¶ Intro
Ejaaz: Welcome back to the Limitless AI Roundup. This week, NVIDIA is well on its way Ejaaz: to becoming a $10 trillion company. Ejaaz: Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion investment in XAI, putting a massive smile on Elon Musk's face. Ejaaz: But Sam Altman's been pretty busy as well. He announced 800 million total weekly Ejaaz: users on ChatGPT, which is a 300 million jump from last update, Ejaaz: which is absolutely insane.
Ejaaz: And Apple might be scrapping their Vision Pro after all this effort, Josh.
¶ AMD's Big Deal with OpenAI
Ejaaz: Lots to cover this week and lots to get into, starting with this breaking news from AMD. Ejaaz: AMD, for those of you who haven't heard of it, is pretty much NVIDIA's main competitor. Ejaaz: They create a bunch of important chips, GPUs, and infrastructure needed to train Ejaaz: and inference new AI models. Ejaaz: And in this announcement, they secured a partnership with OpenAI of a total Ejaaz: of six gigawatts over multiple years.
Ejaaz: I think this specific is five years in total. But the most important fact about Ejaaz: this, in my opinion, is the 10% equity stake that they're offering Sam Altman, Ejaaz: Josh. Did you hear about this? Ejaaz: They're basically offering up a stake for OpenAI in their own company. Josh: Yeah, this is a pretty outrageous deal. Before we get into the deal, Josh: can we just take a moment to look at the chart if you don't mind pulling that up?
Josh: Because the weekly chart of AMD is outrageous. And I think it's very reflective Josh: of the size and scale of this deal. Yeah. Josh: So on the day the news broke, I think the stock was up almost 40%. Josh: It might have closed like around plus 30% or something outrageous, Josh: but the market loves this. Josh: And I think the reason why is because this is a big bet and a vertical integration of technology.
Josh: Like open ai needs chips amd needs someone to sell their Josh: chips too because nvidia is like kind of crushing everyone and the Josh: deal you can kind of view it in two separate ways so amd first Josh: they sell open ai a mountain of chips open ai Josh: promises to buy a gigantic amount of amd special ai chips they're called the Josh: instinct gpus i think which is different from uh nvidia's blackwell um they'll
Josh: start with enough chips to use one gigawatt of power in 2026 so that's like Josh: the electricity needed to light up a whole build a whole city like seattle like Josh: a gigawatt is huge no one's reached it before, but they're going to try to do that in 2026. Josh: Over time, it'll grow to six gigawatts of total energy, which is like this like Josh: crazy outrageous thing. Josh: So like imagine you build a robot army for like a school project, Josh: you need 100,000 Lego bricks.
Josh: Instead of buying a few at a time, you make a deal with the Lego store to get Josh: millions over five years. That's kind of how you could think of this deal with them. Josh: And then on the back end of the deal, OpenAI gets a chance to own part of AMD. Josh: So as part of the deal, AMD gave OpenAI a warrant, which is kind of like a special Josh: ticket to buy up to 10% of AMD's company super cheap.
Josh: Think like a penny per share. But OpenEye only gets this if they hit the goals, Josh: like actually buying and using all those chips without any problems. Josh: So like one example I was explaining to my friend is that if you're trading Josh: Pokemon cards, you give them, you give your friend like a bunch of rare cards now. Josh: And in return, they promise if your collection grows big enough, Josh: you get to own half of their card box for free. So it's kind of a win-win.
Josh: You get what you need now in hopes of earning a lot of revenue down the line. Josh: And that's kind of how you could think of this deal is it's it's a bet on both Josh: of their futures but aligned to the same outcomes so all this only plays out in the case that Josh: OpenAI is able to make these data centers, and then AMD is actually able to Josh: give the GPUs required to make these data centers, which is a big win-win, and the market loved it.
Josh: I mean, this chart is very reflective of how impressive people think this deal is. Josh: There's a lot of talk about this kind of circle of revenue happening, Josh: where OpenAI is paying AMD, AMD is lending stuff to OpenAI, but overall, Josh: the market seems to like it. Ejaz, did you have any takeaways from this?
Ejaaz: Well, that's kind of what I want to get into. You can frame it as one way, Ejaaz: as a win-win, as you said, but it could also be framed as kind of like a house Ejaaz: of cards that might come crumbling down at any point. Ejaaz: As you said, OpenAI is promising to pay for these things, but they don't actually Ejaaz: have the trillions of dollars needed to pay for these GPUs just yet. Ejaaz: And in AMD's position, they don't have the chips or the infrastructure ready
Ejaaz: to go either, right? So it's kind of like a, hey, I owe you and we'll promise to build this out. Ejaaz: And actually, the 10% equity stake that was offered to Sam Altman was to sweeten Ejaaz: the deal in any case, saying like, listen, I know that NVIDIA is the big dog, Ejaaz: but we can deliver on this. Ejaaz: And we're promising you in good faith that you can buy 10% of our company at Ejaaz: a given price if you just trust us and we deliver on it.
