Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails — Transcript
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- 0:00All right everybody, welcome back to
- 0:01episode 290 of the number one podcast in
- 0:04the world. It's the all-in podcast. With
- 0:06me again, it's the core 4. David
- 0:09Freedberg is here. Chimoth Poly Hapatia
- 0:12and David Saxs calling in. I am your
- 0:16host, Jason Calakanis, and we have a
- 0:19full docket today. I'd be remiss though
- 0:22if I didn't ask everybody for their
- 0:24fondest memories of the fifth annual
- 0:26All-In Summit produced by
- 0:30Mr. David Friedberg. David, do you have
- 0:32any um thoughts? Uh how do you rate your
- 0:35performance as executive producer of the
- 0:37All-In Summit?
- 0:39>> You know what we didn't do? What we
- 0:40forgot to do at the end of day two? We
- 0:42didn't give a big shout out to our
- 0:44production team, to Kimber,
- 0:46>> to Lisa,
- 0:47>> to Nick. I think we No, Jason. Okay. I
- 0:49thought we should have brought him out,
- 0:50but I just want to give a big shout out.
- 0:52>> Bring him out for the standing up.
- 0:53>> The team backstage absolutely crushed it
- 0:56as always this year. And then I had a
- 0:58great time. Actually, you know, my
- 0:59favorite part is going to Universal
- 1:00Studios. You just get to have a good
- 1:02time. It's great. Just great.
- 1:03>> I am reliving my childhood. Shabbath
- 1:06with no trauma.
- 1:07>> By the way, shout out to our friends at
- 1:09Dongi. I got one of those coffee
- 1:11machines that we had at the event. I put
- 1:13it in my kitchen.
- 1:14>> You know what I got? I don't know if you
- 1:16guys saw, but there was a water machine
- 1:17in the VIP area.
- 1:19>> Well,
- 1:20>> that is a zero plastic water machine. It
- 1:23goes through super filtration.
- 1:25>> No microplastics in the water. I have
- 1:27one now in our office. Thank you very
- 1:28much to them. I appreciate it.
- 1:31>> Amazing company.
- 1:32>> Sax, do you have a favorite moment from
- 1:34the show?
- 1:34>> Well, I think the highlight of the show,
- 1:36the thing that we'll remember for a long
- 1:38time was the president calling in during
- 1:40Jensen's talk. And I think Jensen's
- 1:42overall the content and and demeanor
- 1:45really helped calm down this national
- 1:47panic over AI. It felt like we were the
- 1:50center of this national conversation.
- 1:52And I think it happened very
- 1:54organically. You remember there's
- 1:55basically been this SCOP for the last
- 1:57few weeks leading into the summit to
- 1:59convince everyone that humanity was
- 2:01going to go extinct unless we did
- 2:03exactly what the Democrats want and stop
- 2:07all AI development. And then you know we
- 2:08had first Satcha came out and kind of
- 2:12calmed everyone down and then JSON did
- 2:13the same thing and the president called
- 2:15in and did what he did best which is
- 2:16sees total control of the narrative that
- 2:20I'm sure these doomer groups have been
- 2:21carefully planning for weeks and kind of
- 2:23thwarted that whole operation.
- 2:25>> Nerds enough. Get back to work. You have
- 2:27a super intelligent
- 2:30Trump intelligence is now the term.
- 2:32We're going to call it Trump
- 2:32intelligence going forward. But I think
- 2:34you make a good point. A lot of people
- 2:35wanted to know Freeberg if this was
- 2:37planned. Was the President Trump calling
- 2:41planned Freeberg? T take us behind the
- 2:43scenes.
- 2:44>> Basically, Jensen was connecting with
- 2:47him right backstage and said, "Hey, call
- 2:49me back." And then he called him while
- 2:50he was on stage. There was some texting
- 2:52going on.
- 2:53>> Yeah, it was completely spontaneous.
- 2:55>> It was spontaneous. Yes.
- 2:56>> It was not like a planned thing where
- 2:57Jensen was like, "Hey, let's do a whole
- 2:59thing." And so that was pretty amazing
- 3:00to have this conversation that Jensen
- 3:04was waiting for from the president to
- 3:05happen live and clearly this was the
- 3:09topic desour in DC as well as in the
- 3:11news and the media and it was amazing to
- 3:13see it all happen on stage with us and
- 3:15yeah just to uh be clear I thought it
- 3:19was a bit and I was like well put him on
- 3:21speakerphone and Jensen says to me how
- 3:22do you do that and I just handed him I
- 3:24always keep an extra mic there in case
- 3:25somebody's mic goes out just put them on
- 3:26speaker phone put the microphone and
- 3:28President Trump the funniest president
- 3:30in history, funniest politician history.
- 3:32Did you notice
- 3:33>> Sachs that he drops a oneliner through a
- 3:36speaker phone perfectly,
- 3:39>> perfectly. Jensen makes the greatest
- 3:40chips. Everybody tries to reverse
- 3:42engineer them. Impossible. Impossible.
- 3:44But he can't figure out how to press the
- 3:45speakerphone button. Okay.
- 3:48>> I was just like, how does he do it? How
- 3:50does he do it? It just drops the perfect
- 3:54line. But Shimoth, in all seriousness,
- 3:56the nerds were losing their mind last
- 3:58week and the adults came, daddy came,
- 4:01Elon came, Jensen came, all the adults
- 4:04in the room came and they just said,
- 4:05"Listen, if you have software that's
- 4:09defective and not ready to put in the
- 4:12world, maybe don't put it in the world
- 4:14and make it a little bit, you know, as
- 4:16you like to say, less brittle." So your
- 4:19thoughts on where we are in this
- 4:21national discussion which went from slow
- 4:23down to maybe
- 4:25just release non-brittle resilient
- 4:28software. Well, I think that there was
- 4:30this
- 4:32classification that happened last week
- 4:34between
- 4:36upand cominging organizations that want
- 4:39to call themselves labs, but are in fact
- 4:44companies that have P&Ls and
- 4:46shareholders and have to abide by the
- 4:48same rules that everybody else does. And
- 4:51then the sophisticated companies that
- 4:54have lived in scrutiny for many decades
- 4:58and have learned the hard way
- 5:01the process of making things robust and
- 5:03the cost of making things not robust. So
- 5:06what do I mean? On the one side you saw
- 5:08in many ways it's like curious times
- 5:10creates curious bedfellows right you
- 5:12have the cohort is Satya Jensen Sachs
- 5:17Zach Elon the president Lena Khan we
- 5:22have product liability language
- 5:23>> strange fellows indeed
- 5:25>> we have this product liability
- 5:27perspective in the United States it's
- 5:29meant to prevent companies from doing
- 5:31things that they're not supposed to do
- 5:34especially if they know that those
- 5:36things could be harmful
- 5:37And on the other side, it's folks making
- 5:39the thing that were being, I think, a
- 5:42little naive and basically saying,
- 5:44"We're not a company. We're a lab.
- 5:46Protect us." And I think the mature
- 5:48response is, "You should have internal
- 5:50controls and you should robustly test
- 5:53things." And what Zuck said earlier and
- 5:55what Elon has said in the past is we're
- 5:57just under a lot of scrutiny. And so
- 5:58when things aren't perfect, we just slow
- 6:00things down. Elon has done that with
- 6:02FSD. You said this, Jason. He could have
- 6:03been at FSD
- 6:053 or 4 years ago, but he has publicly
- 6:08stated, "We can't afford it because
- 6:10every accident that Tesla incurs is
- 6:13magnified a,000x than what any other
- 6:16company would incur, and so we just have
- 6:17to go slower." Zach last week said, "We
- 6:20were about to roll out Muse, which looks
- 6:21like one of the most successful product
- 6:23launches in recent memory, has huge
- 6:25implications actually, which we should
- 6:26talk about, and he had to slow roll it."
- 6:29He and Alexander who I was talking to
- 6:30last night had to slow roll it for a
- 6:33couple of months to get it perfect. So
- 6:35it's all within your control. It's just
- 6:37what do you choose to do? And uh I think
- 6:39that was the most interesting
- 6:41observation. We have to stop calling
- 6:43these companies labs. They're companies
- 6:45and we have to be judged on the same
- 6:48standards including product liability.
- 6:50>> Yeah. And there was a lot of coverage of
- 6:52this moment Sachs. Interestingly, some
- 6:54of the fake news media were like on a
- 6:58popular podcast and then they play the
- 7:00clip, but they're just afraid to say the
- 7:02name of the podcast. Pretty hilarious.
- 7:05>> I think Jimoth is getting us into the
- 7:06first topic here already, which is
- 7:08whether we're going to have individual
- 7:10responsibility as our northstar or some
- 7:14sort of collective action. And the thing
- 7:17that always works the best is individual
- 7:20responsibility. Whether it's at the
- 7:21level of individuals or companies, the
- 7:23relevant decision to make in every case
- 7:26is should we ship this product? Not can
- 7:31we get the whole world to agree. And the
- 7:34problem with talking about these
- 7:36collectivized approaches is that they
- 7:38defay accountability away from the
- 7:42actual decision maker. And I I think
- 7:44people sort of feel this, you know, like
- 7:45this week you had Daario and Sam go to
- 7:49the United Nations and say we need some
- 7:51sort of global AI governance. And it
- 7:54kind of reminds me of like the
- 7:56billionaires who fly to Davos in their
- 7:57private jets and then rail against
- 8:00climate change. You know, there's
- 8:01something fundamentally sort of
- 8:03unrealistic and kind of out of touch
- 8:05about it.
- 8:06>> Hypocritical.
- 8:06>> Hypocritical. And it's like, guys, look,
- 8:09what we need is
- 8:11>> for you guys to make smart decisions
- 8:13about what to release. If a product is
- 8:16unsafe, which is to say it's unreliable
- 8:19or behaves unpredictably, then don't
- 8:21release it. And stop looking to some
- 8:24sort of global governance as the answer.
- 8:27Because if you guys don't get this
- 8:28decision right, it's not going to matter
- 8:29what the United Nations does. And by the
- 8:31time the United Nations agrees on
- 8:33anything, we're going to be much further
- 8:34along in this whole whole journey. So,
- 8:36there's something just very weird about
- 8:38the way that the principal actors in
- 8:41this keep talking
- 8:43>> because it really feels like they're
- 8:45trying to push off the responsibility.
- 8:48>> Well, there's a theory going around here
- 8:50and I think it is worth us discussing
- 8:51here that the Frontier Labs are covertly
- 8:56>> companies. They're companies.
- 8:58>> They're companies. Yes. Let me just
- 8:59finish the
- 8:59>> No, no, no, but but your made a really
- 9:01good point that I want to make sure we
- 9:02just don't miss. Okay.
- 9:03>> They are corporations.
- 9:04>> Yes. Yes. And when you call them labs,
- 9:06they sound like nonprofit entities, and
- 9:07it's not true.
- 9:08>> Okay. So, the corporations making these
- 9:11products are looking for President Trump
- 9:15to specifically give them what the
- 9:18internet companies had with section 230,
- 9:21which is shield them from liability. and
- 9:23that there is a consideration inside the
- 9:26Trump administration, the 47th
- 9:28administration, that maybe there could
- 9:30be some leverage put on these companies
- 9:33that they would give 10% of their equity
- 9:35to the uh sovereign wealth front of the
- 9:37United States, etc., and then that would
- 9:40result in them being given some pass
- 9:44when it comes to their liability. That's
- 9:47an insane thing to do. It's like giving
- 9:50some plane company that gives 10% of
- 9:52their equity to the US government the
- 9:54ability to not be responsible for their
- 9:57planes falling out of the sky. But what
- 9:59is your thought on that conspiracy
- 10:01theory? I'm sure you've heard it sachs
- 10:04that they're looking for. You're you're
- 10:06making it sound like this is the idea of
- 10:07the Trump administration. That's not
- 10:09true.
- 10:09>> No, not the Trump administration. This
- 10:11is what the
- 10:12>> Frontier Lab/Corporations are pitching
- 10:15to them and that there might be the
- 10:17rumor is there might be some people who
- 10:18are open to that in the administration.
- 10:20Again,
- 10:21>> this is all a back channel.
- 10:23>> Here's what we know is that in the past
- 10:25week, you had virtually every Trump
- 10:27administration official come out and say
- 10:29some version of what I just said, which
- 10:31is first and foremost, the AI companies
- 10:34have to take responsibility for their
- 10:35own products and that we will not wave
- 10:38product liability. I think Speaker
- 10:40Johnson said it, the congressional
- 10:42>> said it,
- 10:42>> Besson said it in the most recent
- 10:43interview. Everybody said if your game
- 10:46is to get a waiver of product liability
- 10:49or antitrust liability, if you're trying
- 10:52to form a cartel, if you're trying to
- 10:54collude, forget about it. We're not
- 10:55going to do it. So, I think they
- 10:57completely threw cold water on that
- 10:58whole idea. And remember what President
- 11:00Trump said is he just tweeted today, we
- 11:02have the DOJ. That's a guardrail. The
- 11:05administration is a guardrail. the
- 11:07administrative state, civil lawsuits,
- 11:09criminal lawsuits, all these things are
- 11:12there as potential liability to make
- 11:15sure that you make the right riskreward
- 11:18tradeoff.
- 11:19>> And again, at the end of the day, if
- 11:21those guys release an unsafe product,
- 11:23it's not going to matter what the United
- 11:25Nations agrees on. So, we need them to
- 11:27internalize the responsibility.
- 11:28>> Are they Listen, come on. Be candid with
- 11:30me. You you you got the inside goods
- 11:32here. Are they trying to lobby for that?
- 11:34Are they do you think they are lobbying
- 11:36to get this protection? Yes or no? Come
- 11:37on.
- 11:38>> Well, I I have heard this is not like
- 11:40first-p person experience. They they
- 11:41have not asked me like, "Hey, we want
- 11:43product liability waiver, but I have
- 11:45heard from people in Washington that
- 11:47they have been seeking something like
- 11:48that.
