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This Week in Startups - Episode 2026 Summary
Episode Overview Title: AI Demos: ChatGPT-4o Canvas, Notebook LM & Meta's Movie Gen Hosts: Jason Calacanis & Sunny Madra Released: October 11, 2023 Podcast Description: Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology, interviewing the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
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Key Discussions
- Tesla's Robotaxi Reveal
- Timestamp: 2:17 - 22:04
- Summary:
- Discussion of Tesla's CyberCab and related autonomous technologies.
- Insight into the challenges of regulatory approval for fully autonomous vehicles without steering wheels or pedals.
- Emphasis on Tesla's data collection capacity, citing millions of real-world scenarios to inform autonomous driving models.
- Market reaction to Tesla's presentation, viewed as a potential buying opportunity for investors.
- ChatGPT-4o Canvas Demo
- Timestamp: 25:23 - 31:28
- Summary:
- Overview of ChatGPT-4o's new Canvas interface, enhancing user interactivity.
- Allows for real-time editing of documents, enabling a more seamless workflow.
- Improved user experience compared to previous versions, receiving high praise from both hosts.
- Meta's Movie Gen Model
- Timestamp: 41:11 - 42:35
- Summary:
- Introduction to Meta's Movie Gen, a model for generating video content.
- Features include the ability to personalize videos by adding effects or changing characters within them.
- Discussion on the future potential of this technology in content creation.
- Notebook LM
- Timestamp: 54:41 - 1:00:13
- Summary:
- Introduction to Notebook LM and its capabilities in transforming written content into various formats, including podcasts.
- Discussion about its potential applications in therapy, coaching, and personal expression.
- Regulatory and Market Impacts
- Timestamp: 22:04 - 25:23
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- Discussion on the impact of interest rates on startup funding.
- Commentary on the broader implications of autonomous vehicles on traffic, urban planning, and market competition.
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Key Takeaways
- Regulatory Challenges: The successful rollout of autonomous technologies faces significant regulatory hurdles, especially for fully autonomous vehicles without traditional controls.
- Innovation in AI: ChatGPT's Canvas interface marks a significant step forward in AI usability, indicating the trend towards more interactive and user-friendly AI applications.
- Content Generation Evolution: Meta's Movie Gen and the Notebook LM represent a shift in how content can be generated and consumed, with implications for various industries from entertainment to personal health.
- Investment Opportunities: The hosts highlight potential investment opportunities in companies like Tesla, especially amidst market fluctuations and negative sentiment.
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Notable Quotes
- "I think that's the underestimation... they had enough confidence to allow people to just use it openly." - Sunny Madra on Tesla's Robotaxi reveal.
- "This is the game changer that I've been waiting for." - Jason Calacanis on ChatGPT-4o's Canvas interface.
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Links and Resources
- [OpenAI’s Canvas](https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/)
- [Notebook LM](https://notebooklm.google.com/)
- [Meta Movie Gen](https://ai.meta.com/research/movie-gen/)
- [Fidelity Private Shares](https://www.fidelityprivateshares.com)
- [CLA](https://www.claconnect.com/tech)
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Conclusion This episode of "This Week in Startups" provides a comprehensive look at the latest innovations in AI and autonomous vehicle technology, alongside insights into the regulatory landscape and investment opportunities. The discussions emphasize the rapid advancements being made and the potential disruptions in various sectors.
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Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00They've taken all the image editors and all that. That is not a... I mean, that actually... I look like a headlifter. I'm like, hey, would you like a soy latte? I feel like I'm making you a crab cocktail. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Lemon.io. Hire pre-vetted remote developers. Get 15 % off your first four weeks of developer time at Lemon.io slash twist. Fidelity private shares. Manage your cap table and data room. Get faster, more accurate 409A valuation and fully automate your next financing round. Visit fidelityprivateshares.com. Mention our podcast and receive 20 % off your first year paid subscription.
0:45And CLA. Innovation takes balance. CLA's CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors can help you get from startup to where you want to end up. Get started now at claconnect.com slash tech. All right, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. Our guy, Sandeep Madra, is back. He's been busy. Grok is cooking with oil. How are you doing, my friend, Sonny? I am doing excellent. It's been a really, really busy. And we said this, remember, it's going to be a Q4 plus one. So we're now actually in Q4. And we are cooking. We are cooking. It is we're 10, 11, 12 days in by 10. We publish this. And J. Cal, tell me about your September in Q4.
1:35And like, what's going on? Because, You know, I am settled in here in Austin. It's been absolutely fantastic. And we're doing our next class of Founder University, not our ninth cohort. You know, that's where we have people come for 12 weeks. It's virtual, 250 teams, two or three founders, each team, hopefully a technical co-founder or two. And then we invest in the top 10 % of those. We might put$25 ,000 in if they want that first friends and family check, or we'll put$125 ,000 in if they want the standard incubator deal in Silicon Valley. And then what will be different this time is I'll meet them all for the week one in San Francisco with some of our partners.
2:18Then my plan is in week six, nine, and 12, perhaps, the top performing companies, the ones we invest in, have them come to Austin for the day or two, hang out with me go to the salt lick have a little brisket some bison ribs you know the one that broke my tooth in half oh yeah and um maybe a little terry black's beef rib which i took chamatsu for the first time and you know just jam out with them about their vision and i am super um excited just because so many of these companies are able to go so far with such a small amount of capital especially when they're teams of two or three because of ai specifically and it's really uh wonderful to see how fast people are working and then i'm very excited about oh one i've been using chat gpt oh one version to the point at which it gives me like a warning about credits you know and says hey you got to take a pause that's how often i'm using it uh so it's really amazing i had just while we start here uh we're taping on a friday i'm not sure when this is going to come out but we taped on friday october 11 last night was the cyber cab big reveal i I wasn't able to make it.
3:24Sorry to my friends over at Tesla, but I was traveling this week for Sax's LP day earlier in the week. So I couldn't do two trips in one week. What were your thoughts when you saw the cyber cab, the cyber bus and optimists, especially in relation to AI and where we're at? Yeah. Okay. I think it's a great lead out. And I've been thinking about this all day. And we talked a little bit about it in our group chat. Okay. Let's go in that order. I think the CyberCab is really a culmination of everything that Tesla has been doing, which is building cars, building great electric cars, building on autonomous technologies with sort of all the in-camera learning and their ability to basically put that all together in a form factor now without a steering wheel and or pedals.
