TECH004: Sam Altman & the Rise of OpenAI w/ Seb Bunney
Host Preston Pysh and guest Seb Bunney discuss Karen Howe's book "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman's OpenAI," using it as a springboard to explore Sam Altman's biography, the founding and evolution of OpenAI, and the opaque 2023 boardroom crisis that briefly ousted Altman. They examine OpenAI's unusual nonprofit/for‑profit hybrid structure, its partnership with Microsoft, tensions between AI safety and competitive speed, and the hidden labor and economic costs of training large AI models. The conversation also touches on AGI definitions, human-AI interaction, other labs like Anthropic and DeepMind, NVIDIA's role in AI, and briefly previews their next book on longevity.
TECH003: Elon Musk's Tesla Robotaxi, Optimus, and more w/ Cern Basher (Tech Podcast)
Host Preston Pysh interviews investor and technologist Cern Basher about Elon Musk's ecosystem of companies, focusing on Tesla's pivot away from the Dojo training supercomputer toward custom inference chips, and how this underpins autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. They explore the economics and deflationary impact of Tesla RoboTaxis and autonomous trucking, the massive potential of the Optimus robot to transform labor and corporate balance sheets, the role of Tesla Energy in enabling abundant power, and how these automation trends connect to Bitcoin as a long-term treasury asset in an AI-driven world.