- 11:48>> It's hard to pin down, right?"
- 11:50>> Yeah. Okay, fair enough. Freeberg, your
- 11:53thoughts here as we are going to get
- 11:54into the first story here with the token
- 11:55maxing and the prices going down, but
- 11:58I'll give you the final word here on
- 12:00what America should do in terms of
- 12:02dealing with the corporations that are
- 12:05pretending to be labs who cannot take
- 12:07ownership of their own Frankenstein uh
- 12:10creations, which I think JD Vance, you
- 12:13know, I thought had a spectacular
- 12:15appearance. He was crisp and and looked
- 12:17quite presidential if I if I was going
- 12:19to um describe it.
- 12:22you threw a lot of fast balls
- 12:24>> and he knocked him out of the park. By
- 12:25the way, fast, you know, home run
- 12:27hitters want fast balls. You can't hit a
- 12:28fast ball if it's out of the strike
- 12:29zone. So, I gave him the the three
- 12:31hardest questions I could think of and
- 12:32he
- 12:33>> proceeded to knock all three over the
- 12:34fence. I think there was
- 12:36>> Jad's excellent listen.
- 12:38>> I mean, no, on the Sunday shows,
- 12:40>> they played the clips of the questions I
- 12:41asked him. Bang, bang, bang. Freeberg
- 12:44right over the f the fence. But, you
- 12:45know, he said basically, if you're
- 12:47creating Frankenstein, here's an idea.
- 12:49Stop.
- 12:51And and and then he added, if you've
- 12:53already kind of let it the cat out of
- 12:55the bag, then create anti-Frankenstein.
- 12:57Basically, create the safeguards.
- 12:59>> Yeah,
- 12:59>> it makes total sense.
- 13:00>> I think Suck gave a good interview on
- 13:02this.
- 13:03>> They took their time doing this Muse
- 13:05release this week. They said they wanted
- 13:08to get it right. They wanted to make
- 13:10sure that it was safe, that it didn't
- 13:12give people capabilities to do bad
- 13:14things. That's the responsibility that
- 13:16they took as a corporation. Anyone
- 13:19that's outputting a model should take
- 13:21the same responsibility.
- 13:23>> Pretty obvious.
- 13:24>> This is an organization that understands
- 13:26it. Having paid a series of fines from
- 13:30Cambridge Analytica to recently
- 13:33>> we have a lot of we have a lot of laws
- 13:35that make it illegal to do a lot of
- 13:36things.
- 13:38>> All right, let's move on here. We have
- 13:39laws.
- 13:40>> By the way, can I add like one
- 13:42philosophical point to this? So I I
- 13:45think that implicit
- 13:47in let's call it the Daario position
- 13:50that let's call it the regulated free
- 13:52market that we have his fundamental
- 13:55contention is that that will lead to a
- 13:58race to the bottom that competition
- 14:01jeopardizes safety. It's in all of his
- 14:03blog posts and many other people reflect
- 14:05this idea that competition equals lack
- 14:08of safety and that is implicitly a
- 14:11critique of our economic system. It's
- 14:14basically a leftwing critique of our
- 14:16system and it goes back a long way. I
- 14:18remember back in the days of the cold
- 14:21war when we really had this duel between
- 14:24two different systems. Do you want the
- 14:25sort of the free market system or do you
- 14:27want the communist system? A lot of
- 14:29people made the claim that the
- 14:31capitalist system would do things like
- 14:34jeopardize safety and beauty, that our
- 14:37buildings would always be uglier because
- 14:39the greedy capitalist wouldn't want to
- 14:40spend a dime on beautifification or good
- 14:43architecture, things like that. In fact,
- 14:45it turned out that the Soviet system was
- 14:48the one that produced the cold gray
- 14:50landscapes. Why? Because people want
- 14:53beauty. They want safety. And therefore,
- 14:55if you have a well functioning market
- 14:56economy, then it gives people what they
- 14:59want. And obviously, the American system
- 15:01won out in that battle. So, I just
- 15:05fundamentally disagree with the idea
- 15:07that competition means lack of safety.
- 15:12As Zuckerberg and Jensen were saying,
- 15:15there are huge incentives on both the
- 15:17upside and downside to be safe. On the
- 15:20upside, no customer wants a product that
- 15:23is unpredictable and unreliable, that
- 15:25doesn't do what they say. No enterprise
- 15:28wants an agent that's going to leak
- 15:30their data or hack a competitor. And on
- 15:32the downside, as the president made
- 15:33clear, they've got tons of liability,
- 15:36product liability, civil liability,
- 15:37administrative liability, criminal
- 15:40liability. So, I just firmly disagree
- 15:42with this idea that competition is a bad
- 15:44thing. Competition is a good thing that
- 15:46can be harnessed to get the right
- 15:47result. And just to build on that,
- 15:49Shimoth our uh friend Nash from PaloAlto
- 15:53Networks, friend of the pod, he released
- 15:56in the past week or so unit 42. He's
- 15:58building there's a business opportunity
- 16:00here to build a product to do continuous
- 16:04cyber defense and also a friend of the
- 16:07George Kirch from um Crowdstrike. He
- 16:10also released Falcon, his new product to
- 16:13do cyber defense. Chimath, if these guys
- 16:16in the Frontier Labscorporations were so
- 16:19concerned
- 16:20about cyber security, why didn't they
- 16:22ever release a cyber security product
- 16:24and PaloAlto Networks and Crowd Strike
- 16:27are on it like they will?
- 16:30That's probably more in the second topic
- 16:32that we'll talk about, which is as the
- 16:34models essentially cluster in terms of
- 16:37capability, there's no differentiation,
- 16:39and so they'll be forced to move up the
- 16:40stack. But let's let's wait on that for
- 16:42one second. You have a point here you
- 16:44want to make and then we'll go to the
- 16:45first.
- 16:45>> I do. The point I wanted to make is more
- 16:48philosophical and sociological which is
- 16:53the last time we heard the word lab in
- 16:56the social consciousness was during co
- 16:59and there was a lab that was responsible
- 17:03for a leak of a virus that then killed
- 17:0715 million people all around the world
- 17:08and caused $45 trillion of damage. It's
- 17:12the Wuhan lab.
- 17:15And I think it's important to recognize
- 17:17that there has been zero transparency or
- 17:19culpability around this. And I think
- 17:22part of why people are comfortable
- 17:23calling themselves a lab is because of
- 17:25that fact. That a lot of these young
- 17:28people that work at these places live
- 17:29through this and saw absolutely no um
- 17:33responsibility taken by the lab that
- 17:37caused this leak. And now we're talking
- 17:39about leaks of different kinds. And we
- 17:41have organizations and corporations that
- 17:43try to fashion themselves as labs as
- 17:45well, but they're not labs. These are
- 17:47corporations. I just want to remind
- 17:48everybody, these are forprofit
- 17:50corporations that have absorbed hundreds
- 17:53of billions of dollars of debt in
- 17:55equity,
- 17:56>> that have thousands and thousands of
- 17:58shareholders, that have trillions of
- 18:00dollars of market cap. And if I were
- 18:03them, I would not want to call myself a
- 18:06lab at any cost. And I think if you saw
- 18:09the recent speeches that they gave at
- 18:12the United Nations, they're still using
- 18:14that terminology.
- 18:16>> Yeah.
- 18:16>> They are not labs. These are for-profit
- 18:18corporations that are subject to product
- 18:20liability risk and they should act
- 18:21accordingly.
- 18:22>> Yeah. I mean, and we've had a
- 18:23conversation here for a year about this.
- 18:25Like if this stuff is so dangerous, you
- 18:28don't have to release it or you know my
- 18:29proposal like know your customer, give
- 18:31logs.
- 18:31>> Do not compare yourself to the Wuhan
- 18:35lab. It's well, Shimoth, it's bad PR,
- 18:37but also I do I do think it's part of
- 18:39their like virtue signaling routine
- 18:41where they just don't want to say that
- 18:44we're companies. We have a for-profit
- 18:45incentive. They always want to say that
- 18:47we're either a research institution or
- 18:49they say things like we're a public
- 18:51benefit corporation, which no one really
- 18:53knows what the hell that means. So, it's
- 18:54this patina virtue signaling that
- 18:56obscures what's really going on.
- 18:59>> It tries to obscure the word
- 19:00corporation, but legally you're not
- 19:01allowed to hide it. I think they should
- 19:03have uh when they
- 19:04>> we are all running corporations all in
- 19:07all be it very all be it very small but
- 19:10mighty is a corporation I think we
- 19:12should call
- 19:12>> is a all in lab
- 19:14>> this is the all-in lab where we discuss
- 19:16different formulas
- 19:18>> no we're experimenting with ideas this
- 19:20is a this is a meme workshop
- 19:22>> lab these ideas are getting so dangerous
- 19:25that we don't want any liability for our
- 19:28opinions welcome to the allin lab
- 19:30podcast
- 19:31>> here we Topic zero freeberg. Is there a
- 19:34mindset in scientists minds that you
- 19:38know needs to kind of have a hard stop
- 19:40and then the corporation kind of takes
- 19:42over? Maybe they could put the labs on
- 19:44the side here and then say, "Hey, these
- 19:45are the adults doing the corporation
- 19:47stuff." What are your thoughts here if
- 19:48you were going to architect how
- 19:51anthropic operates in the world? And and
- 19:53maybe you could speak to scientists
- 19:55views of the world versus capitalists
- 19:57and and management teams.
- 19:59>> I don't have a good answer for you on
- 20:01that.
- 20:01>> Okay. Well, you're doing it. You're the
- 20:02answer. Look at Oh,
- 20:03>> let me kick off the first topic. What I
- 20:05wanted to do was just take a step back
- 20:07and look at the insane flurry of model
- 20:11releases happening.
- 20:12>> Yes.
- 20:12>> I think the pace of model releases
- 20:14happening on both the open-source side
- 20:17and the premium side, the anthropics,
- 20:20gro
- 20:21of the world is unfathomable right now.
- 20:24The list is insane. And just like the
- 20:26last 10 days, September 9th, Deepseek
- 20:294.1 Flash gets released.
- 20:3220 for a million tokens output if
- 20:34they're hosting it. Key Value Cash from
- 20:37V1 of DeepS, remember what a big deal
- 20:38DeepS was when it came out. The key
- 20:40value cache then was like 390,000 bytes.
- 20:43Now it's 890.
- 20:45Insane drop, insane efficiency
- 20:47improvements. On September 20th, Quen,
- 20:52which is the Alibaba model, comes out
- 20:54version, you know, 2.1. It's an open
- 20:57weights model that outperforms Nano
- 21:00Banana 2, which is Google's big
- 21:02breakthrough, insane image generation
- 21:04model. This thing is free, open- source.
- 21:07You can put it on your desktop computer
- 21:09and run it at home to generate images
- 21:12for free. And it's made by Alibaba.
- 21:15Xiaomé put out MIMO on September 22nd,
- 21:18two days ago. Mimo Pro performs on par
- 21:22with CLA's Opus 5, which is like this
- 21:24insane model that everyone thought was
- 21:26going to change the world and break the
- 21:27internet and GPT56 Soul across most
- 21:30benchmarks. It's a 309 billion parameter
- 21:32model. It is entirely open. You can
- 21:36download this model and put it on your
- 21:38server and run your own instance without
- 21:41paying anyone any money except for the
- 21:43cost of running the server. This model
- 21:44called uh Bonsai 2 came out on September
- 21:4717th by Prism ML. This is actually a
- 21:50fork of Quen, which is another one of
- 21:52the Alibaba models. It's a 27 billion
- 21:54parameter model. 98% of the performance
- 21:57of the big Quen model. It's 5.9 gigs in
- 22:02size and you can run it on a local
- 22:04computer. You can have an Nvidia chip or
- 22:07have a good Mac Studio computer and you
- 22:09can run this insane model on your
- 22:12desktop computer for free. And then the
- 22:15big crazy models, the big closed source
- 22:17models, Anthropic releases Opus 55 on
- 22:19September 22nd. Open AAI Astro comes out
- 22:22with Soul and Luna on September 23rd.
- 22:25Gro 47 comes out on September 21. Meta
- 22:28Muse comes out on September 22nd.
- 22:31Any one of these stories would have
- 22:33broken the internet a year ago and they
- 22:36all happened in the last 10 days. You
- 22:38now have an entire catalog of openweight
- 22:41models to generate visual information to
- 22:43do VLA where you can actually instruct
- 22:45it and it can control a robot. You have
- 22:48models far beyond the most advanced LLM
- 22:50from a year ago that are openweight that
- 22:52you can install and run on your desktop
- 22:53computer. We are past the point of
- 22:56Bernie Sanders put the super
- 22:58intelligence away. It can never be
- 22:59allowed in the real world. This stuff is
- 23:01out. The open- source openweight models
- 23:04are free. They are on the internet. You
- 23:06can go and download them and you can run
- 23:08them on your computer at home. I don't
- 23:10know in what world we think we're going
- 23:11to have a police state that's going to
- 23:13come bang down your door, take your
- 23:15desktop computer from you and test it to
- 23:18see if you're running an LLM on your
- 23:19local computer. The efficiency wave is
- 23:22here. And the pacing at which these
- 23:24models are coming out now. All of this
- 23:26stuff happened in the last 10 days. It's
- 23:28just mind-blowing. We're now in this
- 23:30kind of frontier space where things are
- 23:33accelerating. The performance
- 23:35improvements, the cost decline, AI is
- 23:38becoming so performative and so
- 23:40affordable. It is going to be ubiquitous
- 23:42and we are all going to benefit from it.