4:20uh quick aside i heard a number of people say put a steering wheel and pedals on that and buy it just i mean i literally said that as well and i think that this was in the walter isaacson uh book about elon where franz or whatever you know it's a big internal debate and i think elon went with the kind of burn the boats uh according to that approach of hey we just got to force our autonomy we got to take the steering wheel out etc um and so maybe they'll be the what they were calling i think the model two which is the two-door hatchback i want to buy that two-door cyber cab so much i would buy two of them immediately because they just look so fun and and cute and zippy to drive can you imagine a tesla powertrain on something you know of that footprint it would be unbelievable it would be like that nissan um or is it toyota the gtr that all the racers like to do for tripping and stuff it would be like a mini cooper you know you get that like really small thing i would love to put fat tires on then feel it i love the design too i like the fact that this feels like kind of the love child of the cybertruck and the model y or model three it's kind of got its own like thing going on there so aesthetically i love it i love the vision of it obviously for self-driving what did you think of the bus to me that i think it's an rv i looked at that thing and i don't know if you saw do you see my tweet that i did about it yeah yeah so let's talk about the bus because i thought well let's finish on the cap okay so i think i think what they've been able to do is bring together all the pieces now the final thing which you know i think there's the market reacted negatively to tesla but i think that's probably a buying opportunity because look um the stock went down whatever five or ten percent yeah yeah but look think about what they put out there and what it's capable of and i personally think given and you know there's a couple of things that elon really touched on in the talk track was look we collect you know millions or what i don't even know what the number is but let's just say a huge amount of data and we and there was a video that he showed during that where it showed all these like crazy scenarios of like people jumping in front of a car and like a you know the car crash happening right in front of you or someone spinning out or you know someone crossing the road really really fast and so all of that has been kind of given to them uh through their existing car network which then they can use to build models around and so i actually think and look look how confident they were yesterday they allowed people to just use it inside obviously a square you know no safety driver because there's no steering wheel so yeah yeah and they were letting anybody do it and it wasn't just on a controlled environment so obviously it works in a controlled environment so on a grid system it's ready to go now but you have regulators and regulators you know they like steering wheels they like review they like side mirrors so this is i mean really going to be challenging with regulators i suspect or not i don't know what's your take on that yeah so i think like you know what we'll probably see is like the crawl walk run because they know they can do it there so you can imagine like in a and i think companies are going to buy them first so think disneyland right think all you know all these kind of places that operate think about like a retirement community in florida right so think about all these like you know places um like a campus yeah yeah like exactly places where there's golf carts or those little yeah exactly Exactly.
7:58I think you sell in there first. And then as the technology evolves, because he did say end of 26 or 27, I think by that point, we get to kind of widely generally available release. And I think that's the underestimation because they had enough confidence to allow people to just use it openly, obviously in a fixed area, but they weren't scared. They had no safety person in there. They had nothing on it, which is incredible. So that's my summary there. I think we get it in what you call fixed cordoned off areas. We get it there sooner than I think people believe. 2027 would be a pretty good estimate, I think.
8:39He said he could have those cars being manufactured. It was interesting because he was like, I'll say 2026, but maybe 2027, he kind of hedged a little bit there. Maybe that's why the stock went down a little bit because maybe people won everything yesterday. But the truth is, you got to get this right. And when you do, they have the ability to produce, I think they did 1.9 million cars last year. So he does have the ability to produce that volume. And so listen, you know, you know, he can put millions of these on the road, you know, in a short period of time. However, you know, just doing back of the envelope math, there are a billion rides a day in the US, a billion rides a day in the US, a billion rides.
9:17Of those rides, about 12 million of them are Lyft and Uber. So, but 3%, 2 % of rides in the US are done by ride sharing. It is a minuscule amount of the overall rides. And we're not even taking into account when you do that math, of course, public transportation and other forms of transportation, bicycles, etc. So there's a big pie here. And of course, if this became cheap and ubiquitous, people might stop buying cars and use these and people would induce more usage. So it's a bright future. I do believe there'll be three, four winners in this because it seems like everybody's solving it at about the same time.
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11:56and that's all it has. And we're able to drive cars, you know, perfectly fine, right? That's what we're trying to mimic. And the reason, you know, others add sensors is all the, you know, these eyes, the eyes, the cameras can get covered. So you have an extra set of sensors that give you another view of the world and then use that. So now you take that into the model, right? Where if you're building a model that's using vision and using like a LIDAR and using say ultrasonics, you have to write code that brings that all together. And so what you're doing there is basically sort of, I just call it sort of the traditional approach across all those things.
12:33And you're double checking and it's valuable that you have all that, but it's much more difficult because you're having to have the code and the drive and all those things make decisions, right? What Elon and team did, and this is a gross simplification, is they just took a model that would learn to drive by watching video. All they fed it was, you know, hours or, you know, maybe hundreds of millions or billions of hours of video that they had from the cars. And so just figure out what humans do and follow what they do. See how they sit in lanes. And so instead of coding and saying, you know what, what people tend to do is they don't drive right in the middle of the lane.
13:07They tend to move based on if they hug the left or if there's a car to the right of you, they go to the right. Or if there's a bike, they even go out. Give it a little extra grace in that period. Yeah. I'll give you an experiment you can do. if you make a right turn, but there's no one in, like I said, the oncoming lane into the lane that you're turning into, the road, it'll actually go wide and go out into the lane, into the oncoming traffic. And that's because it's learned that from humans, right? Like, you don't need to hug the right side curb if no one's in the, it's, yeah, you're kind of scared to hit your rims or whatever it is, right?
13:42And so, what it's learned to do is like, just do that by watching humans say, well, there's no one in the lane, to stretch out in the left turn lane, the oncoming left turn lane. And you know, you can't write that in code. That's the nuance, right? And that's what you have to do if you build kind of a more traditional system versus this one is just watching all the nuances of humans and then implementing them on how they take curves and how they move around people. And you know, now it has to follow a certain set of rules. Like one of my biggest frustrations is it does this like full, full stop.
