Jensen’s Spy Probe, Anthropic’s Debut Week, and Elon’s 30M Robot Workforce | #310
Peter Diamandis, Emad Mostaque, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail and Alexander Wissner-Gross discuss the Jensen Huang espionage story, Anthropic's IPO and Fable 5.2 models, Elon's robot plans, and why 2027 may be wild.
The gist
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Alex says reports of about $8 billion in Nvidia GPUs reaching China via a Singapore syndicate show the Pax Silica export wall is porous.
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Anthropic's Fable 5.2 had about 1,000 agents formalize Fermat's last theorem in 30 hours, and Alex built a cyberpunk shooter from one sentence.
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Dave says Claude produced and simulated chip circuit designs, but the new model raised his cost from $10 to $40 per million output tokens.
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Elon says 20 to 30 million humanoid robots, each about five times as productive as a person, could match US output, and he'd probably rent them.
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Economist Christopher Clark's data links a tenfold rise in billionaires per capita with 43% less poverty, which Salim cautions is correlation, not causation.
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"So I was using Fable 5.1 and then Opus 5.5 came out, which was just as good at half the price. So I switched over. I've been using that for the last month, and then yesterday when this came out, it's just so good you have to use it. But it took me from 10 bucks to 40 bucks... ..."
▶ Play at 40:08"Astonishing. So maybe let me just start with my favorite informal five-minute benchmark for generalist models at this point, which is I ask them to generate a fun interactive rich cyberpunk FPS... Very satisfied with the output."
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"Astonishing. So maybe let me just start with my favorite informal five-minute benchmark for generalist models at this point, which is I ask them to generate a fun interactive ri..."
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