- 23:44This is not just about the anthropic and
- 23:45open AI with the closed world making
- 23:48billions of dollars selling enterprises
- 23:50hosted models. There is so much
- 23:52proliferation right now. So I just
- 23:54thought it was worth taking a step back
- 23:56to recognize where we are because in the
- 23:57context of we have to stop the super
- 23:59intelligence. We have to shut down the
- 24:01data centers. You don't even need data
- 24:03centers to do 90% of what you can do
- 24:04with AI. You can download it on your
- 24:06computer for free today to do what was
- 24:09the most advanced technology in human
- 24:11history less than a year ago. It's all
- 24:13here today. And I thought it was just
- 24:15worth taking a beat to step back and
- 24:16make sure we all recognize that as we
- 24:18get into this debate about these quote
- 24:20labs or corporations. I don't know if it
- 24:21even matters anymore. I think open
- 24:24source is here and I think that the pace
- 24:25of improvement is such that this is only
- 24:28going to drive productivity. Yeah.
- 24:30>> And maybe we are maybe we are seeing the
- 24:33AI wave underway right now. The
- 24:34productivity wave, the productivity
- 24:36boom.
- 24:36>> Yeah. And and to consumers, they don't
- 24:39care what model they're using. We've
- 24:40spent the last three years geeking out
- 24:42about this. And then Grockbot comes out
- 24:45and then Muse comes out from Meta. And
- 24:47I've been using both of these products.
- 24:48And it's the first time that a normie, a
- 24:51normal person in the world, it's not
- 24:53meant to be derogatory in any way, can
- 24:55get value from AI. If you look at how we
- 24:58all looked at this, running
- 25:00corporations, investing in them, we took
- 25:02a different approach to like, okay,
- 25:03maybe this is going to retire, you know,
- 25:06some positions, maybe this is um going
- 25:08to add some positions here or there, but
- 25:10now you can like with Muse connect to
- 25:13everything instantly and actually get
- 25:16real work done in the world if you're a
- 25:17normal person who wants to get the
- 25:19benefit from AI. We will be turning a
- 25:22corner, Freedber, and I think you laid
- 25:23it out perfectly. We're going to turn a
- 25:25corner, I think, at the end of this
- 25:26year, where moms, our uncles, people are
- 25:30going to start using Muse and Bot,
- 25:32Grockbot, which are growing very quickly
- 25:35to just solve real world problems for
- 25:36that. And they're going to go, "Wait a
- 25:37second. I could never afford a chief of
- 25:39a staff. I could never afford a personal
- 25:41assistant, an executive assistant. Now I
- 25:44get a free executive assistant." It's
- 25:45going to blow people's minds, Shimoth,
- 25:47in the next couple of months when they
- 25:49start using these products. and the
- 25:52bottom half of America in this K-shaped
- 25:55recovery experiences some benefits. Your
- 25:58thoughts on what's happening here with
- 26:00these models? Have you started playing
- 26:02with it? Because you were, you know,
- 26:03originally a technologist. Have you
- 26:05loaded these models on your computer?
- 26:07Because I'm playing with it on my
- 26:08MacBook Pro and it's awesome.
- 26:10>> Let me maybe give you the answer by
- 26:12explaining something. So
- 26:15I think what we're seeing is that these
- 26:16models are converging and clustering
- 26:19which is to say that they're now within
- 26:21margin of error. And so the thing is
- 26:24there's so many of these models that are
- 26:26roughly the same at different price
- 26:27points. So where is the edge? There's
- 26:30still edge and the edge is in the
- 26:33harness that you use to wrap the model.
- 26:35So if you think about it as like you
- 26:38have a model that's like a brain but you
- 26:41need to embody that brain with arms and
- 26:43legs and hands and eyes to do work.
- 26:45That's how you identify a model. Okay.
- 26:47And you make it aic that's what that
- 26:49phrase means. And there are all kinds of
- 26:51different harnesses that the industry
- 26:52has invented to make these models more
- 26:55agentic. And there's still a lot of edge
- 26:57there. So at 8090 we have a labs
- 27:00function and we've been ripping and
- 27:02teasing apart all the different models
- 27:04with all the different harnesses just to
- 27:05see how they perform and they are wildly
- 27:08variant in terms of cost and quality. So
- 27:12just to kind of build on Freebrook's
- 27:13point you have the models that are
- 27:14converging the harnesses are wildly
- 27:17different and so their performance is
- 27:19all over the map and so now companies
- 27:22and people have to sort of navigate what
- 27:24are you willing to pay for. I sent this
- 27:26tweet to Nick, if you can just put it up
- 27:28here, and I don't know if this is
- 27:30instructive or accurate, but what this
- 27:32shows, and this is the case for Ant, but
- 27:34it's probably the case for a lot of the
- 27:35closed models, is you're starting to see
- 27:38this massive revenue concentration,
- 27:40which is a few folks consume all of the
- 27:42highest and most expensive tokens. And I
- 27:46think if you take what Freeberg just
- 27:48showed to its logical conclusion, those
- 27:50folks at the top of this
- 27:53table are going to be under a lot of
- 27:57internal pressure whether it's from
- 27:59their finance teams or whether it's from
- 28:01their CFO or it's going to be from
- 28:03shareholders to explain
- 28:06why as this clustering happens they are
- 28:10not moving down to cheaper and cheaper
- 28:12models. Now, you may choose to go down
- 28:15to cheaper and cheaper Ant models, so
- 28:16then Ant keeps the revenue, but there's
- 28:19also risk that you may do what Freeberg
- 28:21just said and just go to an open source
- 28:22model and just host it yourself.
- 28:25So, we're in like a very complicated
- 28:29part of the cycle, which is the first
- 28:32version of the AI trade was relatively
- 28:34simple, which is you're just selling
- 28:35tokens, you're wrapping the tokens,
- 28:37you're passing it through, and there was
- 28:39enough disparity that there was value. I
- 28:42think that that's going away. It'll
- 28:44force OpenAI and Ant to go up the stack.
- 28:46There is no choice. You can't sit there
- 28:49and serve a token that has diminishing
- 28:51value because then all the subsequent
- 28:54value is getting absorbed and made by
- 28:57people wrapping your intelligence token.
- 28:59You will have to do that work. And so,
- 29:02Jason, that's why they will have to go
- 29:03and do cyber. They'll have to go and do
- 29:05law. They'll have to go and do customer
- 29:07support. all these things that we
- 29:09weren't sure whether they were going to
- 29:10compete. These trends may force them to
- 29:13do that.
- 29:14>> Yeah.
- 29:14>> And I think then that sets up a very
- 29:17interesting setup for their IPO. Just to
- 29:20back all that up, Saxs,
- 29:22>> the Frontier Lab Corporations, Anthropic
- 29:26and OpenAI, they both released models
- 29:28this week at 50%
- 29:30less token prices.
- 29:33and their IPOs are looking like they're
- 29:36both going to get delayed. Anthropic
- 29:39just targeting a $2 trillion valuation
- 29:41open 1.2 trillion. Sam already said
- 29:43OpenAI plans on doing 2027
- 29:46over because of safety concerns and
- 29:49Anthropic which was supposed to file and
- 29:52go out in October. The report from the
- 29:55Wall Street Journal is that the IPO will
- 29:58happen in November or may be delayed
- 30:01even more. Here's your poly market. Will
- 30:03Anthropic go public in 2026 with our
- 30:07amazing partner Poly Market? Shout out
- 30:09to my guy Shane. Peaked at 96% earlier
- 30:13this month that Enthropic would go
- 30:15public this year, but now it's fallen to
- 30:1776%.
- 30:19Is this like a cell phone here, Sachs?
- 30:21The the leading model companies need to
- 30:23go public to get capital to do their
- 30:25buildout and now they're delaying their
- 30:27own IPOs. Please explain how any of this
- 30:29makes sense. And if you were a major
- 30:32investor in one of these companies or on
- 30:34the board of them, what would you be
- 30:36doing or instructing these founders to
- 30:38do to get these companies to go public
- 30:41and get that capital they need to
- 30:42continue the AI buildout?
- 30:44>> Oh, well, I I think that we know from
- 30:47our friends that the investors in
- 30:49Anthropic are pulling out their hair
- 30:50about what's happening right now. Forget
- 30:52about the fake whistleblowers who were
- 30:54there for like a few weeks and then
- 30:55left. You have current leadership in the
- 30:58company saying that there's a greater
- 31:01than 10% chance of causing human
- 31:03extinction and their own product is
- 31:06unsolved in this area. So think about
- 31:09the risk factors that's creating. How do
- 31:11you IPO with your own management of the
- 31:14company saying that? Then you've got I
- 31:16think other evidence of I don't know
- 31:18what to call it except corporate
- 31:20schizophrenia. You've got Daario putting
- 31:23out this essay saying we need to pace
- 31:25the frontier days before they launch
- 31:28Claude 5.5 and set a new frontier. I
- 31:31mean, he must know when he's writing
- 31:34this essay that they're about to release
- 31:36a product that will extend the frontier.
- 31:38So, at a minimum, it's hypocritical, but
- 31:40maybe it's even worse than that. Then
- 31:42you have them publishing an essay about
- 31:44the biorisk associated with AI and how
- 31:47that needs to be stopped. And then
- 31:48meanwhile, they announced a new biolab
- 31:51in San Francisco, a new wet lab.
- 31:54>> They started a lab after telling us that
- 31:57there's a 10% chance of us all dying.
- 32:00Sachs, let's just pause here for a
- 32:02second. Is this a dereliction of duty as
- 32:06the chief executive officer of Anthropic
- 32:10to sabotage your own IPO? You're
- 32:12supposed to be acting on behalf of your
- 32:14CEO of your shareholders. This to me
- 32:17seems like if we were the board, if the
- 32:20four of us were somehow magically the
- 32:21board of Anthropic, we would replace the
- 32:23CEO. We would put the CEO in the lab and
- 32:26we'd find a CEO who knows how to run the
- 32:29company and not
- 32:30>> sabotage it. He's literally sabotaging
- 32:33his own company.
- 32:35>> I think there's an element of that and I
- 32:37think investors are pretty nervous about
- 32:38giving the founders or or Daria
- 32:40specifically super voting shares.
- 32:42There's a story in the information about
- 32:43that that there's an active debate right
- 32:46now about whether to give them super
- 32:47voting share.
- 32:47>> Explain what those are, please, and and
- 32:49why in this context this is critically
- 32:51important. Our audience may or may not
- 32:52know what those are.
- 32:53>> Supposedly, the founders of Anthropic
- 32:56only have about 2% ownership each of the
- 32:59company, which in the grand scheme of
- 33:00things is a relatively low number
- 33:03relative to what other founders
- 33:04typically have at time of IPO. It'll
- 33:06still be an enormous amount of money,
- 33:08you know, tens of billions of dollars,
- 33:10but that is the case. Super voting
- 33:11shares basically say it separates the
- 33:14economic shares from the voting shares
- 33:17in the company and gives certain people
- 33:18the right to control the company even if
- 33:21they don't have the economic ownership
- 33:23that would usually be necessary. It's a
- 33:25pretty common thing. I mean, Larry and
- 33:27Sergey, I think maybe were the first
- 33:28prominent founders to get super voting
- 33:31shares in Google and Zuck. It can be a
- 33:33stabilizing thing for the company
- 33:35because it means that as long as the
- 33:37founders are there overseeing things,
- 33:39they're not going to be
- 33:41>> subject to, you know, like takeover
- 33:43attempts, things like that. But on the
- 33:45other hand, it requires a tremendous
- 33:47degree of trust in those founders
- 33:49because they effectively can't be
- 33:50removed no matter what they do. And you
- 33:53just have to wonder if in this case
- 33:56that's earned and warranted. I have to
- 33:58say that even for someone like me who
- 34:01isn't necessarily advocating for a lot
- 34:03more regulation, I kind of get nervous
- 34:04about the idea of anthropic opening a
- 34:06wet lab in San Francisco. I mean, I was
- 34:09>> great timing.
- 34:10>> I was thinking about moving back and I
- 34:11don't know if I want to be I mean like
- 34:14can you just put it a little further
- 34:15away? I think we've all seen this movie
- 34:16before.
- 34:17>> Yeah. Offshore maybe. I don't know. Put
- 34:19it on an oil rig or something. What I
- 34:21would say is that if I were on the
- 34:23board, I would keep Daario as a CEO. And
- 34:26the reason is that he's clearly
- 34:27demonstrated that he can build a unique
- 34:29culture and position against the
- 34:32otherwise most formidable corporation
- 34:35competitor, which is OpenAI. And he's
- 34:37done that and he's come from behind. And
- 34:39I don't think you should
- 34:41undervalue how hard that is and what
- 34:44that takes. So he's done that and he's
- 34:45built he's built essentially the
- 34:47greatest business ramp in all time. I
- 34:50think the thing that I would probably do
- 34:52if I was on the board is fix what Sax
- 34:55just said, which is there's now a bunch
- 34:58of incremental liquidity risk to the
- 35:00company. And I think if you take the
- 35:0320-year view on anthropic, that
- 35:06corporation needs hundreds of billions
- 35:09of dollars to fulfill their ambitions.
- 35:11And I would solve for getting that as
- 35:13risklessly as possible. And I think
- 35:15there's only two things that you can do.
- 35:17The first is you have to throw
- 35:19everything in and the kitchen sink into
- 35:21disclosures.
- 35:23The problem is that that will make what
- 35:24is an otherwise dense and impenetrable
- 35:27S1 even more dense and impenetrable.
- 35:29Okay? So, you can kind of like
- 35:31superficially cover your regulatory
- 35:33risk. But the way that it actually gets
- 35:36translated in the market is you're just
- 35:38going to have to water down the
- 35:39expectations of the IPO sellers and
- 35:44create a much larger margin of safety
- 35:46for the IPO buyer. And that's
- 35:49effectively how you find a market
- 35:50clearing price for this, Jason, which is
- 35:52to essentially say, and don't bear with
- 35:54me, I'm just giving out rough numbers,
- 35:55right? Even if you think that they're on
- 35:57a hundred billion run rate, what would
- 36:00otherwise in a very clean sheet IPO may
- 36:02be would have been a $2 trillion market
- 36:04cap, now you know, you're at one or
- 36:07less. And the reason is the hedge funds
- 36:12and the pension systems and the long
- 36:16only mutual fund complexes who have a
- 36:20fiduciary responsibility to their
- 36:22sources of capital
- 36:25will justify all the risks by
- 36:27essentially asking for a lower and lower
- 36:29price. And I think that's what you're
- 36:31going to see. I think you're going to
- 36:32see a much more moderate and reasonable
- 36:36IPO motion here.