14:10And I'm always afraid of like someone from behind hitting the car. yes yeah this is well i mean a waymo issue as well i saw somebody on threads today i went over to threads to see what the reaction was there and that's like that's like really the people who hate elon or yeah hey you know they're they're the left so they hate anything that's republican or gop and you know one person was talking about waymo and they were like a san francisco bike person and you know how those people are like they kick your car literally like i had one kick my car almost got into pista cuffs with the guy started yelling at my pregnant wife that's all another story putting all that aside um the um the the really interesting thing he was saying was i actually was i used to screw around with the crews and the waymos you know i was like one of the guys who put cones on them kind of thing and he's like and now i walk with my dog and i love them because i know that they're not going to be looking down at their text or distracted and roll through a stop sign and hit me there's no way they can hit me and they stop perfectly so the other thing people are complaining about and somebody on our group chat said this is it's kind of annoying that they're such square drivers and they kind of take their time too much and that's been my issue with uh you know using the tesla full self-driving in austin yeah and is a traffic circle and it is very it's very cautious cautious yeah but you know you can put it on aggressive mode you have it on aggressive mode and it's still a little scared of traffic circles i think so for the team over there i think that's like probably traffic circles are not that common so maybe it needs more training data and then how people behave in traffic circles is wild that's one of the other things i've learned in austin like what i thought was the proper way to use a traffic circle is not how people in texas use them they use them like i mean they'll be going here i'm going yeah they don't slow down yeah they just you know yeah it's a pretty interesting uh moment there let's talk about this um the bus i thought the bus robo van robo van i'm calling it the cyber sled i think that this could change everything if you look at this thing he did mention it could be used for transporting goods okay yum yum you imagine this thing with an amazon person in it yeah imagine there's an amazon rep inside of this thing and it's driving to the next destination that rep is getting the box ready it opens the doors it jumps out it tosses the box okay that's going to save a lot of time but what were your thoughts on this it looks gorgeous obviously but i i have my own thoughts and you saw my tweet so we can jump into that yeah look like my personal thoughts like very similar to yours like this could be like a great basis for like a whole new generation of rvs long distance commute all that type of stuff right let me get in like you could own one it could have your whole office desk in there big monitor sit down work you know starlink on top it's like a it's a you know mobile office i've been looking at when i moved to texas i was like you know i'm gonna get one of these mobile offices like a sprinter van and i started looking into them they're not cheap they cost like 200 grand i mean because they they dialed them in or 300 grand or whatever so i was like well that's a little ridiculous but anyway you can have a desk and you can have like a full-on you know basically like it looks like a private jet inside um but i thought these would be incredible for a mobile home imagine autonomy a giant battery and then you have a hurricane occur in florida and they say okay send 10 000 of these to you know this stadium's parking lot or to these walmarts people come and you could rent one or like you're at the world series of poker and you're you want to have your own trailer or you're at burning man or i don't know you have your in-laws coming in and you order one to your house for a week for a hundred dollars a night and you park it in your driveway and now you have an extra bedroom these things are so compelling to me um because it's somewhere between a car an office an adu you think about the giant battery in there like how long could that battery last that could be a a battery that lasts 30 days and has enough roof space to put solar on it so congratulations to the team their optimus looks like it's doing well uh as well last thing on optimus you know just like the car they had it out in the wild they had it serving drinks they had it just walking around talking to people and reacting to people so yeah you know i think what i really liked about this was they made it more real right and it's kind of funny because the reaction wasn't that way but by letting cars and letting people drive around and letting the robot walk around amongst people those are big accomplishments and what we forget jason is just two years ago elon did the um or you know, Tesla did like the announcement.
18:46Remember they had the guy, the suit, like kind of acting as a robot. I don't know if you saw yesterday, they had that one in like a gazebo and they were dancing. And like, you think about it, two years ago, it was a dude in a suit. And then yesterday it's like, you know, robots actually dancing like in a gazebo. I think, you know, it's like bankruptcy. They asked somebody like, how did you go bankrupt? And they said slowly then all at once. And I think that's what's self-driving is. It's like this thing is taking forever because of edge cases, and regulation and safety and competition. And, you know, what happens when there's an emergency vehicle?
19:20How is the public going to respond to it? But it's pretty clear that this is going to be the future. And then the build out is going to take time because even if you built 2 million of these a year and they did 30 rides a day, you know, 2 million of them doing 30 rides a day, 60 million rides, you know, you're still, it's going to be like 1 % of the rides in the United States. I mean, let alone the world. And then you have BYD that copies everything Tesla does. You've got Cruise, Waymo. I mean, there's a lot of players in here. So everybody wants to ask me about my thoughts on Uber. Well, Uber went up tremendously because I think people realize if every single...
19:55Little J. Cal yum yum. Little yum yum. You know, listen, and I own a lot of different stocks. Like, it's not a big deal. Like, if Uber goes up and down, you know, build out of this will be a two-decade build out. I think 10 years from now, 10 years from now, we'll be at 20 % of rides being automated. So 20, we're almost in 2025. So 2035. 20 % of rides globally will be autonomous. 80 % will still be done by drivers. Oh, dude. In 10 years, I'll take the over. I'll take the over, like way more than 20 % in 10 years. Perfect. Okay. We got a thousand dollar bet. We'll put that on the bets, thisweekinsertifus.com slash bets.
20:35There's an easy bet because here's the thing. I think what people don't realize is the number of rides out there is so giant and the number of rides are going to triple. What I learned from being an early Uber investor was that we were comparing it to cab rides, but then it quickly exceeded the number of cab rides. So you said, well, what happened here? Well, people left their cars at home because they were having a drink or it was more convenient, etc. And then they started using it for commuting where they might have previously taken a bus. And they said, well, I'll go point to point because I can afford it because it's eight bucks.
21:04So a lot of great things going on here, but the number... Jeevan's paradox. It's Jeevan's paradox. You make more of a... So Jeevan, yeah, Jeevan was an economist that basically came up with this theory in the late 1800s, British economist, that said if you make more of a resource available, people end up consuming more of it, right? And so it was kind of in the steam engine era, right? Where it was like, oh, like steam engines are going to change everything, but they start, and what's it going to do to coal? And then all of a sudden they start consuming more coal. And so anytime we've put something out there, actually a better example here is much more, is that farming, right?
