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Assertion Partly supported
Helberg: DeepSeek lied about compute capacity and distilled ChatGPT weights
“The main takeaways of how DeepSeq achieved the performance its performance was Incremental efficiency gains. They lied about their compute capacity because they have a billion dollar cluster, and they distilled ChatGPT's model weights.”
Jacob Helberg Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 23:52 No Priors Ep. 129 | With U.S. Under Secretary of State (E) Designate Jacob Helberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prince: Prominent AI companies use state-hacker tactics to bypass scraping blocks
“In fact, some really prominent companies That do some very, very, very shady things where they basically say, absolutely, we follow the rules of the road, but when push comes to serve, if it turns out they're blocked, then all of a sudden they're doing a bunch…”
Matthew Prince Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 12:33 No Priors Ep. 126 | With Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince
Assertion Supported
Caruso: Mayor Bass cut LAFD budget, leaving equipment mothballed in lots
“The city didn't even have enough equipment because they've underfunded the fire department for so long, and Mayor Bass cut even more out this last budget cycle That they had equipment mothballed in parking lots.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 7:48 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stability AI Has More Compute Available Than Microsoft or Google
“The reality is we have more compute available to us than Microsoft or Google.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 9:33 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
Opinion
Taylor: Nuclear is a fake industry charging 100x margins
“Everywhere you look, it's a fake industry that has not been building anything for 40 years, and the little bit that they have been building, they're charging a 100 X margin on.”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 47:29 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
Opinion
Slootman: Customer success departments are the 'biggest bullshit' in Silicon Valley
“Yeah, we, I did kill customer success at every company I've been in. I think it's the biggest bullshit thing that goes on in Silicon Valley.”
Frank Slootman Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 11:38 No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
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