Googlers discusses the downfall of Stability AI, the founder’s lies, and why the company will not be saved. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Chapters
00:00 Overview
00:45 Stability AI Financial Mismanagement and Overspending
08:30 Nvidia CEO Called Emad On His BS
09:36 Investors’ Loss of Confidence
16:53 The Downside of Venture Capital Funding
20:28 Burning $153M Per Year & Nepotism
26:13 Lying About Raising Money From Google, Nvidia, Amazon, etc.
28:25 Comparing OpenAI, Inflection AI, And Stability AI
30:32 Robbing From Pension Funds
32:35 Stabilities Poor API Support & Reselling GPUs
39:00 Stability AI Copyright Lawsuit Issues
40:50 Lunatics At Stability Think M&A Will Save Them
47:13 48 Laws of Power & Emad’s Cult
50:35 Emad on Peter Diamandis Podcast
53:27 Emad Thinks He’s A Visionary
55:44 Emad Lying About Stable Diffusion
57:50 His National AI Model Kookiness
1:01:11 Emad’s God Complex & Being A Control Freak
1:05:10 Emad Knows “So Many Geniuses”
1:07:00 Emad BSing About His Whitepaper
1:07:40 SVIC Community Shout Outs
1:08:20 Streisand Effect by Lex Fridman on Huberman
#ai #stablediffusion #openai #chatgpt #venturecapital
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patreon.com/svic Reddit’s valuation decline, Larry Summers’ views on AI replacing jobs, Andrej Karpathy’s insights on machine efficiency, and reviewing research such as AI trained on Goat Simulator & No Man’s Sky. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Insiders dumping Reddit stocks
05:00 Die Hard Rally
05:30 Reddit’s Meh Ads
07:30 Larry Summers Thinks AI Will Replace Jobs Over Long Term
10:00 Accelerating Technological Turnover
15:00 Summers Bullish On AI, Not A Kook
17:40 Andrej Karpathy – Where AI Is Lacking
23:00 Andrej – Why he left OpenAI
27:00 Mark’s Question About Rabbit R1 & Action Models
30:00 Neuro-symbolic programming and RPA
36:45 Large Action Models & Rabbit R1’s Tech Stack
41:51 Research: Scaling Instructible Agents Across Many Simulated Worlds

#openai #reddit #investing #economics #nomanssky #goatsimulator #videogames #ai #artificialintelligence

Eric Ruiz, Googler, joins to explore the challenges of communication in the workplace, particularly for first-generation white-collar employees. The speakers discuss the cultural nuances and differences in communication styles, such as directness and indirectness. They also highlight the importance of building personal power and relationships in navigating the corporate world.

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Chapters
00:00 Eric’s Background & Growing Up In Central Valley
03:53 Cultural Differences in Communication Styles
08:30 Double Meaning In Communication
13:20 The Importance of Direct in Communication
18:00 Cultural Nuances in Communication
22:35 Personal Vs Positional Power
27:30 Honor Culture
35:20 Hidden Rules of Networking
43:30 Mentorship Trap
44:51 Eric’s Nopales Business

#careers #business #technology #jobs #google

Anthropic gets more funds, Mustafa Pushes an exec out, and Anthopic wants to regulate Open source AI.

Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Amazon Injects $2.75B more
04:20 Inflection gets $650M from Microsoft
05:20 Mustafa Pushes First VP out
06:30 Anthopic Pushing For More AI Regulation
16:30 Testing Regimes In Other Industries
24:10 The importance of multiple AI Firms
29:10 Anthropic Wants Opensource to be regulated
32:30 Anthropic needs to write legislation

#anthropic #ai #microsoft #inflection #chatpt #openai

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Sully discusses the creation and development of Cognosys, an AI platform that automates workflows using natural language processing, including the challenges faced and solutions implemented. They explore open problems in AI development, such as billing and termination issues. The conversation delves into the evolution of AI models, the future of retrieval augmentation generation (RAG) and large context models, and topics like simplifying AI systems, agentic models, and surprising use cases.

Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Takeaways
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:35 How Cognosys.ai went virtal
05:30 How AutoGen Evolved Into Cognosys
12:17 Picking The Right LLMs
18:00 Big Challenges Cognosys Is Trying To Solve
20:43 How GPT-5 Can Make Your AI Technique Obsolete
31:20 Determine Product Pricing
33:45 Customer Surprises And Product Roadmap
37:45 GPT-4 Dethroned By Claude 3
42:45 Using Claude 3 to write code

#openai #claude #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #gpt4

Christian Kyle, Chief of Staff at Astranis, they create low-cost satellites for higher orbits discusses the fascinating satellite industry, what it feels to launch a satellite, their strategy for deploying GEO stationary satellites, the cost savings of using a SpaceX reusable rocket, the politics of space, and so much more! Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Time Code:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Christian’s Background
03:00 Awesome Videe About Astranis’ First Launch
06:30 Emotions Launching A Satellite & Running Space Business
12:40 Their Strategy For Deploying GEO Stationary Satellites
19:00 How is their first satellite working?
21:34 Google Founders Blimp Dreams & Satellite M&A
30:15 How is Space Regulated?
37:00 True Cost Savings Of SpaceX Reusable Rocket
41:50 Delivering Net to Rural Areas & M&A Shaky Soon
46:30 Why Do People Distrust Technology?
50:51 First Principles Understanding of Science

Overtime questions: Dealing with latency, defense contracts, and other questions. You can find his answers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/over-time-keil-100889434

#astranis #spacex #spacexstarship #spacexstarlink #space

Christian joins us to talk about satellites.

David Shapiro deleted his loyal subscriber’s (King4Bear) Super Thanks question and took their money without offering a reimbursement. We demand that David Shapiro return King4Bear’s money. Additionally, we delve into David Shapiro’s claims that Claude 3 is sentient, his questionable published research, and other guru-like qualities. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

Sources:
David Shapiro censoring differing viewpoints: https://imgur.com/a/Xm9XXXt
David’s Sus Research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06775
David Shapiro Credibility Reddit Post: www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1az2xvg/david_shapiro_credibility/

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00:00 Introduction and Patreon Support
00:35 Youtube User King4Bear Asks For Help
02:22 Lieutenant Kook Squad
04:11 King4Bear’s Brilliant Question
08:10 David’s Response
11:22 Diving into David’s background & Fuzzy Research
17:30 ChatGPT Review’s David’s Research
27:50 SVIC Book of Grudges
29:20 David Give Back King4Bear’s Money

#ai #openai #chatgpt #davidshapiro #agi #coffeezilla

Why DeepMind and OpenAI had the same money issues, Inflection Imploding, Mustafa’s New Kingdom, and more!

Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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00:00 Introduction and Background
01:00 Inflection AI’s History
04:30 Mustafa’s Motivations For AI
07:30 Cheaper Therapy
14:13 DeepMind 2014 Funding Issues Like OpenAI
16:30 Why Mustafa Ghosted Elon
17:35 Mustafa Thinks Ad Powered AI Will Suck
24:00 Inflection – What Happens To Their Data Cluster?
27:50 Demotions At Microsoft
29:30 DeepMind Throwing Shade
31:10 New Upcoming Show Guests

#microsoft #openai #ai #inflection #deepmind

Google Employees React To Lex Fridman’s Interview With Sam Altman from Lex’s Love For Elon, Ilya’s Betrayal of Sam, GPT-5 Speculation, and How Sam Thinks People Should Use GPT-4. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Reaction to Sam Altman Interview
00:39 Sam Altman’s Depression And Dealing With Ilya’s Betrayal
09:30 The Departure of the Anthropics Team & Their Hypocrisy
14:40 The Importance of Trust and Loyalty
16:30 OpenAI’s Old Board & AI Purity Rings
23:25 Why You Need Non-Technical Board Members
27:30 Sam Shut’s Down Lex Fridman
28:21 Elon Musk’s Legal BS and Lex’s Love Affair
33:05 How Lex Wants To Spoon With Elon
35:00 Elon Being An Open Source Hypocrite
39:00 Allin’s Crap Argument About OpenAI’s Tax Structure
41:00 GPT-5 And Branding of GPTs
46:00 How Sam Altman Thinks You Should Use GPT-4

#ai #openai #chatgpt #samaltman #gpt4 #lexfridman #tesla #elonmusk #spacex #claude