Ejaaz: And there'll be milestones that rank this up, right? I want to dig into the Ejaaz: math very quickly because the margins are, as you can imagine, pretty nuts. Ejaaz: So the total number of units that are promised for 6 gigawatts is 5 million Ejaaz: units of AMD processors. Ejaaz: And the price per GPU is around 20 grand. Ejaaz: So total revenue for AMD in this would be around $100 billion. Ejaaz: That's a big number. And I know OpenAI doesn't have that money just yet, right?
Ejaaz: And the gross profit that AMD is taking from this is 50%. That's $50 billion. Ejaaz: But then someone is saying, well, okay, but they're giving 10% of the company, Ejaaz: but then 10% of AMD's equity at Friday's close, which is, I think, Ejaaz: before this announcement was officially Ejaaz: made, or maybe on the day of this announcement, was $21 billion.
Ejaaz: So you're assuming that if you can buy in at a $21 billion valuation, Ejaaz: by the time that these gigawatts are served to OpenAI, they'll probably be worth a marginal amount more. Ejaaz: So really, AMD spent $21 billion to make $50 billion in the immediate terms, Ejaaz: which is a pretty good deal.
Ejaaz: One other thing that I thought of is Ejaaz: This is an unexpected move from OpenAI and Sam Altman specifically, Ejaaz: because he's been in really good cahoots with Jensen Huang and NVIDIA. Ejaaz: And Jensen's been kind of known to rule the roost, and you don't want to ruffle feathers with him. Ejaaz: And this is a direct violation of that. In fact, Josh, I don't know if you saw Ejaaz: this, but he had some supposed commentary, which is detailed in this tweet,
Ejaaz: where he goes, I saw the deal. It's unique and surprising. Ejaaz: Considering they were so excited about their next generation product, Ejaaz: I'm surprised they would give away 10% of the company before they even built Ejaaz: it. Anyway, it's clever, I guess.
Ejaaz: So I don't know directly where that quote is taken from, but you can just tell Ejaaz: that Jensen is kind of like sitting on top of his throne and he's watching what's Ejaaz: happening and he's making sure that the kids behave.
Ejaaz: And one final point is, I saw a tweet going around, I couldn't find it, Ejaaz: which was apparently taken from a statement from OpenAI basically saying, Ejaaz: we're entering this partnership with AMD, but this by no means violates our Ejaaz: partnership with NVIDIA, who we trust and we love so much. Ejaaz: And we're looking forward to taking our partnership with NVIDIA further in the
Ejaaz: future. He actually mentioned NVIDIA more than he mentioned AMD, Ejaaz: which is what the announcement was about. Ejaaz: So there's this cautious treading around, okay, whose GPUs are we going to take, Ejaaz: which is a strategy which Sam has been employing not just in the GPU world, Ejaaz: but with compute in general. Ejaaz: Remember, he had an over-reliance on Microsoft less than a year ago, Ejaaz: and now he's kind of like spread that to Oracle and a number of other providers.
Ejaaz: So just an interesting trend to note. Josh: Yeah, I love this quote from Jensen that we have on the screen. Josh: He's just so hyper-competitive. And then I listened to a lot of the things that he said. Josh: Uh, he just had a conversation on CNBC earlier this morning, I think. Josh: And it was about the Nvidia deal and about the, the nature of the deals. Josh: And he publicly makes it seem very positive. Josh: Some, when he talks about these companies, he is, everybody's great.
Josh: He always makes time to give credit to all of the amazing companies, all the amazing CEOs. Josh: The reality is, is like, he has a very hardcore operator. He is hyper competitive. Josh: And when he sees, sees deals like this, I mean, he, he's right in the sense Josh: that, well, AMD gave away 10% of the company, like Nvidia ships are badass.
¶ NVIDIA's $2 Billion Investment in xAI
Josh: We don't have to give away anything. And I think that kind of leads us into the next deal. Josh: And I mean, Ejaz, you started the show with a $10 trillion valuation for Nvidia. Josh: So please back us into how we get there. Like they had one big deal this week, right? Josh: Which probably plays a large role in that valuation between XAI. Please explain.
Ejaaz: So the headline here is Nvidia is Ejaaz: to take up to $2 billion worth of equity stake Ejaaz: in Elon Musk's xai that's elon Ejaaz: musk's ai model company right they they own Ejaaz: twitter they own the infamous scruc model which is leading all benchmarks and Ejaaz: so this was a pretty major and unexpected announcement um now that we've just Ejaaz: spoken about the amd deal josh i do wonder if jensen got kind of pissed and
Ejaaz: was like well screw you sam i'm gonna remind you that i don't have an overreliance Ejaaz: or a oath sworn to open ai on.
