¶ Microsoft’s AI Hardware
Josh: We had a pretty big and exciting week in the world of AI and frontier technology. Josh: Lots of things happening. New AI hardware devices unveiled, rocket ships exploding. Josh: I want to start with the Microsoft event. Microsoft held their build event. Josh: Microsoft notoriously has been in the AI race only via companionship to OpenAI. Josh: They are the largest investor, largest owner of OpenAI.
Josh: And that has been the connection. This week, they severed even more ties with Josh: OpenAI as they decided to build their own new hardware. Josh: Now, they released seven new AI models. they released two new AI devices and Josh: to hear that Microsoft is building an AI hardware device was a little shocking. Josh: So I went on this kind of like race to try to figure out more information to Josh: understand how it worked and what I found is these two devices that we're seeing
Josh: on screen. We have a desktop device that looks kind of like an Amazon Echo Home Josh: Hub and apparently it's very smart. Josh: You can converse with it. It works with their new AI models and the second device Josh: is this small looking key card that's something you wear around your neck. Josh: It's very smart. It has a display built into it. And it's used for a lot of Josh: kind of practical in the job type use cases.
Josh: What I found out that disappointed me is that all of this was a concept. Josh: They marketed this as this amazing product that everyone was going to be able Josh: to use showcasing all of the use cases. Josh: But the reality is, is that they're never actually going to ship these. Josh: In fact, this is just a concept for other companies to go off and get inspired Josh: to then build their own versions of.
Josh: So here I was thinking, oh my god wait microsoft is making a comeback they have Josh: seven new models they're releasing new hardware and i think the reality is is Josh: that microsoft still kind of feels like they're in the same place they were Josh: prior to this build event Ejaaz: Yeah i've watched this video twice now and Ejaaz: i still don't know what these devices do um i feel like i've been transported
Ejaaz: back a decade ago and amazon's just announced the echo again also why are we Ejaaz: wearing lanyards as like futuristic ai tech now i got hopeful when i saw this Ejaaz: announcement josh but i almost immediately killed that hope for one specific reason. Ejaaz: I don't know anyone that is conceivably using Microsoft's AI products to a larger extent, right?
Ejaaz: So Copilot is like their flagship AI assistant, and they've admitted that their Ejaaz: Copilot product is way behind the likes of ChatGPT and Claude itself. Ejaaz: So if I already know that people aren't really using the Microsoft AI ecosystem Ejaaz: at the software level, why on earth would they use it at the hardware level? Ejaaz: Now, I dug in to a little bit about what this thing is supposedly meant to do.
Ejaaz: And it's supposedly meant to be like an AI agent kind of like physical surface area. Ejaaz: So what I mean by that is it's meant to listen to the things that you do. Ejaaz: It's meant to see the things that you write or speak about and then it's meant Ejaaz: to kind of like ingest this data and improve your own personal agent, Ejaaz: your own personal model. There's one issue though. Ejaaz: Microsoft doesn't even have a functioning V1 of an AI agent that can do all of this for you.
Ejaaz: They kind of brand it as Copilot but it's really ChatGPT and it's an older model Ejaaz: of ChatGPT and it's less effective than ChatGPT. So why wouldn't I just use ChatGPT? Ejaaz: Now, understandably, Microsoft recently has been trying to move away from their Ejaaz: partnership with OpenAI. Ejaaz: There was a bit of tension between Sam Altman and Satni and Odella. Ejaaz: And they're trying to kind of like sever that partnership and start becoming
Ejaaz: a more multimodal operation. They've started using Claude for a lot of their Ejaaz: products and other types of models. Ejaaz: This is a step into the device side of things. Ejaaz: This wasn't exciting to me. And it maddens me so much that this is just a concept Ejaaz: that apparently they don't plan to build at all.
Ejaaz: What did excite me was something that we covered earlier on in an earlier episode this week, Ejaaz: which was their new Microsoft Surface AI engineered laptop, which is meant to Ejaaz: run like one of Nvidia's latest chips, which allows you to kind of like run models locally. Ejaaz: But this doesn't really inspire me. Josh: Well, something that might inspire some people if the hardware isn't doing it Josh: is the software because Microsoft isn't just sitting there being dormant.