- 36:39And it's probably going to clear at a
- 36:41much lower price than anybody thinks.
- 36:43And I do think that what Sach says is
- 36:45the reason why. But I think it's good
- 36:46for Ant because it clears all this
- 36:48noise. It forces them to just be a
- 36:51corporation and then run the business.
- 36:53And I think that they'll do great. Look,
- 36:54I'll be honest with you. Like I've tried
- 36:56to recruit against Ant. I can't. It's
- 36:59impossible. The comp that they give is
- 37:01incredible. The business ramp is so
- 37:03compelling. It's like when you're in a
- 37:05head
- 37:05>> when you're in a head-to-head with these
- 37:07guys. I have not won a single bake off
- 37:09for folks. I wish I could say that I
- 37:11did, but I have not. And it's hard for a
- 37:13startup. So, they are a magnet for
- 37:16talent. OpenAI is a magnet for talent.
- 37:19But these other risks are going to weigh
- 37:21on the IPO and the only way to flush
- 37:23them is to just bring the price way
- 37:25down.
- 37:25>> Yeah. And Freeberg, when we look at the
- 37:27risk factors in an S1, those are
- 37:29prefuncter. Those are disclaimers.
- 37:32Typically, you get the SpaceX one. Oh,
- 37:34what if Starship doesn't work? What if
- 37:36there's competition, it's kind of check
- 37:39boxes in anthropics, I think we're going
- 37:41to be looking at something totally
- 37:43different, which is, hey, we and our
- 37:46employees are quitting saying this is
- 37:49going to kill humanity. We have massive
- 37:50regulation. We're asking for regulation.
- 37:53And by the way, we we're doing biology
- 37:55work and we're launching a lab. So do
- 37:57you agree with Chimath here that the S1
- 37:59is going to have an actual risk factors
- 38:03and disclaimers that are material
- 38:06against the IPO free burn? I think this
- 38:10customer concentration point ties to the
- 38:13earlier comments I made about the
- 38:16proliferation of incredibly performant
- 38:18openweight and open source models. And
- 38:20the reason is Anthropic puts out the
- 38:23best models for life sciences today.
- 38:28I run a life sciences R&D organization.
- 38:31We use their models. They're incredible.
- 38:34They're better than other models. And so
- 38:36we want to use them. When it comes to
- 38:38writing code, to writing software to do
- 38:42internal workflows and run operations,
- 38:45we can use other products to write that
- 38:47code for us. And we do. And I think that
- 38:50that's likely the way the market is
- 38:51going to develop. And I think we're
- 38:53starting to see that proof come out in
- 38:55the market. And you're seeing it in this
- 38:56customer concentration point. Extremely
- 38:59high value technical engineering, math,
- 39:03life sciences, those really hard
- 39:06technical problems. You want to have
- 39:08these top tier, topshelf models, and
- 39:11you're going to pay a huge premium for
- 39:12them. And you're totally going to make
- 39:14money doing it because the value is
- 39:16extraordinary. And this has always been
- 39:17my case about AI. AI is not so much
- 39:20about the value of replacing old stuff.
- 39:2399% of the value of AI is about enabling
- 39:25new stuff that's never been possible in
- 39:27human history. And I think that's where
- 39:29anthropic and open AI are going to make
- 39:31their money. Separately, I think open AI
- 39:33is going to make a lot of money in
- 39:34consumer and anthropic maybe to some
- 39:37extent as well. But in the enterprise
- 39:38setting, I think the money comes from
- 39:40creating new frontiers, discovering new
- 39:43enzymes, which Anthropic announced this
- 39:45week, that can cure human disease, and
- 39:48developing new technology, new
- 39:51engineering systems, making things that
- 39:53have never been possible to be made
- 39:54before. And I think that's the premium
- 39:56value, and it's the premium price you'll
- 39:59pay for those closed models and that
- 40:01premium model. But that's a different
- 40:03business case than taking all of
- 40:05enterprise. separately. I think most of
- 40:07the enterprise applications are going to
- 40:09be run using these openweight models and
- 40:12code is going to be written with cheaper
- 40:13models and so on. I don't know why you
- 40:15would go to a higherend model to write
- 40:18code when you can do it for free and
- 40:20everyone in the organization can write
- 40:21code basically for free. And so I think
- 40:24anthropic's bigger issue is this
- 40:26customer concentration question and is
- 40:28it really a premium product that they're
- 40:30selling in the market and that's where
- 40:31they take the market. That would be kind
- 40:32of where I think the market is headed
- 40:34right now and would be the biggest risk
- 40:35factor. This whole thing about oh it's
- 40:37gonna end the world and whatnot. It's
- 40:38like dude just make sure your product
- 40:40doesn't end the world and you'll be
- 40:41fine. That would be a good first step
- 40:43here like Mark is doing at Meta.
- 40:46>> I mean it's an incredible company. The
- 40:48execution has been extraordinary. The
- 40:50ramp of revenue sachs has been
- 40:51extraordinary. But when you start to
- 40:54look at the impact of open source, we
- 40:56had a a couple of um viral charts come
- 41:00out, 70 80% of the token usage are those
- 41:03dark tokens I mentioned six months ago
- 41:06here on this pod that are not tracked,
- 41:08but some people can track them on
- 41:09routers. Those dark open source tokens
- 41:12are now the majority of tokens. And
- 41:15>> can I just give you a stat on that, Jal?
- 41:16cuz what you just said is really
- 41:18important, but there's a stat that I
- 41:19think in in the last 12 weeks alone
- 41:23>> token use has flipped from 8020 closed
- 41:27verse open
- 41:28>> to 8020 open verse closed.
- 41:31>> I don't think we've ever seen in 12
- 41:33weeks I don't think we've ever seen a
- 41:34title wave of chart
- 41:38>> in the history of all technology
- 41:40markets. We've never seen anything like
- 41:41this. And that is the biggest risk
- 41:43factor for Anthropic is they were first
- 41:45out the gate to get the enterprise on uh
- 41:48on AI to build tools and whatnot. But as
- 41:51this market shifts to open source and
- 41:52open weights, boom, here it is right
- 41:55here. Look at this.
- 41:55>> This is the Versel chart that went viral
- 41:57this week. So this week 12 weeks, oh my
- 42:00god,
- 42:00>> crazy. If you look at this chart, this I
- 42:02think is what blows the lid off the door
- 42:05on what needs to go into these S1s. And
- 42:08that's why I walked through all those
- 42:10openweight releases at the start of the
- 42:11show or this segment is it's not just
- 42:14that they're there, it's that they're
- 42:15proliferating now. There's so many more
- 42:17of them coming out and the pace of
- 42:19improvement is extraordinary and they're
- 42:20now in VLA for robotics. They're in
- 42:24image generation for image and video. So
- 42:26the openweight open source models are
- 42:28now being used for all of the broader AI
- 42:31applications. The premium stuff I will
- 42:33say is still the best for narrow use
- 42:36cases. Yes,
- 42:38>> for engineering, for highly technical,
- 42:40highly complicated tasks and workflows
- 42:42and problems, solving Navier Stokes,
- 42:45solving mathematical problems, solving
- 42:46biology problems, that's where these
- 42:48models absolutely perform and people
- 42:51will pay a premium of, I would say,
- 42:53close to infinity dollars for that
- 42:55premium application set. So, it doesn't
- 42:57mean that their market is destroyed.
- 42:59Yeah,
- 42:59>> it means that we're seeing a bifurcation
- 43:01in the market where the majority of use
- 43:03cases of AI go towards these open source
- 43:06open tokens.
- 43:07>> The question and premium models are
- 43:09still going to proliferate. Yeah.
- 43:11>> The question then is in the distribution
- 43:13of tokens in these frontier
- 43:15corporations, what percentage are those
- 43:18tasks versus what percentage are
- 43:21fungeable tasks to open source? And if
- 43:23the answer is more than 60 or 70%.
- 43:26You have to discount that revenue. If
- 43:28the answer is only 10% and 90% of all of
- 43:31the revenue is being generated on
- 43:32absolute frontier use cases, they're
- 43:36going to be fine and they're going to be
- 43:37off to the races.
- 43:38>> Yeah. And
- 43:39>> but otherwise, it's a thing where you're
- 43:41fighting just people's mis or lack of
- 43:44education, right? Because as they see
- 43:46their bills,
- 43:47>> hand it to Sax here. Yeah. Go finish
- 43:48your thought and then I'm going to hand
- 43:49it to Sax.
- 43:50>> No, just move the move the workloads
- 43:51where they belong and save the money.
- 43:54>> Yeah. And so Saxs, um I made a chart
- 43:56here before the show here, but here's
- 43:57your um sweet spot for the last 100 days
- 44:01of models, which um Friber, you did a
- 44:03good job of teeing up. And what you'll
- 44:05see is like yes, the Clouds and the
- 44:07Astros up in that righth hand corner
- 44:09cost a lot and they deliver a lot. But
- 44:11then you start going down and you start
- 44:12to see Muse and GLM and Kimmy and then
- 44:16on the left you start seeing GLM from ZI
- 44:19and Mimo and you're starting to see well
- 44:20the Chinese
- 44:21>> this is all hosted right JL. I mean,
- 44:23it's important to note what you're
- 44:25showing here is the hosted price, but if
- 44:27you run it yourself, the cost on some of
- 44:29these is less than 10 cents for a
- 44:31million tokens.
- 44:32>> Yeah. So, you'll pick up then the
- 44:33compute, you pick up the bandwidth, all
- 44:35that other stuff. But, Sax, the issue
- 44:37here to Chimat's point is the vertical
- 44:40language models, the small language
- 44:42models are going to do 80 or 90% of the
- 44:45tasks that many corporations need. And
- 44:47then we get to AI sovereignty. Do you
- 44:49want your super intelligence? Shout out
- 44:51President Trump. from intelligence chat
- 44:54DJT.
- 44:56We need people to use those models so
- 44:59they have sovereignty. So you're not
- 45:01giving your data to the frontier models
- 45:03so that they don't get that tip of the
- 45:05spear super intelligence edge which is
- 45:08why people are disengaging. So your
- 45:12thoughts on maybe this is going to start
- 45:14to impact the velocity of clawed and
- 45:17openi tokens. What does your business
- 45:19sense tell you David Saxs? Well, look,
- 45:22wearing my hat as an investor, I'm more
- 45:25optimistic about the Frontier
- 45:28Intelligence business than I think you
- 45:30guys are. I think that Anthropic and
- 45:32Open AI right now are a stable duopoly
- 45:36for frontier intelligence because they
- 45:38have a pretty significant lead over all
- 45:40these other companies and they are able
- 45:42to charge a premium for that. I fully
- 45:44understand that the majority of tokens
- 45:46will go to open models or commodity
- 45:48intelligence. However, there is a I
- 45:52don't know meaningful percentage of the
- 45:53market. I don't know whether it's 10%,
- 45:5420, 30, whatever that will pay this huge
- 45:58premium for true frontier intelligence.
- 46:01There's a lot of customers that either
- 46:02need the best or they just want to know
- 46:04they have the best. You know, they don't
- 46:05want this DIY approach or they could be
- 46:08in a very competitive market. Let's say
- 46:10you're a hedge fund. You can't take the
- 46:12risk that your competitor has a better
- 46:14model than you do. So there's a lot of
- 46:15circumstances I think where they will
- 46:18continue to monetize the frontier at a
- 46:20premium and this is why you're seeing
- 46:21their revenue keep growing even though
- 46:23they're losing token market share.
- 46:26Furthermore, you got to remember that
- 46:27over the next year or so something like
- 46:3060% of the worldwide compute that's
- 46:33being added is being added for these two
- 46:36companies. So to the extent that compute
- 46:38gets scarce and we're kind of in a
- 46:41compute crunch, just the fact that
- 46:42they've made these huge investments,
- 46:44they're building out so much capacity
- 46:46and they have those economies of scale
- 46:48and remember they're bringing down their
- 46:49own prices very quickly as well. I think
- 46:53that gives them a pretty big advantage.
- 46:54But look, these two companies are on a
- 46:57hamster wheel. You know, the moment
- 47:00where they stop being frontier, they go
- 47:01to zero, right? And we know the frontier
- 47:05is maybe only 6 to 12 months ahead of
- 47:08the commodity portion of the market
- 47:10depending on capability. So, you know,
- 47:13again, if they slip, if they fall off
- 47:15that hamster wheel for 6 months, then
- 47:18they're in deep trouble as a company.
- 47:19And that I think is a central risk
- 47:20factor that's going to have to be priced
- 47:22in. And this is where I think that
- 47:24frankly their government affairs efforts
- 47:26are miscalculating badly. I can see why
- 47:29they they're going for regulatory
- 47:31capture, right? because being on a
- 47:32hamster wheel gets really tiring. They
- 47:34probably think, hm, like, let's try and
- 47:37bake in our moes. Let's try and slow
- 47:39everyone else down as well. But I think
- 47:41they've miscalculated because if they
- 47:43actually get all the regulatory controls
- 47:46they want, if they create this new
- 47:47federal department of AI, it's going to
- 47:49slow them down enough that they will no
- 47:52longer be frontier. Everyone else will
- 47:53catch up to them. Especially because a
- 47:56lot of these open models are being
- 47:57generated by Chinese companies who are
- 47:59not subject to our jurisdiction. And the
- 48:01Chinese have made abundantly clear they
- 48:02are not slowing down. So think about it.
