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ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 8:00 unnamed speaker Um, apparently, um, you know, like, predictions was that, that the models weren't smart enough to actually solve these, but he says, I used OpenAI's deep research to see if similar problems to those in AIME exist on the internet, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 unnamed speaker Because it seems like it's been a big lever for Microsoft to have, uh, Grok in the ecosystem as kind of a stocking horse for all the other models, because Satya wants Azure to be very model independent, serve them all, they have the, I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 unnamed speaker Like, like, at least they're iterating on the version number effectively, as opposed, and I guess this is a shot at OpenAI, because they launched 4.5, and then went to 4.1, and they're kind of like, you know, there's this big question… 2 times in the scene
DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
- ▶ 12:47 unnamed speaker Deep research, I would also call, like, an agent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Jordi Hays OpenAI
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 0:42 John Coogan It says, breaking meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have signed Soham Parikh as fractional chief AI officer.
- ▶ 1:29:59 Matthew Prince Uh, as you looked at open AI, it was about, uh, uh, uh, 750 times harder than with the kind of Google of old to get traffic with something like anthropic is 30,000 times harder. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:12 John Coogan Um, Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday promising to go head to head with the social giant in the war for top research talent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:11 John Coogan Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:08:46 Jordi Hays If Zuck were able to gain access to OpenAI's linear, it would be illegal, but, um, it would also tell them, tell them a lot.
- ▶ 2:09:16 John Coogan Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some open AI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17:47 John Coogan Uh, the remarks come as OpenAI staff grapple with an intense workload that has many staffers grinding 80 hours a week. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:24:07 John Coogan And who knows, maybe they'll have open AI soon.
- ▶ 2:29:52 John Coogan Uh, he of course works at OpenAI and has for a number of years. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38:35 John Coogan They also have experience at places like open AI in San Francisco or Google deep mind in London.
- ▶ 2:41:31 Will Depue Open AI open model soon, hopefully, but not this week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54:43 Will Depue No, it can be so like open AI branded now.
- ▶ 2:55:49 Will Depue I think as long as OpenAI doesn't totally drop the ball on product or research, like, they have the center of gravity for the AI world, like, in the same way that no matter what Android ships, people are not gonna switch from their… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:01:33 Will Depue And I think like you see a lot, like there's been a lot of news about opening. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10:14 John Coogan He says, quote, what meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems, said Sam Altman in leaked memo sent to open AI researchers.
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 0:00 John Coogan Apple ways using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri in major reversal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 unnamed speaker If Apple wants to be more like OpenAI, one way they could do that is by getting on Linear. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 John Coogan It also briefly held discussions with Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer, Mira Mirati. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 John Coogan Um, in his discussions with both Anthropic and OpenAI, the iPhone maker requested a custom version that could run on Apple's private cloud computer.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 0:09 unnamed speaker Um, Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head to head with the social giant in the war for top research talent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 unnamed speaker That were at Apple, or, or Microsoft, or Xerox, and then they went to Google, and then they went to Meta, and then they went to OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 unnamed speaker Uh, Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 unnamed speaker If Zuck were able to gain access to OpenAI as linear, it would be, it would be illegal, but, um, it would also tell them, tell them a lot.
- ▶ 9:13 unnamed speaker Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some OpenAI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:41 unnamed speaker A source close to the efforts at Meta confirmed the company has been significantly ramping up its research recruiting with a particular eye toward talent from OpenAI and Google.
- ▶ 17:44 unnamed speaker Uh, the remarks come as OpenAI staff grapple with an intense workload that has many staffers grinding 80 hours a week. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:04 unnamed speaker And who knows, maybe they'll have open AI soon.
- ▶ 29:49 unnamed speaker Uh, he, of course, works at OpenAI and has for a number of years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:32 unnamed speaker They also have experience at places like OpenAI in San Francisco or Google DeepMind in London.
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 11:34 John Coogan OpenAI's minting cache behind APIs, and you're handing out multilingual, long context models for free.
- ▶ 36:05 Yacine Mtibaa So, uh, Claude and before Gemini was good, Claude and open AI's models, um, they'd go down all the time.
- ▶ 1:57:35 John Coogan And it's not, and he's not saying anything about the fair market value of open AI or, or Airbnb at this moment.
- ▶ 2:20:46 DJ Seo We, um, you know, when I first showed up to the office at the time, we actually shared the office with, um, you know, OpenAI at the Pioneer building in San Francisco.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 4:44 unnamed speaker We're seeing new hardware maybe come from open AI.
