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Exploring the frontiers of Technology and AI
Ejaaz:
Nvidia just spent $20 billion to acquire a company no one's ever heard of,
Ejaaz:
and it's their biggest acquisition to date.
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Grok specializes in a very unique type of GPU, which will help Nvidia gain an
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even larger monopoly on the GPU stack.
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But they're not the only ones making acquisitions over the last week.
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Meta announced their 20th acquisition of 2025, Manus AI, which specializes in
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their very own unique AI agent.
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But I'm feeling pretty bearish about this. I think that this is one of many
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pitfalls that Meta is going to face over the course of 2025 and 2026.
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And in other news, Google has finally dethroned OpenAI at the number one spot for AI app being used.
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It is top of the charts for Apple. We're going to be getting into all of these
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and much more in this episode.
Josh:
Yeah, so let's get into Grok, which is not to be confused with Grok, the other Grok.
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One is with a K, which is the one that we frequently talk about, which
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is made by xai this grok that we're talking about today is
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g-r-o-q which is a totally different
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company that was just recently acquired by nvidia but
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we need to make an important clarification about the acquisition it wasn't actually
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an acquisition of the company nvidia does not own grok what it was is a non-exclusive
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licensing deal for grok's inference technology and a big acqui-hire of grok's
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top leadership and engineers including the founder and ceo jonathan ross who
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we're going to get into why he is so important in a little while.
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Basically, it's this non-exclusive license for the technology,
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the inference technology. And I think that's what we're going to focus on a lot this episode is that
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NVIDIA has the GPU, which we all know is the powerhouse of AI.
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But one of the weak points that we're missing is this inference time,
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this test time, this thing that needs to be quick and very cheap.
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And what we've seen with Google and other companies is as they've started to
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introduce TPUs onto the scene, well, things get a little complicated for NVIDIA's bulky GPUs.
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They're not as efficient. They're not as effective. They're not as cost effective.
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And it left them with this blind spot, which seemingly they filled with this Grok acquisition.
Ejaaz:
Let's get into what that blind spot actually is, right?
Ejaaz:
So to your point, Josh, NVIDIA makes these GPUs that are really good at helping
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AI models train, and it requires a different type of architecture to be able to do that.
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But when it comes to AI applications, what you really want to rely on is how
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quick the AI responds to you.
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I don't know if you've come across this, Josh, but when you write a prompt to
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your AI model, I sometimes get really impatient when it hasn't responded over like 20 seconds.
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I'm like, come on, like, can you think a little quicker and just give me the answer now?
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And this comes down to like that test time compute that you mentioned.
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And the way that you enable a quicker response is if you reduce the latency.
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And there's many different architectural choices that you can make to do that.
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The point is, NVIDIA didn't specialize in that, but this company Grok has.
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And so NVIDIA had a few options to make about this, Josh, which is highlighted in this tweet here.
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Option A, they just kind of continue using NVIDIA GPUs. It costs a lot more
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and it's just inefficient.
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Or option B, they acquire or partner with Grok, which is the leader in these
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specialized chips that allow for lower latency.
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Or option C, they start creating their own specialized
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chips from scratch but it'll cost them a lot of time a lot
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of money at which point grok will already be the number
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one leader so i think this is a strategic position they spent 20 billion dollars
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which is a lot of money for them but um they're able to acquire the number one
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leader in that case and own that monopoly for them and not be afraid of grok
Ejaaz:
kind of taking over nvidia or providing an alternative to nvidia in the future yeah.
Josh:
And if you remember like google recently we made so many episodes about the
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TPU and how it's becoming a legitimate threat to NVIDIA. Why?
Josh:
Well, it's because the TPU is good, really good at something that NVIDIA is
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not, which is this very deterministic computation that happens locally and rapidly
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when it's actually delivering AI to the user.
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So this won't interfere with the core business of NVIDIA, which is largely the
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GPUs and this pre-training part of the world.