Josh: The conversation that he had with cnbc this morning he made a very explicit Josh: point to say um i'm very excited to participate in all of elon's companies i Josh: intend on continuing to participate yeah my only regret is that i didn't spend Josh: more that i didn't invest more in these amazing companies so it is very clear Josh: this is like this is this is war we are fighting Ejaaz: I i mean what what's interesting is uh this deal promises elon musk and xai
Ejaaz: a heck ton of nvidia gpus and these gpus are going to be specifically used for Ejaaz: elon musk's major data center called Colossus 2, which we've spoken about on this show before. Ejaaz: And if you remember at the time where Elon announced that he was going to build Ejaaz: Colossus 2, when he built Colossus 1, Jensen had said, this is the smartest, Ejaaz: and most effective man that I've ever seen build a data center.
Ejaaz: And he had full faith speaking his positivity towards Elon at that time. Ejaaz: And we're seeing him kind of like lean into it. But him saying, Ejaaz: like, whatever Elon does, I want to be involved in. Ejaaz: It also gets me to kind of think that if Sam or AMD is giving away 10% stake Ejaaz: in their company to OpenAI, do you remember when Trump announced that the government Ejaaz: was taking a 10% stake in Intel, Josh?
Josh: Do you remember? I do very well. Yeah. And then the price action afterwards. Ejaaz: The price action afterwards, which was the stock just surged. Ejaaz: But do you remember Jensen's immediate public response to that news, like on the day itself? Josh: I'm not sure I do. I would assume it was positive in sentiment, Josh: but I don't remember exactly what he said.
Ejaaz: Oh, no. He went on official record in an interview because he was at a conference Ejaaz: that day and he was asked about it where he said, Ejaaz: if the government tries anything like that in terms of nationalizing, Ejaaz: and he used the word nationalizing of NVIDIA's company, if the government forces Ejaaz: him to give over 10%, he will sue them to high haven. Ejaaz: So he made it very clear at the start that NVIDIA is not for sale.
Ejaaz: And it kind of makes Intel and now AMD look a little weak in this move. Ejaaz: And he's going the other way and saying, no, I'm going to take a stake in the Ejaaz: AI model company because we're the big dogs here. Ejaaz: We're top of the S&P and we're going to make it. Ejaaz: And do you have any thoughts before I jump into the numbers here? Josh: Yeah, when you're the kingmaker, you get to decide these things. Josh: I'm not sure Intel really had a choice.
Josh: Like Intel's choice was to slowly bleed out or get subsidized by the government Josh: and become an important company.
Josh: In a world where they were like declining in relevance um so Josh: it was probably a good deal for intel but for yeah Josh: of course nvidia would never have to deal with this they have far too much leverage and Josh: if they and if anyone has a problem with it well it's too Josh: damn bad no one else makes gpus as good as they do um so Josh: i found that interesting one of the other things i found most interesting about this Josh: deal was the actual dynamics of the deal because this
Josh: wasn't a traditional like we're investing in you we're getting an equity swap Josh: it uses special purpose vehicles it uses gpus as collateral there's a lot of Josh: these like weird technically nuanced things about this deal that i think makes Josh: it unique that i would love to walk through you guys if you have any um yeah Josh: i guess walk us through this this detailed post here on twitter yeah Ejaaz: So so here's my understanding of this um nvidia didn't invest directly in xai
Ejaaz: but they invested into an spv a special purpose uh vehicle which you know a Ejaaz: lot of these companies do to kind of like get around certain organizational Ejaaz: hierarchical structures. Ejaaz: And this SPV, I think in total, was raising around $20 billion. Ejaaz: $12.5 billion in debt, and the rest $7.5 billion in actual equity. Ejaaz: NVIDIA is putting the $2 billion of their investment in that $7.5 billion of equity.
Ejaaz: So this is an equity-only thing. It's not in debt. It's going purely to XI, Ejaaz: which is really interesting going a layer deeper nvidia is not actually putting Ejaaz: this money directly into their hands it's coming in the form of gpus josh, Ejaaz: And so if you recognize the pattern that's happening, that's what AMD was doing Ejaaz: with OpenAI that we just spoke about.
Ejaaz: So it's kind of becoming this deal, which is laid out by this tweet over here, Ejaaz: where he goes, I think we're watching the new financing model for GPU buildouts emerge. Ejaaz: The funding is tied straight to the hardware. So if a project fails, Ejaaz: the lenders can seize the GPUs because they hold their own value. Ejaaz: So in effect, NVIDIA's chips are effectively turning into their own asset class. Ejaaz: Isn't that insane? It's basically saying GPUs are the new gold.
