Dave Blundin
Everything Dave personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 3 episodes
"A very complicated question came up and the lawyer was answering it and I typed it into Gemini concurrent with that and I swear to God it was word for word the same. It's just really really good at law."
▶ 2:00:56"Run it through a Claude 4.7 Opus Max agent, then get a second opinion from Gemini 3."
"I use mostly Gemini and some Claude 4.6 to basically build entire business plans and also to manage to track what about 1100 people are doing"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I have Claude code on the left side over here. Run it through a Claude 4.7 Opus Max agent, then get a second opinion from Gemini 3. I usually have it default to calling Claude 4.7 opus."
▶ 1:48:04"I use mostly Gemini and some Claude 4.6 to basically build entire business plans and also to manage to track what about 1100 people are doing"
Personal use in 1 episode
"Codex is really good now. The combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good for enterprises. I use both side by side — they're right here on my laptop. I use huge numbers of tokens in both every day. Just as of the last month or so, the combination of Codex on Soul on Bedrock at AWS is phenomenally good."
▶ 37:19Personal use in 1 episode
"I got it up and running on my own dedicated GPUs on Modal. It took less than an hour to get a fully functioning Kimi thinking and working 24/7. It's a little pricey, but it's like $55 an hour on Modal to run at full throttle. You can spin up 100 instances in two minutes now if you want, just through voice prompting. You don't have to have any technical skill at all."
▶ 36:12Personal use in 1 episode
"A month ago, to fine-tune these things required some huge engineering effort that required AI experts. Now with Fable 5, it's just a prompt."
▶ 35:50Warned against
"It's pretty clear that Sonnet 5 now is a way to kind of fill this gap until Fable 5 is back out. A kind of mediocre capability at a high price point, but people will still need to buy it."
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"Hugging Face right now is a place where people trade training data and model architectures, but you can't trade finished neural modules."
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"Well, the Chromebook was that exact same vision. I think you just need broadband coverage everywhere and then it flips."
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"Meta Muse is imminent, and people are going to want to go to Meta Muse to get everything done, including buy auto insurance or whatever."
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"But now with Genie, we're like, as of this week, everything flips over. The future of all management is going to be through this interface and it's so much more effective."
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"If you talk to somebody in mechanical design that uses CAD/CAM, the idea of working without it is insane. It's just so ingrained in the way they imagine and visualize and then try and create."
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"When you book a flight on Google, Google extracts 80% margin when you click on the link, and then you go to Booking.com, Booking extracts about 60% margin."
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"Really curious if those thoughts were like 80% done, 90% done, 99% done, and then, you know, Opus 5.5 or some similar model pushed everything over the finish line."
"Their whole sales pitch in orchestration is look, we're going to use Opus 5.5 as an orchestrator, but then we're going to use Kimi K3 or Qwen as a submodel at half or a third or a fifth the price."
"It's pretty clear that Sonnet 5 now is a way to kind of fill this gap until Fable 5 is back out. A kind of mediocre capability at a high price point, but people will still need to buy it."
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"The biggest IPO in history was Meta back when Meta went out many years ago. And then Cerebras broke that record, our good friend Andrew Feldman, and then SpaceX."
"Will Thompson, that brilliant Harvard junior that I was talking about a couple podcasts ago, he got access to that 1,200 tokens per second Cerebras capability."
"Will Thompson from Harvard got access to Cerebras's 1,200 token per second Astra model... it's so fast that by the time you finish a sentence everything you ask for is done... he said it's the biggest red pill moment of his life... You just never go back once you've experienced it."
"Cerebras and a whole bunch of other things are starting to really eat away at the inference time efficiency."
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"If you pick up one of these models and you say, 'Hey, can you access ElevenLabs and make a really cool video with great voice overlay, and I want it to be my voice.' It just happens."
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"I love the analogy to dark fiber. I think Gavin Baker might have been the first person to pull that out, you know, from the All-In podcast and from Atreides."
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"They're going to get so much pushback and they just don't care. That was obvious on stage at Abundance Summit."
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"That's why Blitzy is growing as fast as they can hire, because the cost of the rewrites is coming down so fast."
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"The half a million Vera Rubins is, you know, they're about 2x the performance of the Blackwells. So it's about equivalent to a million. That's a massive amount of training compute."
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"Alex said three or four consecutive podcasts over the course of months that SpaceX and Tesla are imminently going to merge. So, the fact that Polymarket finally caught up to it..."
"If you look at Poly Market's prediction of Claude 5 coming back, it goes down a little bit every day."
"Polymarket says Fable 5 will be back out, 90% chance within a month. But if you read the details of the Polymarket, it's a product named Fable 5 will be back out."
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"He massively doubled down on xAI. He bought every freaking Vera Rubin chip that can possibly come off the assembly line, no matter what it costs."
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"I don't know, Chamath, if you're invested in Positron or LightQ, or we have our company LightWave, there's a lot of efficiency coming to data centers."
"The Positron guys, $5 billion valuation after 16 months. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. And all they've done is taken a box of LPDDR RAM and an FPGA and find a way to run Chinese models without having to use an Nvidia chip."
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"If anyone's played with Google Earth, you can zoom in on any street, any building. I was like, I wonder if that's more or less complexity than a single cell. Google Earth combined is 3 petabytes."
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"When everyone's talking about the humanoid robots building other humanoid robots, but then you tour 1X or Figure, there's no way that big robot hand is going to make these tiny little surface mount devices."
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"Alex and Peter have this Solve Everything book. It's phenomenal, but the rate at which physics and material science, chemistry is going to change is just astronomically accelerating."
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"This is why Liquid AI was founded actually, because we completely reverse engineered the C. elegans worm brain... they realized wait, this is a very efficient neural net, and then they productized it."
"I have a firsthand, kind of a front row seat at Liquid AI, where these exact same guys were in CSAIL at MIT with a trickle of funding, and then the exact same people move out and start a private company and just take off. The amount of great research they've been able to achieve outside of the institution is miles ahead of what they were doing inside the institution."
"It's a foundation model company from scratch, doesn't use any Anthropic, doesn't use any OpenAI. It has a far, far more efficient way to use context than the transformer attention window. If you buy a Mercedes in September and you talk to your car, you're talking to Liquid AI — on prem."
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