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Phan: YouTube will acquire TikTok and IPO at $500B within 12 months
“I'm making a prediction. YouTube is going to buy TikTok. They're going to spin out YouTube. It's going to go public, five hundred billion dollar company. Done. Clip this. Editor, clip this for when this happens in the next 12 months.”
Schneider: AI search responses are sourced from Google pages one through three
“When it comes down to it, like all that's happening is basically what is ranking on page one through three of Google. That is what the source material for the AI responses are.”
Schneider: ChatGPT and Perplexity rely on Google's index instead of crawling
“ChatGPT and OpenAI and Perplexity, like, they're all built on the back of this, like, search engine Google, right? Google has spent the last, whatever, 30 years or 25 years basically indexing the entire, like, internet. Imagine, like, Perplexity and ChatGPT, w…”
Lavingia: Over 90% of startup value comes from engineer-founded giants
“If you look at startups and you say, okay, 99% of the public value is basically, or 90 plus percent is basically in four or five companies. Right? If you get rid of, like, Google, Amazon, Meta, like, we haven't done shit as an industry, right? In terms of actu…”
Kevin Rose: Gemini Search Grounding Bypasses Scraper Blocks on Sites Like Reddit
“Oftentimes they won't come out and say this, but they kind of crawl the article and give you back what the article actually says. And they might reword it a little bit, but it's largely what the article says. And I can prove that because they can, you can do t…”
Image quality does not degrade across multi-turn AI conversational edits
“The model doesn't like the image quality doesn't get worse as you like do a multi-turn edit. So like you don't need to get everything right on the first edit.”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3.0 Pro latency roughly matches Gemini 2.5 Pro
“I think for folks, again, who have used 2.5 pro, I think three point O pro is like roughly on par from a latency standpoint. So there's no I think in some cases it's actually, it's a little bit higher latency, but obviously the model is much smarter.”
To: Google released design.md as a cross-medium design blueprint
“Google just came out with design.md, and this is one way to create a blueprint to take one beautiful design, Whether you made it or not, and then spread throughout the, all the formats and the mediums for your startup idea, right?”
Google releases Anti-gravity as direct competitor to AI editor Cursor
“Google has released something called anti-gravity. Anti-gravity is basically their cursor competitor.”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3 is live in apps, AI Studio, and APIs
“It's available across a bunch of Google services like the Gemini app. If you're sort of looking for an assistant or the API for developers and enterprises, if you want to build this experience or build Gemini three into your own products.”
Kilpatrick: Gemini 3 Pro is free for app building in AI Studio
“You're going to be able to build apps using Gemini three pro for free in AI studio.”
Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image costs roughly four cents per image
“It's also only like, I think it's like roughly four cents for an image to be generated too. So it's like You know, you can let people go wild, and you're not going to break the bank, which is really great. It's like a thousand images is 40 bucks.”
Rush: Google searches for 'business ideas' reach nearly one million monthly
“So business ideas is almost one million a month. That's a lot and competition low. This competition is, is about the ads. So people don't pay for the ads for this keyword.”
Isenberg: Google Attempted to Buy Path for Over $100 Million
“Path was tried or Google tried to buy path at one time. And I remember like, I think it was like a hundred million dollars or more.”
How Matty Mo Outranked Picasso on Google for 'The Most Famous Artist'
“He's literally the number one person that comes up ahead of Pablo Picasso, ahead of Rembrandt, ahead of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, these people. He's the first person. His name's Matty Moe.”