John Kohl

God. Family. Music. Life. CEO of TuneGO.

[John Kohl @johnkohlai]

Next level

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re interested in learning why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

America's tech leadership has always come from ecosystems where the best ideas compete.

AI is no different. Open-weight models expand access, speed innovation, and give organizations real control, and long-term leadership requires choice across the full ecosystem.

Dell is proud to co-sign this letter and help build that future here.

[@jason @Jason]

Another big vote for open source — this time from Big Jen

Frontier models are exceptional, but none of us wants another duopoly

Not do we want to be beholden to whims of a small set of individuals for our sovereignty

Startups must move off frontier models and use open source for their very existence

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - They're all cheating.

[John Kohl @johnkohlai]

Smart

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Elon’s original vision of an open, American AI was right.

He could still flip Grok to open source which could be checkmate.

Why?

If you flip Grok open source, you necessarily move all margins out of the model layer and down into the infrastructure (chips + CSPs) and above to apps.

He owns a massive data center build, owns next gen inference AI and owns the most used app (Cursor). So arguably he would make *more* margin by doing this. Then moving the DCs to space makes even more sense.

[I love Tesla 🔋🚀 @JC70769]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

Elon Musk reveals the motivation paradox inside the AI race: he needs a deliberate suspension of disbelief to keep building.

"I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building the companies, and then I'm like, should I be doing this?"

"Because if I'm sacrificing time with friends and family, then ultimately the AI can do all these things."

"Does that make sense? I don't know."

"To some extent, I have to have deliberate suspension of disbelief in order to remain motivated."

"So I guess I would say just work on things that you find interesting, fulfilling, and that contribute some good to the rest of society."

The founder racing to build AI says the hardest problem is not capability. It is preserving meaning when the machine can eventually do the work.

His rule is brutally human: build what matters now, even if the endpoint makes today's effort look irrational.

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk), CEO of Tesla, in an interview with @CNBC

[John Kohl @johnkohlai]

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[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.

Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.

This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Elon Musk: "If you're a normal human being and you speak freely, there are times when you will say things that you subsequently regret or are foolish, of course! But if you're constantly going through a filter, now you're not being real."

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: “If you want to recruit talented and driven people, you must state the mission, the problem to solve, and show you’re willing to pour blood, sweat, and tears into it with a convincing reason why it matters.
Motivation comes from three things: enjoying the work itself, fair financial rewards, and knowing the work will make a real difference in the world.”

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just reduced ten thousand years of human progress to a single number.

It didn’t even register.

Musk: “How do you decide what progress a civilization has made? One of the most objective ways to do that is the amount of power that any given civilization has been able to harness.”

Not GDP. Not military power. Not cultural reach.

Energy. Captured and put to work. The only variable the universe respects.

A Soviet astrophysicist named Kardashev turned this into a scale.

Type I harnesses the energy of its planet.

Type II harnesses its star.

Type III harnesses its galaxy.

There is no Type Zero.

We’d need one.

Musk: “Right now, we’re very low on the Kardashev Type I scale. We currently use much less than a trillionth of the power output of the sun. A trillion is a million times a million. We are practically nowhere on the Kardashev Type II scale.”

Every reactor. Every dam. Every turbine. Every solar panel. Every barrel of oil ever pulled from the ground.

Combined. A trillionth of the sun.

Ten thousand years of civilization. On the only scale the universe uses to measure intelligent life, we are statistically invisible.

The rest of the world argues about which fuel to subsidize.

Elon is building at the only scale this equation respects.

Tesla. Solar. Batteries. Starship. Every company he runs is aimed at the same point on the Kardashev Scale.

That’s not a business empire. That’s a blueprint for moving a civilization up a scale it doesn’t know it’s on.

The Kardashev Scale doesn’t care about your politics. Doesn’t count your GDP. Has no room for your borders or your wars. It reduces every civilization in the universe to a single number.

The universe keeps one scoreboard. It doesn’t care who reads it.

Elon builds like he has.

[John Kohl @johnkohlai]

Priceless insight

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang doesn’t use AI to think less. He uses it to think past his own limits.

Huang: “90% of my instructions are actually conflated with questions.”