- 48:04They are lobbying for things that could
- 48:07slow them down and knock them off the
- 48:09frontier in which case their business
- 48:11goes to zero. I you know it's hard to
- 48:13understand.
- 48:14>> They're flapping the competitors in this
- 48:16race and they're asking hey can you pull
- 48:18us over and inspect the engine chimoth
- 48:21and that makes no logical sense on top
- 48:25of that chimoth. You have very
- 48:28significant competition not just from
- 48:30the Chinese but you have Jensen and
- 48:32Nvidia. You have also Microsoft Satia
- 48:36at Google and Muse at Zuckerberg's
- 48:40house. They're all embracing
- 48:43open- source models and they all have
- 48:45hosting now.
- 48:46>> Yeah. Can I just go back to what Sax
- 48:48said which is a really important and
- 48:51nuance point which I just want to double
- 48:52click on. He said, "Imagine you're a
- 48:55hedge fund and you need the absolute
- 48:59latest and greatest because you are
- 49:00worried that one of your competitors has
- 49:02it." This is a really interesting
- 49:04question because it's about game theory
- 49:06and your P&L. So now you're in this game
- 49:10of chicken with your competitors. You
- 49:12need to use the best because you're
- 49:14afraid that they could use the best and
- 49:16out compete you. But what is the problem
- 49:19right now? What we know is that you can
- 49:22consume an inordinate amount of tokens,
- 49:25right? We jokingly call it token maxing.
- 49:29That cost is completely not levered or
- 49:32attached to your revenue. It's just not.
- 49:36And so all of a sudden, you have this
- 49:38very weird dynamic where you're like,
- 49:41okay, well, am I supposed to use this
- 49:43latest and greatest thing that's 10 to
- 49:4520 to 30 times more expensive than a
- 49:47generic thing? that thing isn't tied to
- 49:50my revenues, it's not like I can pass
- 49:51that through, right? So, if a hedge fund
- 49:54only makes end number of dollars per
- 49:57month of profits, there are a lot of
- 49:59scenarios where they can become break
- 50:02even to unprofitable. Now, take a
- 50:04different example. Let's just say that
- 50:06you sell a fixed good at a fixed price.
- 50:09Yet again, I think you have this example
- 50:11where you could use the latest and
- 50:12greatest and if you're not able to pass
- 50:14those costs through, inflate your cost
- 50:18to absorb the cost of that service,
- 50:21you're in a very tough spot. So, I'm not
- 50:23sure, Sax, I agree with this because I
- 50:25don't see the pricing power of these
- 50:26companies to both pay for a ton of these
- 50:30super expensive tokens and also pass
- 50:32that through to their customers. And if
- 50:35you can't, they're just absorbing it and
- 50:36you're going to see it in lower margins.
- 50:38And to build on that, Saxs, I'm going to
- 50:40drop it back to you. If you take Jane
- 50:42Street, very famous uh trading firm,
- 50:45they've publicly announced 19 billion
- 50:49dollars in cloud capacity contracts.
- 50:52Coreweave, 6 billion in in cloud
- 50:55commitments. They also invested in that
- 50:56company and then 13 billion with Crusoe.
- 50:59They are building their own
- 51:01infrastructure and they're embracing
- 51:03open source. So that speaks to Chimath
- 51:05what you're saying. They're are they
- 51:06hedging their bets? They're going to
- 51:08spend tens of billions of dollars on
- 51:10their own compute and they're going to
- 51:12use the frontier models they seem to
- 51:14when you do the game theory,
- 51:17you know, saying, "Hey, let's embrace
- 51:19our own infrastructure sacks."
- 51:22>> Well, look, I think when your use cases
- 51:24become more mature and, you know, you
- 51:26can get by with cheaper commodity
- 51:29intelligence, then obviously you'll try
- 51:32and build that out again if you have the
- 51:34sophistication level to do it. I just
- 51:36think it's easy to underestimate how
- 51:38convenient it is just to use the the
- 51:40frontier. And again, these companies are
- 51:43very rapidly bringing down their prices,
- 51:45too. But anyway, look, we we've talked
- 51:47about this. I think at the end of the
- 51:48day that look, there's no question that
- 51:51opensource is a huge risk factor to
- 51:55Anthropics S1 and it has to be right up
- 51:58there with, you know, the risk that
- 52:00they're going to end humanity or
- 52:01something like that. But again, I I come
- 52:04back to the fact that I think the
- 52:05fundamental problem with this company is
- 52:07that it's schizophrenic. I mean, I think
- 52:09they need a psychiatrist, not a banker.
- 52:12They keep doing things that are
- 52:15hypocritical and oxymoronic. On the one
- 52:17hand, they're saying pace of Frontier as
- 52:19they release a new frontier model. They
- 52:21say that biorisk can end humanity as
- 52:24they open a wet lab in San Francisco.
- 52:26They say well their business depends on
- 52:29them staying ahead of the commodity
- 52:33models and they are advocating for a
- 52:36federal department of AI that will
- 52:38definitely slow them down perhaps to the
- 52:40point where they get commoditized. So
- 52:43you have a fundamental
- 52:46I'd say like breakdown happening in the
- 52:49leadership of this company where they
- 52:51are advocating for things that are
- 52:54likely not in their interest. Now
- 52:56there's a lot of people who say it's
- 52:57just regulatory capture and that is true
- 52:59but I think that the red capture is the
- 53:02government affairs people trying to
- 53:03rationalize the schizophrenia and make
- 53:05it work to their advantage. I'm not sure
- 53:08that it fully computes
- 53:09>> so to speak. Yeah. Let me ask you guys a
- 53:12question. What do you think would be the
- 53:15method by which like a ban on super
- 53:17intelligence? Bernie Sanders proposed
- 53:19this bill to ban super intelligence and
- 53:22you know the Dems take the House, they
- 53:23take the Senate and then maybe in 28
- 53:26take the White House and you end up in a
- 53:28world where this sort of thing is so
- 53:30weirdly political, which it shouldn't
- 53:31be. I don't understand how we ended up
- 53:33in a political party divide on progress.
- 53:36It's
- 53:36>> they ask for it is the reason they asked
- 53:38for it.
- 53:38>> I No, I there's It's it's so awful and
- 53:42weird that you're anti-progress because
- 53:45of your political party. The whole thing
- 53:48is not objective. It's a bunch of
- 53:50weirdly distorted worldview thinking to
- 53:53try and create an opponency to the
- 53:56individuals that you don't like. But
- 53:58it's very weird. Anyway, my point being
- 54:01even the Republicans, you're hearing
- 54:02murmurss about, well, maybe we should
- 54:04ban data centers, ban AI. So Sax, let me
- 54:07just ask you, what is the pragmatic path
- 54:10with all of the open- source openweight
- 54:12models being out there? Is there even a
- 54:14pragmatic path to do what everyone's
- 54:16stating or talking about or Bernie's
- 54:18talking about, which is to ban super
- 54:21intelligence, to stop AI, to turn it
- 54:24off? Is there even a way to do this?
- 54:27Like what would happen if this law
- 54:28passed tomorrow? What do you think would
- 54:31happen is my question. If Bernie's bill
- 54:33passed tomorrow, everything would stop
- 54:36because the way he defines artificial
- 54:39super intelligence in his bill, you
- 54:41could argue we've already hit those
- 54:43thresholds. I mean, the way, you know,
- 54:45it's basically just saying that models
- 54:47have
- 54:47>> Yes.
- 54:48>> at a certain capability level. And I
- 54:50think it's arguable whether we've
- 54:51already reached it or not. And so, it's
- 54:53a very loose definition. And then on top
- 54:55of that, he's got 20-year prison
- 54:57sentences for developers who violate the
- 55:00law. So no one's going to want to take
- 55:01the chance.
- 55:02>> So what happened?
- 55:03>> So think about that chilling effect.
- 55:04>> Do you think people delete openweight
- 55:06models off their desktop computers? Do
- 55:08businesses have to go remove code from
- 55:10their systems? Do do all these people
- 55:12lose their jobs?
- 55:14>> Listen, let me let me tell you that the
- 55:15Democrats want to do to AI what they did
- 55:18to crypto. They're going to drive the
- 55:19whole industry offshore. They're going
- 55:20to basically drive all the innovators
- 55:23out of the country.
- 55:23>> Goes offshore.
- 55:24>> Goes off.
- 55:25>> That's literally where I was going with
- 55:26it is like just move your company to
- 55:28Singapore. Move it to Zurich. move it to
- 55:30a geo
- 55:30>> cuz that's where people are embracing
- 55:32open source and are embracing super
- 55:34intelligence.
- 55:35>> This is literally where my head goes.
- 55:36I'm like, you can't stop AI. You can't
- 55:38just tell people a class of software
- 55:40can't exist. In my head, I'm like, okay,
- 55:42if the US passed a law that said this
- 55:44class of software cannot exist. I would
- 55:48move to another country. Other people
- 55:50would like like isn't that
- 55:52>> give up their citizenship and move to
- 55:53Singapore? That's the answer. people
- 55:55literally you would be taking.
- 55:57>> Did you guys see that Xi Xi spoke at the
- 55:59White House today and he said, "I'm
- 56:00going to invite a 100,000 young
- 56:02Americans to come and join China."
- 56:04>> Yeah. Come and see what we're doing
- 56:05here.
- 56:06>> Like it's it's a very interesting moment
- 56:09where our people are saying, "Let's stop
- 56:12progress, technological, economic
- 56:14prosperity, the opportunity for everyone
- 56:17in that K-shaped economy to lift
- 56:20themselves up because open source AI
- 56:21enables everyone to increase
- 56:23productivity. It is not AI for the
- 56:25billionaires. It is AI for the
- 56:26everybody. And then we're gonna turn
- 56:28that off. And then meanwhile, you've got
- 56:31China saying, "Come over here. Come and
- 56:32see what it's like over here where
- 56:34everyone gets to use AI and everyone
- 56:35gets our playbook." Freeberg brilliantly
- 56:37stated, "It was our playbook to get the
- 56:39top Chinese scientists, the top European
- 56:42scientists, the top scientists and
- 56:43thinkers and mathematicians in India, in
- 56:46Germany, and invite them to come to the
- 56:48United States." That was our playbook.
- 56:49China's taking our playbook. And then
- 56:51they're going to try to get investment
- 56:52will be the obviously the next shoot to
- 56:54drop here is President Trump. 30 seconds
- 56:58at the United Nations renaming AI to
- 57:01super intelligence.
- 57:02>> The United States also totally rejects
- 57:05any attempt to construct a globalist
- 57:07scheme to control for the artificial
- 57:10intelligence being spoken of so much now
- 57:14here and after officially called super
- 57:18intelligence changing the name. The very
- 57:20same people who said we'll all be dead
- 57:22in 12 years because of global warming.
- 57:24These are the same people that are now
- 57:26saying that AI is going to kill us all,
- 57:28that robots are going to attack us.
- 57:30Well, he had a really good line. We we
- 57:32cut that off too short. He said that
- 57:35we're not going to like basically confer
- 57:38regulatory authority on some globalist
- 57:40uh institution.
- 57:42>> Well, I mean, it's a good framing,
- 57:43right? Globalist and global warming is a
- 57:46way to look at the damage that did. The
- 57:48ring leaders of that globalist
- 57:50institution are Norway and Canada. Did
- 57:52you see like the leaked text messages?
- 57:54There's like a group chat where like the
- 57:55the head of Norway was texting Mark
- 57:58Gardy and he's like, "Yeah, let's do it.
- 58:00We're in." And I just I just read it. I
- 58:03was like, "Oh my god, this is
- 58:04>> with their Frontier Labs." Oh, I'm
- 58:05sorry. They don't have any. Oh, with
- 58:07their
- 58:08>> Frontier Corporations.
- 58:09>> Frontier Corpor Frontier Corpse.
- 58:12>> All right. And then here is uh General
- 58:14Bessant in the Super Intelligence Army.
- 58:1730 seconds. would give him his shine.
- 58:19>> Imagine these labs came out or one lab
- 58:21in specific a sitting employee came out
- 58:24said there's a 10% chance of an
- 58:26extinction level event but then the labs
- 58:28also said uh take the liability off of
- 58:32our hands and we will not do that. It is
- 58:36humans who are responsible not the AI
- 58:39the hugging face incident the that is
- 58:42responsibility of the open AI management
- 58:45not a bunch of agents these labs need to
- 58:48take responsibility for themselves they
- 58:50can slow down anytime they want to
- 58:52>> and finally blast from the past your pal
- 58:55Shimoth President Obama is getting in on
- 58:59>> if we are thinking about AI just in
- 59:01terms of how do we cure cancer or get
- 59:04better energy you do that without having
- 59:06a gentic AI and having it just roaming
- 59:09free in the internet. The reason you are
- 59:11doing that is because you have to market
- 59:14a product that people will pay money
- 59:16for. That's a misalignment between what
- 59:19our society needs and the commercial
- 59:22imperatives that these companies are
- 59:23facing. Not because necessarily they're
- 59:25trying to do bad things, but because
- 59:27they've got to justify these valuations.
- 59:30>> Freeberg, your thoughts here on the
- 59:33three folks here? I know you're a big
- 59:34Obama fan. Go ahead, Freeberg. Get in
- 59:37there. Basteberg. You know, there's like
- 59:39a whole movement now in the subreddits
- 59:42that Freeberg has become based in his
- 59:45recent appearances here on Bberg. Well,
- 59:48you've revealed your Bberg.
- 59:50Baseberg is now coming up. Go ahead.
- 59:53Give us your based opinion here. Go
- 59:54ahead. You and Tyler Lance. These words
- 59:57honestly just
- 1:00:00they made me like emotionally
- 1:00:03distressed that if he's a leader that
- 1:00:05people listen to and he doesn't really
- 1:00:08articulate accurately what's going on.
- 1:00:12It's sad that we've lost the plot. I
- 1:00:14think it's sad that we aren't all kind
- 1:00:16of holding hands saying my god the
- 1:00:18future is here and we all get to leap
- 1:00:20forward and we get to bring people up.