Josh:
And we have a post that breaks this down really well, Ejas, that you shared
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with me earlier that I kind of want to take a second to go through if you don't on sharing
Ejaaz:
Yeah so it's this post right here um and it
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describes something called lpu so
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we've heard of gpu graphics processing unit lpu stands for language processing
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unit and as it as its name implies it's specialized for llm specifically and
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efficiently processing tokens into whatever output you would like from your
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ai model right and there's a few things that make this specifically unique,
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architecturally. One, it uses this thing called static random access memory.
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So we've all heard of RAM.
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We've all heard of DRAM, dynamic random access memory.
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SRAM is an alternative to DRAM. So for context here, DRAM is like the most sought
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after type of memory that people want to put into their AI chips to train their models.
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And Josh, you and I have been discussing this a lot.
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The price of DRAM has like 5X'd over the last couple of months.
Josh:
It's kind of outrageous.
Ejaaz:
Because we just don't have enough. In fact, like the cost of a, what was this?
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The cost of like a PC memory card now, Josh, is the equivalent of like the latest MacBook.
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It is just insane out there, right?
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And so Grok has this alternative memory board called SRAM, which they integrate
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into this LPU chip, which is what makes it so unique.
Ejaaz:
Well, what's so unique about it? In a typical GPU, so take, for example,
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NVIDIA's GPU, in order to process an LLM request, you need to take information
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from the memory and take it to the processing unit, the processing part of the chip.
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With SRAM, you don't have to do that as much. You can just store the entire
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model weight on that part of the memory component, and it's able to process
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way more efficiently. How much more efficiently?
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10 times more. So for a singular chip, you can store 10 times more data, or more memory rather,
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and it'll require one-tenth of the energy cost, which makes it an extremely
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efficient chip to get fast inference between your AI model and the person that's using the AI model.
Ejaaz:
That's the unique unlock here, and it's just super cool to see.
Josh:
Yeah. So in conclusion, it's not that NVIDIA bought Grok.
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It's closer to NVIDIA bought the parts of Grok that actually matter the most.
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And a big part of that equation is the talent, the people that were involved
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in Grok. And where did I find out about the people?
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Well, on Chamath's memo from 2016, nine years ago. So for people who don't know
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Chamath Paliapati, I mean, you probably do.
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He's a very, just very influential person in the world of technology.
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And he published his memo from 2016 very early on about this guy named Jonathan
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and about his decision to be the lead investor in the Series A of this small
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little company called Grok.
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And nine years later, fast forward, this tiny little company worth $10 million sold for
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got a license acquisition for $20 billion. And it was fascinating to read this
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memo and kind of see what the world looked like in 2016. It's this funny snapshot.
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It's a very forward-looking and accurate representation of where we would have
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ended up at a time when this wasn't clear.
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So if you remember in 2016, the transformer paper hadn't even come out yet.
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There was no such thing as a transformer.
Ejaaz:
Josh, I was at university in 2016. I had no idea that was happening either.
Josh:
No one did. And yet this memo signaled like, hey, this thing called a TPU is
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going to be very important towards machine learning, which is also going to
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be this very important thing.
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And what's really funny about the memo is the header. It includes a subsection,
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fundamental human need, which says understanding and creation.
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Then it says, is this going to affect 25% of the population?
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Yes, but indirectly. $100 billion by 2045?
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Possibly. A special person? Yes. And then as you read more through the memo,
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you start to understand that he invested in this company because the founder
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and CEO was, or the founder and CTO at the time, who later became the CEO,
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he was the founder and the creator of the TPU, which Google now has.
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This is the dude, the dude running rock is the dude who created the TPU,
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which is now the biggest thing in the world.
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So clearly they saw something early.
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Clearly it was the correct bet. And I mean, good for them. They deserve it.
Josh:
I mean, we certainly were not thinking about these things nine years ago when really mattered
Ejaaz:
Isn't it crazy that he had the foresight to identify both the trend of machine
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learning becoming the most popular form of computation,
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and coupling that with like, we need a new chip.
Ejaaz:
So at the time, GPUs were super popular. You and I were discussing this before
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we started recording, Josh.
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You know, we were using GPUs for gaming. We were then using it for like crypto
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mining around that time. It was becoming more popular.
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But he had the foresight to be like, this is probably going to be used for some
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kind of AI ML inference in the future.