Josh: They are working on their own AI models. They're working on large language models Josh: that I have to assume are somewhat derived from ChatGPT models because they Josh: have that proprietary license. They must be leaning on it to some extent. Josh: And what we have here is seven new models that they're working on in parallel. Josh: And initially I was a little frustrated by this too. I'm like,
Josh: why the hell are they working on seven models at once? But in the context of Josh: this image that we're seeing on screen, it makes a lot of sense. Josh: The models are supposed to be working on specific modalities all together. Josh: So we have an image model. We have a large one and a flash one for smaller. Josh: We have a transcription model. We have a reasoning model. We have two voice Josh: models and a coding model. So they're building all of these in parallel.
Josh: I have to imagine they're going to be building the orchestrator or at least Josh: using Copilot as the kind of orchestration harness engine for these models, Josh: knowing what to serve them. Josh: And I think it's at least a start. Josh: Microsoft has done pretty much nothing in the world of AI. Josh: I'm not sure anybody uses Copilot who isn't forced to buy their business.
Josh: And I'm hopeful that these modalities, these models that they're working on Josh: will actually yield some sort of impressive results from Microsoft. Josh: Otherwise, I'm getting close to putting Microsoft in the Apple category of just like did not finish. Josh: Like they just like we're not able to actually execute able to deliver anything Josh: valuable in this ai model race maybe this changes things who knows but Josh: After watching this, I kind of didn't feel that way.
Josh: It was like, okay, the hardware that you designed that was really cool looking, Josh: it's just a concept. The software, well, it's great on paper. Josh: These haven't been built. These haven't been deployed. It would have been awesome Josh: if we could actually play with them today. Josh: That is not the case. So there's still a lot of work that needs to happen for Josh: Microsoft, but that was the build event.
Ejaaz: Yeah, I mean, the best thing that Microsoft has done in the entire AI race was Ejaaz: invest in their biggest competitor, OpenAI. When it comes to actually building Ejaaz: models, it's not exactly their specialty, but I applaud them for giving it a go. Ejaaz: Now, one might think that they're using OpenAI's IP. They have OpenAI's IP for Ejaaz: ChatGPT because they're one of the largest investors in that until I think it's
Ejaaz: 2030 or 2032. So they can technically use this IP to create their own models. Ejaaz: But for one of these models specifically, which is the one I'm circling right Ejaaz: now, MAI Thinking 1, that is their main reasoning model. Ejaaz: It's their main orchestrator model that orchestrates all these other transcription, Ejaaz: image, video, and audio models. Ejaaz: And it hasn't been distilled or using OpenAI IP at all.
Ejaaz: It's been built from the ground up, which is pretty ambitious for Microsoft. Ejaaz: Now, you might be wondering, okay, what are some of the advantages that it's unlocked? Ejaaz: Well, collectively, across all of these different models, it uses 60% fewer Ejaaz: tokens than your Frontier models. Ejaaz: But the models that it can kind of compare with and that it's on par with are Ejaaz: like three generations behind the frontier models that we're seeing from Anthropic and OpenAI right now.
Ejaaz: So it's a good attempt, but it's got me thinking like, Ejaaz: I don't know why Microsoft is focused on this specifically when they should Ejaaz: be kind of like doubling down on like the AI agent harness and trying to build Ejaaz: a better AI experience across the humongous distribution that they have. Ejaaz: They have like hundreds of millions of co-pilot users across the world. Ejaaz: Like they should be able to kind of like monetize that somehow.
Ejaaz: And I think they're kind of wasting that time here.
¶ Nvidia’s Hardware Blitz
Ejaaz: There was a bunch of Microsoft announcements, and one of them was announced Ejaaz: in partnership with NVIDIA, and it was with their Surface laptop. Ejaaz: And NVIDIA has been kind of like on a streak this week. So there's this conference Ejaaz: that's taking place in Taiwan right now called Computex. Ejaaz: And I'm kind of calling it NVIDIA GTC, which is their main conference 2.0.
Ejaaz: It's basically Jensen's show, and he's taken the stage. Everyone's kind of like Ejaaz: crowded out the entire rooms and he's made a bunch of big announcements for NVIDIA. Ejaaz: One of the main ones is Vera Rubin NVL72, which is the kind of like it's the Ejaaz: next hottest generation that has actually been built for GPUs. Ejaaz: Is finally coming online. And there's a few partners that are bringing it online.
