# Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. Travis Kalanick argues food automation can cut costs, while Keith Rabois weighs AI's scaling lesson and the limits of a proposed third party. - Show: All-In - Hosts: [Chamath Palihapitiya](https://realalpha.app/people/chamath-palihapitiya/) & [Jason Calacanis](https://realalpha.app/people/jason-calacanis/) - Guest: [Travis Kalanick](https://realalpha.app/builders/travis-kalanick/) · CEO, Atoms - Guest: [Keith Rabois](https://realalpha.app/people/keith-rabois/) - Published: Jul 11, 2025 - Length: 1 h 31 m ## The best minutes - [6:35](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=395) [Food automation can cut kitchen labor below 10% of revenue](https://realalpha.app/s/food-automation-can-cut-kitchen-labor-below-10-of-revenue/) (8 min) - [21:03](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1263) [Compute-first learning is overtaking human-engineered AI](https://realalpha.app/s/compute-first-learning-is-overtaking-human-engineered-ai/) (8 min) - [46:22](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2782) [AI browsers may be a costly detour from better products](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-browsers-may-be-a-costly-detour-from-better-products/) (8 min) ## Also worth watching - [30:04](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1804) [Human-labeling businesses may have a short runway](https://realalpha.app/s/human-labeling-businesses-may-have-a-short-runway/) (3 min) - [1:17:33](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4653) [The ruling cleared workforce planning, not implementation](https://realalpha.app/s/the-ruling-cleared-workforce-planning-not-implementation/) (3 min) - [1:03:33](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3813) [Super PACs can now fund campaign ground operations](https://realalpha.app/s/super-pacs-can-now-fund-campaign-ground-operations/) (6 min) Skip the opening banter and Pony.ai update, Grok's product debate, later third-party talk, and the closing backgammon chat. ## Summary Travis Kalanick founded Uber and is working on CloudKitchens, which he describes as infrastructure for producing and delivering food. Keith Rabois is a PayPal alum and investor who speaks from his venture-capital perspective. Kalanick says CloudKitchens is building food-production and delivery infrastructure, including automated bowl assembly that he says can cut kitchen labor from 30–35% of revenue to 7–10%. The panel uses Grok 4 to debate the Bitter Lesson: scalable computation may outperform approaches built around human knowledge, though Rabois notes that language models train on human-written text and says human-labeling work may have a short runway. Kalanick and Rabois discuss how AI could accelerate scientific inquiry, while noting that hypotheses still need to be tested; they also debate whether agents make browsers obsolete and whether Perplexity should focus on financial data. On Elon Musk's proposed third party and the Supreme Court ruling on federal workforce reductions, Kalanick sees potential political leverage, while Rabois questions a third party's prospects and distinguishes planning from implementation. ### Minute by minute - [2:58](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=178) **Kalanick has autonomy inbound.** The hosts describe Pony.ai as a China-based autonomous-driving company with Middle East operations and a delivery agreement with Uber. Kalanick says companies have approached him about autonomy and that he has inbound interest, but no deal; he sees the technology potentially serving both passenger transport and food delivery. - [6:23](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=383) **Automated kitchens cut labor.** Kalanick walks through a 60-square-foot machine that assembles bowls, bags orders and sends them to a pickup locker. He says kitchen labor can fall from 30–35% of revenue to 7–10% when customers use the machine, and says customers are beginning to deploy it this quarter. - [10:55](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=655) **Food automation needs the full stack.** Kalanick argues that automation must cover the whole workflow: a machine that still needs workers to feed it and pack its output may not save labor. He describes food being prepared before it enters the assembly machine, and imagines larger facilities making a wide range of meals for delivery rather than replacing restaurants altogether. - [18:36](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1116) **Grok 4 revives the scaling debate.** Calacanis says Grok 4 launched with a $30-a-month base tier and a $300-a-month Heavy tier, and cites benchmarks that he says put the base model ahead of OpenAI o3 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Palihapitiya reads the results through Rich Sutton's Bitter Lesson: general computation that scales may outperform systems built around human-coded knowledge, and he points to xAI's plans to expand its GPU capacity. - [28:43](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1723) **Human labeling may have a short runway.