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βI just like um carrying a a small bag so that I don't have I don't want to wait at the baggage claim. And I have a fat back so I just can't carry that much weight. So that's kind of a a nice um it's aβ¦β
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βI just like um carrying a a small bag so that I don't have I don't want to wait at the baggage claim. And I have a fat back so I just can't carry that much weight. So that's kind of a a nice um it's aβ¦β
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βOkay, uh, okay. Well, it's my pleasure to be uh speaking today about the James Web Space Telescope as just one example of an amazing mission where humans are pursuing science and exploring the universβ¦β
βThere is one company that is huge in this space. They're called Zipline. Keller Renado Clifton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest autonomous logistics and delivery system. We shβ¦β
βUm well it's a much better thing than the Google Glass. Google Glass had a little tiny display up here.β
βHello and welcome to The Tech Download - a new CNBC Original podcast where we unpack the tech stories that matter most.β
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βEven Democratic governors have admitted this is a problem. So just the other day, Kathy Hokll, the governor of New York, it basically said that she might prefer to enact California's SB53, which is a β¦β
βEven Democratic governors have admitted this is a problem. So just the other day, Kathy Hokll, the governor of New York, it basically said that she might prefer to enact California's SB53, which is a β¦β
βThe US National Archives opened up Nazi party member cards and @DIEZEIT made them searchable so German families can examine their heritage.β
βAnd I think the two breakthrough examples of this over the last year were Deep Research and Notebook LM.β
βAnd I think the two breakthrough examples of this over the last year were Deep Research and Notebook LM.β
βIt's called the Mod Retro Chromatic. It plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color Games. It has an magnesium aluminum alloy shell. It's the same metal that's used in some of our attack drones at Android. ... β¦β
βGameStop just launched a new uh a new game in house. We just relaunched Croc back for its 25th anniversary.β
βUm, we're doing Rayman. We did a thing with Atari. We brought back three of their '90s classics. Uh, you can buy those in a set.β
βUm, we're doing Rayman. We did a thing with Atari. We brought back three of their '90s classics. Uh, you can buy those in a set.β
βI got really into Counterstrike and I used to go to these land gaming cafes and we would play Counter-Strike against each other.β
βWe think people should be excited about robo taxis, not just because of the future, but because they will be safer and make it more easy and convenient to get around your city.β
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βWe actually have a shared investment ReflectionAI where we just raised $2 billion and Nvidia was a participant and a wonderful partner in this.β
βSo we work with a company called XPO. They set out to build the most the most effective AI hacker in the world, basically penetration testing.β
βShe might use, you know, a company like Abridge for that.β
βShe might use a company like OpenEvidence for doing research and answering questions that, that AI patient has.β
βI work with a company in our portfolio called ROX, and they are building an agent operating system.β
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βwe're about to launch a new product, the M64, the Mod Retro 64, which plays Nintendo 64 games.β
βGo check out modetro.com. Check out what we're doing there. It makes a great gift for dads. Makes a great gift for husbands. Makes a great gift for boyfriends.β
βSo, I use this product called agentmail.to. I don't know if you've you've heard of it.β
βAnd our our new project that we're about to put out there is a uh the mod retro M64, which is an airβ
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βGo polar for people who like to jump in cold water.β
βthe super popular Saudi Sabq digital newspaper personally did an AI rebuild of the paper and launched on Replit!β
βSo in in growing uh kettle and fire basically when we launched it was like $16 a carton for 16 ounces of bone broth and everyone was like this is good but this is like very expensive and you know now β¦β
βThere's this woman, Olivia Landon.β Uh, it's called Long Hill Wagyu outside of Austin.β And,β uh, I'm probably her largest and best customer.β
βI bought a Global 7500.β
βUh it needs to understand the world, the context around you, the physical world. And of course for robotics, that's critical, too. And I think I've been spending quite a lot of time on that last year,β¦β
βhighly recommend the chicken taco!β
βFSD 14.3 release notes @Tesla_AIβ
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βGet a mission burrito at Elwan Sabor. That's my favorite jam.β
βUm Pizzeria Delphina like right here on 18th is incredible. This is great.β
βUh if you get an Airbnb around here, go to buy market and it's just like the freshest produce like all the freshest specialty everything and this tiny little store.β
βLike I just bought an Android phone to test things with. It was $40 and this was more powerful than like a super than the ENIAC in 1946 or whenever the ENIAC came out.β
βor I can try this thing called real uh which is one of our companies which is basically like Netswuite but it closes the books for you.β
βAnd so uh you know to Alex's point earlier around voice you know they recently launched a voice agent which is actually collecting evidence you know from their prospective clients and it's sifting thrβ¦β