Ejaaz: You've got Dell that we mentioned earlier this week, we put out an episode, Ejaaz: definitely go check that out, because Dell's actually a sleeper hit for AI investing. Ejaaz: CoreWeave and a number of other providers have helped stand up the very first Vero Rubin stack. Ejaaz: It looks incredibly complex and quite impressive from an engineering feat. Ejaaz: I don't know if you've seen a picture of this, Josh, but like there are pipes Ejaaz: and wires teeming out of this thing.
Ejaaz: And it's actually bigger than me, if I sit on, I'm around like 6.3. Ejaaz: It's like a humongous type thing, incredibly impressive feat of networking architecture. Ejaaz: That is one of like the major announcements, like Jensen's kind of like leaning Ejaaz: into a lot of new hardware stacks.
Ejaaz: Now, if you've watched an episode that we put out about a month ago, Ejaaz: we described why Jensen's kind of going all in on chips, if you didn't think Ejaaz: he already was doing this, by recreating Ejaaz: 15 of the core components that is required to build the best GPU. Ejaaz: Now, typically, GPU providers aren't recommended to do that because if something Ejaaz: goes wrong, you end up needing to delay the launch of your next model.
Ejaaz: Not only did Jensen go for it, but he pulled it off. And so now we see these new GPUs come to life. Ejaaz: He's also entering a new market, which is the CPU market. Ejaaz: Typically, Jensen likes to play in his lane. He kind of like sits at his own level of the stack. Ejaaz: He owns the picks and shovels and he doesn't want to get involved in anything else. Ejaaz: But he's peeked over at Intel and AMD and he's like, damn, these guys are making Ejaaz: a bunch of money from CPUs.
Ejaaz: And in a future world where AI agents are everywhere, we're going to need CPUs Ejaaz: to orchestrate these guys. Ejaaz: And so he announced the launch of NVIDIA CPUs, which currently is on track for Ejaaz: a $20 billion revenue run rate this year. It's pretty insane. Josh: This is the first time I've ever heard of Computex as an event. Josh: I didn't really even know that this existed, but it's basically the CES version in Taiwan.
Josh: Like the consumer electronic show it happens every january in the united states Josh: it's where all of the cool new technology and hardware gets Josh: Announced with computex it felt like Josh: the gaming version almost of this and it's weird to Josh: say that because sure a lot of this is ai focused but a Josh: lot of the offerings a lot of the hardware was based on it's Josh: funny there's there's a lot of crossover it turns out between ai local
Josh: inference running and gaming and that crossover is the Josh: gpu and famously nvidia stopped producing the Josh: higher end gpus that everyone was using in their computers to Josh: run local inference but also to run video games Josh: at very high fidelity what's happening here is through Josh: the release of the rtx spark which is pretty much the flagship announcement Josh: from this event that's the new super computer laptop macbook competitor it's
Josh: now bringing the power back to the consumer not only for gaming but also for Josh: that edge ai compute and we have pricing for it which i thought was pretty interesting Josh: and competitive the n1 systems featuring this rtx spark they are going to cost $1,800. Josh: And that is for a very high end GPU that you can run locally on your machine Josh: to run edge inference if you want to try small models or to actually run very Josh: high fidelity video games.
Josh: The higher end of the system starts at $2,900. That includes the N1X system. Josh: And that can run like pretty beefy language models locally on your machine. Josh: It has 128 gigabytes of memory. It has, I think, 6,144 CUDA cores, Josh: which for those who are unfamiliar with CUDA cores, it's a lot. Josh: You can just do a lot of AI stuff on them. Josh: And it's really impressive. The other announcement that I really loved is this Josh: thing called a NUC, an N-U-K.
Josh: It's like they create these small computers. If you've ever ran an Ethereum Josh: validator or a crypto validator, odds are it was run locally on a little device Josh: called a NUC. They've built these...
Josh: Single purpose machines now with these new graphical Josh: cards built into it so now you could have a desktop machine that isn't Josh: really a laptop per se but it's meant specifically for Josh: one purpose and that purpose is running local edge inference on your device Josh: running video games the highest fidelity these are really powerful machines Josh: and i have to imagine this is beginning to or i guess this is a continuation
Josh: of the trend that we've been seeing of companies pushing these consumers There's Josh: two edge devices for this type of compute. It was very cool to see.