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And he saw it a decade ago and he waited it out. So if you look here,
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it says it would allow them to own around 28.57% of the company.
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Which is just a massive bet.
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I mean, yeah, great. His 10 million is now worth a hell of a lot more.
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I think there's rumors that he made over a billion dollars on this.
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It's just insane to kind of see at that time.
Ejaaz:
I just want to like kind of put into context what this NVIDIA acquisition looks like, right?
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So there are specific types of chips or kind of like hardware that you need
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to make a successful AI model or an AI product in general.
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You need GPUs, which everyone's heard of. Now we We have these LPUs,
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which now, I'm here on this tweet, NVIDIA now also owns Viagroc,
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the number one leader of this.
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And then there's CPUs. And we
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know that companies that are specializing in CPUs include Intel and AMD.
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Earlier on in this year, NVIDIA made very big investments in both of the leading
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companies, AMD and Intel.
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So I just see this kind of like this Thanos grip that tightens with every single
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acquisition that Jensen makes. And the craziest part about this,
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Josh, is that it's all pretty much free.
Ejaaz:
When the news broke that NVIDIA had acquired Grok, their market cap pumped $35
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billion, which paid for the acquisition of more. That's so nuts.
Ejaaz:
It's just crazy. It's just crazy.
Josh:
So that's the big news on NVIDIA this week in an acquisition that feels very
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powerful and meaningful, like it will actually move the needle.
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And now here's another acquisition where I'm not sure the same thing can be said.
Josh:
Just this week, Meta announced another acquisition after the seemingly hundred
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that they've done in terms of personnel and companies this year in a company named Manus.
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Now, Manus is a Singapore-based, Chinese-founded company, and the price hasn't
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been disclosed yet, although it's rumored to be somewhere between $2 and $5 billion.
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Manus is less than a year old, EJS, I believe, and it was valued at half a billion
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dollars just earlier this year, and they raised $75 million. dollars.
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And then in nine months, they went from zero to a hundred million dollars.
Josh:
Oh yeah, here's the post. In eight months, they went from zero to a hundred
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million annual recurring income, which is just this unbelievable hockey stick growth.
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So why would Meta want to acquire that?
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Manus is different than other companies. Manus is more of an agent than a chatbot.
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And if you'll remember, Meta's had a tough time building a chatbot,
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but has a lot more use for an actual agent. So Ijaz, maybe you want to explain
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kind of what this acquisition was,
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why Meta made it, and what their hopes are in terms of what type of value this
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can add to a company that's kind of having a pretty tough time deploying AI
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in an effective and meaningful way.
Ejaaz:
So I'm reminded of something specific that Zuckerberg said in his interview
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with Dwarkesh earlier this year.
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Dwarkesh was like, why are you investing tens of billions of dollars into AI?
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You guys are a consumer app product. And he goes, yeah, I don't want to build the best AI model.
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I want to build the best consumer AI app.
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Meta specializes in consumer apps. We think we're the best at it.
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And we think we can be pioneers in this new AI world.
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We're not trying to get the best model. We just want to build the best consumer experience.
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I think this is another step towards that. So if we kind of like track back
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to like the age of the internet, which we currently kind of live in right now, right?
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We use websites. We download apps. It's a very kind of archaic thing when you
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consider that AI is probably going to automate a lot of this.
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How is that going to be automated? It's probably going to be in the form of
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agents, agents that can automate a bunch of work for you, but also make your
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entertainment and lived experience way, way cooler, right?
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So it can help you with research, but it can also help you kind of discover
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new things, new shopping experiences, stuff like that.
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And Manus AI is one of the top agent producers out there.
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And like you said, Josh, this hockey stick growth to 100 million AIR,
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even though I think that's a pretty vague metric and I think a lot of that can
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be gamed it's still very very impressive and I know a bunch of my friends that
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use Manus in many different ways can I just put my bear hat on for a second
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Josh I know we don't like the bears on the show but my skin is tingling for this one particularly,
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why can't like a Claude code or a Claude in general just kind of.
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Recreate this entire product. I don't understand the unique capacity for here.
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And maybe it's because Meta didn't have the props or the talent to create this
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themselves. So they just saw this as an easy acquisition for a cheap $2 to $5 billion.