21:49So when we went to the industrialization of farming, what ended up happening is the consumption of food really increased, right? And like, you know, Americans are, everyone's more obese because it's just more of it's available. So we eat more of it. So it's just something that we tend to do is cheaper. Yeah. All right. Listen, interest rates are coming down, but it's still hard to raise a new round. Everybody knows that the last thing you need is to get bogged down in the minutia while raising. So if you're a founder overwhelmed with your cap table management, due diligence, and frankly, managing your investors, you need to check out Fidelity private shares.
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23:23And when I lived in LA, they were constantly making the 405 one lane bigger. And like when it stopped, when they stopped one project and then they'd have two years, what happened was people from people would move further out from the city center because they're like, oh, I can live now in El Segunda and make it to Santa Monica or Century City for work. And then it fills up again. So the traffic, no matter how many lanes you did, would instantly fill up with induced traffic. But congratulations to the team there. And I think it's awesome. And I think there are going to be, I think, you know, we talked about this, there's going to be three or four players who are all going to figure this out to different extents, I believe, in the same 36 month window, which means at the same time.
24:11Now, I know that's hard for people to understand that figuring out a technical problem in the same 36 window is the same time because there is a physics constraint here. You need batteries and you need resources. It would take literally to do the number of rides just in the United States every year. There's a billion rides. You're talking about 50 million of these cars. Like, I don't know if the battery packs are available for 50 million cars. And if Tesla makes 2 million a year and they were to double it every year and they went to four, then they went to eight. I mean, I don't know what the physics constraint of the factories and the batteries are, but it's going to take a lot.
24:45And so that's why I think 20 % being automated in 10 years is a realistic goal. Right now, we're below 1%. I think that means the pie is going to get so big. Yeah. And I think 1, 2, and 3 are pretty clear, right? Waymo, Tesla, and Tesla. And BYD and some of the Chinese companies. Can we add in Joby? Sure. I mean, and then going in the air is going to be part of the Joby Archer and the other one. Yeah, there's it's pretty clear that we're going to really have a bright future. So congratulations to everybody. Let's talk a little bit about demos here. It's we got to get back into it. All right. I'm going to go a little bit different order because I'm generating something and it's taking longer.
25:31So my first demo, actually, J.Ka, I don't know if you've used this yet, is let me get my chat GPT open here. And I don't know if you've tried this. So let me get my share going here. So they have a new mode here and it's called chat GPT 4.0 with Canvas. Have you seen this? I have not used it. Okay, this came out this week. Yeah, write me an itinerary for a one-day tech conference in Austin. I'm just going to do it just for you, J. Cal, right? And so what you're going to see here is, so now what it does is it, on the left-hand side is your chat GPT, and you can do this for writing code and a bunch of things, but I think this is much more applicable to folks, right?
26:21And you can basically take a section of it, highlight it, which I'm going to do here. Let me just highlight this properly. How did the chat window move over to the left? Because that's what happens when you use this mode. And now for these two sections here, I can say, let's just say, make these more about intros and a special guest. And so now, see what it'll do is it highlights it right in place. oh yeah yeah and so if you're working on something basically what it's doing is it will highlight it'll let you work on the document while you're kind of editing it on the left hand side which is really cool so weird that mine's not doing that it's not putting me on the left hand side for some reason no but are you doing 4.0 with canvas i am on 4.0 with canvas but it's not showing me the left hand column i don't know why maybe i've got to log on log back in but this is really cool because it's editing the same document yes this is what we've been waiting for because it's i knew i was loving yeah so this is great this is a 10 of 10 obviously yeah this is absolutely wonderful because we could put in today's docket or like a news program docket yeah like make it shorter make it longer add something to this edit put it in a table yeah Yeah.
27:44And so, yeah, we're starting to see the, this is what we saw in Blade Runner when she is asking to analyze some video clips and he's zooming into the left and the right and it's responding in real time. That was a vision from Ridley Scott, you know, from the eighties. And yeah, this is fantastic. Absolutely. 10 of 10. just great yeah right and then this is daily use this is use all the time this is much better to iterate when it comes to uh usability and so you give it a give it a give it your grade jcal i'm giving it a 10 10 of 10 10 okay all right yeah a plus for me yeah what about for you yeah yeah i mean i look this is the one last thing that i always kind of struggle with which had gpt is like oh you're always having to copy paste or rewrite the whole thing and now you can edit it in place and so i want to make sure you get it enabled jacow like i i feel for you right now i don't know what well you know what it might have been it might have been that i didn't wait till it was done like when does it actually open up the left kind of starts and it starts i mean i can do another one yeah we can just do another one here what were you trying to do i'll do your one here well i just said uh you know create an itinerary for going to tokyo niseko to go skiing this winter and it gave me like three days in Tokyo and four days in Niseko.
29:07Yeah. But it didn't put it on the, oh, 4.0 with Canvas. Nope. Try again. Yeah, so see, it kind of, it's interesting. So for this one. Yeah, it didn't open the left-hand side. I wonder why it's not doing that. Somebody from, one of our friends over there explained to us why it's not opening the left-hand chat for everyone. Yeah. So strange. You just had that happen. Yeah, it just happened there. but it's now it's not doing it for me either weird very strange uh well anyway this is absolutely fantastic and uh i think this is the game changer yeah that i've been waiting for so yeah congratulations to the team over there and you know just using oh one all the time and seeing it show its work of what it's doing has been extraordinary for me i have been doing so many interesting um and like actually speaking of what we're talking about here um i was um looking at you know i was having these conversations with people about let me share my screen um one moment so i was having these conversations with people about um car production because i was trying to figure out how fast could we actually make enough cars to do all the rides in the u.s and who makes the most cars and i got a table um with this and you know then it was missing some companies so i was like hey where's byd and all this they make 4.5 then i said well where's tesla is that well tesla's making you know put tesla in there at 4.5 and i was like wait a second that's not the number of cars they made they made 1.8 so is that right and then i was asking it to you know correct itself and it did memory updated etc and it's really like coming together and then i asked how many cars are sold in the world per year and it told me 70 million cars are sold per year so then i was able to back into well in the united states we need like 50 60 million cars in order to have a fleet big enough to do all rides because i was like what what's all rides all rides is probably 50 to 75 million of these cars because you got to realize some are going to be in a dense urban area some will be in the suburbs where you know you might do an hour-long ride and then it takes 45 minutes to pick up the next person because it's across town or whatever you know it's we're half an hour to pick something up long story short it would take every car manufacturer in the world just to make enough cars to do the united states and then on to the next country onto the next country.