¶ Jensen's Next Pick
Ejaaz: Yeah, and it wouldn't be a Jensen Huang conference if he didn't bless one of Ejaaz: the next companies that are going to be potentially a trillion dollar in valuation. Ejaaz: And he said it very explicitly on stage. Ejaaz: The next trillion dollar company is Marvel. Ejaaz: Now, I got to pull up the ticker. Yeah, yeah, please. Ejaaz: MRVL and please limit it to the last five days of price action because after
Ejaaz: he said those words, the next day the stock boomed up. I think it was like 100 Ejaaz: to 150 percent, something obscene like that. Ejaaz: And if you're wondering why Jensen brought the CEO and founder of Marvel, Ejaaz: if you're wondering what the hell is Marvel doing, I must say it has got nothing Ejaaz: to do with Iron Man or any of the cinematography around that.
Ejaaz: It is a much more boring kind of company, which is focused on networking architecture Ejaaz: for all these GPUs and data centers. Ejaaz: So a problem that a lot of AI labs have is when they're scaling their data centers. Ejaaz: They get all these brand new expensive GPUs, but you need to be able to connect Ejaaz: these GPUs together and get them to communicate with them at lightning speed as quick as they can.
Ejaaz: Sometimes these GPUs overheat, so you need to make sure you manage the electricity Ejaaz: and make sure that the data is transferred at the right amounts of times and Ejaaz: the right quantities overnight versus day. Ejaaz: There's a ton of complex networking architecture that is required. Ejaaz: There's wiring, pipelines, all this kind of stuff, Marvel as a company, Ejaaz: as one of the leaders that specialize in this.
Ejaaz: And Jensen Huang placed a $2 billion check via NVIDIA into them. I think it was about, Ejaaz: in March, potentially. And then he made this announcement basically saying like, Ejaaz: you know, Marvel is the ones that are going to basically allow NVIDIA to kind Ejaaz: of like build out its moat as a data center kind of like expert. Ejaaz: And their stock went up a massive amount of time. And like he's pointing at Ejaaz: one very important thing, which I want to mention.
Ejaaz: The next bottleneck constraint. So we've spoken about GPUs, compute. Ejaaz: We've spoken about memory and architecture for memory a lot here. Ejaaz: And those stocks have gone up. he's saying the next bottleneck is going to be Ejaaz: on power networking specifically and that's what Marvel specializes in they Ejaaz: specialize in like optical fiber networks and a ton of other stuff there so Ejaaz: that's going to be an interesting one to view but moving on,
Ejaaz: there's been a massive explosion. I saw this all over my feed, Josh, over the weekend.
¶ Blue Origin New Glenn Failure
Ejaaz: And it's actually pretty intimidating to an extent, but this is Blue Origin's Ejaaz: New Glenn rocket, which was being tested at Cape Canaveral and unfortunately exploded massively. Ejaaz: What is going on here? Why did this happen? Josh: Yeah, it's pretty intense. I actually had a post about this. Josh: This is one of my largest ever 5 million people saw.
Josh: And it was because the comparison to this explosion is that it is roughly 20% Josh: of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb that was released on the launch pad of Blue Origin. Josh: It is a horribly tragic happening for the space program, for the space program Josh: as a whole, but also Blue Origin as a company. Josh: The pad, unfortunately, is the only pad that is capable of launching the New Josh: Glenn rockets to Earth, and now it's gone.
Josh: It cost them over a billion dollars to make, and SpaceX needed well over seven Josh: months to rebuild theirs after they had a similar issue. Josh: So this is a pretty large setback and it comes back against the problem that Josh: Amazon needs, I think, the number of 1,618 satellites up in orbit by July 30th Josh: to maintain its license with the FCC.
Josh: It currently has about 300. So the rocket that was supposed to really help with Josh: this contract is now gone and the pad that was supposed to be launching it from is gone with it. Josh: Now, they did have a response that I saw that seemed somewhat reassuring. Josh: It was from someone within the company. I think he's the, oh, Josh: actually the CEO of Blue Origin. It's funny. Ejaaz: I think Jeff Bezos is the CEO.