Ejaaz:
And now they can kind of just put this ready-made product out to their millions of billions of users.
Ejaaz:
That's also still bearish for me because they've spent $35 billion this year
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alone to acquire like a hundred different people and they've got nothing to
Ejaaz:
show for it. I'm just honestly confused, dude.
Josh:
Yeah, it's aside from the actual strategic thing, you could kind of look at
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what Manus does and then I guess back yourself into the conclusion from there.
Josh:
And you mentioned Cloud Code. I would say Manus is kind of similar to Cloud
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Code in the sense that it's kind of a harness for a base model.
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There are these base models that are interchangeable that Manus accepts because
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Manus does not actually have a base model.
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But it creates this harness around the model that allows the AI to do more interesting
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things than it would if you were to just go to ChatGPT or Gemini.
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A few of those things include tool use and orchestration. So a big thing when
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you're using AI agents is tool use.
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What types of tools are they able to use in order to do things for you?
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And if you think of CloudCode as the agent for building code,
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you could think of Manus as the agent for controlling your computer,
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for doing deep research, for managing files.
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It's more of the consumer-facing version of CloudCode, where it's really great
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at tool use. It's really great at running virtual computers.
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It's really good at analyzing real-world competitiveness through deep research
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of many, many different variables. It's really good at UX and design.
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And it has this unique skill set that doesn't require a core base model in order to use.
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And I think that's important because Meta does not have this core base model yet.
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In fact, I suspect if they're going to continue using Manus,
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they're going to have to use some third-party application until they could deploy
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their new supposed model named Avocado, which is their first closed-source model
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that will hopefully release sometime soon.
Ejaaz:
The way you describe that, like, you know, it doesn't use a base model.
Ejaaz:
It kind of sounds like a rapper, right? And, you know, there are a bunch of
Ejaaz:
critics against rappers. I actually think rappers are great and fine.
Ejaaz:
But isn't that just cursor? I guess it's the same as what cursor is for coding.
Ejaaz:
Manus is for agents in a way, and it doesn't matter what model it uses.
Ejaaz:
I don't know if that convinces me enough behind this acquisition.
Ejaaz:
And I'm purely coming at that from the fact that they have acquired so much
Ejaaz:
supposedly good talent and teams over the last six months, and they've had nothing to show for it.
Ejaaz:
And I'm kind of confused at meta strategy in general. They say that they want
Ejaaz:
to go into consumer AI, but the Vibes app, which is basically AI TikTok that
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they released, got completely swept under the rug. No one cares about it.
Ejaaz:
No one uses their AI chatbot. In fact, their kind of gaming metrics by allowing
Ejaaz:
any Instagram search is now an AI model search.
Ejaaz:
I don't know if you've seen that, Josh, but like it comes up with this really
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annoying kind of summary when you're on Instagram.
Ejaaz:
I'm just like, why are you doing this? I don't really care about this.
Ejaaz:
So I'm not convinced, but let's see in Q1 whether they release this new avocado
Ejaaz:
model and whether it's actually something that people want to use.
Ejaaz:
I'm going to remain kind of like uncertain on this for now, I think.
Josh:
Yeah, I guess in terms of the agentic use case, it does make sense because like
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Meta has, they have billions of people generating real world data all the time
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to improve this. Then they have the glasses and the Quest headsets that they want agents for.
Josh:
They have, like you mentioned, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger as places to use.
Ejaaz:
They have the distribution.
Josh:
They have the distribution. So if you can apply this agent, this agentic force
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on top of it, you can generate a lot of value for the user.
Josh:
So maybe, I mean, again, we'll see. And then one last point is there's this
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funny little chart that I like to reference, which is Yahoo.
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It shows their acquisitions by year up until 2014 because, well,
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if you remember after that, they didn't do so well and then had to get acquired.
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But there's an interesting chart that follows this. And this is kind of reflective
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of Meta, which shows their market cap over time. And you could see that,
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Their market cap exploded and was at the highest it's ever, or just about the
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highest it's ever been as they were making all these acquisitions.
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They were desperately trying to acquire the talent needed in order to be competitive in this new world.