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32:38Start today. J. Cal, we can do your demo. Try this. So try it again. Okay. And say use Canvas if it's not. I just was getting annoyed. Yeah, and then see if you can do it. Okay, let's see. I'll pick. Use canvas mode. Use canvas mode to. Well, pick the canvas mode, type it. And then if it doesn't do it, when your next prompt, just say use canvas mode. Use canvas mode to explain the total number of car rides in the United States. Give us citations as well. and let's see if it doesn't oh it did it there you go uh so you know and this is what i was trying to explain yeah sorry i've got to stop sharing so you know um 344 billion rides annually i mean it's just nuts the number of rides that are occurring um and you know if you say 344 billions 365 billion days a year so it's about a billion rides per day and so you know now if i went to the side here let's make a financial model how many automated cars would be needed to
34:06service all these rides automatically yeah all these rides okay let's see what it says let's see if it doesn't uh so here we go it's giving us a total number the total number done average rides per car per day assuming a car can include 30 rides a day that's actually a pretty good estimate by the way because that's what an uber driver can do is like 15 to 20 so two shifts you could kind of get there uh days in service a year this assumes they operate 365 a day that's a big assumption we're probably going to do that total car rides um per car is you have to bring them in to change tires to charge and the charging time as you know is to fully charge well maybe if you're doing a supercharger be less you know but still going to be some time so it's saying here approximately 31 million um and i say let's say assume cars are on the road uh 80 of the time and charging 20 and that they cost 40 000 to buy and uh let's say 10 000 a year to insure and clean and then we can like let's see if we can do this now this is something you would be talking over the shoulder to an analyst right if you were in a in a venture firm or whatever uh or you were at morgan stanley you're an analyst and you start now you're here you got the financial model says cost per car 40 annual insurance 10 total cars needed 40 million 39 million 1.5 trillion dollars to purchase the cars 1.5 trillion is a lot of money folks you know just to give you an idea i think apple may be sitting on 100 or 200 billion at any given point in time um and so the operating cost would be 400 billion a year so you know it's not easy right um and uh what would the revenue be if each ride was i don't know uh let's say 20 uh 15 dollars now we can start to see what revenue would be here 15 dollars right seems reasonable for a half hour ride uh and you can start to get to let's see uh revenue 5.65 million dollars oh my god that's at 15 dollars right so then you take 15 you take out the cost of buying all these cars 1.5 the cost of maintaining them 400 and you can see there's a big business to be at here uh who knows what the margin would be you know but this is incredible i mean wow and what i love about this is when we were talking about crypto we were trying to figure out the use case right you you were in crypto land for five years right you you have your you have almost you have you lost a half decade to crypto no i mean you did okay you made a bunch of money on your expenses but my point is as a technology we put all this effort into it and then you look at what is happening with ai like this is actual real value if you're an analyst i had to have a whole talk with my team the other day because they were giving me work before doing this and i was doing this while i was asking the questions and i'm like your work sucks chat gpt is awesome why don't you use chat gpt and then come to me with your work after you've polished what chat gpt has done and they're like are we allowed to do that is that fair and i'm like fair what are we talking about here like let's let's kick everybody's ass into i think that's like going from typewriters to word processors like oh i can't use i'll check yeah i gotta i get i mean like literally people are taking white out people don't know what white look up what white out is there was a huge business in white out where you would take a little bit of a nail polish and you would you know misspelled if you did a typo you would put white outing and then blow a drive and then retype over it okay we're not in whiteout mode anymore this is a 10 of 10 i could continue with you all day and come up with examples and now imagine this thing could put images in there you know like and then i could say here um put this in a simple table you gotta share it again you're doing demos i know sorry i was trying to be gracious here with Okay, put this into a table.
38:31Yeah, that's nice. Make an infographic. Do it slightly different. Okay. What I'm seeing is you can highlight a little paragraph on the right-hand side. So just highlight, say, the paragraph that says that. No, no, on the right-hand side. On the right-hand side. Yeah, highlight that paragraph says total number of rights. Just highlight that paragraph up a bit. Oh, okay. Yeah, highlight that. Oh, no, wait, wait, wait. NASA uses as GFT, you can say, make this more spicy or expand on this. So just say something. Make this more concise. And yeah, make this more concise. Let's see what it does. Yeah.
39:14And see what it'll do is it'll rewrite that. Boom. This is the superpower, JCal. Now you don't have to do it on the left-hand side. You can just go to each bit and you can say, now you can say, oh, put an image of that. So you highlight it again and say, can you turn this into a graphic, right? Of the same paragraph. Say, I want to see this as a graphic or something, right? Yeah. Yeah. Pretty amazing. I mean, this is, this is what we've been looking for. Yeah. Well done to the team over there. A plus, A plus. I've been waiting for this too, because it's so obvious that this is not a difficult thing to do.
39:46And this is, you know, I got to give the team over at OpenEye credit and I got to give the people at Gemini a bit of a warning here at Google. this entire workspace is dedicated to the ux of chat gpt you can't do this with gemini because you've shoehorned it into google google should buy chat.com the domain name from whoever i've been saying this you've been saying that and make a dedicated new service you can leave gemini inside of search but i need a domain name i go to that's different than google that does this and i can And then it could be, this is powered by Google. You know, it's from Alphabet, chat.com.
40:24And then have a great app that complements it on iOS. Can work on the iOS app first. We'll start releasing stuff to iOS first. So you get those top users. You know, everything is hidden inside of an app. You ask somebody, how do you get to Gemini? They're like, I don't know. I don't know. Somewhere in my Google interface, I got a hunt and peck for it. 100 % of the user interface must be dedicated to the AI. But wow. We're quick with it. Give us another demo here. This is a great one. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, awesome. And it's getting daily use. The weekly active, daily active remains solid for OpenAI.
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40:59Okay. Three or 400 million people a month is what I heard. Yeah, some 250 or 300, some really massive number. And a big portion of those paying 20 bucks a month, which is also incredible. Okay, we're going to just give a quick shout out to Meta and a couple of demos real quick. and we're going to start with one of their models, which we have running on Grok, so I'll just show it there. And so what Meta released a few weeks ago, two weeks ago now, was what they call vision models. And so I'm going to give a quick demo here. Let me get my screen share going properly. And I just did it before, so I'll reset it here.
