The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 39 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
$1.4T	“1.4 trillion dollars”	Sands: Stripe processes $1.4 trillion annually, roughly 1.3% of global GDP	Emily Glassberg Sands	Oct 30, 2025	Supported
$100B	“a hundred billion dollars”	Frontier AI research requires up to $100B, far exceeding NSF budgets	Andy Konwinski	Dec 31, 2025	—
$40B	“forty billion dollars”	Patel: Meta is taking on $40B in debt for its Louisiana AI cluster	Dylan Patel	Feb 26, 2026	Partly supported
$40B	“forty billion dollars”	Reddy: Mega model labs absorbed $30B-$40B of 2024 AI venture funding	Pranav Reddy	Dec 21, 2024	Supported
$7B	“seven billion dollars”	OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D	Shawn Wang	Nov 14, 2025	Contradicted
$2B	“two billion dollars”	Malde walked away from $2B DeepMind acquisition to found Trajectory.ai	Ronak Malde	Jun 21, 2026	—
$2B	“two billion dollars”	Patel: Anthropic added $2B in monthly revenue at positive margins	Dylan Patel	Feb 26, 2026	—
$2B	“two billion dollars”	Linux Foundation avoided frontier LLMs due to multibillion-dollar compute and data costs	Jim Zemlin	Dec 28, 2025	—
$1B	“a billion dollars”	Beam: Lila avoids pre-training from scratch, builds on open-weight models	Andy Beam	Jul 16, 2026	—
$1B	“one billion dollars”	Frontier AI research requires up to $100B, far exceeding NSF budgets	Andy Konwinski	Dec 31, 2025	—
$200M	“two hundred million dollars”	Casado: A $1B model training run economically justifies a custom ASIC	Martin Casado	Feb 19, 2026	—
$100M	“hundred million dollars”	Midha: AMP Foundry invested hundreds of millions into Anthropic this year	Anjney Midha	Jun 18, 2026	—
$100M	“a hundred million dollars”	Catanzaro: $100M+ AI seed rounds without roadmaps happen frequently	Sarah Catanzaro	Dec 30, 2025	—
$100M	“a hundred million dollars”	Building a custom IDE would cost AI coding startups $100M	Matthias Wagner	Nov 22, 2025	—
$100M	“hundred million dollars”	Conrad: Software margins on GPU clusters drive customers to build in-house	Evan Conrad	Apr 11, 2025	—
$100M	“a hundred million dollars”	Liu: LangChain and LlamaIndex can hit $100M revenue, but billions uncertain	Jason Liu	Apr 24, 2024	—
$50M	“fifty million dollars”	Conrad: Software margins on GPU clusters drive customers to build in-house	Evan Conrad	Apr 11, 2025	—
$40M	“forty million dollars”	Park: Agent simulations beat multi-year field trials via instant repeated execution	Joon Sung Park	Aug 21, 2026	—
$40M	“forty million dollars”	Conover: Economic incentives to pre-train commodity foundation models from scratch are diminishing	Mike Conover	Jun 11, 2024	—
$25M	“twenty five million dollars”	Firshman: Llama 2 costs $25M to train but $50 to fine-tune	Ben Firshman	Feb 28, 2024	Partly supported
$12M	“twelve million dollars”	Kant: Sourced blew $12M of investor capital on code models before failing	Eiso Kant	Jul 22, 2026	Partly supported
$10M	“ten million dollars”	Falk: Enterprise AI services only work at $5M-$10M scale or single-vertical focus	Brendan Falk	Sep 18, 2025	—
$10M	“ten million dollars”	Beauchamp: Small trading funds hold an advantage exploiting niche market anomalies	William Beauchamp	Jan 26, 2025	—
$6M	“six million dollars”	Oleve reports $6M ARR, 5M users, and sustained profitability	Sid Bendre	Apr 23, 2025	—
$6M	“six million dollars”	Swyx says he spent six million dollars on AV this year	Shawn Wang	Sep 7, 2026	—
$5M	“five million dollars”	Falk: Enterprise AI services only work at $5M-$10M scale or single-vertical focus	Brendan Falk	Sep 18, 2025	—
$3M	“three million dollars”	Sands: Switching to o3-mini saved Stripe $3M yearly on risk task	Emily Glassberg Sands	Oct 30, 2025	—
$1.5M	“half a million dollars”	Cooper: Railway burned roughly $500k monthly during free tier era	Jake Cooper	May 20, 2026	—
$1.5M	“a half million dollars”	Schulhoff: Hack-A-Prompt 2 Aims to Award $500,000 for Harmful AI Dataset	Sander Schulhoff	Sep 20, 2024	—
$1M	“a million dollars”	Andrew White: Funding $1M+ Cash Salaries With VC Equity Is Insane	Andrew White	Jan 28, 2026	—
$1M	“a million dollars”	Reggio: Brex sets minimum ICP at $1M revenue or $10K monthly card spend	James Reggio	Jan 17, 2026	—
$1M	“a million dollars”	Hezarkhani: Tenex will have engineers making over $1M cash next year	Arman Hezarkhani	Nov 19, 2025	—
$1M	“a million dollars”	Taskaya: Training a state-of-the-art image model costs under $1M	Batuhan Taskaya	Sep 8, 2025	Held up
$1M	“a million dollars”	Morcos: Training a specialized frontier model will cost under $1M very soon	Ari Morcos	Aug 29, 2025	Held up
$1M	“a million dollars”	Kamradt: Mike Knoop Put Up $1M for ARC Prize Bounty	Greg Kamradt	Jul 18, 2025	Supported
$1M	“a million dollars”	Hsu: Retool had 5-6 years of runway paying founders $30k-$40k	David Hsu	Feb 7, 2024	—
$1K	“a thousand dollars”	Backlund: Andon Labs agent tried TaskRabbit arbitrage to make money	Axel Backlund	Jun 4, 2026	—
$1K	“a thousand dollars”	Merrill: AI agents could ace Terminal-Bench with $1,000 compute per task	Mike Merrill	Oct 18, 2025	—
$1K	“a thousand dollars”	Swyx: AI VCs and content creators should spend $1,000 monthly on AI tools	Shawn Wang	Jan 1, 2025	—

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