βOpenAI released their India subscription product and I think it's something like three or four bucks a month. That makes total sense.β
βAnd kind of a great example of this is like the the salient, yes, they are going to people that collect um uh it's it's called autoloan servicing.β
βwe've as Google only just started to scratch the surface now of actually \n natively sort of plugging these things in to our amazing existing products let alone building the new ones you know AI inboxβ¦β
βrecently [clears throat] some of the insurance companies have said that uh it is actually so safe uh when where Tesla full full self-driving is so safe that uh they're they're offering uh customers haβ¦β
βBut with with Starship, which is a giant rocket, it's it's the largest flying machine ever made. That's a rocket that you using for the idea of going to Mars, right?β
βA great Papa Roach song. And so in this moment, we now are at the last resort.β
βI bought this new pen, this uh Zebra G >> 750. You know, it's an $8 pen, but it's really quite nice.β
βStripe Press uh just uh well actually we we announced in the letter we sold our millionth book but in fact since >> incredible. Um, no book books. We've actually now sold our 1.1 millionth book.β
βIf you think AI is unpredictable, wait till you experience analog computers!β
βUnveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890Mβ¬, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hirβ¦β
βWhoβs a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz.β
βApple just named its latest laptop Neo -- same name as my son! Should I buy one?β
βUm yeah, ch has been growing very strongly. Uh and I feel great about the current models, the upcoming models. It's been very fun to see the momentum with Codex as a new product like Chacht is great. β¦β
βthe future of medical multimodality which will do a much better job of converting data to value and which inspired me to buy a Whoop wristband to start collecting data on myselfβ
βThey have this uh new product called agent bricks which we're super super excited about. we think is going to be really big and transformative for them.β
βNon is the next one. So this is another this is a different example.β
βwe announced an investment recently with Ashton and Sound Ventures in Witness AI, which is focusing on how do employees use AI in terms of tools we give them, but also employees get bringing AI to worβ¦β
βAnd then you know Flock Flock is doing absolutely incredible work. I've talked about them so much. It's it's the most compelling customer value proposition that we see in our portfolio because what thβ¦β
βWrote up some thoughts on Anthropic's Project Glassing, where their latest Opus-beating model is available to partnered security research organizations onlyβ
βEverybody should try this. I've been using it for months. I'm obsessed.β
βI've loved and do love forever Founders fund I think as an example of like a really interesting differentiate from they bet big they bet different rightβ
βI mean, think about a camera like this Insta 360, which launched in my house, by the way. Um, if you put an AI computer in this and cut it in half and make it small, now it can see everything and it cβ¦β
βI'm seeing more and more people by the Meta Ray-B bands with a a camera on it and a microphone and an AI uh computer somewhere involved that can talk to you and understand what you're seeing.β
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βYes, a couple, like there's a pet protein company called Pawsible which is now worth maybe 40-50 million.β
βThe zip.β
βDid you know someone invented a pocket?β
βThe transistor is my favorite analogy for what AI is like. It's like it's like discovering a new property of physics.β
βWe're going to be starting fighter jet production here of the FQ-44 Fury in a matter of weeks.β
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βOther than that it's huge NVIDIA GPU serversβ
βYou know, it was amazing to me. Uh we work with a company called Skyio and they were they were sanctioned by China and uh you know, we usually hear stories about how companies are, you know, sanctioneβ¦β
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βPeople will take Wellutrin the anti the atypical anti-depressant >> at low dosages to increase epinephrine dopamine a little bit for focus. I mean people are doing this all the time.β
βI mean people are doing this all the time. nicotine. So there's a lot of stimulant use right now for focus.β
βClaude in particular has really doubled down on proumer with things like co-work cla code claude and excel and powerpoint.β
βSo the products that are still surfacing on the list like an ideoggram um or a midjourney are either very aesthetically opinionated or they have very more sophisticated workflows that you can't get onβ¦β
βData dog absolutely freaking crushed. Uh stock up 23%, $15 million plus AI native customers... co-attach to the AI trend and you'll be fine.β
βSo things like Canva, Notion, Freepick, Notion actually announced that now they think half of their new ARR is driven by AI first features, which is very cool.β
βI mean the one at some point I can't wait to get it. It's been out to India a little bit I think but is um a project in Google Labs called Google Beam. Have you seen this thing?β
βWe're in the final stages of completion of Optimus 3, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing's even close.β
βIt's here! https://t.co/5Uzdj9c4cPβ
βCreate your account on [La Plateforme](https://console.mistral.ai) to get access and read the [docs](https://docs.mistral.ai) to learn how to use it.β
βChandler Lugjitsa is the CEO of Galedai, next generation missile propulsion.β