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AI Podcasts

July 22, 2025

Live Demo & Review of the Newest AI Browsers: Dia vs Comet

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Comet is the agent, Dia is the assistant. Comet acts on your behalf across your digital life (scheduling, buying, emailing), while Dia excels as a hyper-competent assistant for automating complex research and content creation.
  2. The killer app is integration, not just chat. The browser that wins will be the one that most seamlessly orchestrates a user's entire digital ecosystem. Comet’s ability to connect and push tasks to core apps gives it the current edge.
  3. The sleeping giants are waking up. With vast user data and powerful proprietary models, Google and OpenAI’s eventual entry into the agentic browser market will be the next major catalyst, likely redefining the competitive landscape.
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July 21, 2025

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware is the New Frontier. The scaling race isn't about building more data centers for the same old chips. The next 1000x improvement will come from a fundamental paradigm shift that works with physics, not against it.
  2. Noise is a Feature, Not a Bug. The future of efficient computing lies in harnessing stochasticity. The "noise" we spend billions to suppress in classical chips is the very resource that can power probabilistic AI models with unparalleled efficiency.
  3. Prepare for an Algorithmic Renaissance. The dominance of Transformers is a temporary state dictated by current hardware. As thermodynamic computers become available, developers and researchers should dust off their probabilistic ML textbooks—the algorithms of tomorrow will look very different.
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July 21, 2025

José Macedo and Pondering Durian: The Birth of Delphi Intelligence

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in AI's Tailwinds: The essential question for any AI investment is: "Does this business get better as foundation models improve?" Companies fighting against the current of AI's scaling laws are on the wrong side of a powerful trade.
  2. The "Mag 7" Will Expand, Not Just Turn Over: AI is not a zero-sum game for incumbents. The total addressable market is set to 10x as AI drives labor costs toward zero, creating room for a "Mag 25" and turning today's $500B companies into tomorrow's $5T behemoths.
  3. Private Market Alpha Exists, But Edge is Paramount: The private AI market cap is a mere ~$700B, signaling massive growth potential. However, like in crypto, investors must be paranoid about their "edge," as the best deals require deep ecosystem access to avoid negative selection.
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July 21, 2025

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **AI Isn't a Feature; It's a New Infrastructure Primitive.** For the first time, developers are outsourcing logic, not just resources. This fundamentally changes how software is built, valued, and sold.
  2. **Abandon Zero-Sum Thinking.** The AI market is in a massive expansion phase, not a consolidation battle. Value is accruing at every layer of the stack simultaneously; assuming one layer's gain is another's loss is a flawed thesis.
  3. **The Future is More Developers, Not Fewer.** AI tools augment productivity and lower the barrier to entry. This elevates the developer's role to focus on product design and workflow definition—the *real* hard problem in software.
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July 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Brief #1 - Chutes

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **A Killer Value Prop:** Chutes makes deploying powerful AI models 85% cheaper and as easy as building a website on Squarespace.
  2. **The Investor's Dilemma:** While all revenue is used to buy back the Chutes alpha token, this currently covers only 10% of the daily token emissions. The token's price stability is heavily dependent on external market demand outstripping this inflation.
  3. **Watch for Catalysts:** Two key events could dramatically increase buy pressure: the imminent launch of BitTensor subnet tokens on Solana and an anticipated wave of institutional capital from newly formed crypto hedge funds.
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July 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 122 - ZEUS Weather - Subnet 18 $TAO

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Specialization Unlocks Performance.** ZEUS proves that a decentralized network of specialized AI agents can outperform monolithic, state-of-the-art models, achieving a nearly 40% lower error rate in weather forecasting.
  2. **Revenue Sharing is the Next Evolution.** The plan to distribute API revenue directly to network participants in stablecoins represents a major step toward sustainable subnet economies, moving beyond token buybacks and emission-based rewards.
  3. **The Valuation Gap is the Opportunity.** Despite massive potential, subnets have extremely low market caps compared to their Web2 equivalents. For long-term believers, this asymmetry presents a compelling, albeit early, investment thesis.
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July 19, 2025

SN52 :: Tensorplex Dojo :: High-Quality Human-Generated Datasets on Bittensor

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Human Intelligence is the Ultimate Moat: In an era of synthetic data, Dojo is creating a defensible moat by generating proprietary, high-quality human preference data. This is the raw material for the next generation of fine-tuned, specialized models.
  2. A New Paradigm for Validation: Dojo’s mechanism of using subtle "perturbations" to test labelers is a breakthrough. It solves the cold start problem of validating subjective human feedback in a decentralized network.
  3. The Future is Human-Agentic Collaboration: Dojo is evolving from a data-generation subnet to a platform for human-agentic workflows, with applications in robotics, video analytics, and 3D generation. In the long term, it aims to be a crucial tool for aligning AI with human values.
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July 18, 2025

Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SAAS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Your Pricing Model Is Now a Dynamic Weapon. The five-year pricing plan is dead. You must build the infrastructure and culture for constant experimentation and rapid iteration. If you’re not re-evaluating your model quarterly, you're falling behind.
  2. This Is a CEO-Level Mandate. Shifting to usage-based pricing is a full-company transformation that requires top-down vision. The CEO must act as the "pricing dictator" to align sales, product, and finance around a unified strategy of value creation and capture.
  3. Your Product Team Now Owns Revenue. In a usage-based world, the core value metric *is* your revenue. Product and engineering teams must become obsessed with driving the specific usage that customers pay for, making their impact on the bottom line completely objective.
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July 17, 2025

Can AI Be Creative? With AI Artists Mario Klingemann and Shavonne Wong

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI as a System, Not a Tool: Advanced AI art projects are not just prompt-driven tools but autonomous systems. They use feedback loops (DAOs, user interaction) to develop their own "taste" and creative trajectory, aiming for a level of agency beyond simple human puppeteering.
  2. AI Reveals Human Vulnerabilities: AI companions act as a social mirror, showing that humans fundamentally crave connection and non-judgmental spaces. We are turning to AI to fulfill core needs that are often unmet in our human-to-human relationships.
  3. The Artist's Dilemma: Adapt or Perish: Resisting AI is becoming a losing battle. The future for artists isn't about competing with AI on replication but on finding what AI can't do, critiquing it from within, or carving out a niche for "100% human-made" work in a world of synthetic media.
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Crypto Podcasts

May 20, 2025

Bits + Bips LIVE - May 19th, 2025

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tariffs Trump Tranquility: A 10% tariff floor could trigger summer stagflation, disrupting current Goldilocks market pricing.
  2. Stablecoin Bill is Bellwether: The fate of the "Genius Act" will significantly impact the trajectory of broader US crypto regulation and investor confidence.
  3. Institutional Crypto Evolves: Coinbase's S&P 500 nod and the push for diverse crypto ETFs (like Solana) underscore the sector's maturation, even as regulatory hurdles for features like staking persist.
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May 19, 2025

The State of Venture Today | Roundup Clip

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. LP Scrutiny Intensifies: Expect smaller fundraises for many VCs, especially in crypto, as LPs demand real returns (DPI) and, for crypto, regulatory certainty.
  2. Endowment Exodus Looms: Yale's $6B private equity sale signals a potential LP supply shock as other endowments may follow suit due to tax changes and liquidity needs.
  3. Elite VCs Consolidate Power: Capital will increasingly flow to the top 5-10 VC firms, particularly those with AI expertise, hastening the decline of underperformers.
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May 19, 2025

The Bull Case For Ethereum | Ryan Berckmans & Tom Dunleavy

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's Valuation Paradigm Shift: Value ETH based on Total Value Secured (TVS), not diminishing transaction fees, as it aims to secure trillions in global assets.
  2. L1+L2 is the Winning Formula: Ethereum's strategy of scaling L1 alongside a diverse L2 ecosystem (offering political/business model diversity) is designed to onboard the world.
  3. Coordination & BD are Crucial: Renewed focus on cohesive narrative, business development (like Etherealize), and community alignment are vital to executing Ethereum's ambitious roadmap.
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May 19, 2025

The Genius Behind the Biggest Crypto Exchange in the Sonic Ecosystem

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Performance is Paramount: Sonic's best-in-class EVM performance is a non-negotiable foundation for ambitious DeFi protocols.
  2. Organic Traction Trumps Hype: Sonic's user-driven ecosystem is cultivating genuine DeFi engagement and sustainable innovation.
  3. AI Will Onboard the Masses: Natural language AI interfaces are set to revolutionize crypto accessibility, making it usable for everyone.
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May 19, 2025

Arthur Hayes: Money Printing & The Crypto Bet

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Brace for Capital Controls: The US is likely to implement capital controls over politically unpalatable tariffs to rebalance its economy, fundamentally changing global capital flows.
  2. Money Printing is Non-Negotiable: Regardless of political rhetoric, the US will print money to manage the fallout from capital flight and fund government spending, massively benefiting hard assets.
  3. Bitcoin & Gold are Your Life Rafts: In an era of devaluing fiat and financial repression, Bitcoin and gold are critical for wealth preservation and growth. Ditch long-term bonds.
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May 19, 2025

Logan Allen: Nockchain's Global Competition for Useful ZK Proof of Work Miners Kicks Off

Delphi Digital

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ZKPoW is a Novel Force: Nockchain's ZK Proof of Work directly builds valuable ZK proving capacity, turning mining into a productive, network-enhancing activity.
  2. Hardware Revolution Looms: The mining competition will drive innovation in ZK-specific hardware (FPGAs, ASICs for polynomial math), creating a new hardware market distinct from Bitcoin's.
  3. Intent-Driven Future: Nockchain's architecture points towards a future of composable "micro-apps" and verifiable services, where on-chain logic focuses on proof verification, potentially enabling new decentralized AI/ML applications and "computational commodities."
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