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Unfortunately, that didn't work.
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And just two years later, they were acquired by Verizon for 90% less.
Ejaaz:
They acquired Tumblr? That's crazy.
Josh:
They acquired everybody. They made so many acquisitions two years and one year
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prior to them going under.
Josh:
And what we're seeing with Meta, not to draw a direct tie, but there's this
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kind of almost irrational acquisition spree where they're spending tens of billions
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of dollars on individual people.
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They're spending billions of dollars on companies and they're just trying to
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get talent in-house, but they still have nothing to show for it.
Josh:
They're not able to generate revenue. They're not able to make the products better.
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So I don't want to directly compare it to, because I don't see them going down
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90% like Yahoo did, but it's just a testament to show that normally when people
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start, or companies start acquiring at this rate.
Josh:
It's just something to be aware of is all. But we should probably move on to
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the next bit of news for this week because there's a lot going on and that is
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the Google Gemini app back in the news, right?
Ejaaz:
Josh, my favorite company is
Ejaaz:
officially number one. And it's a massive release being able to say that.
Ejaaz:
So what are we talking about? So Google Gemini is obviously Google's leading AI model,
Ejaaz:
but it's also the name of their AI app, which is a dedicated app like the ChatGPT
Ejaaz:
app that you can go on and you can speak to Gemini 3 Pro and all the latest models.
Ejaaz:
And for a while now, it's been creeping up the rankings.
Ejaaz:
And it was in the top 10 for a while. and then Gemini 3 Pro released and they
Ejaaz:
shot to number two and it's been at number two for a while. They are finally number one, Josh.
Ejaaz:
And this comes after learning a few weeks ago that more people.
Ejaaz:
Or rather people are spending more time using Gemini models than the average
Ejaaz:
ChatGPT user, which is just crazy.
Ejaaz:
And the number of daily, weekly, and monthly active users have been creeping
Ejaaz:
up to the point where it's almost, not quite yet, but almost at parity with
Ejaaz:
OpenAI's ChatGPT users as well.
Ejaaz:
This is a major milestone, in my opinion, because for a while,
Ejaaz:
I mean, you and I know this very well, Google's just been on a rollercoaster of a ride through AI.
Ejaaz:
They created the Transformer paper, so they were supposedly in the lead,
Ejaaz:
but then they didn't do anything with that.
Ejaaz:
ChatGPT and OpenAI ate their lunch, and then they made this massive 180-degree
Ejaaz:
turn. Sergey Brin came back, and they've made this crazy comeback. And it's just
Ejaaz:
Kind of cool to see them take the crown of this position, both at the consumer
Ejaaz:
level and at the chip layer with their TPUs.
Ejaaz:
And now everyone's using Google Search in AI mode. It's just crazy to see this
Ejaaz:
type of comeback from Google.
Josh:
And they forced the $20 billion acquisition for NVIDIA and Grok.
Josh:
I mean, I assume if GPUs didn't become big, that would not have been a pressing issue.
Josh:
But this is not the only time that Google was in the news this week.
Josh:
There's already more news coming out of Google, which is as it relates to energy
Josh:
and infrastructure, EJS, what's going on with this? I didn't get a chance to read it.
Ejaaz:
So the headline here is Alphabet's acquired this company called Intersect.
Ejaaz:
And I think they acquired it for $5 billion.
Ejaaz:
So what does this company do? Intersect is an energy supplier and producer.
Ejaaz:
And so you might be like, well, why is this important? Well,
Ejaaz:
Google's building out all these crazy AI data centers to help house their TPUs
Ejaaz:
and train and inference their Gemini models.
Ejaaz:
But there's one big issue, Josh. there's not enough power to power these GPUs
Ejaaz:
and TPUs up in the first place. There's never enough power. There's not enough power.
Ejaaz:
America's electric grid is constrained at the moment.
Ejaaz:
And it is a big, big worry going into 2026 because everyone's spending...
Ejaaz:
Tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars to create these GPUs.
Ejaaz:
But if we don't have any power to supply them in the first place,
Ejaaz:
then these become kind of defunct pieces of metal that just collect dust.
