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AI Podcasts

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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July 16, 2025

The Humble Truths Behind Bombastic AI Papers

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Benchmarks are broken. The ML community can no longer rely on leaderboards as a proxy for truth. The new frontier is developing robust, qualitative explanations for why models succeed or fail.
  2. Embrace the illusion. The most effective models aren’t finding universal laws but are constructing powerful, computationally efficient illusions of them. Progress lies in refining these illusions, not in a futile search for Platonic perfection.
  3. Think like a physicist. The future of foundational AI research is to treat models as complex physical systems. The task is to design parametric models where stochastic processes, like SGD, can efficiently "relax" into a state that approximates the data distribution.
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July 14, 2025

Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Incumbent Advantage is Real:** Existing SAS companies with API-first platforms and deep domain knowledge are well-positioned to leverage AI as a TAM-expanding, sustaining innovation.
  2. **Startups Should Hunt Greenfields:** The biggest disruption will happen in unstructured industries (legal, healthcare) that were previously resistant to software. This is where new, AI-native giants will be born.
  3. **The New Bottleneck is Human:** The speed of AI adoption is no longer limited by technology, but by the organization's ability to adapt its workflows and people. The most valuable skill is now managing agents, not just tasks.
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Crypto Podcasts

March 7, 2025

Macro Trends, Trump’s Evolving Crypto Strategy, and Aave’s New Proposal | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The crypto market is increasingly influenced by macroeconomic trends, requiring a shift in strategy from short-term gains to long-term resilience.
  • 2. The Trump administration's crypto strategy could reshape the U.S. as a global crypto hub, with significant policy implications.
  • 3. Aave's buyback proposal highlights a trend towards integrating traditional financial strategies in crypto, aiming for sustainable growth.
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March 7, 2025

A Solana Data Deep Dive With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The SIMD 96 update has increased inflation and highlighted the need for better alignment between validators and stakers.
  • 2. Pump.fun's move to create its own AMM poses a significant challenge to Radium, which must innovate to maintain its market position.
  • 3. While meme coins drive significant activity, Solana's growing stablecoin supply suggests a robust foundation for future development.
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March 7, 2025

Amanda Cassatt on Crypto’s Branding Problem, Scaling Serotonin, and Yapping

The Rollup

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Crypto projects must prioritize genuine market needs and avoid hype-driven strategies to achieve long-term success.
  • 2. Empowering senior leaders and fostering a culture of trust and delegation are crucial for scaling a marketing firm like Serotonin.
  • 3. Token launches should focus on engaging committed holders and navigating the evolving regulatory landscape to ensure sustainability.
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March 6, 2025

Beyond Bitcoin: What Tokens Should Be in the U.S. Crypto Reserve?

Unchained

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Bitcoin and Ethereum are prime candidates for a U.S. crypto reserve due to their size and decentralization.
  • 2. The U.S. must address regulatory clarity to retain and attract top crypto talent.
  • 3. Prioritizing U.S.-made crypto assets can bolster domestic innovation and maintain technological leadership.
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March 5, 2025

Bits + Bips: Why a US Strategic Crypto Reserve Doesn’t Even Make Sense

Unchained

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Trump's crypto reserve proposal has united the crypto community in skepticism, questioning its strategic and economic rationale.
  • 2. Economic indicators point to a potential slowdown, with geopolitical tensions further complicating market outlooks.
  • 3. Stablecoins and institutional adoption are pivotal in the evolving crypto landscape, offering both opportunities and challenges.
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March 5, 2025

Jim Bianco: Is Trump Trying to Wreck the Economy?

Bankless

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Trump's policies are reshaping the economic landscape, with significant implications for both traditional and crypto markets.
  • 2. The creation of a crypto strategic reserve introduces new dynamics, but also risks undermining the decentralized ethos of crypto.
  • 3. Tariffs are a double-edged sword, offering potential benefits in trade negotiations but posing risks to economic stability.
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