The man running a five trillion dollar company doesn’t give AI commands. He interrogates it.

Huang: “I take the answer from one AI, give it to the other AI, ask them to critique itself.”

Same question. Multiple models. Pit them against each other. Keep only what survives.

Not because the machine can’t be trusted.

Because challenging it is where the sharpest thinking happens.

Huang: “The process of critiquing, criticizing the answers, applying your critical thinking, enhances cognitive skills.”

AI doesn’t replace your thinking. It demands more of it than you’ve ever given.

Every question takes reasoning. Every answer takes scrutiny. The machine isn’t thinking for you.

It’s pulling thinking out of you that didn’t exist before you sat down.

Huang: “In order to formulate good questions, you have to be thinking, you have to be analytical, you have to be reasoning yourself.”

AI is not the shortcut everyone thinks it is.

It is the most powerful cognitive amplifier ever built. It sharpens the engaged. It leaves the passive exactly where they started.

Same tool. Same access. The only variable is what you bring to it.

The world is debating whether AI will replace human thinking.

Wrong conversation.

The real question is what happens when a tool built to think for you becomes the thing that forces you to think beyond yourself.

That’s not a threat to humanity.

That’s the entire point.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Jeff Bezos: "I've created $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."

"Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they've created for other people."

While talking about his net worth, he floated an idea that flips the whole concept of a "rich list" on its head.

He did the math live, right there on stage.

"Amazon's market cap is 2.3 trillion today. I own about 200 billion of it."

"So if you take 2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I've created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."

That's not a typo. Trillion, with a T and it's not even his money.

"That should put me pretty high on some kind of list."

He didn't stop at himself, either. He immediately named who else deserves a spot at the top.

"People like Jensen, Nvidia, he's going to be very high on that list."

"That would be a pretty cool list. Somebody should do that list."

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just told every trillion-dollar AI lab who they’re actually building for.

Not eventually. By design.

Andreessen: “99.9999% of the value of AI is gonna accrue to the users, not to the companies that make the AI.”

This is not a prediction. It is a pattern.

Andreessen: “If you look at the total amount of economic value creation downstream of the internet, something like 99% of that accrued to the users of the internet, not the companies that built the internet.”

The internet created trillions in value. The companies that built it captured a rounding error.

Andreessen: “Who gets the economic value of the smartphone? Everybody in the world who uses a smartphone to become more productive in their life or in their business gets 99% of the value. Apple and Google get 1%.”

Apple and Google built the device that reorganized human life. Their cut is one percent.

Electricity. The internet. The smartphone. The builders carry the cost. The users keep the value. The ratio has never once moved.

The labs spending hundreds of billions right now are building wealth they will never keep.

Andreessen: “It’s almost like dark matter. Everybody’s gonna experience that in their own life and in their own business.”

The largest wealth transfer in history will carry no headline. No metric. No announcement.

It will simply complete.

Not because it is hidden. Because everyone is watching the builders.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

J-Cal: Nvidia is taking the gloves off with its open source model. They will own the whole stack.

“You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang's open source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches, I guarantee you.

Now, why has Nvidia and Jensen downplayed their open source model until this moment?

Why would he do that? Why would he never bring it up in the All-In interview, never bring it up?

Because his top customers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) were very concerned, from what I understand, about the fact that Nvidia had made so much progress on their open source model.

But suddenly, after OpenAI announced their Jalapeno chips, after Anthropic started making chips, after AMD did successful projects with both of these companies, after Elon said he's going to do his own fab, Nvidia's taking the gloves off.

They are going to own the whole stack. You get the hardware from them, and you're going to get a model that's competitive with OpenAI's for free.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Elon walked the first Optimus production line at Fremont.

And yes, installation has officially started.

The funny part?

This is the same space that used to build Model S and Model X.

Now it is being handed over to humanoid robots.

The line itself is modular, so Tesla can keep changing it as Optimus evolves.

Cars had the floor.

The robots are moving in.

@Tesla_Optimus @Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇦🇷 MESSI! Of course it's him.

Cape Verde held firm for nearly half an hour, then the greatest to ever do it found the opener.

1-0 Argentina.

Every match of this farewell run feels like history.