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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz sits down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss how AI agents are transforming cybersecurity, shifting attacker speed from days to seconds, and flattening the adversary hierarchy from natio…
- CrowdStrike and Nvidia built Safe Mind, an internal frontier lab pairing an offensive model named Red Tempest against a defensive model named Blue Solano. Read →
- Fortune 500 banks are cutting back on proprietary frontier APIs after massive token inference bills wrecked their early enterprise AI budgets. Read →
- The classic adversary hierarchy has flattened: entry-level hacktivists now access nation-state offensive power through open-weight models. Read →
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OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman discusses the breakthrough resolution of nearly 400 long-standing math problems and how generative models are beginning to create genuinely new scientific knowledge. The con…
- Developing a single drug requires 15 years and $1.5 billion, but $1.4 billion of that total funds clinical trials while pre-clinical discovery costs just $50 million. Read →
- Greg Brockman predicts security budgets will outstrip traditional software budgets as AI pushes the marginal cost of writing code toward zero. Read →
- OpenAI models resolved nearly 400 open math problems, including questions untouched for a century, proving AI can produce original knowledge. Read →
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ReflectionAI co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the launch of Beam, a 500-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning model. Laskin outlines why open models will capture the vast majorit…
- ReflectionAI trained Beam, a 500-billion-parameter model with 23 billion active parameters, spending more FLOPs on reinforcement learning than on pre-training. Read →
- Elad Gil views Chinese open-source AI as a direct subsidy to Western enterprises, giving builders frontier intelligence without paying the research bills. Read →
- When enterprise spending on closed-model APIs crosses $100 million annually, the economic math flips from renting proprietary tokens to running private, owned infrastructure. Read →
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Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong joins Elad Gil to discuss the convergence of artificial intelligence and crypto infrastructure. They explore the creation of the 'Everything Exchange' through real-world asset…
- Credit and debit card rails charge a fixed fee of roughly 30 cents plus a percentage per swipe, making any transaction under one dollar economically impossible. Read →
- New Limit builds on Yamanaka factor research to restore aged cell function without erasing cellular identity or causing tumor formation. Read →
- Coinbase launched an internal prediction market product that reached a $100 million revenue run rate within months of going live. Read →
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Arm CEO Rene Haas discusses Arm's strategic transition from intellectual property licensing into custom physical silicon production, including the Arm AGI CPU developed for Meta. He analyzes persistent supply chain bott…
- Chip development cycles span 24 to 36 months, with the bulk of that time consumed by verification, validation, and documentation rather than initial logic design. Read →
- Arm expanded beyond blueprint licensing to deliver bespoke physical silicon, starting with a custom general-purpose AGI CPU for Meta. Read →
- Rene Haas projects a three-to-five-year severe hardware constraint driven by the compute and memory demands of transformer models. Read →
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Eon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein join Elad Gil to discuss how the rise of AI is transforming backup and disaster recovery into an active data foundation. They explore the increasing monetary value of enterpr…
- Point-to-point ETL pipelines built on tools like Fivetran and dbt were designed for static human queries, not dynamic agent workloads. Read →
- Cloud migration took a decade because infrastructure felt abstract to leadership; generative AI adoption moves at breakneck speed because boards experienced ChatGPT firsthand. Read →
- Enterprise AI adoption stalls because internal training data sits trapped across twenty years of disconnected databases and unmapped cloud storage. Read →
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Sarah Guo and Elad Gil discuss the rapid rise of trillion-dollar AI companies, questioning the sustainability of such velocity and whether founders are becoming too cautious in their market ambitions. They delve into st…
- Many new AI founders are consciously avoiding direct competition with major labs, instead opting for niche markets or hardware plays. Read →
- Over-emphasis on safety, without balancing it against societal benefit, leads to regulatory capture, making innovation slow and expensive. This is a direct threat to AI's future. Read →
- California's newly passed 'billionaire tax' and proposed 'exit tax' are predicted to trigger a mass exodus of high-value founders, not just a minor attrition. Read →
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Melisa Tokmak, founder and CEO of Netic, discusses how her company builds AI to autonomously run real-world service businesses like HVAC and pet care. She explains Netic's unique approach, differentiating it from both A…
- Netic founder Melisa Tokmak pushes back on the hype: AI software, not robotics, is the immediate future for automating real-world service businesses like HVAC and pet care. Roboti… Read →
- AI's most profound opportunity lies in democratizing access to learning, making “everything you want to learn… in your pocket” and significantly boosting personal agency. Read →
- Netic CEO Melisa Tokmak details her hiring framework to find founders, not fliers. She screens for continuous agency—a deep, lifelong drive to build. Read →
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In this episode, Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, discusses the company's journey from Priceline to a global travel giant and its strategic approach to the AI era. He shares insights on leveraging AI to enhance cus…