Josh: Turns out it's this other guy named Dave Limp. And Dave Limp said that now that Josh: we've had access to the pad and integration facility, we could share a good bit of news. Josh: The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and LNG tanks, Josh: liquid natural gas, are all in good shape.
Josh: This is good because those are very long lead times. So it seems like a lot Josh: of the core components that were going to be causing a longer delay Josh: aren't actually affected too badly there was a Josh: support tower that if you watch the video that thing got destroyed Josh: that's the strong arm that holds the rocket up totally got wiped Josh: out he said well good news we were planning to get rid of that anyway so they're
Josh: very much making light of the situation they're trying to work their hardest Josh: i just wanted to share this because it was one unbelievable explosion great Josh: content to watch if you are seeing the video version of this episode but also Josh: that it may not be the worst setback in the world and in terms of getting these Josh: Blue Origin satellites into space. Josh: Thankfully, they still do have SpaceX with the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy,
Josh: and soon-to-be Starship. So a bit of a setback in the space race. Josh: It's unfortunate. SpaceX really could benefit from some competition. Josh: We don't want them going into their IPO as a complete and total monopoly. Josh: But here we are. They're the only ones that can figure it out. Josh: And it's funny, we took space for granted because SpaceX has just been landing Josh: boosters back on barges in the middle of the ocean for like five plus years now.
Josh: And it turns Turns out space and rocket science really are like pretty difficult categories. Josh: So wishing the team all the best. A bummer, but. Josh: Alas, we will carry on. Ejaaz: It's probably like the best timing for Elon Musk. He probably saw that and he Ejaaz: was like, this is upsetting for the industry as a whole, but perfect for my Ejaaz: IPO that's happening in probably next week.
¶ Bots Outnumber Humans
Ejaaz: Moving on, there was this interesting stat that we pulled from Cloudflare, Ejaaz: which basically said that agentic traffic is growing so fast that it now has Ejaaz: surpassed human traffic. Ejaaz: It is over 50% of internet traffic online. Ejaaz: Now, I can't say that this surprises me, as much.
Ejaaz: I think the adoption and growth of people using AI LLMs and setting up their Ejaaz: own agents, vibe coding, different kinds of things that kind of like run autonomously Ejaaz: 24-7 has increased exponentially at this point. Ejaaz: And I think this is only going to get more aggressive.
Ejaaz: We were having a discussion prior to starting this recording, Ejaaz: and I was like pondering about a world where like, you know, Ejaaz: future kids or generations of kids are largely going to Ejaaz: interact with entities or beings online Ejaaz: that don't have a physical body or if they do it Ejaaz: might be robotic and we got into like a debate Ejaaz: around like what that might potentially mean like from an educational stance
Ejaaz: right if you had a tutor that can kind of like personally tailor its lessons Ejaaz: to you for this particular child that might be end that might end up being useful Ejaaz: but for someone who is like engaging in entertainment or leisure with a type Ejaaz: of ai personality it gets a little blurry as to whether this is good or not. Ejaaz: And I guess some versions of this already do exist. Ejaaz: Like I watch a lot of YouTube, I kind of follow my favorite creators online.
Ejaaz: I don't really know them. I Ejaaz: just know them through the screen and through the content that I consume. Ejaaz: So what if it means that it's AI generated completely? Ejaaz: Anyway, I think we're going to see a lot of this going forwards.
Ejaaz: I think we're going to interact with a lot of businesses that are completely Ejaaz: autonomously run by agents, but we would never know because we interact with Ejaaz: them via text or they generate their own physical, sorry, Ejaaz: digital AI avatars, but just an interesting stat and one that has gone under the radar, I think.
Josh: Yeah, well, there's been this concept of the dead internet theory for a very Josh: long time, which basically says that a lot of the internet has ceased to be Josh: human-centric and is now mostly composed of bot activity. And we've seen this before. Josh: We've seen this through mostly an election cycle.
Josh: So you remember back in 2016, a lot of the propaganda that we were seeing on Josh: social media aggregator sites that were being published to the people, Josh: a lot of it was bot activity. Josh: So we've had at least the appearance of bot activity, particularly on curated Josh: algorithmic feeds for a very long time.
Josh: Well, Cloudflare sharing is basically the idea that not only is it greater than Josh: 50% of the content that you see, but genuinely now 57% as of recording this Josh: based on their charts is bot activity, provably bot activity. Josh: So we've officially crossed the chasm. It's no longer a dead internet theory.
