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Opinion
Sam Lessin: OpenAI breach announcements are a cover for struggling revenue
“This is, all you know from this is that OpenAI is struggling on revenue growth. It's like, this is the AI move, is if you're struggling on revenue growth, you have to announce a security breach that sounds scary to support your stock price. Very simple.”
Sam Lessin Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 10:01 Stripe Is Trying To Buy PayPal For $150b | OpenAI Cyber Incident, Frontier Model Economics, Peptides · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: Thinking Machines released the first heavy-hitting American open-weights model
“So, you know, Mira Mirati's thinking machines appears to be a really solid Open weights model. You know, it's a almost nine hundred and seventy five billion parameter model million token context window mixture of experts. It's really good. And this thing's ope…”
Dave Morin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 16:15 Open Source AI Wins. Now Labs Are Running to Washington |Thinking Machines, Johnny Ive, Realtime API · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: Hugging Face used open-source models to fix sandbox escape
“They did have to use Open source model that is not a frontier model in order to respond and to save their infrastructure”
Dave Morin Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 11:15 Stripe Is Trying To Buy PayPal For $150b | OpenAI Cyber Incident, Frontier Model Economics, Peptides · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jessica Lessin: Hugging Face valued at over 100x annualized revenue
“The new funding valued the startup at more than a hundred times its annualized revenue.”
Jessica Lessin Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 45:11 #11: Why hybrid work doesn’t work, long live the phone call · More or Less Podcast
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