Ejaaz: Like screw your equity, screw the money or any kind of collateral that you have Ejaaz: or that bank lending deposit that you've taken out. I don't care. Ejaaz: I want your GPUs. And if you screw me over, I'm going to recall them. Josh: Yeah, this is amazing. It's like it feels like a gold standard, Josh: except for GPUs. They are these very highly coveted, highly complex things that Josh: are the only thing that matters in a world that is run by AGI.
Josh: And to me, this deal is such a fun, forward-looking way of viewing the world, Josh: denominating value in GPUs versus dollars. Josh: Because, I mean, we know the dollar is kind of like, we're in this inflationary Josh: thing, our spending purchasing power is going down, but GPUs are the inverse of that. Josh: And using these GPUs as collateral is such a fun and fascinating way of structuring the deal.
Josh: So why did xai do this well they kind Josh: of they need a way to get more power because Josh: obviously is exploding um their colossus supercomputer Josh: already has 100 000 gpus and this Josh: deal helps extend that in a huge way uh so nvidia wants to stay on that's the Josh: top dog of ai chips especially after that deal with open ai and amd and xai Josh: needs these gpus and they need more money to buy these gpus so who is the best
Josh: person to raise all this money from well the person who's making all the the GPUs, NVIDIA. Josh: And if this deal works and if this Josh: Actually plays out as described by Jensen and Elon and the whole XAI team. Josh: Well, they're very quickly trending towards not only the world's first gigawatt Josh: cluster, but the world's first multi-gigawatt cluster with a couple of hundred Josh: coherent GPUs. And these things are happening very quickly.
¶ The New Financing Model for GPUs
Josh: And it was clear based on the conversation that I heard Jensen have this morning Josh: that he is very bullish on the XAI team.
Josh: And he very strongly believes that they have all the resources to Josh: do so and is willing to give them basically whatever they need Josh: in order to make it a reality because the downstream effects one are Josh: that um well jensen just sells a ton of Josh: gpus but two um the xai Josh: team is very much showcasing the full Josh: capacity of nvidia the company it's like Josh: if you actually have all of the Josh: ability to manufacture these data centers and build them quickly well
Josh: this is how amazing their results can be if you use our product so it's Josh: a win-win for everyone it was a really cool deal um i think Josh: this is this is an exciting new paradigm where we are denominating in Josh: gpus and as a result just very Josh: bullish on nvidia man like through all this they seem to be in the best position Josh: they have nothing but growth there is no world in which the nvidia market cap
Josh: does not keep going up like i i do i very much understand the 10 trillion dollar Josh: uh market cap like sure maybe there's some spending bubble but long-tail effects Josh: of this are huge this is a trend that is not changing for a very very long time i Ejaaz: Just want to point out this is a public service announcement for all the doomers Ejaaz: out there that are listening to this. Ejaaz: Everyone is investing in this thing. Everyone's rolling the dice.
Ejaaz: Everyone's taking this big bet. Ejaaz: And you're seeing the leaders of this industry, like we have on this tweet up Ejaaz: here from Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, Ejaaz: saying, we're working to build Ejaaz: as much compute as we can as quickly as we can over the next few years.
Ejaaz: And he goes on to make the point that I think everyone is underestimating Ejaaz: the demand for compute that ai will have Ejaaz: so instead of all the doomers uh that are saying hey we're Ejaaz: in a capex bubble you know agi hasn't emerged yet Ejaaz: um the front runners the leaders of this entire show is telling us through these Ejaaz: major investments in compute hardware and the deals that they're making that
Ejaaz: compute is necessary and they're going to roll the dice betting on this industry Ejaaz: um and there's a wider point here josh which uh i'm wondering if you agree with, which is. Ejaaz: It's make or break for America at this point. Ejaaz: I tweeted about this yesterday because I was just kind of like thinking about Ejaaz: this whole like America versus China thing. And, you know, we're going to have Ejaaz: a robot episode coming out tomorrow.
Ejaaz: And China's like, in my opinion, leading ahead over there. But it's like, Ejaaz: how does America win here? Ejaaz: Like they need to take these big bets. They need to perhaps take a 10% stake Ejaaz: for the government and kind of like bring all manufacturing on shore and ramp Ejaaz: up their robotics investments and push S&P to all-time highs every single week. Ejaaz: Because if they don't, we risk losing it all.
¶ America's AI Race Against China
Ejaaz: And I think that that is just full-on startup mode for America. Ejaaz: And I'm excited to see where it goes. Josh: I like the idea of just turning blinders to China and not really paying attention Josh: and just keeping the focus on us in-house. Josh: To back in again to your $10 trillion valuation, one of the things that I've Josh: just began to realize recently is the fact that basically the entire world runs on CPU architecture.