** Rabois cautions that language models are trained on human-written material, so the Bitter Lesson is not a clean break from human knowledge. Still, he says human-labeling businesses may have only a year, two years or three years at most as models learn to label data themselves; he says some autonomous-driving players have already stopped manual labeling. - [32:58](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1978) **AI could accelerate scientific discovery.** Kalanick says conversations with existing models have helped him probe quantum-physics questions and wonders whether Grok 4 could help researchers find new results. Rabois says faster science-focused models can expose connections people have missed, while the panel notes that hypotheses still need testing in physical labs. - [40:31](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2431) **xAI must pair research with product.** Kalanick says xAI could challenge OpenAI through a hard-driving engineering culture and stronger scientific results, while acknowledging that OpenAI's product team is ahead. The panel also discusses xAI's ability to build computing infrastructure; Rabois argues that OpenAI needs to stay ahead at the product level, potentially by shipping a device. - [46:22](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2782) **Agents challenge the browser model.** Calacanis demos Perplexity's Comet browser using an agent to search for flights and interact with logged-in services. Rabois calls the browser a high-stakes attempt for Perplexity and says Google should combine its browser and AI products. Palihapitiya questions the value of building another browser and urges Perplexity to focus on financial data, while Kalanick sees agents potentially replacing visits to websites. - [57:50](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3470) **A third party faces structural barriers.** Rabois argues that a new party is unlikely to succeed nationally: major parties can absorb popular ideas, and voters respond to candidates as well as platforms. He says no true third-party candidate has won a Senate seat since 1970 and argues that a party needs a recognizable figurehead. - [1:04:20](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3860) **Kalanick sees leverage in a small caucus.** Kalanick backs Musk's effort, arguing that a few House or Senate members could create leverage and that the threat of a new party could push the major parties to act. Rabois says the deficit stems from overspending and discusses the difficulty of cutting it through Senate rules. Palihapitiya says 2023 FEC guidance lets super PACs fund ground operations, giving them a broader campaign role. - [1:13:03](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4383) **The court distinguishes planning from execution.** The panel says eight of nine Supreme Court justices lifted a block on the Trump administration's plans to prepare federal workforce reduction plans, while noting that the ruling does not settle their implementation. Palihapitiya supports broad presidential control, Kalanick distinguishes laws that specify staffing from those that only appropriate funds, and Rabois expects specific implementation plans to face further litigation. ## Transcript All-In, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya and Jason Calacanis, with Travis Kalanick and Keith Rabois. Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there. [0:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=0) I have a very funny story to tell you, Jason. Where have you been? I've been trying to text you. You've been offline. What's going on? Where have you been? I've been working feverishly, but yesterday I had to go to prepare for some meetings that I have on Sunday, which I can't tell you about. But Nat and I went to Pasalacqua, which is in Lake Como, which is, I mean, it's stunning. The grounds are stunning. The hotel is stunning. If you have a chance to go to Lake Como, anyways this is us at pasal aqua who's the beautiful woman there is that the woman who owns it or something is that the queen that's not but the best part is we had such a good time you know how they have like a registry book to leave a message sure so i left a message here we go what a truly magnificent place above and beyond any expectation we had go below go below that thought for me thank you we took everything the free we took everything the freebergs great awesome jason the hangers okay the bags the laundry bags did you get the robes the robes the slippers absolutely fantastic they're gonna have to send a bill to the freebergs all right listen we've got a great panel this week it's the summer things are slow some people are busy i think uh our prince of panic attacks our dear sultan of science is uh [1:42](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=102) he's at the beep. Sax is busy. Couldn't make it this week. In his place. Another brilliant PayPal alumni and, dare I say, a GOP supporter, Heath Raboy. How are you, sir? Pleasure to be with you again. Nice to see you. And I'm assuming you're in gorgeous Florida or somewhere. Yeah. I'm actually in New York. Oh, hometown. Is it safe? Is it okay? Mom Donnie chasing you down the street? Not yet, but it's safe. Did he seize your assets? It's safe. It's safe right now. We'll see on November 4th. You know, as you probably heard, on July 4th was the first time in