Josh: It is a dead internet and we are living in a bot driven world. the Josh: downstream implications of this are going to be interesting Josh: to think about to discuss i'm sure this is a very Josh: long conversation we're going to be having for many many years Josh: going forward but it's official the flipping has happened as Josh: confirmed by cloudflare one of the largest internet providers i Josh: think the largest internet provider in the world so it's
Josh: funny too they were guiding they say in the post for the end of 2027 and then Josh: they bumped their timeline up to early 2027 and now we're in mid-2026 and that Josh: flip has happened so things are clearly accelerating faster than i think anyone Josh: expected and what that means for the internet as a whole for the people the Josh: human users of it is to be determined Ejaaz: Now, one thing that we've spoken a lot about on this show is the idea of scaling laws.
¶ OpenAI’s Compute Crunch
Ejaaz: So that follows the rule where if you want to create a better AI model, Ejaaz: if you want to train a better AI model, if you want to inference a better AI model, Ejaaz: you need a lot more compute that comes in the form of GPUs, it comes in the Ejaaz: form of energy or electricity to power these GPUs and to train these different models.
Ejaaz: Sarah Fryer, the CFO of OpenAI, is one of the few people probably in the industry Ejaaz: that knows to the bones how true this statement is or how true this scaling law actually is upheld. Ejaaz: And she had a very clear statement on her appearance on the All In conference Ejaaz: where she said, compute through 2027 is completely sold out. Ejaaz: And that is the clearest statement ever that the scaling laws are still kind of holding.
Ejaaz: We're still in the early parts of 2026. We've heard similar trends for AI memory Ejaaz: being sold out through the end of 2027, but not really on compute. Ejaaz: And we also know that compute data centers specifically is the current focus Ejaaz: of every major AI CEO in terms of scaling. They're trying to like... Ejaaz: Boots on the ground and build these things, hire all the technical employees Ejaaz: that are required to set these things up.
Ejaaz: It is the most aggressive expenditure. Google just raised $85 billion. Ejaaz: All these IPOs that we're talking about, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX is all Ejaaz: to get more money to invest in AI CapEx. It's the number one focus. Ejaaz: It's Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic, number one focus.
Ejaaz: So for Sarah Fry to also confirm this and say that she feels like, Ejaaz: compute is going to be short for a long period of time through 2030 and 2032, Ejaaz: is the clearest statement ever that OpenAI, Anthropic, Ejaaz: and the likes of other top major AI labs aren't going to go away when it comes to AI capex. Ejaaz: Now, one thing that this forces me to think is, or like challenge myself is, Ejaaz: it probably means then that we are not limited by capital.
Ejaaz: We're not limited by kind of this AI bubble that is being inflated. Ejaaz: We're being limited by physical atoms itself. Ejaaz: Like we don't have enough, no matter how much money you have, Ejaaz: we don't have enough human capital to actually build these things. Ejaaz: And so we're constrained by that. Ejaaz: The regulations determining what land to build on it takes a lot of time. Ejaaz: And that backlog, in my opinion, is probably going to go on for a lot more.
Ejaaz: So we're probably going to see a lot more investments of this trend.
Josh: Sarah Fryer is incredible. I would encourage everyone to go and watch this. There's Josh: a strong case to me that she should be running the company because man she Josh: is incredibly well spoken and thoughtful and revealed a lot Josh: of things that weren't obviously apparent to me one of them talking about the Josh: time frames in which she deals on like i'm very much under the impression that Josh: these ai labs are thinking maybe 12 to 24 months out because further than that
Josh: the supply chains are nearly impossible predict she was sharing that they think Josh: like up to six years out and she's placing guidance for 2032, Josh: which to me feels like this impossibly complicated task. So maybe she's crazy.
Josh: Maybe there's some kind of merit to these ideas, but it was a really fascinating Josh: episode from the all-in guys just to understand Josh: Kind of where OPAIs see themselves and how they plan to navigate through this Josh: next five to six year period in the sense that, like you're saying, Josh: EJS, there's just not enough compute.
Josh: So therefore, they're not worried about any slowing demand because the demand Josh: is going to continue to outpace that compute over the next six years. Josh: And so long as that demand outpaces the expense, these companies are going to become profitable. Josh: They're going to continue to go up. And I mean, obviously, she's guiding for Josh: this positive future, but it seems like they have the numbers to back it up.