Josh: Like everything is run on cpus it's like Josh: that's how we use computers that is how all the computers that Josh: you look at across the world run but with the advent Josh: of ai and most recently reinforcement learning and Josh: inference where much more tokens are generated or Josh: required to be generated in order to give a better response there are Josh: like these two forces at play where one while the natural flow of this ai innovation
Josh: is leading to exponentially more tokens needed to be generated and two all those Josh: tokens are generated on a gpu so if you believe in the idea that ai will be Josh: ambient throughout all the computing in the world then you also kind of have to believe Josh: the entire CPU architecture of the world needs to flip over to GPUs. Josh: And in the world that that's true, that displaces everything with the processor inside of it.
Josh: It is a ginormous industry, bigger than anything that we have like currently today by a long shot. Josh: So to say that a company like NVIDIA still has a 2 to 2.5x left in it seems Josh: very reasonable in that basis, where if you believe that AI is the future, Josh: if you believe reinforcement learning and inference training, Ejaaz: It kind of seems undervalued. Josh: It does. On a short time scale, no one has any idea what the hell is going to
Josh: happen. But over a long period of time, this is very much a sticky trend. Josh: And there's one company very clearly at the forefront. Josh: So bullish on NVIDIA, bullish on GPUs, bullish on all these deals. Ejaaz: Don't forget NVIDIA started off as a gaming GPU, gaming hardware company. Josh: That's how we know about them. Because, dude, I'm a freaking... Josh: I loved gaming. I built my own custom PC. Ejaaz: Tell us the law. Tell us the law.
Josh: Josh. Well, I used to. i gamed all the time and i built a custom Josh: pc to play games on and the thing that Josh: you bought was the nvidia gpus and i would Josh: always just buy the newest nvidia gpu and then eventually well when Josh: ethereum came around they started being used for for like Josh: ethereum mining you could buy some gpus for that and then Josh: eventually it kind of pivoted to back to gaming where these
Josh: things would sell out instantly so i used to do like sneaker reselling Josh: and reselling bots you would try to buy the gpus to Josh: resell them because they were so rare and so difficult to get um and Josh: now it's like it's kind of leveled Josh: up from like the gamers to the miners to like Josh: the computer nerds to like the largest superpowers in the world and now everyone Josh: wants the gpu so listen i'm not saying actually i am saying that these nerdy
Josh: gamers like what they're doing on the weekends you really got to pay attention Josh: to it because they are ahead of the trend sometimes so early that it seems indistinguishable Josh: from like a stupid toy, but they were very much right. Josh: I have had NVIDIA GPUs for well over a decade and I probably should have used Josh: that as signal to buy some more stock because my God, what an incredible company. Ejaaz: Jensen Huang is on a legendary run and the computer nerds are winning.
Ejaaz: What a world my 13-year-old self would never believe in if I had told him this now.
¶ OpenAI's Major Week
Ejaaz: Okay, so Josh, we have a few more items to cover. Ejaaz: Let's get through it. what one tiny item is open Ejaaz: ai had a pretty big week and when i say big week i i actually mean major week Ejaaz: and and what other week is not major for open ai recently um check out these Ejaaz: stats they announced 800 million weekly chat gpt users josh this was 500 million, Ejaaz: four months ago. Josh: Wait, Ejaz, I pulled some fun stats about this 800 million weekly active users number.
Josh: So that means one in every 10 people on earth is using their product every week. Josh: If users were a country, it would be the third largest nation on earth behind only China and India. Josh: You can fill 8,000 Super Bowls every week with your audience and still have Josh: people waiting outside. Josh: And every minute, 79,000 people are using it.
Josh: That's more than an entire football stadium logging in every Josh: 60 seconds so this is like a outrageous Josh: amount of weekly active users and weekly should Josh: not be confused with monthly active users which i'm sure is far more where they Josh: they have to be gradually approaching among the largest user bases in the world Josh: i guess maybe behind meta i'm not even sure who else would be up in that category
Josh: but this is a tremendously large number to do so and not that long of a time period and Ejaaz: I think the other major number to pay attention to here is the 4 million developers. Ejaaz: Now, one thing to be wary of is your product is only as good as your users say Ejaaz: it is, but your product only gets better as much as your developers have access Ejaaz: to it, as much as your developers want to build on it.
Ejaaz: Having 4 million developers focusing on one singular product, Ejaaz: which has pretty much been ChatGPT up until this announcement, Ejaaz: which we're seeing on the screen, which is from their OpenAI Dev Day this week, Ejaaz: is absolutely insane and we have Ejaaz: an entire episode josh and i covered this immediately after the stream we were Ejaaz: one of the first uh brands to put out an episode on this go and check it out
Ejaaz: it's on our youtube page spotify or wherever you listen to stuff um but one Ejaaz: of my favorite takeaways from Ejaaz: this josh was the uh apps sdk um do you remember this this is basically, Ejaaz: a new upgrade, which will allow you to chat with apps in your chat GPT.
