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Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:09 John Coogan Is on the order of a scale, Mercore, Handshake, etc.
Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:00 unnamed speaker Data labeling before you really needed mass data labeling, but it was that type of business, and there was always a question when Scale AI started, like, is this just Mechanical Turk?
Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
9 Mansions Every AI Researcher Should Own
- ▶ 25:18 unnamed speaker Lucy Guo co-founded Scale, now runs passes, got a discount on a Hollywood Hills home.
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 33:32 John Coogan The experience of CEOs, like you look at with the way scale AI handled it.
- ▶ 57:44 John Coogan Not a big, and then scale had happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:45 John Coogan And I think going forward, every company that's doing a deal like this needs to think, how do I get the scale AI outcome and not the windsurf outcome?
Cognition AI Acquires Windsurf to Push AI Coding
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker The experience of CEOs, like you look at with the way scale AI handled it.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:16:06 unnamed speaker Interestingly, I believe that benchmark was created by scale AI.
ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 1:16 unnamed speaker Interestingly, I believe that benchmark was created by scale AI.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:48:31 Will Depue I know people have all these theories, but like the, the scale AI numbers we do know.
- ▶ 3:03:58 Jordi Hays How do you, how do you, after the, the scale news and then there's a bunch of players, um, popping up 2 times in the scene
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 7:29 John Coogan You know, these, these data brokers like Mercore and scale and whatnot, like you should be able to get a, you know, near the frontier level model done.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 39:41 John Coogan More news on the scale AI, uh, transaction. 22 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 2:02 John Coogan Uh, and then, and then we also discussed the meta and scale acquisition or investment.
- ▶ 8:58 John Coogan I, I think very unlikely, but, um, but still, you know, well, that snaps market cap, exactly what, uh, meta just paid for, uh, a 50% stake in scale AI, fourteen billion.
- ▶ 18:14 John Coogan Uh, we'll get into this with a scale AI deal, but, uh, every major hyperscaler except for apple now,
- ▶ 49:12 unnamed speaker But they should also be able to go to somebody like scale AI or Mercore and just say like, Hey, we want to build a transcription product and we're just gonna make it ourselves.
- ▶ 2:02:14 Garry Tan And, you know, uh, can't comment on, you know, the rumors about scale this week, but like, we need a lot more things like that, and we're getting it.
- ▶ 2:43:40 John Coogan I thought it was 1415, something like that for a 49% stake in scale AI that pays out investors and employees. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53:06 John Coogan Let's talk about the most recent deal, uh, Meta acquiring Scale AI. 9 times in the scene
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 9:37 John Coogan Uh, Green Oaks is also an investor in AI company scale and Databricks.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 52:27 Jordi Hays Uh, Alex, uh, from scale is saying, you know, the training cost was, was way higher.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 33:27 John Coogan According to the Scale AI CEO, it was around 50,000. 2 times in the scene
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 56:09 unnamed speaker Scale AI. 2 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 27:27 Jordi Hays Um, but fortunately we're not journalists, so, um, we don't have to get the facts right all the time, but, um, uh, I heard that, that their algorithm, which was, so was, was, was kind of like a scale AI sweatshop model where there was, I,…
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:10:55 John Coogan As an example of American dynamism, which is, like, kind of silly, because it's, like, when I think American dynamism, we think defense tech, and, like, that's just consumer hardware, um, but you can see that, like, there was a natural,…
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 1:29:45 Jordi Hays Scale AI is just somewhere. 3 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:10:13 John Coogan so Anduril partnered with OpenAI and Palantir partnered with ScaleAI, who built Defense Llama, your favorite. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27:10 John Coogan So it starts with Lucy Guo, the founder of passes, the founder of scale, the co-founder of scale AI. 2 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 47:13 unnamed speaker Palantir, I think did a deal with scale and it sounds like shield as well, uh, on the AI side.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 36:16 John Coogan And, and, but, but I think the real takeaway here is that like, I think that there is a world where Lucy designs her personal brand or all around scale AI and being this like very serious business processing BPO and, and doing B to B SaaS… 2 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 42:10 John Coogan Um, and she's advised Ramp, Andurl, SSI, Scale AI, Cognition, tons of other good stuff.
- ▶ 1:47:59 Jordi Hays So he was in San Francisco, was an early scale AI employee.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:54:30 John Coogan Let's go to Alex Wang at Scale AI, founder of Scale AI. 2 times in the scene
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:30:35 Jordi Hays Is the closest, uh, example to this, like the scale AI office?
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 39:33 John Coogan I, that I did see of, like, a company using this, and it was a perfect example of, of, of this was, uh, scale.