We Just Lost Another Battle to AI
Humans just lost another one: Chinese humanoid robots officially beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record, running 9.32 seconds. Nick and Jack break down what the robotics inflection point means for jobs, robocops, personal robot assistants, and the coming robot Olympics. Plus: why Paul Graham's advice to 17-year-olds (build your own LLMs from scratch) misses the mark, Nvidia's rumored $30 billion investment in Perplexity and the circular financing question, Qwen's new open-weights models that control your phone and desktop, and listener Q&A on whether AIs will end up running businesses…
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