41:38So let's just clear this out. So basically, I'm going to use the 11 billion. So it's Llama 3.2, it's called vision. and so what you can do is um you know you can give it like a picture of anything and you can give it a task and i'll just kind of turn this down a little bit so i just said and so for the folks listening i gave it a picture of a plate of food and said tell me everything that's on this plate estimate the portion size and calories and you do that and basically what you'll see here is and you see how quick that is now so yeah this is what's starting to happen in this universe right which is we're getting the same models but instead of you know this used to take like 30 seconds 45 seconds and you know this happened in 300 milliseconds right and so um now you have to think about this combined with glasses and other things jay cal where it yes this is the era we're going into where you can be looking at information and the processing of it's even faster than our own brain there's a really interesting uh thing it's really good that you brought up interface on the new apple airpods and i'm not an airpods guy i'm a yeah i'm a and uh i like the pixel buds but in this new version yeah i just got the fours with noise cancellation not the interior ones but the fours are the noise cancel i got the same i prefer yeah uh there is um a very interesting feature when siri is going to read you something it says you can shake your head up and down to say yes or left and right i saw that in the settings okay yes and so it's really compelling because it will say sunny just texted you a long text read the text and i go and then when i just nod it reads it to me yeah yeah yeah or you say no and it or it's like hey you're would you you because i use the walking thing i like to track my walks as exercise and it's it says like hey you would you like to end your outdoor walk and i just go nope you know right yes and it ends it so this is becoming really compelling people are going to start doing shaking of their head or they'll have something on their wrist to kind of do small gestures to interact with the glasses that we saw from you know uh meta and you put this all together we're going to be constantly interacting with data and information if we want to and it's going to ruin social settings and everything but it's going to make people incredible like the idea that in a poker game you could be wearing glasses well they're going to have it but yeah you're going to have to ban them i think we're going to have to ban those glasses in restaurants obviously in gyms and i think you haven't been to a public gym in a long time i go to my ymca here in um uh in uh in austin i like the ymca it's great um well it's good for it's like fun for families and kids and stuff um but uh you know like they ban i think you can't have your phones out in the locker room i think um but i mean these glasses that's a whole nother level of um you know invasion of privacy and then also distraction so do you want those glasses do you want the ar glasses yeah well so like look i think the era of um us you know getting superpowers because you know other than getting like the brain implant and everything can't be done over audio so what i kind of think about is what if you're wearing those glasses at work and then it's just analyzing everything you're looking at so instead of you having to kind of keep telling your you know employees to keep using chat gpt it's just automatically like looking at whatever you're doing and giving you guidance and advice on it like hey i can help you make this better or what do you think about this so i think you know it has huge implications just in in that setting and you know like there's a crazy stat someone told me this week you know what percentage of people like like in america wear glasses yeah it's like 60 apparently so it's yeah and so it's yeah and so um and you know naturally everyone gets old you just wear glasses too right so it kind of adds up i mean i wear readers because when i'm doing the show i i you know i want to be able to crisply read it and if i don't i have to strain and so these 1.5s or 2.0s are i'm the same yeah i'm the same one what did you think of the um the hack um i had the two harvard kids who built the facial recognition that would then go look up in public databases information and feed it to them and then they were like kind of tricking people into thinking they knew them you saw the demo i had them on speaking startups this past week with alex what are your thoughts on that look i i think like when people do that kind of stuff it's like art of the possible right it's not like a practical thing because you know um at the end of the day the people that make those platforms won't approve apps like that and you know you can do all these bad things like you can sit in front of a store and capture everyone's wi-fi like you you can do all these like nefarious things all the time right i think really what look you know who i want to have that is like the uh security guys at like a baseball or football game totally yeah no i don't if we started having if we had terrorist attacks god forbid at a stadium uh which has happened in the past in other countries you know people would be like you know what we need this facial recognition uh james dolan has uh famously installed a lot of facial recognition at madison square garden um and uh little controversies there on the margin but even um you know uh i i have a big security system at my ranch and it knows faces um and i put in everybody's face who works at the house like we have a plumber or an electrician i when they come to the house i put their face i put hey that's carlos hey this is jane whatever um and then if somebody comes on the property who we don't know it tells me and i get a little alert hey there's an unrecognized face or a license plate on the property so it knows certain you know trash pickups license plate and others and that's all coming to corporate software and then it's going to make its way down to consumer yeah yeah all right so meta's near vision models what's your grip i mean yeah i got to give it a B plus.
47:52I mean, it's really solid and it's going to get better and better. I mean, this, what do you give it? I mean, look, I think the fact that it's open source for me is A plus, right? You are now able to do in open source what you can do with the best models that are there. And I think that's better for society. So I give them an A plus for putting vision models out there. And look, think about what it took to make a calorie counting app. J. Cal, probably someone came through your incubator at some point we didn't want to do it and and look like this did it in 300 milliseconds without we actually had one years ago like a decade ago that pitched us that was using people in manila yeah uh you know like mechanical turking it you would send the image they would look it up online and they would make their best estimate and give it to you and they would do it for you know two cents or five cents through mechanical turk and people were paying 50 bucks a month for the service so you know they yeah even if they abused it and used 50 times a day it still wouldn't match their subscription price uh absolutely fantastic and and um let's pause for a second here what does this mean you know that the language models are catching up to what open ai is doing the leader in the space very quickly and there doesn't seem to be that much distance between the models i would say under a year six months to 12 months behind.
49:12Yep. Six months. But the interface seems to be where OpenAI is making, you know, really great advances. So it's really fascinating. And it's a good point. You've highlighted it, right? I think what they've realized, and I think their revenue was like leaked, and it showed actually more of their revenue is coming from ChatGPT than their API. Basically, what I think is exactly what you said chat gpt is you know um an open ai are becoming like a consumer facing application whereas you know meta and we're going to do a couple more meta demos in a second is focusing on the fundamental technology and integrating it into their interface which are consumer facing applications so what you're seeing and for them putting it out there in the open to make it the community make it better is important but their core business is not to be selling tokens as a service to people or selling intelligence.