Ejaaz:
And Satya Nadella earlier this year actually spoke about that,
Ejaaz:
saying he has a warehouse that has hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
Ejaaz:
NVIDIA GPUs, and he can't do anything with that because he can't get the electrical supply to it.
Ejaaz:
So I see this as a very strategic move. What sounds boring on the surface is
Ejaaz:
actually a really important move.
Ejaaz:
And And Google obviously sees meaning here, and it's kind of making its next
Ejaaz:
steps towards solving that crisis.
Josh:
Yeah, part of being an AI behemoth now requires owning the entire stack from
Josh:
electron generation through token output.
Josh:
And it's becoming increasingly clear that if you want to be a serious competitor,
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you must compete across every facet of the spectrum, including actual energy
Josh:
generation, which is what we're seeing from Google.
Josh:
And it's a signal that what we predicted is kind of coming true,
Josh:
where you can't really compete unless you are one of these giant behemoths.
Josh:
And the race is now getting shrunken down, it's tighter and tighter and tighter
Josh:
by the people who could actually afford to compete at this level.
Josh:
Google has won, OpenAI has won, Microsoft's XAI, but there's not that many left.
Josh:
So it seems to me that if you really want to be a big player, you need the money.
Josh:
Google's doing it and they are making big strides in this.
Ejaaz:
And the final topic of this episode, Josh,
Ejaaz:
Daddy has officially spoken. Andre Carpathy has given us his 2025 LLM year in review.
Ejaaz:
We also did a year in review. That episode is out. You should definitely go check it out.
Ejaaz:
But I was really keen to see what Andre would talk about because his history
Ejaaz:
has been across all the major AI model providers.
Ejaaz:
He's worked at Google before. He was actually one of the founding engineers there.
Ejaaz:
When it comes to the AI world, he was involved in the research side of things
Ejaaz:
and OpenAI as well, right?
Ejaaz:
And so I was curious, like, you know, where does his allegiance lie?
Ejaaz:
And some of his takeaways were super fun. One of my favorite takeaways,
Ejaaz:
Josh, I think you would agree with this. I'm scrolling right to the bottom here. One second.
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Is Nano Banana. He loved Google's text to image and image editing generation
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model because he sees it as the future of graphic user interface.
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So if you have to navigate to a website or look at a screen to interact with
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the internet today, the future of AI will be generative.
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And he believes you don't have to go to a website. The website will just be
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custom made and created for you.
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And he thinks NanoBanana is the first step to it. Do you agree with that,
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Josh? I know you're super excited with this.
Josh:
Oh, dude, I love NanoBanana. It's one of my favorite models.
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I think it won my favorite model of the year in 2025.
Josh:
It is a miracle that that thing works. And I love Andre's framing of how he
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thinks it is most impactful when applied to building user interfaces.
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And that seems really cool because as we go to this dynamic world where everything
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is generated in real time, being able to generate really powerful interfaces
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or just visual elements in general is so important.
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And Google, again, is leading the charge. So it's cool to see Andre...
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On board with that and agreeing in a way that is very thoughtful.
Josh:
This is a really good post. I would encourage everyone to go and read the full
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thing if you get a chance, because I really enjoyed it.
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And that is it, folks. A crazy week for a week where supposedly not much is
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meant to be happening. You know, we've got a quiet Christmas week.
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New Year's is around the corner. And we have a casual $20 billion acquisition
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or licensing acquisition, if you want to be technical about it before the year's end.
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I'm excited for 2026. We have an episode releasing soon, which is going to be
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our predictions for 2026.
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Josh and I have thought long and hard about that to the extent where Josh brought out his glasses.
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So please stay tuned for that episode. It's going to be a very good one.
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And we have some really, really good takes.
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But aside from that, if you're not subscribed, if you haven't turned on notifications,
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if you haven't subscribed to our newsletter where we drop alpha twice a week,
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please do all of those things and we will see you in the next episode.
Josh:
Yeah, it's the guys, it's the holiday season. If you do anything for us for
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Christmas, just hit the subscribe button. That'd be pretty cool.
Josh:
We got a great episode that came out earlier this week. We have the predictions coming out on Friday.