Can Nvidia Survive the Jensen Huang Spy Scandal? | E2361
Jason Calacanis and Lon Harris unpack Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Sequoia's shakeup, Apple's Siri problem, local open-source AI, robot regulation and the end of the Cybertruck.
The gist
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Jason says Huang was likely targeted by Chinese intelligence and should stay as Nvidia CEO, but the US should stop sending even older chips to China.
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Jason calls the FT story on Sequoia ending its scouts program overblown, saying the firm dropped Roelof Botha's experiments rather than punishing him.
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Jason wants Apple to rebuild Siri as a private, locally run agent, and is buying his whole team GrokBot accounts at about $500 a year each.
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Lon says his new 24GB iMac, roughly $1,900, runs small open models like Qwen well enough for most of his work without the cloud.
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Jason predicts the discontinued Cybertruck becomes a collectible like the DeLorean, which he says sells for $50,000 to $75,000 on Bring a Trailer.
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"Today I told my team officially the CTO takes over the Grokbot account... I want to give everybody the whatever $20, $30 a month account and get everybody on it... The Grokbot g..."
"I got a new iMac... It's 24 gigs of memory... It's very nice... Very nice machine, and with 24 gigs, I can run some local AI models on it."
"There's a really cool website, Bring a Trailer, that I spend a little time on because I want to buy some old Corvettes."
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"Today I told my team officially the CTO takes over the Grokbot account... I want to give everybody the whatever $20, $30 a month account and get everybody on it... The Grokbot g..."
"There's a really cool website, Bring a Trailer, that I spend a little time on because I want to buy some old Corvettes."
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"I got a new iMac... It's 24 gigs of memory... It's very nice... Very nice machine, and with 24 gigs, I can run some local AI models on it."
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