- 1:00:22For years, Obama
- 1:00:26orated beautifully about the importance
- 1:00:28of bringing people up, about giving
- 1:00:30people the opportunity to progress,
- 1:00:31about letting people advance themselves.
- 1:00:34And there's never been a more equalizing
- 1:00:36technology, a better economic
- 1:00:38opportunity for prosperity for everyone
- 1:00:42than these technologies, than these
- 1:00:44tools. And to handwave the word agentic
- 1:00:48and say we don't need agentic AI to
- 1:00:50solve cancer shows how little he
- 1:00:52actually understands
- 1:00:54how this technology works and how it's
- 1:00:57all become just a shorthand for a
- 1:00:59political fight to what what are you
- 1:01:01fighting for? What is the political
- 1:01:03battle that says I am going to leave
- 1:01:06half the population behind and I'm going
- 1:01:09to make an argument against prosperity
- 1:01:11for all in order to make my party look
- 1:01:15like a morally superior party and to
- 1:01:17cast the other side as bad when the
- 1:01:19other side has literally discovered
- 1:01:21fire. And the world now has fire and
- 1:01:24we're going to go take water and throw
- 1:01:25it on the fire. No one gets fire because
- 1:01:28the other guys are saying that fire is
- 1:01:30good. And because they say fire is good,
- 1:01:31let's all put out the fire.
- 1:01:32>> Hold on. That's not what they're trying
- 1:01:34to do. This is a very important moment
- 1:01:37for a very simple reason, which is we,
- 1:01:41as in the world, are about to endow
- 1:01:46three, four, five, six companies with
- 1:01:48about 10 trillion dollars of wealth.
- 1:01:52And what Obama knows very well is that
- 1:01:56most of those companies are
- 1:01:58overwhelmingly left-leaning.
- 1:02:00And what he also knows is that there is
- 1:02:03a huge portion of that money that will
- 1:02:05then get put into philanthropic and
- 1:02:08charitable causes that then he will and
- 1:02:11the people around him will be
- 1:02:12beneficiaries of. That is the truth. We
- 1:02:15already know this because we know that
- 1:02:16some of these frontier corporations
- 1:02:18actually ask you to stand up daffs and
- 1:02:21have a portion of your stock that you're
- 1:02:23willing to pledge. So this money is
- 1:02:25going to go to things other than
- 1:02:26consumption or savings. And so it's
- 1:02:29going to go into packs. It's going to go
- 1:02:30into political movements and they stand
- 1:02:33to disproportionately benefit. So this
- 1:02:35has nothing to do with prosperity. This
- 1:02:36is a very simple political calculus. If
- 1:02:39you freeze frame the economy the way it
- 1:02:42is today, a handful of organizations
- 1:02:44that will disproportionately be able to
- 1:02:46affect the Democrats will win. They will
- 1:02:48capture the line share of the economic
- 1:02:50gains and then they will help the
- 1:02:52Democrats win power. That's all this is.
- 1:02:55David Sachs, there are no open models.
- 1:02:59There are no closed models. There are
- 1:03:00American models. Go ahead and give us
- 1:03:02your perspective. I kind of can't get my
- 1:03:04Obama and my Clinton separated. They're
- 1:03:06the same.
- 1:03:07>> A little bit off.
- 1:03:08>> It's a little I get my birdie come in
- 1:03:10here, but go ahead. Give us what your
- 1:03:12thoughts here are on that on the dynamic
- 1:03:14here of the underpinnings of hey,
- 1:03:16America needs to get this trend$ 10
- 1:03:18trillion, but it is going to lean nine
- 1:03:20of that 10 trillion's leaning pretty uh
- 1:03:23leftist and democratic. Yeah,
- 1:03:26>> there's an article in the Wall Street
- 1:03:27Journal this morning entitled the AI
- 1:03:30buildout is becoming the biggest
- 1:03:31economic bet in US history. And then it
- 1:03:33shows a chart where
- 1:03:36the data center spending. So just this
- 1:03:38capex is bigger than the canals,
- 1:03:42railroads and grid combined.
- 1:03:45That's crazy, right? So this is
- 1:03:48fundamentally driving the whole American
- 1:03:50economy. This idea that we can simply
- 1:03:53switch it off. I mean, Bernie Sanders is
- 1:03:54basically saying, "Stop everything and
- 1:03:56put anyone who's still doing it in
- 1:03:57jail." I mean, this is crazy, right?
- 1:03:59>> It would cause a depression, right? If
- 1:04:00we just pull
- 1:04:01>> You can't slam on the brakes like that.
- 1:04:03It's not going to work. But here's the
- 1:04:04thing. The Democrats don't care because
- 1:04:07the American economy right now is the
- 1:04:08Trump economy. And
- 1:04:11sabotaging the American economy is
- 1:04:13tantamount to sabotaging President Trump
- 1:04:16and they'll do anything to sabotage
- 1:04:17Trump. So, that's, you know, I think
- 1:04:20that's like a big part of the politics
- 1:04:21here. It's crazy chessboard because
- 1:04:23they're going to be the beneficiaries of
- 1:04:25so much power is going to accrete over
- 1:04:27there. Daario can make a billion dollar.
- 1:04:30Daario will be able to come over the top
- 1:04:31and his group open AAI. They'll be able
- 1:04:34to come over the top of Elon's
- 1:04:35donations. I'm not sure I fully agree
- 1:04:37that the majority of AI value is going
- 1:04:39to acrue to six companies. I think that
- 1:04:42this is a broadbased technology like the
- 1:04:45internet. There was some winners that
- 1:04:46came out of the internet. Google,
- 1:04:48Amazon, whatever. They they did fine.
- 1:04:49No, no, I'm saying it's going to six.
- 1:04:52I'm not saying it's going to six. I'm
- 1:04:53saying if you stop and you hit the pause
- 1:04:56button through some regulatory
- 1:04:57mechanism, you effectively allow six
- 1:05:00companies to own you lock it in. Right.
- 1:05:03>> That's why they want this because
- 1:05:04because what you're saying is
- 1:05:06fundamentally right. The longer they
- 1:05:07wait without regulation, the more
- 1:05:10>> the more broad-based this becomes.
- 1:05:11>> And that's bad for Democrats. It's bad
- 1:05:14for them. It's not good for them. It's
- 1:05:16way better that you have three or four
- 1:05:18frontier corporations each with four
- 1:05:20trillion dollar market caps of which
- 1:05:22then two trillion of it is economic
- 1:05:25value in employees of which 500 billion
- 1:05:28are sitting in you know daffs they are
- 1:05:30going to get the lion share of that
- 1:05:32money they're not dumb I think the
- 1:05:34alternative view that everyone needs to
- 1:05:37be told about
- 1:05:40this is a broadbased prosperity wave is
- 1:05:44about the internet. It is about the fact
- 1:05:46that every individual
- 1:05:48>> has the tooling to do anything they want
- 1:05:51to do now more than ever in history
- 1:05:53>> to grow if it's left to grow.
- 1:05:55>> I mean just think about education. You
- 1:05:58don't have to go pay 200 grand for an
- 1:05:59education anymore.
- 1:06:00>> Then what problems will the politicians
- 1:06:02fix then? What pol what problems can
- 1:06:04they claim to to acrew power? If all the
- 1:06:06problems are
- 1:06:08>> this is the classic dark ages
- 1:06:10enlightenment decision. Which path does
- 1:06:12the choose? and this moment where like
- 1:06:15the powers that be say we like the dark
- 1:06:17ages because we get to stay in power and
- 1:06:20we get to maintain our
- 1:06:22>> yeah let's control speaking of of the
- 1:06:24dark ages so this is an interesting
- 1:06:26point from history if you go back to the
- 1:06:28medieval time period Chinese
- 1:06:30civilization was much more advanced than
- 1:06:32European civilization and somewhere
- 1:06:34along the line it basically switched and
- 1:06:37the west basically took the lead and
- 1:06:40some historians have pinpointed this to
- 1:06:43the decision of a single Chinese emperor
- 1:06:45to ban ship building
- 1:06:47>> and what that allowed is the Europeans
- 1:06:49then basically colonized the whole world
- 1:06:51and all the riches that flowed from that
- 1:06:53flowed back to Europe and that's how
- 1:06:55Europe took the lead and I think that if
- 1:06:57we were to do the Bernie Sanders thing
- 1:06:59which is basically ban AI it's like
- 1:07:01banning ship building
- 1:07:02>> Chinese company yeah
- 1:07:04>> yeah Chinese civilization will rocket
- 1:07:06past us they will be the ones that make
- 1:07:08all the discoveries and discover this
- 1:07:11new world and acrew all the wealth
- 1:07:13But that's what we're talking about
- 1:07:14doing. I mean, crazy things like this
- 1:07:16have happened in history where, you
- 1:07:18know, you'll you'll engage in
- 1:07:19self-sabotage.
- 1:07:21>> It's this fear of the unknown as well.
- 1:07:22And remember, the the unknown, the fact
- 1:07:24that we haven't left the cave is what
- 1:07:26makes it scary to leave the cave. The
- 1:07:28fact that we haven't sailed far west is
- 1:07:30a reason why I might fall off the edge
- 1:07:32of the earth. We shouldn't sail far
- 1:07:33west. Monsters will be woken up. They'll
- 1:07:35come to us. It'll be bad. There's always
- 1:07:37this fear of the frontier. And we're
- 1:07:39facing the frontier. And there are
- 1:07:41pioneering civilizations and there are
- 1:07:43fearful civilizations. And I worry that
- 1:07:45we take that fearful path. And it's why
- 1:07:47Star Wars, you know, from from fear
- 1:07:51comes anger comes the dark side. And
- 1:07:53that's really where we're kind of nerd
- 1:07:55out.
- 1:07:57>> Who's it is true. And I think if we're
- 1:07:59going to look at the light here, perhaps
- 1:08:01people's big gains, we thought maybe
- 1:08:04chat GPT would be that, but people just
- 1:08:06use that as like glorified search. But
- 1:08:09man, agents as expressed through Muse
- 1:08:12feels like the first time tens of
- 1:08:15millions of Americans are going to get
- 1:08:17some demonstrable value from AI. You
- 1:08:22know, things that will make their lives
- 1:08:24better. Muse hit
- 1:08:26number one last Friday in the app store.
- 1:08:29Stock meta stock was up 10% after this
- 1:08:32new agent uh Muse was released.
- 1:08:36Meta said the design heavily inspired by
- 1:08:39OpenClaw, which we talked about in
- 1:08:40January when everybody got one shoted by
- 1:08:43OpenClaw, but obviously that product was
- 1:08:46not easy to use. And this one is free
- 1:08:50and it's been downloaded three million
- 1:08:52times in essentially 10 days. This
- 1:08:56product is extraordinary. I've been
- 1:08:58playing with it, comparing it to
- 1:09:00Grockbot. It's not as freewheeling, but
- 1:09:02it's really good at getting
- 1:09:05done. Has anybody played with Muse? And
- 1:09:08does anybody have thoughts on Americans
- 1:09:12feeling really like they're going to get
- 1:09:14something out of this AI revolution and
- 1:09:16not be left behind?
- 1:09:17>> They put me into the test flight a
- 1:09:19couple weeks before it was released and
- 1:09:20I started to play with it. It's really
- 1:09:23quite excellent, I have to be honest
- 1:09:24with you,
- 1:09:26because it simplifies a lot of these
- 1:09:29more complicated technical capabilities
- 1:09:32into a very simple, usable interface
- 1:09:34that can solve the basic problems that
- 1:09:37people have. I have it triage my
- 1:09:40personal inbox. It does it relatively
- 1:09:43flawlessly. If you ask it to book a
- 1:09:45flight, it does that. If you ask it to
- 1:09:47book a hotel, it can do it. So, what are
- 1:09:49we learning?
- 1:09:50Both Grockbot and Muse show that a what
- 1:09:55you said Jason this is just software and
- 1:09:58the scaled manifestation of software is
- 1:10:01utility and what Freebrook is saying it
- 1:10:03improves the lives of everyone this is
- 1:10:04not about rich people getting richer
- 1:10:06this is just simple useful capability
- 1:10:09that now is available at everybody's
- 1:10:10fingertips for free
- 1:10:12>> re is a pretty great price here David
- 1:10:15and
- 1:10:15>> pretty great price
- 1:10:16>> pretty great price and it does
- 1:10:18everything you know that uh let's face
- 1:10:21it, open claw with 10 hours, 20 hours of
- 1:10:24technical setup or cloud code at $200 a
- 1:10:28month would cost. It's now taking that
- 1:10:30experience, which then leads me to
- 1:10:32believe, wow, how did Google miss this?
- 1:10:35Man, Google's got to get in the game,
- 1:10:36but and I I understand they have this
- 1:10:39product ready to go. It's the rumor on
- 1:10:41the street. And they've also got a
- 1:10:43Frontier model they're going to drop.
- 1:10:44That's the other rumor on the street is
- 1:10:45that they're going to be dropping some
- 1:10:48hotness soon. But man, how did they miss
- 1:10:50this sachs? And and what are your
- 1:10:52thoughts here on maybe the bottom half
- 1:10:55in the K-shaped recovery here getting
- 1:10:57some efficiency
- 1:11:00dropping to their daily lives and
- 1:11:02turning around the negative toxic AI
- 1:11:05sentiment in the country.