Ejaaz: And whilst we've spoken about this already, and I've given you my thoughts, Ejaaz: I had a really interesting conversation with my girlfriend yesterday, Ejaaz: which was she was like, what do you mean you could chat to apps? Ejaaz: And I walked her through the process. Ejaaz: I said, like, well, remember how we're kind of like looking at potentially new Ejaaz: places to move to in America or around the world?
Ejaaz: And you know how you usually type in a prompt and you're like hey like Ejaaz: where do i want to live like uh tell me the top places or Ejaaz: neighborhoods in this city and then she's like yeah well Ejaaz: now you can say um what are some of Ejaaz: the top listings for a home to rent or buy there Ejaaz: and it taps into zillow and then you could say well i want to set up viewings Ejaaz: for these uh places i'm gonna visit there next week and they're like cool do
Ejaaz: you want me to book a flight for you do you want me to book um the bookings Ejaaz: for the listings for you let me give access to your calendar and it does all Ejaaz: of these things for it makes your life easier. Ejaaz: But the thought that I had here, Josh, was this is a completely new way for Ejaaz: the app builders themselves to interact with this new paradigm. Ejaaz: What I mean by that is your app now no longer caters to humans.
Ejaaz: It caters to these AI models. It caters to these AI agents. Ejaaz: And I think that that is not too dissimilar from brands going from brick and Ejaaz: mortar physical stores where they had to care about location. Ejaaz: They had to care about foot traffic. They had to care about where they position Ejaaz: their products when people walked in to online e-commerce, where suddenly people Ejaaz: had to worry about SEO and becoming number one in Google's search page and search rankings.
Ejaaz: So in my opinion, this is like another jump. It's another jump to a different Ejaaz: medium, which people are figuring out in real time. And I don't think they've prepped for. Ejaaz: And that was just my takeaway that I had to share because i was like oh my god Ejaaz: like this is completely like paradigm shifting.
Josh: Yeah they're eating the world i think we see similar dynamics between Josh: open ai and nvidia in the sense that they have Josh: what everyone wants which is one case is gpus but Josh: the other case is users and if you have 800 million weekly active users and Josh: you have an opportunity to plug in to that user flow and actually add value Josh: to the user experience that's a no-brainer and it is very clear that open ai
Josh: is now just trying to bring everyone to them and serve as an aggregator to the outside world. Josh: And I think that's great because they're definitely the best equipped to actually do that. Josh: Um, so yeah, that, that was an interesting little thing this week. Josh: Again, for people who don't know, um, or who aren't up to date, Josh: we did drop the episode yesterday. Josh: So check it out. Do you want to talk about Sora here? Sora update number one? I see a Sam on blog post.
Ejaaz: I would love to. So Sora update number one, but it is also officially the number Ejaaz: one app in the app store, Josh. Ejaaz: Um, so this, this week or a week ago, uh, OpenAI announced their new text to Ejaaz: video model, but they did it with a twist.
Ejaaz: They also announced a brand new social media platform which is kind of like Ejaaz: tiktok but every single video is ai generated josh and i kind of hated on it Ejaaz: and i kind of rounded off the episode with maybe this might work maybe it won't Ejaaz: and i have to say i've ended up loving it since um i've i've created a sorry i'll have.
Josh: You know why i've got to tell me why Ejaaz: Okay i'll tell you why i'll tell you why and uh i don't Ejaaz: know if i'm too proud to announce why but i'll say it anyway um Ejaaz: i like seeing myself feature in all these Ejaaz: random fantasies or ideas that i can come up with Ejaaz: but but but more so i like doing Ejaaz: it with my friends i can cameo uh david hoffman i can cameo you in a fun little Ejaaz: video if i have a fun little idea and share it with you and i i have to say
Ejaaz: i'm not doing it with the idea of like josh look how real this is wouldn't it Ejaaz: be cool i'm not like sending you a hint saying like i wish we could do this Ejaaz: it's more like isn't this a funny meme. Ejaaz: Like, look at us joking around. You and I would never do this. Ejaaz: And so I guess that novelty hasn't worn off for me and hasn't worn off for a Ejaaz: heck ton of other people. Ejaaz: Reaching number one in the app store is no joke.
Josh: Yeah, I think, I mean, for me, I haven't even opened up the app in like two or three days.
¶ Sora's Surprising Success
Josh: So it has lost the stickiness for me. But I think I share your enthusiasm in Josh: the sense that, again, this is a company with 800 million active users that Josh: just dropped a social media application on a whim just to test things. Josh: And I really, I admire that about Sam and the OpenAI team as their willingness Josh: to experiment and to increasingly break down borders.
Josh: I mean, the copyright thing was one of them where you can make your videos with Josh: like Pokemon or SpongeBob or these copyrighted characters and their willingness Josh: to kind of bend the rules a little bit in terms of shipping faster and innovating faster.