50:08And so that's the interesting intersection that I see, or maybe crossroads is a better word, across what ChadGPT is doing now. And if you take a step back for all the, let's just call it chaos, for lack of a better word, that's happened at OpenAI. If you think about everyone that's left for a second, JCal, the people that have left been pretty much like we're focused like not on like you know they were there as like kind of core research types right better for the world types for real open ai and as open ai commercializes it's looking like a different business and so looking like an app business it's looking like an office suite or something starting to feel like productivity software it's like it feels like a sales force yeah if you're an ai researcher maybe you're kind of like oh well this i signed up to work at open ai and build intelligence for the world and now these guys are like we're just going to build like you know commercial product which is totally fine yeah and with all this money being poured into it it feels like this is getting commoditized fast faster than anything i've ever seen that's why them having the users is important right because i think you know having you know 200 million paying users yeah you got to give them i guess so yeah people that is hard to do to get people to take their wallets out so a couple of million paying users pretty impressive but the other point of it is like i think you know using siri i've been using the beta i've talked about it on the show and all in a bunch i feel like they're going to intercept the first 50 percent of queries are going to be done by siri alexa microsoft copilot google etc people who already have scale on their devices but you're going to expect that for free versus what we were just doing you're going to willing to pay for that because you're like oh this is my workflow versus i'm just you know if i'm doing q a i just want it for free at 20 bucks or 30 i think we have the enterprise version so maybe we're paying 30 bucks a person and maybe half my people are using it and i i think i'm like if you're not using it at my companies like i don't you're not going to be at my companies for long i just it's going to become obvious that you're falling behind for 360 a year if your average employee is 50 75 100 pick your business 150 depending on where you're located in the world one percent or 0.01 or 0.1 percent of your employee salary is nothing to pay it's kind of grossly undervalued if you if you told me this product was 500 a month i would pay for five seats i wouldn't pay for everybody i would make sure they're using it but i would have five people on it i mean things like the wall street journal cost four hundred dollars a year or something i don't know what it costs something crazy um so this is for all that bloomberg that's something can add up and oh yeah this is providing serious serious value um and i guess canvas and oh one are not available for free so yeah i do think there's there's a case to be made but if if you're a Microsoft or Google, I'm making all this free.
52:54I'm taking everything chat GPT does. And it's the teams, you're going to do the teams. And you're going to bundle it and make it for free. I'm like, literally going to make it super for free. And just, you know, take the oxygen away from them, right? So that people, but right now this, you know, there's no domain name for me to send my team to for Google to go use Gemini like this, right? And the multiplayer mode is the thing that I want. I want to use canvas with you or with another person. So when we're building the docket, we're working on it together. That's got to be close. They can't be, I mean, Multiplier modes.
53:27Yeah, it's got to be super close. But you can already share it with each other. But then it gets forked, right? When you share a discussion, it gets forked. And did you notice when you create them now, it asks you when you share it, it asks you if you want to publish it. Publish it. This is going to be crazy for SEO. So when you share a link and you copy, there's a little chat but there's a little button it doesn't work with can canvas but with the regular one um yeah it does let you share it uh publicly so that means the the google index is going to be filled with conversations i mean it's wild like what about the biggest hack right to get more traffic in is basically just open your index of questions up and then basically everyone's coming to you it's so smart it's all the work that went into quora is now they yeah these these guys And scrape a Quora and they're going to republish Quora a thousand times.
54:16I mean, if I'm Quora, I'm suing the hell out of them. If they, I mean, I don't know what they're paying for. Maybe they have a deal. I think this just guts everybody who's got a business. Yeah. Okay. Let's do another time. Okay. Okay. We're going to keep rocking. We got a few more here. Okay. This actually finished. So I'm going to go back to, and I don't know if you guys did this already. So if we did, we'll go quickly here. Yeah. So I had this like MIT management fall 2024 review and it's just like somebody sent it to me on WhatsApp. And so basically I didn't want to read it. So I just dropped it in notebook LM and it turned it into a 13 minute podcast.
54:54And so basically, so like I'm going to just kick it off. We'll listen to the first. Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So it seems like you're all about diving deep into how organizations are tackling change right now. Those MIT Sloan management review articles you've got stacked up. The NPR voice. Yeah, we see you. don't worry this isn't about drowning you in information we're here to pull out those golden nuggets the insights that'll really get you thinking and maybe spark some ideas for and here's my female co-host because we're woke and you know it's interesting how many parallels there are all right okay so jake i actually like i love it i love it i think it's right that mode yet have you tried it i haven't used it yet but i think that it's fantastic that one of the modes of consumption will be make this into a conversation that i can listen to yeah fantastic like i want to learn physics but i don't want to learn it like reading the textbook or i don't want to do q a with it i i want to listen to a podcast about it and so jake how the hack that people are doing now and i'm going to tell you this is they take their diary right and you know some people diary at different levels and then or their feelings about a certain situation so let's say you and i are having a conflict right and i go and i write myself like a three-page letter of like ah these are all the things that like i love about this this you know yeah make fun of me yeah exactly money and poker yeah yeah write it all down and then they put it into notebook and then they have two people and they make a podcast oh my god and they mean this is it and then you get a like a third-party view of your situation it's really incredible i mean think about this like for a coach kind of situation or a therapy kind of situation or a mediation situation it's kind of in that zone and i had a lot of people pitch me on coach not coaches but like therapists like virtual therapists and we had some spicy ones that were on earlier like a year or two ago so there is something here of being heard is a human very cathartic for humans when you feel heard and that's why i think you know if the ai can pull this off in an authentic way and it makes you feel heard um that could lower people's anxiety where they're like hey i'm having feelings of jealousy i'm having feelings of anger towards my boss he's a jerk his expectations are high he's giving me a hard time about airpods and all this stuff and how to do like perfect production or whatever yeah my boss is in whatever like it's like oh yeah you know but your boss just wants you to get the best out of you you know that the company just wants to produce great content there's a reason why you know yeah okay now i can sleep at night you know like it's kind of cool actually i have no judgments like i think it's kind of cool that people can find so i want you to try it this week jake i want you to diary one day and i want you to put it in there and then we'll do it next one i'll do it actually yeah absolutely okay all my feelings yeah from one day do it after you record the all in pod absolutely you're doing great oh i i give that one a b plus I think it's like a cool feature.