- AI job displacement isn't a future problem; it's a real-time event. Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, saw it firsthand when machine translation entirely replaced human transla… Read →
- Booking Holdings, led by CEO Glenn Fogel, isn't just bolting general AI onto its platforms. They're developing highly specialized, agentic AI like Priceline's “Penny” assistant, d… Read →
- Booking Holdings, under CEO Glenn Fogel, returned a staggering 40% of its outstanding shares to shareholders through buybacks over the past dozen years, a move Fogel considers a p… Read →
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Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan discusses his ambitious plan to revitalize Intel, focusing on cultural shifts, balance sheet strengthening through strategic partnerships including government investment, and a renewed emphasis on l…
- AI isn't just another tool; it's a deep organizational reset, already proving its worth by driving major efficiency gains in electronic design automation (EDA) tools like those fr… Read →
- Deep tech businesses, from advanced semiconductor foundries to AI factories, have become incredibly capital-intensive, often requiring billions in funding that outstrip traditiona… Read →
- Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan believes current semiconductor infrastructure hasn't kept pace with AI growth, demanding urgent and radical new approaches. Read →
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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Alex Rives discuss Biohub's mission to accelerate scientific progress through open-source tools and frontier AI combined with frontier biology. They delve into breakthroughs like ESM…
- Biohub began with an audacious goal from Mark Zuckerberg: to "cure, prevent and manage all disease by the end of the century," a vision Priscilla Chan admits was met with laughter… Read →
- For breakthroughs in complex fields like frontier biology, a non-profit structure can achieve "bigger impact" by getting tools into more scientists' hands faster than a for-profit… Read →
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company's AI strategy, focusing on an ecosystem play where companies can build their own AI using specialized 'harnesses' and private evaluations. He explores the shift in softw…
- The AI 'Harness' Redefines Platform Control: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the "harness" as a new platform layer. For founders, this means designing your AI systems to ex… Read →
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Elad Gil point out that AI's impact on education has been surprisingly slow, making it ripe for massive disruption by founders. Read →
- AI's trust problem is real: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that people are tired of tech's grand promises. AI's future success hinges on delivering local, tangible benefits rat… Read →
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Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman discusses his firm's unique AI-driven acquisition strategy, exemplified by the $6.3 billion take-private of American Express Global Business Travel. He explains how Long Lake uses its Nex…
- Long Lake Capital acquired American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) for $6.3 billion, a deal Elad Gil called the "world's first AI take-private" of this magnitude. Read →
- Long Lake Management, led by Alexander Taubman, employs a unique "AI take private" strategy, best shown by its $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel. Read →
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Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, discusses the Trump administration's "Pax Silica" initiative, a multi-nation coalition aimed at securing the AI supply chain for the US and its allies. He co…
- Pax Silica is a 14-country economic security coalition focused on building a resilient, non-China-dependent AI supply chain for the US and its allies. Read →
- Jacob Helberg observed the Trump administration defying bureaucratic norms, operating with an unexpected entrepreneurial drive and a strong appetite for risk. Read →
- The US government, through the “Pax Silica” initiative, is actively pursuing a private sector-led strategy to secure critical AI minerals, directly contrasting China's state-heavy… Read →
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Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten, discusses the explosive growth of the AI inference market, predicting over $1 billion in revenue for his company this year. He explains the shift towards custom models and the critical…
- Baseten, an AI inference company, is on track for over $1 billion in revenue this year, experiencing 30x growth driven by the broad realization that "you can put AI everywhere." Read →
- Despite security concerns, Chinese-origin open-source AI models are often high-quality and, when properly network-bound, show no direct evidence of embedded 'Trojan horses' or bia… Read →
- Sarah Guo, during her conversation with Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava, challenged the core premise of independent AI application layers, asking if they can truly exist against powe… Read →
CultureThe Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss and Elad Gil discuss the current state and future of the AI industry. Gil shares insights into the unprecedented AI talent wars, the critical compute constraints impacting AI model development, and his strat…
- AI capabilities combined with widespread CEO demand are opening markets previously considered inaccessible to new technology. Read →
- Most companies in any technology cycle, historically 90-99%, eventually fail or become obsolete. Read →
- Top AI researchers are experiencing a "personal IPO," with compensation packages reaching tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Read →
BusinessCheeky Pint
Sundar Pichai joins John Collison and Elad Gil to discuss Google's historical and future AI roadmap, including why Google did not ship ChatGPT first despite inventing Transformers. They explore managing Alphabet's $180…
- Capital allocation at Alphabet has shifted from headcount tracking to granular machine learning compute budgeting. Read →
- Frontier models have created a massive intelligence overhang where model reasoning capacity vastly exceeds enterprise adoption. Read →
- Alphabet allocates parts of its capital plan, which touches a $180 billion CapEx budget, toward long-horizon bets that look marginal when conceived. Read →