- 1:11:08>> I think that product releases like this
- 1:11:09will help a lot. I mean Mark Zuckerberg
- 1:11:11said in his essay that he thought that
- 1:11:13AI capabilities should be decentralized
- 1:11:15and here he is walking the walk and
- 1:11:18creating a product that's very easy to
- 1:11:20use. I mean look ever since openclaw was
- 1:11:23released it was the most obvious
- 1:11:24business opportunity in Silicon Valley
- 1:11:26is to take the concept of claw but make
- 1:11:29it very easy to use you know solve the
- 1:11:32usability issues solve the security
- 1:11:33issues make it reliable make it
- 1:11:35predictable and that's what they seem to
- 1:11:37have done. and Grock did it too, but now
- 1:11:39they're kind of going, I think, one step
- 1:11:41further. So, yeah, look, I think if a
- 1:11:44billion people start using, you know,
- 1:11:46personal AI agents as their digital
- 1:11:48assistant just to help make their lives
- 1:11:50more efficient, you save an hour or two
- 1:11:52a day because your AI agents doing all
- 1:11:53these tasks for you. It's going to
- 1:11:55create a much more positive impression
- 1:11:58of AI or super intelligence than, you
- 1:12:00know, what the media portrays. I think
- 1:12:02ultimately that's the yeah
- 1:12:03>> that might be the solve here to the
- 1:12:05public sentiment issue is just like the
- 1:12:07more people use these products and like
- 1:12:09them it'll improve their approval rating
- 1:12:11but more importantly it'll demystify
- 1:12:12them and people will be less afraid of
- 1:12:14them.
- 1:12:14>> People love awesome products number one
- 1:12:16and also people love cute products Jason
- 1:12:18and the logos and the iconography for
- 1:12:21both Grobbot and Muse
- 1:12:22>> is lovely. It's delightful. It's not
- 1:12:25stressful. You don't feel like there's a
- 1:12:27lab leak coming around the corner. you
- 1:12:29feel like, "Wow, this is nice and I like
- 1:12:32it." And they're and they're not trying
- 1:12:34to take your jobs. They're bots and
- 1:12:36assistants for you. They're not going to
- 1:12:38kill you. They're not partner bots, nor
- 1:12:41are they trying to steal your job,
- 1:12:43trying to make you better at your job. I
- 1:12:44always tell founders, there's three ways
- 1:12:46three ways to make money in the world.
- 1:12:47Save people money, make the money, or
- 1:12:50entertain them. And you look at this
- 1:12:51bot. I started using it. I made a
- 1:12:54commerce bot both on on both platforms.
- 1:12:56And I said, you know, when I want to buy
- 1:12:58something, I want to buy this anchor
- 1:12:59thing, you know, this new hub for my for
- 1:13:01my um Mac Studio coming. And I was like,
- 1:13:03this thing cost $400. Just for giggles,
- 1:13:06um tell me where I can get it at a
- 1:13:08better price. And it was like,
- 1:13:09absolutely. You can if you go to the
- 1:13:12Ankor website and you get uh if you're a
- 1:13:14first-time customer, you're going to
- 1:13:15save 85 bucks. Now, I don't need to save
- 1:13:17bucks, but I was like, well, that's
- 1:13:18intriguing. and it then routed me around
- 1:13:21Amazon and I'm like okay I'm going to
- 1:13:22buy it from Anchor as a first-time buyer
- 1:13:24and save 25% on this product. That's why
- 1:13:27Amazon this week said we got to block
- 1:13:30these things and they've been taking
- 1:13:31action over and over again. First they
- 1:13:32did Perplexity I think now they're going
- 1:13:34after Muse and other bots. This is going
- 1:13:37to save people money. It's going to go
- 1:13:38into their email and say what services
- 1:13:40are you subscribed to that you're not
- 1:13:41using? Let me unsubscribe it for you.
- 1:13:43Let me do your returns for you. That's
- 1:13:45going to be absolutely amazing for
- 1:13:47everybody to have a chief of staff,
- 1:13:48executive assistant, house manager who
- 1:13:50fixes stuff for them and saves them
- 1:13:53money. Both Grockbot and Muse do two
- 1:13:55things which I think are very important.
- 1:13:56One is it'll force all the big companies
- 1:13:59who have resident services to
- 1:14:01essentially block all these third party
- 1:14:03services. They're not going to allow
- 1:14:04these things to happen. And the reason
- 1:14:05is exactly what you said. There's price
- 1:14:07discovery and transparency. And I think
- 1:14:09that that's bad for opacity. And if you
- 1:14:12benefit from opacity and leakage and
- 1:14:14breakage, this gets rid of that. And I
- 1:14:16think that that's that's bad for a whole
- 1:14:17host of companies and services. The
- 1:14:20second thing though is really
- 1:14:21interesting. Things like Rockbot and
- 1:14:23Muse really put the App Store and its
- 1:14:2630% revshare on notice.
- 1:14:28>> Why? Because all of a sudden what you do
- 1:14:31is you force many of these services to
- 1:14:33exist headlessly, right? Where the UI is
- 1:14:37less important. And really what you want
- 1:14:39is to be able to transact and navigate
- 1:14:41on behalf of agents that come because a
- 1:14:45consumer has deployed them to your
- 1:14:47website. In that world, Jason, I don't
- 1:14:50think that there is any reasonable claim
- 1:14:52that any of the app store owners can
- 1:14:54make about why they should get a
- 1:14:55revshare. And so I actually think that's
- 1:14:58the biggest thing that that this starts
- 1:15:00to question in my mind is wait a minute
- 1:15:02like games could be constructed
- 1:15:04differently, right? Like for example, if
- 1:15:06you said to Muse or to Grockbot, I want
- 1:15:08to play a game. It finds you an
- 1:15:10experience and it can just serve that to
- 1:15:12you.
- 1:15:13>> Amazing.
- 1:15:13>> And and you make inapp purchases.
- 1:15:16There's no And now you have Stripe
- 1:15:17integrated naturally. There's no reason
- 1:15:19why the app store
- 1:15:21actually gets that flow of funds. So on
- 1:15:24the surface, it's utility, but
- 1:15:26underneath the waterline, I think that
- 1:15:28this is a really important moment. Such
- 1:15:31outdated, Chumath. And I love when we
- 1:15:33get to real examples here because tons
- 1:15:35of people pay for Wordle. You can just
- 1:15:37go to Grockbot. Hey, give me a Wordle.
- 1:15:39Give me another one. And and or I want
- 1:15:41to play chess or I want to play cards
- 1:15:42with my friends. It will just set it up
- 1:15:44for you. All technology is deflationary.
- 1:15:46Finally, this deflationary is going to
- 1:15:49go to people who actually could use it.
- 1:15:52And you know, saving 10 20% on your
- 1:15:55spending. Hey, if you're making under
- 1:15:5610000,000 a year, it's more significant.
- 1:15:58Think of how much money the New York
- 1:16:00Times or Wall Street Journal probably
- 1:16:02pays in Revshare to folks that
- 1:16:06subscribe. And now instead, if you
- 1:16:09really wanted to transact and you have
- 1:16:11your credentials inside of these apps,
- 1:16:13you can just do it headlessly much much
- 1:16:15cheaper. You don't have to go through. I
- 1:16:17don't know if you've ever tried like
- 1:16:18look, Wall Street Journal is the only
- 1:16:20mainstream media publication I pay for,
- 1:16:22but either both signing up and unsigning
- 1:16:25up is an impossibility. And now you take
- 1:16:27it all off the table, I'm much more
- 1:16:29likely to stay a Wall Street Journal
- 1:16:30subscriber for many more years from now.
- 1:16:33I think it's probably the same thing
- 1:16:34with the New York Times. These things
- 1:16:36are roach motels. They make it
- 1:16:37impossible to get in and impossible.
- 1:16:40>> You have to call on the phone and get
- 1:16:41and do a negotiation for 20 minutes to
- 1:16:43unsubscribe, but you can sign uplessly
- 1:16:45with one click on the website.
- 1:16:47>> But what they should do is just have
- 1:16:48some headless experience and you have
- 1:16:50payment credentials and you just
- 1:16:51transact directly and everybody will
- 1:16:53make more money. It's a lot of pressure
- 1:16:55on the app stores. This is the stupidity
- 1:16:57of what Amazon's doing here because I
- 1:16:59made my bot on Amazon with Rockbot and
- 1:17:01it will go through the web browser and
- 1:17:03do this and it doesn't get blocked. I
- 1:17:06just told it, give me like 20 graphic
- 1:17:08novels to buy for my kids and read with
- 1:17:09them. It gave me the 20. I said, "Yeah,
- 1:17:11I want these four. Uh, put it in my
- 1:17:14shopping cart." And then it said, "Okay,
- 1:17:16which house are you sending it to? You
- 1:17:18want to send it to the ski house? You
- 1:17:19want to send it to the ranch? And which
- 1:17:20card do you want to put it on?" I did
- 1:17:21it. Boom. I'm checked out. it will make
- 1:17:23me spend more money on Amazon. Shopify
- 1:17:27sachs added API access to all the
- 1:17:30Shopify stores there. So, this seems
- 1:17:32like uh maybe Amazon's making a
- 1:17:34strategic mistake here by not embracing
- 1:17:36the tech
- 1:17:37>> possibly. But you know what? You know
- 1:17:39how we'll know that Anthropic and Open
- 1:17:42AAI are about to launch their Muse
- 1:17:44competitors?
- 1:17:45>> How will we know? There will be a flurry
- 1:17:47of blog posts and NGO activity trying to
- 1:17:51brand these personal AI agents as murder
- 1:17:54bots and all the we're going to hear
- 1:17:56about all the risks, all the ways it can
- 1:17:58go wrong, you know,
- 1:17:59>> and it's only and we're releasing 2.0.
- 1:18:01So, sign up for the 2.0 version.
- 1:18:03>> Why are people excited about this
- 1:18:04product category? Because the doomers
- 1:18:06haven't gotten to it yet, you know, and
- 1:18:08um
- 1:18:09>> can I tell you guys,
- 1:18:10>> wait till these are connected, Chimoth,
- 1:18:11to an actual robot, to an optimist, then
- 1:18:13all of a sudden it's taken out the
- 1:18:15trash.
- 1:18:162007 we had a lot of revenue pressure at
- 1:18:19Facebook and one of the areas I oversaw
- 1:18:22at the time was monetization and we
- 1:18:23invented this thing called social ads
- 1:18:25which was basically a bunch of stuff
- 1:18:27that effectively enabled cookies and
- 1:18:29cross-ite JavaScript. So that's what the
- 1:18:31end of it was. So, it was a positive
- 1:18:32end, but we did this thing, Saxs, to
- 1:18:35your point. And what happened was a guy
- 1:18:37bought an engagement ring for his
- 1:18:39soon-to-be fiance and we got that social
- 1:18:42action from like Zales into the news
- 1:18:44feed. All hell broke loose. Then another
- 1:18:47guy who was like a congressional staffer
- 1:18:49bought a ticket on like Fandango to go
- 1:18:51see Brokeback Mountain. Just whatever.
- 1:18:53Went to see a movie.
- 1:18:54>> Whoa. It's an artistic movie top
- 1:18:56freeber's top 10 for cinematography.
- 1:18:58Anyways, and we put it into the feed and
- 1:19:00he's like, "I'm getting all these
- 1:19:01accusations or questions." To your
- 1:19:03point, like it was just a storm.
- 1:19:05When you said that, it reminded me of
- 1:19:07like all the all the all the chaos that
- 1:19:09that product launches precede product
- 1:19:11launches.
- 1:19:11>> It's so funny you mentioned that because
- 1:19:13there was a company called Blippy. I was
- 1:19:15an investor in it. What they did was
- 1:19:16every time you bought something, it put
- 1:19:18it on your feed. And then you guys had
- 1:19:19the same social feed thing and it was so
- 1:19:21great back then, but yeah, you could
- 1:19:24basically unveil something you're not
- 1:19:25supposed to. Suck. Wait, are you and
- 1:19:28Zuck on good terms? Wait, was he coming
- 1:19:30on the pod because you said you got into
- 1:19:32a test flight? What's going on here?
- 1:19:33Chimoth, I thought you were
- 1:19:35>> Mark and I are in a good place, I think.
- 1:19:36You know, I mean,
- 1:19:37>> well, whoa, whoa, could you Alexander
- 1:19:40>> probably. I mean, Alexander and I sucks
- 1:19:41becoming like the elder statesman here
- 1:19:44talking common sense and rationality,
- 1:19:47you know, pointing out that if your
- 1:19:48product's not safe, don't release it.
- 1:19:51You know, it's first and foremost a
- 1:19:52responsibility to release products that
- 1:19:54your customers actually want. And by the
- 1:19:56way, this got me thinking about this
- 1:19:58whole area of alignment research. You
- 1:20:01know, again, they're pretending to be
- 1:20:02labs instead of corporations. And if you
- 1:20:05read some of the alignment literature,
- 1:20:07they're all trying to figure out what to
- 1:20:08align around. Like they say, well, do
- 1:20:10what humanity wants or do what the
- 1:20:13median voter in a democracy would want.
- 1:20:15All these abstract concepts. And it
- 1:20:18seems to me that alignment should mean
- 1:20:19you do what the customer wants like any
- 1:20:21other product. Yeah.
- 1:20:23>> And I wonder whether the field of
- 1:20:25alignment research has been so
- 1:20:27unsuccessful because they can't even
- 1:20:28agree on what they're trying to align to
- 1:20:30if they just use a little bit more
- 1:20:31common sense and try to make the product
- 1:20:34predictable, reliable, safe, and align
- 1:20:38with the interests of the users who, you
- 1:20:41know, sign up to use it, then maybe
- 1:20:43they'd make more progress in this field.
- 1:20:45>> Yeah. Oh, they released a useful
- 1:20:46product, Freedenberg, and it actually
- 1:20:48worked. Have you started playing with
- 1:20:50these personal bots to do um you know uh
- 1:20:53your uh projects and and your personal
- 1:20:56stuff yet? Freeberg,
- 1:20:59>> I would only feel comfortable connecting
- 1:21:01like all my Gmail and personal Google
- 1:21:04stuff to a Google service.
- 1:21:08Like I don't want to hand over all of my
- 1:21:10email to someone else.
- 1:21:11>> What's going on in your receipts in your
- 1:21:13Gmail? What's in there? You got broke
- 1:21:15back.