Josh: A second thing she mentioned that I found very, very exciting was she talked Josh: about my favorite, our favorite hardware device, the Johnny Ive design device. Josh: She actually referenced it by name. Josh: Johnny Ive was mentioned and I think it was earbud that was mentioned or earpiece. Josh: She said Johnny would kill her if she called it an earpiece, Josh: kind of acknowledging the fact that this is actually something that goes in your ears.
Josh: The things that we have been seeing are somewhat real. Josh: Jason, one of the people who hosts the show, he referenced the puck,
Josh: the earpiece. She did not Josh: Rebuke she kind of was just like yep it's it's happening Josh: it's amazing she's used it yes like Josh: people internally have been using it it seems like this incredible device Josh: and she confirmed that it will be announced before the Josh: end of this year so we have confirmation at least on timelines happening Josh: sometime i would assume around q4 where we'll get more information and
Josh: that is the holy grail of hardware i cannot wait to get those to try it out Josh: just to see what it looks like so that was really exciting uh open ai also they Josh: launched sites which is a cool new feature back to like practical ai use cases Josh: that you can actually use um tell us about sites ejaz i know you've been looking Josh: through how these kind of work so Ejaaz: I'm a very visual learner and one thing that i interact a lot with when i'm
Ejaaz: creating kind of like research and agendas with claude is like can you create Ejaaz: me like a visual artifact um this is basically open ai's attempt to kind of Ejaaz: like not only compete, but excel for that product. Ejaaz: So in their own words, with sites, Codex can turn your work, Ejaaz: ideas and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use and share with a URL.
Ejaaz: Now, why I enjoy this the most is typically when you create a visual artifact, Ejaaz: it's static, it's like an image, it kind of you can kind of tell that it's created Ejaaz: by an AI, because it uses the same font, it's structured in a very particular way. Ejaaz: And what I typically do with that is I take that I take it to code code and Ejaaz: I say, Hey, can you create an HTML version of this and enhance it in a B and C types of ways?
Ejaaz: This is a one button, one plugin, one feature fix that OpenAI is doing via codex. Ejaaz: So it's, you know, they're creating this like super app and this is kind of Ejaaz: like a step towards that direction. Ejaaz: Well, when you ask for a visual artifact, it will now do this. Ejaaz: And what I like about this is it's easily shareable.
Ejaaz: So like you can create your own webpage, you can share it with someone and it Ejaaz: introduces just a new medium and way to kind of read and learn about something. Ejaaz: Like I would love to scroll a custom website with graphics, infographics that Ejaaz: are kind of like responsive to the way that I move my cursor, Ejaaz: that kind of explains concepts very clearly to me, I would learn much faster Ejaaz: that way versus just reading a block of text or looking at a static image.
Ejaaz: And I just think it's a really neat feature and I want to see more companies Ejaaz: rolling out features like this. Josh: Yeah, it seems like it's going out to business and enterprise price plans currently. Josh: So if you have one of those, congratulations, you can go and try it out. Josh: I assume all the other plans will be following shortly after. I'm excited for this. Josh: So many people want to have their own websites. They've dreamed of making websites.
Josh: They've paid tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to have other people build websites. Josh: And now it's a matter of clicking a button and getting something that looks Josh: really lovely and that is functional and that accomplishes all of your goals. Josh: So I think in terms of people, just the average person, this is such a powerful Josh: tool and use case to empower them to build these websites. So that's great.
¶ Grok’s New Coding Layer
Josh: We have two more topics quickly that we could probably breeze through. Josh: The first is Grok launching with Composer 2.5. Josh: I'm just reading the headline here, making it competitive product to Cloud Code. Josh: When I think of Cloud Code, I think of, oh my gosh, this model is unbelievable. Josh: People are actually doing real work. Josh: Awesome. When I think of Grok, I think of, oh yeah, that's right. Josh: That's the thing I used like six months ago and haven't touched since.
Josh: So what's changed over those six months? Ejaaz: Yeah. So it's this one layer that sits on top of the model called the agent harness. Ejaaz: Now, a few weeks ago, we covered XAI or SpaceX AI forming a large partnership Ejaaz: with this company called Cursor.
