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"Nobody has actually lost their job to AI. They lost it due to the promise of AI." - @tankots

Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month for compute. China is winning the open-source war. And the Pope just called for AI to be disarmed.

This week we covered these topics and more with:
- Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) is running the GPU cloud powering it all at @modal.
- Tanay Kothari (@tankots) is running $100M in marketing with two humans and a swarm of agents at @WisprFlow.
- Richard Socher (@RichardSocher) is building recursive self-improving superintelligence at @Recursive_SI and the future of AI search at @youdotcom.

They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 15, out now.

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Tell your AI to make your customers happy. It'll give out $1000 gift cards.

The AI doesn't cheat. It just follows your instructions. Richard Socher wants you to be clear with your prompts. Otherwise it will fail.

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The software engineering job you worked so hard for is now deleted

Companies are still hiring. But Tanay Kothari, founder of Wispr Flow, doesn't care about your code. He cares about how you write prompts for Claude. You don't have to be a great coder. Just a great thinker.

@tankots @WisprFlow

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@tankots Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/aF7R07TM54

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"Nobody has actually lost their job to AI. They lost it due to the promise of AI." - @tankots

Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month for compute. China is winning the open-source war. And the Pope just called for AI to be disarmed.

This week we covered these topics and more with:
- Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) is running the GPU cloud powering it all at @modal.
- Tanay Kothari (@tankots) is running $100M in marketing with two humans and a swarm of agents at @WisprFlow.
- Richard Socher (@RichardSocher) is building recursive self-improving superintelligence at @Recursive_SI and the future of AI search at @youdotcom.

They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 15, out now.

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@SkunkWorks0x @twistartups 🔥🔥

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@tankots "Nobody has actually lost their job to AI. They lost it due to the promise of AI" was from @bernhardsson! Great Quote!

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@SkunkWorks0x @tankots Thanks for watching @SkunkWorks0x !

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The future needs better marketing

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Claude went down at 11:00 PM CT, May 21st 2026

But this happens almost every other day. This is why you need to be model agnostic. Don't let one model going down stop you from building.

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Who's actually building AI?

3 months and 14 episodes into This Week in AI, @Jason has sat down with founders and operators across infra, models, dev tools, consumer, creative, robotics, healthcare, and more.

INFRA & COMPUTE
Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe) @ChaseLochmiller
Lin Qiao (Fireworks AI) @lqiao
Chris Lattner (Modular) @clattner_llvm
Nick Harris (Lightmatter) @theanalognick
Mitesh Agrawal (Positron AI) @mitesh711
Alex Cheema (EXO Labs) @alexocheema
Philip Johnston (Starcloud) @PhilipJohnston
Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI) @NaveenGRao
Russ d'Sa (LiveKit) @dsa

FOUNDATION MODELS & RESEARCH
Kanjun Qiu (Imbue) @kanjun
Carina Hong (Axiom Math) @CarinaLHong
Jeremy Fraenkel (Fundamental) @fraenkelj

EVALS & BENCHMARKS
Anastasios Angelopoulos (Arena) @ml_angelopoulos

DEV TOOLS, CODING & AUTOMATION
Karri Saarinen (Linear) @karrisaarinen
Matan Grinberg (Factory) @matanSF
Spiros Xanthos (Resolve AI) @spirosx
Wade Foster (Zapier) @wadefoster

CONSUMER & SEARCH
Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) @AravSrinivas
Richard Socher (youdotcom & Recursive) @RichardSocher
Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow) @tankots
Steven Berlin Johnson (NotebookLM) @stevenbjohnson

CREATIVE & MEDIA
Demi Guo (Pika) @demi_guo_
Victor Riparbelli (Synthesia) @vriparbelli
Mikey Shulman (Suno) @MikeyShulman
Grant Lee (Gamma) @thisisgrantlee

ROBOTICS
Jake Loosararian (Gecko Robotics) @jakeloosy
Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics) @bsofman

HEALTHCARE
Shiv Rao (Abridge) @ShivdevRao
Trey Holterman (Tennr) @TreyHolterman

ENTERPRISE, VERTICAL & DATA
George Sivulka (Hebbia) @gsivulka
Kashif Ali (TaxGPT) @ChKashifAli
Alex Elias (Qloo) @ape

TALENT & WORKFORCE
Ali Ansari (micro1) @aliansarinik
Jonathan Siddharth (Turing) @jonsidd

Thank you all for joining!

Episode 14 out now: https://t.co/oaDPn5WfT8

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@Jason Full episode on YouTube here: https://t.co/Ec4EcSerBn

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BREAKING: @Jason delivers a commencement speech amid widespread booing at graduations across the US over mentions of AI

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3 commencement speakers were booed at the mention of Artificial Intelligence (Video)

1. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
2. Scott Borchetta, Big Machine Records CEO
3. Gloria Caulfield, Tavistock Development VP

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Pod!*

* this week in AI is my new Roundtable focused exclusively on AI

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@Jason @kanjun @imbue_ai @fraenkelj Thanks for joining @karrisaarinen @fraenkelj @kanjun!

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"Big tech doesn't want to train people anymore. They're taking their 10x employees and making them 11x, 12x, 13x." - @Jason

This week's roundtable:
1. Kanjun Qiu @kanjun, CEO of @imbue_ai, open source agents.
2. Jeremy Fraenkel @fraenkelj, CEO of Fundamental, large tabular models for enterprise data.
3. Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen, CEO of @linear, product development system for teams and agents.

TWiAI Episode 14 out now

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@Jason @kanjun @imbue_ai @fraenkelj Out on Spotify: https://t.co/0BkQDFFevN

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@Jason @kanjun @imbue_ai @fraenkelj Out on Youtube: https://t.co/3bv4mJkOnO

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@drtimpearce 👀

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3 commencement speakers were booed at the mention of Artificial Intelligence (Video)

1. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
2. Scott Borchetta, Big Machine Records CEO
3. Gloria Caulfield, Tavistock Development VP

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“AI is going to create polarization of wealth; next, we are going to have the polarization of compute.”

@Jason would spend $250k instantly on a compute closet.

It's not just about wealth inequality anymore. Nick Harris says the gap is compute. The 1% can build their own data centers and beat anyone on any knowledge task on the planet.

Full episode: https://t.co/HSOuTrv8rE