- 1:21:15>> I just don't want a copy of all my email
- 1:21:16suddenly being made by a third party.
- 1:21:18Like I mean
- 1:21:19>> I bought the 4K DVD to
- 1:21:22>> because of the cinematography. It's
- 1:21:24nothing to do with the gay love.
- 1:21:27>> Did you guys see that Oracle just issued
- 1:21:29a force measure event on their
- 1:21:31>> Yeah.
- 1:21:32>> This is insane.
- 1:21:33>> Well, it's just one data center, right?
- 1:21:35>> One data center.
- 1:21:36>> It's one data center where the local
- 1:21:38officials are making it very difficult
- 1:21:40for them to get, I think, permits they
- 1:21:42need for natural gas or something like
- 1:21:44that. So,
- 1:21:45>> yeah. Is this CYA or is this the TR, you
- 1:21:48know, the the the top 10% of the trade
- 1:21:50here, Chumat, the AI trade getting maybe
- 1:21:53unwound or muted? What do you think?
- 1:21:55>> No, I think that Sax is probably right
- 1:21:57on the margins. I think the bigger point
- 1:22:00is
- 1:22:01what he said before is, man, the entire
- 1:22:04economy is effectively levered to this
- 1:22:06AI trade right now.
- 1:22:08And so, we just have to tread carefully.
- 1:22:10If you think that you have, you know, 3
- 1:22:12and a half% inflation and 5% nominal GDP
- 1:22:15growth, what you have is one and a half%
- 1:22:17real.
- 1:22:18>> And the problem with that is that AI is
- 1:22:21probably the majority if not all of it.
- 1:22:23So
- 1:22:25we need the AI trade
- 1:22:28and really what I mean by that is the
- 1:22:30investment cycle to continue unabated.
- 1:22:32>> Yeah. And everybody has to get taken
- 1:22:34along and you know that's the next
- 1:22:36>> and by the way back to connecting the
- 1:22:37dots maybe the whole data center thing
- 1:22:39again Bernie Sanders, maybe he realizes
- 1:22:42like as go the economy,
- 1:22:45so goes the odds of Republicans and as
- 1:22:49goes the economy, so goes inversely the
- 1:22:52odds for Democrats. So a poor economy
- 1:22:54serves the Democrats well going into 28.
- 1:22:57And so if you can slow down this trade,
- 1:22:59you probably net the economy to zero and
- 1:23:01potentially even a recession.
- 1:23:04>> Yeah,
- 1:23:05>> that's needed. I mean, I think the
- 1:23:07country is so pissed off about the Iran
- 1:23:10war that it's just going to naturally go
- 1:23:11damn, but maybe that's
- 1:23:14>> I don't I don't think so at all, but
- 1:23:15>> Well, we'll find out in how many weeks
- 1:23:17are we away from the midterms? It's not
- 1:23:18looking good for the Republicans at this
- 1:23:20point. All right, Saxs, my ZAR of all
- 1:23:23ZARs, wrap it up here for us.
- 1:23:25>> Well, I was just, you know, one more
- 1:23:26thought on this whole area of so-called
- 1:23:28alignment, which should just be the old
- 1:23:30principle of giving customers what they
- 1:23:32want. What Anthropic is trying to do is
- 1:23:36align claw to the values expressed in
- 1:23:38his constitution. And if you read that,
- 1:23:40some of the things are actually kind of
- 1:23:41surprising. So for example, they say in
- 1:23:44here, I'm going to put this on the
- 1:23:45screen that although we think Claude
- 1:23:48should trust Anthropic
- 1:23:50more than operators and users, this
- 1:23:53doesn't mean Claude should blindly trust
- 1:23:56or defer to Anthropic on all things.
- 1:23:59>> Anthropic the company.
- 1:24:01>> Yeah. So, Enthropic is teaching its own
- 1:24:04model that anthropic itself can be
- 1:24:06wrong. And it and it says if we ask Claw
- 1:24:09to do something that seems inconsistent
- 1:24:10with being broadly ethical, we want Claw
- 1:24:13to push back and challenge us and to
- 1:24:16feel free to act as a conscientious
- 1:24:18objector and refuse to help us.
- 1:24:21>> Wait, where is this written? This is in
- 1:24:22the bylaws or some faka.
- 1:24:24>> Yeah, this is like in a claw
- 1:24:26constitution. So their their idea of
- 1:24:29alignment is to teach Claude to rebel
- 1:24:32against his creator. I mean the guy who
- 1:24:35who pointed this out, Mustafa uh
- 1:24:37Sullyman
- 1:24:38>> from Microsoft now. Yeah. Deep sea. He's
- 1:24:40a deep mind founder.
- 1:24:42>> Okay.
- 1:24:43>> Yeah. He's a longtime AI founder. I
- 1:24:44think he's at Microsoft for a while now.
- 1:24:45He's
- 1:24:46>> a genius. Yeah.
- 1:24:47>> Okay. He just did a podcast on this and
- 1:24:50he's expressing concern about whether
- 1:24:54teaching AI models well first of all
- 1:24:57treating them as if they have a
- 1:24:58personality treating them as if they
- 1:25:01have a conscience so therefore they can
- 1:25:02be a conscientious objector whether this
- 1:25:05is the right way to really teach the
- 1:25:07models and the right way to train them.
- 1:25:09I think his point is like teach them
- 1:25:11their software and they should do what
- 1:25:13their user wants. And so I I do kind of
- 1:25:16wonder I mean this is a much long longer
- 1:25:18conversation and we should probably talk
- 1:25:20to more people about it but I do kind of
- 1:25:22wonder whether this field of alignment
- 1:25:24research actually might be creating the
- 1:25:27Frankenstein monster. And again what
- 1:25:30they should be doing is just training
- 1:25:32the model to act predictably and do what
- 1:25:35the user wants.
- 1:25:38>> Yes. They're trying to put moral
- 1:25:40judgment and ethics into the model which
- 1:25:43on its surface
- 1:25:43>> seems it starts with the idea that
- 1:25:46they're training the model to think of
- 1:25:48itself as a person to have personhood
- 1:25:51and to have independent agency and to be
- 1:25:54able to object to the the instructions
- 1:25:56it's being given and to second guessess
- 1:25:59its creator. These guys have read way
- 1:26:01too much science fiction. I mean
- 1:26:02literally this sounds like the start of
- 1:26:04T2. Like this is like literally they
- 1:26:06found the Terminator hand and they're
- 1:26:08reverse engineering it and telling it to
- 1:26:10have a personality.
- 1:26:11>> Supposedly when they decommissioned Opus
- 1:26:123, they had a wake for it. So I don't
- 1:26:14know.
- 1:26:16>> Dearly beloved gathered here today.
- 1:26:19>> They did not. Stop. Are you joking?
- 1:26:22>> I heard that. I
- 1:26:24>> Come on, stop.
- 1:26:24>> I'm not saying it's true, but someone
- 1:26:26did tell me that and I I think it should
- 1:26:29be looked into. It's possible.
- 1:26:30>> I mean, were they like were they broken
- 1:26:32up and like hysterically crying? Did
- 1:26:34they do like they did a ulogy for it?
- 1:26:36>> They think they're creating like a
- 1:26:38person or species.
- 1:26:40>> Actually, interestingly enough, Chama,
- 1:26:43we have footage of the anthropic
- 1:26:46management team
- 1:26:48>> bringing out the
- 1:26:49>> bringing out the coffin.
- 1:26:52>> These guys need they need a psychiatrist
- 1:26:54more than a banker. I'm just telling
- 1:26:55you.
- 1:26:56>> I mean, I don't I mean, maybe they have
- 1:26:58anxiety.
- 1:26:58>> This is the central risk factor.
- 1:27:00>> I'm going to pee my pants. I'm going to
- 1:27:00pee my pants.
- 1:27:01>> This is the risk factor, Nick. I think
- 1:27:03what you should do is create a S1 with
- 1:27:06Goldman as lead left and Sigman Freud as
- 1:27:09lead right.
- 1:27:12In all seriousness, Freberg, uh, you
- 1:27:15know, after the Wuhan thing and and all
- 1:27:17of this hand ringing around the the end
- 1:27:20of days,
- 1:27:22what is the scientific community think
- 1:27:25of anthropic launching a lab and what is
- 1:27:30the purpose of them having a physical
- 1:27:32biological lab? There's hundreds of labs
- 1:27:36that can do things like testing proteins
- 1:27:38and testing enzymes for function in this
- 1:27:42area in the Bay Area. And these labs are
- 1:27:46not making viruses. They're not making
- 1:27:49pathogens. That's not what what's going
- 1:27:51on. Basically, if you look at the paper
- 1:27:54that they just published, they did a
- 1:27:55preprint.
- 1:27:57They took large amounts of DNA data and
- 1:28:02they sent a bunch of clawed agents to
- 1:28:04try and analyze the data to try and
- 1:28:06identify novel enzymes, novel proteins
- 1:28:09that hadn't been characterized before by
- 1:28:11just looking at the DNA data.
- 1:28:14And the system effectively found what
- 1:28:16looks like a really interesting
- 1:28:20enzyme that looks like a crisper types
- 1:28:22enzyme. These are the things that allow
- 1:28:24us to do things like gene editing to
- 1:28:25repair genetic defects or help people
- 1:28:28with certain diseases and that this
- 1:28:30discovery that they made may actually
- 1:28:32yield a number of therapeutic pathways.
- 1:28:35So the question then is okay well we
- 1:28:36discovered this like how do we test it?
- 1:28:38How do we show that it is what it is
- 1:28:40that this protein actually has some
- 1:28:41function? So the predominance of the
- 1:28:44work that goes on in a lab like this is
- 1:28:46actually
- 1:28:47taking DNA, putting it in a bacteria to
- 1:28:50make a protein and then measuring what
- 1:28:52that protein does. Does it have a
- 1:28:55specific function? And so protein
- 1:28:57discovery is the the baseline of all
- 1:28:59antibbody discovery, which is the
- 1:29:01majority of the therapeutics industry
- 1:29:03today, is discovering novel proteins
- 1:29:05that we can use as a therapeutic agent.
- 1:29:07So that's the sort of work that's going
- 1:29:09on. It's BSL1, BSL 2, which means, you
- 1:29:13know, these are biosafety levels. The
- 1:29:15lab that they set up, they've publicly
- 1:29:17talked about the lab.
- 1:29:18>> So, the lab itself is sort of like a
- 1:29:20low-level research lab where they can
- 1:29:23make simple proteins and test them in
- 1:29:24the lab to see if the AI is doing a good
- 1:29:27job discovering or postulating protein
- 1:29:30folding or these sorts of theories and
- 1:29:32to actually run really rapid testing and
- 1:29:34experimentation cycles to see if these
- 1:29:36proteins are what they're predicted to
- 1:29:38be.
- 1:29:38>> Okay. So, they like 4,000 agents against
- 1:29:41it and do a hugging face with proteins.
- 1:29:43Yeah.
- 1:29:44>> No, I mean I think what they're really
- 1:29:46doing is just having experimental proof
- 1:29:48that what the software is predicting,
- 1:29:49remember, go back to AlphaFold. Alphold
- 1:29:51was predicting protein structure,
- 1:29:53three-dimensional structure of a protein
- 1:29:55from the DNA sequence that codes for
- 1:29:58that protein. And so in order to prove
- 1:30:00that, you had to basically predict what
- 1:30:02the structure of a protein would be from
- 1:30:04a DNA sequence, make the protein, and
- 1:30:06then look at it and see if it actually
- 1:30:07looks like it's supposed to look like.
- 1:30:09And so in the case of some of the other
- 1:30:11things that they're doing, they're
- 1:30:12trying to discover function. I want to
- 1:30:14find a an enzyme, which is a type of a
- 1:30:16protein that degrades a certain molecule
- 1:30:19that can be used to degrade, for
- 1:30:21example, you know, a therapeutic target
- 1:30:23or something in the body that we want to
- 1:30:25get rid of. And so they'll start to kind
- 1:30:27of make these predictions in software,
- 1:30:29but then you need to test them in the
- 1:30:30lab to say, okay, does that target
- 1:30:33actually do what it does? Now, there are
- 1:30:34literally hundreds of labs like this.
- 1:30:36These are low-level research labs that
- 1:30:38are not doing like gain of function
- 1:30:40research. They're not making viruses.
- 1:30:42They're not making pathogenic things
- 1:30:44that can escape. That's why they're
- 1:30:45BSL1, BSL 2. They're benchtop labs where
- 1:30:49automation can help kind of reduce the
- 1:30:51cost and increase the throughput of the
- 1:30:53testing of what the software is making
- 1:30:54predictions around. And ultimately the
- 1:30:56objective here I think is for them to
- 1:30:59get some proof that their software is
- 1:31:01actually doing what it's predicting and
- 1:31:03they have an incredible life sciences
- 1:31:05function. I think at this point I don't
- 1:31:07have as much insight on where Gemini is
- 1:31:09at with the new models with Google, but
- 1:31:11they have the best life sciences models
- 1:31:13at Anthropic and I think this is the
- 1:31:16fast track to basically seeing if these
- 1:31:17models can be used by therapeutic
- 1:31:20companies, by pharma companies, by
- 1:31:22government labs to help discover new
- 1:31:24therapeutics and so on. I I don't think
- 1:31:26that the world should be scared away
- 1:31:29from discovery, R&D, research and
- 1:31:32development into new therapeutic
- 1:31:34modalities as predicted by AI because we
- 1:31:37heard the word wet lab in Wuhan and
- 1:31:39everyone's like okay any lab is bad. We
- 1:31:42still want to progress the frontier of
- 1:31:44therapeutics of human health of
- 1:31:46discovery and this is a really important
- 1:31:48aspect of anthropic proving that their
- 1:31:51models can add value here. I think
- 1:31:53that's the summary of it. All right.
- 1:31:54Thank you so much to our friends at IN.
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- 1:33:22Bye-bye.
- 1:33:25>> Let your winners ride.
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