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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Uber comes up
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 49:53 Ranjan Roy This is one of the dumbest corporate espionage things I've ever seen, even though, even the, the Uber Waymo stuff back in the day had a little bit more, uh, like cloak and dagger elements to it.
The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- ▶ 2:07 Alex Kantrowitz And we also know that Uber, of course, spent their entire budget in less than half a year.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 2:35 Alex Kantrowitz Delivering one co-pilot is obviously the right approach and messaging, and yes, that puts Microsoft in the camp with Meta, X, Coinbase, Airbnb, Uber, Snap, Spotify, even Disney is going all in after the elusive super app concept, and…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 7:40 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, and when you go back to some of the early attempts at this, there was this, like, move that OpenAI had to let you call an Uber within ChatGPT.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 38:29 Ranjan Roy Uber surprised that they blew through their entire year's AI budget in a quarter.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:03:50 Alex Kantrowitz And we also know that Uber, of course, spent their entire budget in less than half a year.
- ▶ 3:10:03 Alex Kantrowitz And it followed a long line of companies that have tried to get you to take action within chat, but it never really took off.
Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments?
- ▶ 1:25 Alex Kantrowitz You have the Uber COO 2 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 51:10 Ranjan Roy And it was like, based on your location and a typical wait for an Uber at this time.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 10:25 Alex Kantrowitz Let's say OpenAI was calling Codex a super app because they were bringing ChatGPT and coding and a browser together, and that's not your traditional super app, which is like what you would have in China, which is like one app that does…
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 2:36 Alex Kantrowitz That could include Uber, it could include Meta, it could include Microsoft, DoorDash, that have talked about, um, the fact that they are, you know, AI first, but that the spending of tokens has gotten way out of hand, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and it brings me to this, like, uh, story in Business Insider that Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI. 7 times in the scene
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 6:20 Ranjan Roy I think they can't just turn, I guess the biggest difference is that theory kind of held where there was the Uber, which again, it took them like six years after IPO-ing to actually become truly profitable at like a unit economics level.
- ▶ 27:23 Alex Kantrowitz We've heard from Uber, for instance, talking about how they've like exhausted their cloud budget in four months.
How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
- ▶ 19:46 David Plouffe Um, spent, you know, a few years, uh, in-house at Uber and, and still work with them. 2 times in the scene
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 7:56 Alex Kantrowitz Like Uber did, right?
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 16:02 Joanna Stern You get out of the car, and you know, we're on the east coast, we don't take a lot of Waymo's, so we're in Ubers a lot, and so you're natural, you're getting out of taxi, you say thanks so much, right? 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
- ▶ 19:21 Mark Cuban I, on Shark Tank, it was like people would have the next Uber, the next this, the next that, right?
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 49:30 Ranjan Roy It was the Uber mentality as well.
The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 1:09 Emil Michael I think, um, one of the analogies I like to draw is having been at Uber, and you look at an autonomous vehicle, and people were scared of Uber from taxis, and then they were scared of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:21 Emil Michael And so, I mean, the whole tech industry, when I was there at Uber in 2016, 17. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 27:25 Alex Kantrowitz Super app was like, oh, you open an app, you can do the lottery, you can do Uber, you can do payments, you can read the news.
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 29:39 Liz Hoffman We've had, um, we had Dara from Uber on, kind of talking about what a driver, you know, the, the future of Uber is, as he tells it, essentially tucking the robo-taxis in at night. 2 times in the scene
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 19:46 Alex Kantrowitz Like, remember, like a couple years ago, there was all this hype, like, you'll be able to order an Uber right from ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 8:43 Ranjan Roy I didn't even realize this is Emil Michael of Uber fame, right?
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 12:12 Aaron Levie Similar to how Uber, you know, had to buy their way into many markets unprofitably on a region basis, and then over time, you know, it's now a wildly profitable business because they now have obviously a very strong network effect and…
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 39:12 M.G. Siegler But Uber, Uber is a great example, right?