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Amazon Invests $2.75B Into Anthropic, Anthropic Wants To Regulate Open Source AI, Microsoft VP Out| SVIC Podcast

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.

🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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 Omar: Cognosys, Automating Workflows With AI, Reactions To Claude3 Dethroning GPT4, and more!| SVIC Podcast

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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.

🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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

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Christian Keil: Future of Satellites & Astranis Internet Revolution; How Internet Satellites Work| SVIC Podcast

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.

Christian just launched a great YouTube channel called First Principles that creates awesome videos on deep-tech startups. Please go to their channel and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@1stPrinciplesFM

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

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David Shapiro Steals Money From A Loyal Viewer, Reviewing His AI Research & Puzzling Credentials| SVIC Podcast

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

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Why DeepMind And OpenAI Did Not Want Elon Musk In Charge. Mustafa New AI CEO at Microsoft| SVIC Podcast

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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🤩Get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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

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Sam Altman On Lex Fridman #419: Googler Employees React; Thoughts On GPT-5 & Elon’s Lawsuit| SVIC Podcast

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.

🤩Get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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

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Stripes AI Revenue Up 250%, Reviewing Its Annual Letter and Trillion Dollar Transaction Volume| SVIC Podcast

Stripe’s annual letter which is the valley’s version of Berkshire’s Annual Letter, its booming AI revenue, $1 Trillion in Transaction volume, robotics companies Stripes likes, Irish history, and a segment called Drug Test. Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carts, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.

🤩Get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:48 – Stripe Co-Founder on CNBC
05:00 – Returning to Cash Flow First Startups
10:20 – How AI Augments Employees
19:30 – Review of Stripe’s Annual Letter
28:30 – Stripe’s Take On The Startup Market
31:30 – Stripe Atlas Vs Inc File
39:05 – How Stripe Ensures API Reliability
47:03 – How Ebay Ruined Paypal & Ignored Elon Musk And Elon Musk
44:15 – The Frame Of Mind And The Industrial Revolution
51:39 – How Stripe Has Insider Info On Potential Unicorn Startups
53:33 – Robotics Companies Stripe Likes
57:20 – Stripes Series I Fundraise
58:50 – St.Patrick’s Day Irish History
1:00:00 – Drug Test Segment – Baba Vlogs

#stripe #ai #openai #economy #technology #investing #startups

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Apple Bets On Darwin AI: Their Background, Founders Thoughts on Chatgpt , and What About Vision Pro?| SVIC Podcast

Apple has quietly acquired Canadian AI startup Darwin AI, adding technology to its arsenal for a big push in generative AI in 2024. Darwin AI specializes in making AI systems smaller and faster, with a focus on visually inspecting components during the manufacturing process.

🤩Get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episdoes and latest AI research at patreon.com/svic

Time Codes
00:00 Introduction and Darwin AI Acquisition
03:10 Details of the Darwin AI Acquisition
06:37 Darwin AI’s Co-Founder Explains How Their Tech Works
16:01 Darwin’s Co-Founder Explains The Limitations of ChatGPT
19:06 Darwin’s Pitch Deck & Services

#apple #ai #openai #investing #mergersandacquisitions

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Tiktok Ban Bill & Value of App, Tech Layoffs, Tesla’s Stock Trouble, SpaceX’s Epic 20 Years| SVIC Podcast

Will the TikTok bill be stalled in the senate, what’s the value of Tiktok, the endangered status of middle managers, Tesla’s falling stock, the 20th anniversary of SpaceX, and more! Show hosts Joe, an Engineering VP, and Jordan, a Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Lead, offer their insights. They have worked at renowned companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carts, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, and more.

🤩 Check out our latest content such as: Mergers And Acquisitions for Tech Companies, Latest On AI Agents, LLMs for Writers, and more at www.patreon.com/collection/340344

⏰ Time Codes:
00:00 – Introduction: Middle managers, Tesla, SpaceX anniversary
00:48 – Tiktok Ban Bill Moves To Senate
04:00 – What the Founding Fathers thought of the senate
05:30 – Roman Political History Influenced The Founding Fathers
10:20 – How the senate works and can the bill be stalled?
17:06 – Potential Buyers of Tiktok and It’s Valuation
27:44 – Middle Manager Layoffs
32:30 – Shout Out To SVIC Squad Supporting Us On Twitter
34:40 – Tesla’s Falling Stock And Challenges With EVs
47:30 – SpaceX’s 20th Anniversary
53:57 – Upcoming Speakers

You can ask our speakers questions by becoming an enthusiast tier supporter at patreon.com/svic

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Amazon Invests $2.75B Into Anthropic, Anthropic Wants To Regulate Open Source AI, Microsoft VP Out| SVIC Podcast

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.

🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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 Omar: Cognosys, Automating Workflows With AI, Reactions To Claude3 Dethroning GPT4, and more!| SVIC Podcast

Patreon.com/svic

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.

🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic

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

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Christian Keil: Future of Satellites & Astranis Internet Revolution; How Internet Satellites Work| SVIC Podcast

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.

Christian just launched a great YouTube channel called First Principles that creates awesome videos on deep-tech startups. Please go to their channel and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@1stPrinciplesFM

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

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