- ▶ 27:17 Aaron Cannon Azure, we're using a lot of Azure, actually, to open AI models under the hood through Azure. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 3:56 John Coogan Also some good news in open AI world, even though they're, they're going through the, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:44 Jordi Hays Got ramp, open AI, cursor, runway, perplexity,
- ▶ 17:31 unnamed speaker But even then, you know, once they get O-three in here, it's really like everything's covered, so.
- ▶ 40:34 John Coogan Um, but there's been news that, that, uh, open AI said, Hey, we're not training. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:16 Justine Moore I think also, like, it's very hard for this, for startups, like, if you're not a Google to, or an OpenAI or whoever to play in the game of, like, let's train the largest one-shot best video model.
- ▶ 1:29:36 Justine Moore I mean, we've seen companies like open AI will, will scrape YouTube as well to train their models.
- ▶ 1:57:33 George Hotz Open AI, Anthropic, and then on top you have, like, completely worthless things like cursor and windsurf, um, you know, these character AI, all these people who think, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:02 George Hotz So OpenAI, Anthropic will eat all the value from the cursors in the wind surface of the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:29 George Hotz Codex, you can now click on Codex? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14:17 Jordi Hays We talked about how you're bankrupting OpenAI by spinning up a lot of different, uh, codex agents.
- ▶ 2:14:17 Jordi Hays We talked about how you're bankrupting OpenAI by spinning up a lot of different, uh, codex agents. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 42:57 John Coogan Second, Apple deeper deepened its relation, its reliance on open AI incorporating chat GPT's image generation capability capabilities into image playground and adding chat GPT analysis to visual intelligence.
- ▶ 1:53:19 John Coogan We're seeing new hardware maybe come from open AI.
- ▶ 2:48:05 unnamed speaker A lot of other top talent you could imagine Meta going and trying to bring in, into, uh, you know, people from Anthropic or OpenAI into this new organization.
- ▶ 2:54:54 unnamed speaker Yeah, nine figures, but you have to look, if, if you're trying to recruit somebody that joined OpenAI two, three years ago, they're, they're probably run rating at ten million dollars a year already on, on a, on a full, um, fully loaded…
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 2:31 John Coogan And then we had a whole bunch of AI experts on the show from Google, open AI, and anthropic got to the leading edge of the debates around AI, uh, AI, LLM or John yesterday. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Jordi Hays He said, the real question is if Tesla is down 14%, how could SpaceX and OpenAI be trading
- ▶ 45:41 John Coogan What's, what was your take on the device world?
- ▶ 46:14 Jordi Hays Yeah, I mean, I, I, you know, there's a world in the future where you guys actually just roll up Neuralink and OpenAI.
- ▶ 1:00:18 John Coogan We have someone from opening high here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:41 Mark Chen I think very OG codex, you know, um, with GitHub Copilot, it was maybe like under, you know, a thousand ELO on, um, on code forces.
- ▶ 1:19:30 John Coogan Obviously opening eyes made incredible progress there, but
- ▶ 1:39:14 John Coogan Um, let, let's talk about, um, some sort of deep research product, uh, prod projects and products. 4 times in the scene
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 45:12 John Coogan Tuck stable coins under some business, like with the AI thing, if you get Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft using stable coins in an agentic application, the user might never know that I'm paying a fraction of a cent to access a Wall…
- ▶ 2:40:38 Koki Mochida And then, you know, an XAI, and then, like, open it.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 2:13:17 Koki Mochida Like, software has become, has become so commoditized that, like, now it's just, like, Claude and then, you know, an ex-AI and then, like, OpenAI.
We Went to DC to Interview Tech's Power Players
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day
- ▶ 15:44 John Coogan Like this is almost like one of YC's like other bats, like open AI did come out of YC in some ways, YC research project.
When Will Robot Deliveries Become the Default? | Daniel Singer on TBPN
- ▶ 9:56 John Coogan Can, can you talk about your guys' partnership with, uh, OpenAI at all? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:11 Daniel Singer I heard there was this model that came out yesterday that people were doing some cool stuff with, uh, if you have not tried O three, it's amazing, but
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 20:48 Ali Partovi And it's, you know, uh, it's not riskier or less prestigious than getting a job at, you know, open AI or a ramp or whatever big company.
- ▶ 22:33 Ali Partovi It might be getting a job at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN
- ▶ 20:58 Adam Kovacevich It's going to be Google, Meta, OpenAI, right?