Josh: I really admire. So I expect this to be a directional trend with OpenAI where Josh: we see a lot of new technology applications, Josh: product just being launched and just seeing which ones stick which ones don't Josh: but using them as these platforms to kind of complete the development circle Josh: where new technology pair it with a product release the product and just see Josh: what happens and Sora overwhelming success I mean number one in the app store
Josh: All of this, like all of these viral videos that I'm seeing on Instagram and Josh: TikTok and everything like it, it's a really big deal. Ejaaz: So most of the virality is not happening on Sora though, right? Ejaaz: It's happening on like Instagram and TikTok. I've seen a million Sora videos Ejaaz: that have got like millions of likes and hundreds of millions of views, Ejaaz: not on the actual Sora app. So that's probably like a loop that they need to tie in.
Ejaaz: But I have to push back on you a little bit, Josh, because whilst they were Ejaaz: brave with going down the, hey, we're going to infringe on a bunch of copyright Ejaaz: and you can sue us or opt out or whatever. Ejaaz: They've kind of been backtracking on that this week as well. Ejaaz: They've basically been removing a bunch of copyrighted material.
Ejaaz: And it's resulted in an experience where when people are trying to create videos, Ejaaz: and I've seen this myself, you just get an error message saying, Ejaaz: sorry, we can't create that video. It's been prohibited.
Ejaaz: And after that happens two to three times i'm kind of disenchanted i'm disincentivized Ejaaz: to create a video because i'm like well what can i create the whole point of Ejaaz: me coming here is uh me creating a video with um super mario brothers and running Ejaaz: in the game with them right and now i can't do that so so what's the point.
Josh: Yeah i will say the benefit of doing Josh: that five days in versus on day zero is Josh: this like huge astronomical difference because we Josh: did get those five days of virality it did get to number one i Josh: did see in in the time that i was interested in Josh: the application it was fantastic because it had none of the Josh: guy rails so even though they are adding them retroactively i Josh: do like the fact that they were able to do that on day five instead of
Josh: day zero and i think that may have been the difference between number Josh: one in the app store and just like a vibes like meta Josh: experiment where it's just it's just lame off the bat like you Josh: never even get a chance to try the unhinged version at least Josh: we got a little taste of the unhinged version and then also just one Josh: little comment for the people who made it to the end of our last episode i Josh: did drop some sort of two codes for the people who commented i gave
Josh: you all of them i have none left so he just if you have any more please Josh: drop them for the nice people um but thank Josh: you for for listening and replying all of mine got taken i Josh: was like doing a little ponzi scheme with my friends where i would invite one Josh: and then take the four invites so i could drop more um i'm out i got nothing Josh: left but thank you for commenting anyway um and we'll try to get more we'll
Josh: try to refill them because i want to give the people who listen a little reward Josh: especially for those that make it to the end so thank you again yeah but yeah yeah um Ejaaz: Yeah as josh mentioned we are working with open Ejaaz: ai to get you a bunch of codes for limitless listeners Ejaaz: you guys have been the most enthusiastic ever so we have Ejaaz: got you there all right josh apple is potentially Ejaaz: shelving the development of their cheaper
Ejaaz: lighter vision pro revamp called the vision Ejaaz: air because they might want to create a bunch of spectacles you know some glasses Ejaaz: that do ai stuff similar to metaglasses and maybe even similar to what um open Ejaaz: air might release what do you have to say to that because i got a pretty smug Ejaaz: face uh on my i've got a pretty smug look on my face right now because i thought Ejaaz: vision pro was the future
Ejaaz: I thought they were going to create something cool new and now they're going to be making glasses. Josh: I have a couple of points to this. The first point I want to make is about the Josh: glasses that exist in the market, Josh: particularly regarding yours that you ordered a couple of weeks ago. Josh: Where are they? Where are those MetaQuest glasses? They're not here. Josh: Yeah. Why are they not here? They haven't even shipped the damn product.
Josh: No one could get the freaking thing. Josh: They don't work. They suck. They're not delivering them. They're not available. Josh: There's no prescriptions available. If you have glasses, you literally cannot Josh: wear them because they do not support a lot of prescriptions. Josh: It's just like this disaster of a release. It's not a real product. Ejaaz: I'm looking at my email. right now and it still says hasn't been it's not even Ejaaz: out for delivery garbage.
Josh: I'm being screwed oh my god see listen i Josh: hate saying i told you so but you know maybe i told you so anyways Josh: one day um there is no serious player in the Josh: glasses market right now so that is one reason Josh: why um i think there's a lot of things happening at apple that Josh: are probably contributing to this one of them one of the most important ones actually Josh: is the leadership shake-up that we're seeing now there's been a lot of executives
Josh: in the apple c-suite that have been around for decades multiple decades plus Josh: and a lot of them are either leaving or restructuring or changing where they're Josh: going to be tim cook is making it clear that um he is starting to transition Josh: out of the ceo spot there will be the new i think he's the chief of product Josh: the chief product engineer john Josh: terminus john termis uh yeah awesome they've recently started giving a lot of
Josh: publicity he's likely to step into the ceo slot i'm hoping he has a role in Josh: strategic changes in the company because OpenAI is very much, or oh my God, OpenAI, Josh: Tim Cook is very much an operator. He's a business operator.
