alex Kantrowitz Dari Amade, Sam Altman.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 1:30 Alex Kantrowitz I don't know if you saw, uh, Sam Altman speaking at an investor conference, and there was a quote that went around Twitter where he said, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 Alex Kantrowitz and maybe it's not Sam's communication that's doing this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 Alex Kantrowitz Is it, I know who Sam Altman is, and he's not a great communicator, or is it, this shit is getting scary good, and I'm worried I'm going to have a job in a couple of years.
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 7:31 Olivia Moore And Sam Altman himself has said this.
- ▶ 19:04 Olivia Moore To me, I mean, Sam Altman has said he wants ChatGPT to be for everyone, and that's why they're doing ads.
- ▶ 20:20 Olivia Moore Similar to kind of like a login with Google, Sam has said they're gonna launch login with ChatGPT.
- ▶ 51:15 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, and I was with Sam Altman at the end of the year last year, he talked about how he believes that
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 16:11 Alex Kantrowitz Is it because he doesn't trust Sam Altman, or is it because, you know, he doesn't believe in the technology?
- ▶ 34:21 Ranjan Roy I didn't realize it was a whole thing, but, like, the deleted ChatGPT in kind of, like, protest of Sam Maltman and them kind of, like, playing nice with the Department of War, so.
- ▶ 42:09 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so Dario says, um, about Sam, he says, behind the scenes, Sam has been working with the department of war to sign a contract with them to replace us as the instant, the instant we are designated as a supply chain risk, but he has to do… 3 times in the scene
Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
- ▶ 38:18 Michael Horowitz Are already now willing to work on the classified side, and you know, Sam Altman is attempting to broker a piece, essentially, and create a deal that perhaps Anthropik could join as well. 2 times in the scene
Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- ▶ 30:51 Alex Kantrowitz Um, maybe the inter intermediary that comes in is Sam Altman, or maybe not. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:53 M.G. Siegler We're going to hear a lot from Mark Zuckerberg and probably some others, maybe Sam Altman as well about that, uh, going forward.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 19:46 Ranjan Roy Uh, and I mean, Sam Altman even came out and said that like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:38 Ranjan Roy It's, it's a classic Sam funding round again. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 22:34 Alex Kantrowitz We got one from, uh, Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 Alex Kantrowitz The creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw is joining OpenAI and the service will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support, Sam Altman said.
How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
- ▶ 25:24 Alex Kantrowitz In fact, I spoke with Sam, Sam Altman, uh, you know, at the end of the year.
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 14:13 Ranjan Roy It's a, it's that what are the services and infrastructure layers that will actually power this is not just going to be foundation models companies, even though Sam has said they're going to be an AI cloud company, whatever that might mean…
- ▶ 36:59 Steven Adler Yeah, I don't, I don't want to speculate too much, but the way that I would think about this team is they were somewhat like an internal ombudsman to Sam Altman on whether the company was keeping in line with this mission. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Ranjan Roy 3.5 and an IPO is just like a glimmer in Sam Altman's eye.
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