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 1:57 unnamed speaker Uh, what was your reaction to the open AI news?
This Company Is Making Video Creation 100x Easier | Gaurav Misra on TBPN
- ▶ 9:02 unnamed speaker Uh, it's not OpenAI's product, but it was still probably massively beneficial just to drive a bunch of extra installations and ChatGPT use, right? 2 times in the scene
Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- ▶ 8:26 Jordan Schneider Um, because you're just opening yourself up to this, like, whole other universe of risks of maybe these two billion dollars of chips actually do end up being enough to fast follow and, you know, compete with, like, a, a totally fucked up…
Willem Van Lancker on Terrain’s Radical New Founder Program
- ▶ 8:14 Willem Van Lancker You know, these have been engineers and designers and companies like OpenAI and Databricks, SpaceX, Ramp, you know, like you name it.
Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN
- ▶ 21:31 Russell D'Sa Um, fast forward, like, about a year and a half, two years, and, ah, we built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:56 Russell D'Sa So there's open AI real time API.
- ▶ 30:07 Jordi Hays Um, so you guys work with a lot of the biggest companies in voice already, OpenAI, Speak, Character AI,
Why Hallucination Is Good For AI Voice Agents | Russell D'Sa on TBPN
- ▶ 1:14 Russell D'Sa Um, fast forward, like, about a year and a half, two years, and, ah, we built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:40 Russell D'Sa So there's open AI real time API.
- ▶ 9:50 Jordi Hays Um, so you guys work with a lot of the biggest companies in voice already, OpenAI, Speak, Character AI.
The New Era of Defense Manufacturing | Edward Mehr on TBPN
- ▶ 7:04 Edward Mehr It's actually those open AI artists in residence that we work with NVIDIA collaboratively to really turn in just the artist speaking to a system into a piece of art, right?
Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN
- ▶ 28:38 unnamed speaker Even if OpenAI is not explicitly saying that they're, they're going to do this specific use case, the sort of natural evolution is that at some point you will be able to use OpenAI to do a series of tasks like he was describing. 6 times in the scene
Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
- ▶ 3:19 David Tisch And then, uh, open AI releases in essence, just an advanced version of that in many ways from a consumer positioning. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 John Coogan We've now seen the VS Code fork wars, uh, but it looks like there's a chance that OpenAI buys Windsurf for three billion, and I've been going back and forth with Jordy about this, like, is this game on for M&A in the wrapper market? 3 times in the scene
Building Durable Funds in the Post-Boom Era | Nichole Wischoff on TBPN
- ▶ 10:18 unnamed speaker Um, on the AI stuff, maybe on the venture side, uh, do you think with a windsurf rumored acquisition by opening, I changed the conversation.
- ▶ 14:11 unnamed speaker This is, like, not something that OpenAI has, like, explicitly said is on their roadmap, but is, like, an obvious 3 times in the scene
Fighting AI Fraud and the Future of Verification | Ryan Sandler & Daniel Yanisse on TBPN
- ▶ 24:13 John Coogan And I think a lot of people were saying, oh, that's just a chat GPT wrapper opening. 2 times in the scene
Why Humor Is the True Test of AI Intelligence | Will Brown on TBPN
- ▶ 7:43 Will Brown And they've said as much, like, deep research, reinforcement learning.
- ▶ 8:34 Will Brown Um, like my, I tweeted something about this, like my, I'm happy to call O three, 10 minute AGI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 unnamed speaker Um, do you, uh, was the windsurf news surprising to you at all, or was that just obvious open AI cares about coding and they should have a sort of dedicated enterprise, you know, coding. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 John Coogan Even Sam Altman was posting, like, hey, if you work for a high-frequency trading firm, like, come work at OpenAI, and I read that as, like, oh, they want to optimize their models now.
- ▶ 18:25 Will Brown Deep Seek did early, and then OpenAI has been doing lately, where they're really kind of betting, like, OpenAI seems to be essentially betting on scaling up RL as the path, um, and that it's not just longer reasoning, but it's reasoning… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Will Brown Like, we were, we partnered with OpenAI before ChatGPT.
Is Venture Capital Broken? | Sam Lessin on TBPN
- ▶ 17:11 unnamed speaker What is, uh, what, what is your interpretation of the rumor around OpenAI potentially buying Windsurf for three billion? 2 times in the scene
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 3:50 Delian Asparouhov That's with, uh, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, um, Kevin Wheel, who's the Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, and then Reith Peratt, who's the Chief Investment Officer and President of Alphabet. 3 times in the scene