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Cheeky Pint

Cheeky Pint is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by John Collison, with a new episode every week.

8 moments cut from 3 episodes, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and robotics.

Also No. 8 of 18 tech podcasts and No. 8 of 17 business podcasts.

New episodes
Weekly
Latest
Oct 20, 2026
Moments cut
8
Episodes cut
3

What its moments are about

  • Data centers & energy2
  • Robotics1
  • Scaling laws1
  • Frontier models1
  • Investing in AI1
  • Big Tech's AI bets1

Best moments from Cheeky Pint

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. Cheeky Pint · · 4 min

    Training a frontier model means committing $100B before you know it works

    “It's like the opposite of lean startup. Like lean startup is like, yeah, you like see if you get something working and then you double down”
    Cheeky Pint52:48

  2. Cheeky Pint · · 5 min

    Mercedes tested a clever loophole before putting it on the car

    “we created another dimension with the steering wheel actually to push and to pull the steering wheel in a formula one car”
    Cheeky Pint14:48

  3. Cheeky Pint · · 5 min

    Scaling underwater drones requires rethinking the supply chain

    “For us, it's scale, lead time. There's about 20 million aerial drones built every year. There's maybe 1,000 to 2,000 underwater drones.”
    Cheeky Pint24:39

  4. Cheeky Pint · · 2 min

    Why Meta's compute bet is less risky than the $100B headline

    “if AI works overall, plenty of other people want all our compute. So they're willing to pay.”
    Cheeky Pint58:03

  5. Cheeky Pint · · 5 min

    A CFO’s warning led Wolff to exit his dot-com investments

    “that he gave me from this one-hour flight from Bonn to Vienna was enough to look at our whole portfolio of nine investments.”
    Cheeky Pint33:08

  6. Cheeky Pint · · 5 min

    Underwater drones can cost far less than Navy vehicles

    “But if you're working with a navy, we can sell them for as cheap as $50,000. dollars.”
    Cheeky Pint38:57

The best Cheeky Pint episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

  1. 01Muse Wonder: Zuckerberg and Wang's $100B AIOct 12, 2026 · 2 moments
  2. 02How Toto Wolff built the most valuable team in F1Oct 20, 2026 · 3 moments
  3. 03The company building underwater drones for $50,000Oct 15, 2026 · 3 moments

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