OpenAI's new models, the MrBeast leak, Waymo ♥’s Uber and more! | E2009
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss OpenAI's latest model and implications (11:49), Uber's partnership with Waymo and its implications (38:16), Analyzing Mr. Beast's content creation and business culture (1:01:21). and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show.
(3:57) Highlights from the All-In Summit (9:16) Tackling media criticism and the state of journalism
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(11:49) Alex and Jason dive into OpenAI's latest model and implications (19:46) Examination of OpenAI's corporate structure and financing
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(21:51) Further analysis of OpenAI's business model (27:08) OpenAI's valuation and perspectives on speculative investment
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(32:07) The landscape of AI startup investments (35:20) How AI is enhancing developer productivity (36:33) AI's potential in consumer markets (38:16) Uber's partnership with Waymo and its implications (41:15) The realities of autonomous vehicle technology deployment (47:00) The government's role in autonomous vehicle tech and partnerships with big tech (52:26) Economic insights: Predictions on the Fed rate cut (56:26) The influence of interest rates on startups and investment strategies (58:52) Discussing cost of living adjustments and food delivery trends (1:00:44) Innovations in autonomous food preparation (1:01:21) Analyzing Mr. Beast's content creation and business culture (1:09:12) How large companies can maintain focus on goals
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Mentioned on the show:
OpenAI o1’s announcement: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
OpenAI release article on The Verve: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-model-reasoning-strawberry-chatgpt
Supermaven article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/ai-coding-assistant-supermaven-raises-cash-from-openai-and-perplexity-founders/
Twitter post from Michael Seibel: https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1835063692117103090
Waymo and Uber expand partnership: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09/waymo-and-uber-expand-partnership/
Polymarket on Fed Interest Rates: https://polymarket.com/event/fed-interest-rates-september-2024?tid=1726496650092
Leaked Mr Beast doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11dV24Mda_kNEBCLtPtBomWG4IkngvQKK/view
Travis Kalanick | All-In Summit 2024 video**:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7lwauJN2s
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| 0:00.0 | So here you have a non-profit that took a software asset spun it out into for profit gave |
| 0:07.1 | think a hundred percent of the equity to the employees or some large percentage and then the nonprofit owns what a share of the revenue a license unknown and |
| 0:17.5 | here because it's software maybe it's a little bit klouji or maybe it doesn't seem as dramatic as giving people a stack of gold bars but you know seems like a bunch of employees went from the nonprofit to the for profit |
| 0:29.9 | uh huh and we're given the gold bullion i do think it's really interesting to see how many people are going after coding. |
| 0:36.0 | That's because of two reasons. Where does a lot of value in the world reside? |
| 0:42.0 | And then what is AI good at right now. |
| 0:45.6 | Bingo. |
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| 1:35.4 | slash twist 24. All right everybody welcome back to this weekend startups. I'm |
| 1:41.0 | Jason Kellertanus he's Alex Wilhelm. And we're back. We both had projects. We were working on for the last couple of weeks. I just finished up the All-In Summit. You've probably probably seen I've birthed all this amazing content and we'll talk about I guess some of those |
| 1:57.4 | highlights but you birth something else Alex something arguably much more important. |
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