¶ Apple's Vision Pro and Future Plans
Josh: He ran Apple from like whatever small market cap they were to this astronomical Josh: giant they are today. But as a result, product innovation suffered. Josh: So with a new product leader at the forefront leaving this company, Josh: I'm hopeful that they will start to take their products much more seriously. Josh: And perhaps the glasses are a pivot to that.
Josh: I think the Vision Pro, and I think a lot of people kind of think that is a Josh: stepping stone towards the glasses form factor. Josh: Switching from improving the Vision Pro to just going right for the glasses, Josh: I would like to believe means that they have just kind of innovated a little Josh: faster than they initially intended. Josh: We saw the technology get micro-sized for the iPhone Air.
Josh: I think that's a really good proof of concept. We saw the really small displays, Josh: all the compute being left in the plateau. Josh: It's this like really elegant, beautiful device. They stick down in glasses. Josh: They have a killer product.
Josh: I think this is the right move. I'm a little disappointed because man the Vision Josh: Pros are fantastic I mean look at this photo they're amazing they work so well Josh: I don't have a pair no because they were $3,500 it's a lot of money to justify Josh: something I won't use that much Josh: because there's just again there's no ecosystem developer support but as a product Josh: they're amazing so it makes me sad that
Josh: We're not getting a ton of innovation on that front, but I'm hopeful this means Josh: that the glasses will come sooner. Josh: And when Apple delivers glasses, Ejaz, I promise you, they will be actually good. Josh: And they will deliver them on time, and they will have high-resolution displays, Josh: and they will have a lot of utility in an ecosystem that you actually participate Josh: in instead of this weird siloed meta thing.
Ejaaz: And it'll just come out in 2030 or 2035, maybe. Yeah, we'll just have to wait a decade. Josh: It'll be a long time. So don't expect glasses anytime soon. But in the meantime, Josh: we will have hardware from OpenAI that we can actually enjoy because we'll have Josh: some good hardware on the AI front, which I think will hopefully be able to Josh: hold us over until our super cool glasses get released.
Josh: But I think that's probably everything, right? Unless you got more beef, Josh: unless you want to find some more about Apple. Ejaaz: No, no, no, no. I largely agree with your point of view. I just have been bearish Ejaaz: at the way that they've been delivering.
Ejaaz: I hope this new leadership change actually happens, Josh. and if they're putting Ejaaz: a hardware guy at the helm, that is extremely bullish because that means he's Ejaaz: going to come up with a new hardware product and he's probably not going to Ejaaz: be another, it's probably not going to be another iPhone. Ejaaz: It's probably going to be something major. He wants to put his foot down, Ejaaz: stamp his kind of like legacy. So I'm excited about that.
Ejaaz: But that is it for this week's roundup episode, folks. Ejaaz: As Josh mentioned, the thing that we're giving out are Sora codes. Ejaaz: Josh may not have many right now, but he will have plenty in about two days Ejaaz: time when I get a response from the OpenAI folks, Josh. That is the latest update, by the way. Josh: Okay, all right. Because I was going to say, don't promise the people we can't Josh: give, but we do have insider info.
Ejaaz: We do have insider info. So this week, Josh, what should we incentivize listeners Ejaaz: to do to get an invite code? You get to pick this week. Josh: Well, they could just say that they made it to the end of it. Josh: Like, do you want to give them a keyword or something? Like, Josh: if you're still watching this episode, you deserve everything. Josh: The fact that you're stuck with us for like almost 40 minutes, Josh: like, whatever I could give, please take it. So comment.
Ejaaz: Jensen huang he's the guy comment jensen huang and we'll get you a sora code.
Josh: Okay ijaz is gonna get you the story he's like plugged into this whole of an Josh: hour world he's the one that chatted the people early in this week check out Josh: the episode if you haven't it's fantastic all about memory and pulse we'll work Josh: on getting you those codes you could try sora and then you could let us know Josh: if you like it or hate it because i'm very much in the hater basket ijaz is a lover
Josh: but i want you to have the opportunity to try and if you haven't please don't Josh: forget to like the videos subscribe share with your friends all the good things Josh: and we're back tomorrow with an exciting episode about robots there's a new Josh: robot announcement no one knows it yet but it's coming and it's going to be Josh: tomorrow we're going to talk all about it and i will see you guys then thank Josh: you for watching peace oh Ejaaz: And cameo us on sora yay.