200GW Hiding in Grid, Sodium Batteries 10x Cheaper, Wave-Powered Datacenters w/ Ramez Naam | EP #280
AI’s growth is colliding with the limits of electricity, grids, and long-duration clean power
AI’s growth is colliding with the limits of electricity, grids, and long-duration clean power
Sam Altman on building startups in the AI era: trust exponentials, focus ruthlessly, and design for broad empowerment
Kimi K3 becomes the lens for a wide-ranging debate on open AI, China’s rise, edge intelligence, forecasting, infrastructure, and robotics.
A wide-ranging AI episode on regulation, open-weight models, self-improving systems, Liquid AI’s edge strategy, AI avatars, healthcare, patents, and longevity biotech.
A blunt, wide-ranging conversation about debt, discipline, and the habits that shape financial security
All-In debates the AI mega-IPO race, frontier-model economics, China’s AI controls, and Trump Accounts
Cyan Banister on conviction, weirdness, AI, games, and investing in futures before they look obvious
Sierra’s co-founder on frontier AI demand, token economics, enterprise deployment, and building with intensity
AI budgets tighten, frontier-model politics intensify, and software roll-ups get a fresh look
Holly Elmore argues AI safety needs political pressure, not insider deference
A wide-ranging episode connecting politics, AI competition, semiconductor bottlenecks, and the economics of massive compute buildouts
A case for broader diversification beyond the S&P 500
Fed Chair Warsh keeps rates unchanged while signaling a simpler, more data-dependent Fed
A cautionary framework for valuing SpaceX, AI, and other story-heavy businesses
A wide-ranging conversation on discipline, risk, resilience, and finding clarity through hard choices