Ejaaz: Cursor doesn't actually create their own AI model, but they have specialized Ejaaz: remote known as the agent harness, which basically sits on top of any frontier Ejaaz: AI model and tells it, you know, kind of how to work, where to direct prompts. Ejaaz: It kind of like fine tunes it in a very specific way that actually includes Ejaaz: a lot of information that is very valuable if you're able to own it as a company. Ejaaz: Cursor has been able to do that.
Ejaaz: Now, in this partnership, Elon has basically been able to acquire the right Ejaaz: to buy Cursor within 30 days of their IPO. Ejaaz: And as part of this agreement, that means he can take Cursor's very valuable Ejaaz: moat, their harness, slap it on Grok 4.3, which is the latest model that he's Ejaaz: training right now that is, I believe, publicly available now as of this week. Ejaaz: And hey, presto, you have a frontier coding model.
Ejaaz: That's how powerful the harness layer is over the model. It's not just how good Ejaaz: your model is, it's how good your harness is as well. Ejaaz: Like Dario and Sam have both confirmed this. Ejaaz: And actually, if you slap Curse's harness right now on top of Claude Opus 4.8 Ejaaz: or GPT 5.5 high, you end up having a better coding model than those models stand on their own. Ejaaz: So Elon has been able to buy his way to the frontier top.
Ejaaz: Composer 2.5 on its own, which is Cursor's own model that they wrapped a harness Ejaaz: over, is comparable and on par with 4.8 and 5.5. Ejaaz: So if you wrap it around Grok 4.3, I can imagine the same is the case. Josh: That's pretty amazing. They have made some unbelievable progress. Josh: And I think, again, it's a testament to never count Elon out. Josh: They are making incredible progress. Josh: And as we know, they have the training models. They have the hardware.
Josh: They've currently given it out to Anthropic. Elon restated publicly this week that Josh: It is more of a shorter term deal is kind of the idea that they both have the Josh: option to opt out at an inhuman moment. Josh: And I think the terms were 90 days that he said or something like that. Josh: But it is cool to see another competitor in the race. It's great to see another Josh: harness that people are excited about. I mentioned there was two topics.
¶ Google Raises More Cash
Josh: The last one is actually Google's $80 billion race that we covered yesterday in the episode. Josh: So unless there's net new information, I think I'm going to tease it a little bit. Josh: And then if you want to see the full thing, we could go back to our episode from yesterday. Yeah. Josh: Yeah. Ejaaz: And the only quick. Josh: Oh, yeah, what do you have? Do you have any updates? Ejaaz: Well, yeah, the only quick update is they doubled down and raised it to $85 billion.
Ejaaz: So there's an extra $5 billion that they raised at the last minute. Ejaaz: And I just wanted to spend like 10 seconds saying a lot of people's takes on Ejaaz: this raise is it's bearish that Google selling stock, they're not confident Ejaaz: in the future of CapEx. I actually think it's the opposite. Ejaaz: I think Google has $126 billion on their balance sheet, and they can use that Ejaaz: to raise higher debt in the future. So they're being strategic.
Ejaaz: This is financial bookkeeping, creative financial bookkeeping to make sure that Ejaaz: they have a healthy balance sheet in the future for when they need to raise even more money. Ejaaz: So selling a bit of stocks now won't get punished if their stock value ends Ejaaz: up going up more for the fewer shares that they end up having. Ejaaz: So I think this is ultimately a good move. And I just want to go on record saying Ejaaz: that for when it eventually is proven.
Josh: And there you have it so if you have made it to this part of Josh: the episode congrats you're totally caught up on the week you can go touch Josh: grass go enjoy your weekend you have been exposed and up Josh: to date on everything as for the next few weeks buckle up Josh: it's going to get exciting next week we have wwdc from Josh: apple early in the week which is huge this is make or break for them if they
Josh: cannot deliver again apple we're gonna have to write them off to zero we need Josh: the following week is seeming like it's going to be spacex ipo week that's going Josh: to be huge biggest ipo in history and i'm sure along the way, Josh: there will be many other releases. Josh: So buckle up. Very excited. Ejaz, any final parting thoughts before we head into our weekend? Ejaaz: No, that's it. I'm curious if any of you were out at any of the major Microsoft Ejaaz: Build or Computex events.
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