57:59I don't think it's gimmicky. You're going to try it next week. You're going to try it next week. But I'm giving it a B plus because I don't think it's a gimmick. And I think there's, if they did podcasting, which feels like a gimmick, they could also do a therapist. They could do a coach. They could do a best friend. They could do your mom or dad. And that's where I think this could get really interesting is if you took whoever the great advisor or friend you had in your life was, and then you capture them, like, I mean, that could be very special for people. You know, if your grandma always gave you the best wisdom and advice, and then you said, hey, here's everything grandma, like, and grandma was one of us with a big online footprint, right?
58:36Or you just had AI talk to grandma before she passes for an hour a day and just ask her questions. And then you could say, hey, I got grandma forever. Yeah. Like, I'm actually getting a little sad about it, thinking about my dad. My dad's sick. Yeah. So I've been thinking about it. I'm sorry, man. You know, him being gone and whatever. Yeah. Yeah. How long he's got left. he's 81 you know it's a cancer survivor like i'm like ah my mom and dad i want to capture it so i was talking to my little brother like hey maybe we should do like an interview series with my dad just record it so we have it for our kids just record just do it no i honestly just record it and then you know the arrest turning it into ai and all is super easy but just record it just go and do a couple hours and you'd be surprised yeah and do it as in like i would say do the history of the family from his perspective and then do you know like top top big i need the prompts i need like to get the prompts so i think that's something where i said i showed gpt for the prompts dude i know i was thinking chat gpt canvas would do it for me and get all the prompts together and then i could actually have chat gpt do it with him that would be very interesting too yeah i think this would be a great business i don't know why this doesn't exist i think some i think some folks will do it but like um but what i know what i think you could do is just give the prompts to him and then have you know some combination you know of josh or someone just go sit with him record them like he can just read out the questions he doesn't have to come up with them and then he answers them and then you know i'll help you do it jaco if you want to do it i think it's a great idea uh last two last two okay so um meta meta has done two things recently which are as follows uh the first one is they haven't released this for use yet but they've created a movie gen model and you know just to kind of show you like what it's capable of it's you know yeah and look like um you know we've seen this stuff before and this is tied into some of our bets but like i think this is just getting better and better and better right the fidelity is getting there where if you weren't paying attention you would think it's real yeah and obviously a koala surfing you wouldn't think is real but yeah the stuff that's not koala you would think is yeah yeah like that's pretty good and you know we're just kind of looking at some interesting videos here and then you can edit them with text right you can have this video and you can say like hey add pom-poms to this or replace this person with a dinosaur and then you know this produce personalized videos like of like a picture of yourself saying hey make me a you know scientist doing something with a with a beaker or whatever it is uh soundtrack sound effects pretty incredible where this is going so it really shows the power of them and having lots of data like they have and um they haven't released this to everyone but it's very very exciting so um maybe we don't grade this one yet because it's not released but it kind of shows the power of what what's potentially coming our way and that's meta's video version yeah it's called a movie gen meta movie gen yes amazing i think zuckerberg's you know really doing something special here with this open source stuff i think we're going to look back on this and be like hmm this is uh he made a strategic he made a very strategic decision that i think is going to pay off massively for him i i completely agree with you okay last one here is uh and that one's a b plus too i mean okay but the processing speed of these is the other one i'm wondering about is like remember they were all limited to five seconds and have they gotten past that now no they haven't released them yet i think that's what they're all kind of working on and so the last thing here is like meta ai i don't know if you use it jaycal you should and and uh you know it's kind of like their their chat gpt now it's It's designed a little bit more for fun than it is for, I think, kind of like the workflow stuff that we were talking about.
1:02:11But where it's super powerful, and I'm just going to do this, I got a picture of you. And what you can do is you can give it a picture. And this is like a more modern one. And then you can say, edit this image. And you can say, make me bald. Right? And what you'll see is it's like so powerful that like, you know, all these image things that were coming out the last couple of years, they've combined all that functionality and basically just you know this is like j cal uh mark and mark andre said i don't actually i kind of look good bald i mean it's it's a look i look like i'm um yeah yeah you know who is that guy uh who played the crazy guy in the m shamalan m night shamalan series there was like glass and then there was the other one and then there's this guy who plays like a guy with multiple personality disorder I think it was James McAvoy playing him but I look like Professor X I like it I like my Professor X yeah so anyways that's what you can do here and you can say give me a beard oh god here we go I can never grow a good beard yeah for some reason let me go back might have to just re-upload or restart again here yeah that's hilarious yeah and so yeah so you can say but it's you know it's like it's going to be a lot of fun I mean and then I think they're going to have to start watermarking these correct because like what is reality like we don't make people watermark face tune up or those tune up things that I know we don't we don't we don't yeah yeah so look I think you know and you can do all kinds of fun stuff with this we're just playing around here but I can this a B solid B yeah but you know they've taken all the image image editors and all that oh that is not a so that i mean that actually i look like a head like hey would you like a soy latte i feel like i'm making you a crab cocktail if you put suspenders on me crab cocktail crack yeah i'm gonna make you a smoky old-fashioned with a lump of sugar in it and whatever yeah yeah i'm gonna make you an overpriced cocktail let's go in austin there's a bunch of places in austin yeah yeah there are there They're big into cocktail culture here.
1:04:31And that mustache and beard. And that mustache and beard. Yeah, that's a waxed mustache. I look like a supervillain. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. All right. All right. Well - This has been an amazing episode. Welcome back. Let's do it every two weeks. You got to store all these up, and we're going to get dialed in here. And he is Sandeep, x.com slash Sandeep. I am x.com slash Jason. and let's give a little promo here for Grok. I think you've got tons of developers. Anything coming up on the calendar? 500 ,000 developers. We have the fastest automatic speech recognition. So look, Jacob, one of the things that we can do if you haven't done it is we can take almost all of...
1:05:14We could take all of This Week in Startups. 2 ,000 plus episodes. Yeah, and we do it at 250x real time. So basically, you know, whatever timeframe that is, so let's say that's, you know, like 2000 hours divided by 250 and that much time we can turn, we can get transcript forever. Love it. 10 hours. Yeah. We can do it in 10 hours. Yeah. Unbelievable. Yeah. All right, everybody. We'll see you. And where can people find out more about Grok? Just go to grok.com. G-R-O-K-U.com. All right. And we'll see you all next time on This Week in Startups.
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