recorded history that there were no shootings or no murders in New York on that day. [2:25](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=145) So right now, things are in pretty good shape, but we may be leaving New York quickly. Yeah, you're going to probably want to sell that place if you got one there, because Mondami is going to seize it and turn it into a drugstore for you. Yes, it's going to be a Mondami drugstore. Travis Kalanick is back with us. How are you doing, Bestie? Pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. Second appearance here on the Roundtable and third time on the show. Of course, you spoke at the Summit. You've been busy with CloudKitchens. Yeah. Lots of exciting things going on. Oh, lots of stuff. Lots of stuff. The robots are taking over. [2:57](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=177) We're rolling out. We're rolling out robots. TK, can you tell us what you're doing with this Pony? Or not? That's speculation. uh look you know obviously is autonomy as we you know in the u.s we have of course do you want to just frame for people that don't that may not be up to speed what was announced or at least why don't you frame it so pony ai is um an autonomous company doing self-driving it's one of the few uh players that actually have cars on the road they're based in china they've got a lot of operations in the middle east they've got a deal with a delivery company called uber which you might be familiar with uh okay so look well the deal was basically that you could partner with uber license in the pony technology and essentially start a competitor i guess to waymo and tesla let me work on this one okay so so in the u.s we have waymo we see the waymos And San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, coming soon to Miami, coming soon to Atlanta, coming soon to DC, or even talking about New York. [4:11](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=251) Tesla is sort of like, you know, they're doing it the hard way, you know, classic Elon style, like, let's, let's do this sort of in a fundamental, holy shit, let's go all the way kind of, kind of approach. and it's unclear when it gets over the line. Of course, he launched sort of a semi-pilot of sorts in Austin recently, but there's no other alternatives. So what happens is, is some of the folks who are interested in making sure their alternatives have reached out. They've reached out to me and there are different discussions that get going because they're like, Travis, you did autonomy way back in the day, got the uber autonomous stuff going in 2014 maybe there's something to do here to create optionality maybe like i'm of course very interested on the food side i talk about autonomous burritos being a big deal because if you can automate the kitchen the production of food and then you can automate the sort of logistics around food you take huge amount of costs out of the food, out of what's going on in food. And that's, of course, near and dear to my heart. There's folks, of course, that want to see autonomy and mobility. That's a real thing. [5:31](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=331) It may be that, or I would say, if you get the autonomy problem right, you can use it to apply to both problems. So there's a lot of folks interested in moving things, moving food, moving people. And if there is some kind of autonomous technology that maybe I get involved in, it might apply to a bunch of different things. And so I've got some inbound. Let's just put it that way. There's no real deal right now, but there is definitely some inbound. And I think there's some news about some of that inbound that may or may not be occurring. That's probably the best way to put it. That is long-winded. I'll try to tighten that up next time. [6:13](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=373) No, no. I think it's great to get the overview here first on All-In. Thank you for sharing it with us. And everybody knows you have been doing a bowl builder. Yeah. Lab 37, I think it's called. You can throw it up on the screen. Not sure what the status of it is. And then I'll let you go, Chamath, with your follow-up question. But I think there's a pretty interesting concept here of the bowl getting built and then put into a self-driving car. Now, that machine looks huge, but it's actually 60 square feet. That picture makes it look monstrous. it's a 60 square foot machine like uh imagine running like a sweet green like brand or a chipotle like brand i'm just making it so it comes to life for people who who you know are like hey what is this thing imagine you just order online exactly the kind of bowl you want and actually this machine could run like many brands at the same time and then does you build the bowl you want whatever ingredients uh it's sort of if you look at that bottom you see those little white bricks at the bottom that's what carries the bowl underneath dispensers it fills up the machine puts a it sauces the the bulb and it puts a lid on it it takes the bowl puts it in a [7:21](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=441) bag uh puts utensils in the bag seals the bag and the bag goes down a conveyor belt where then another machine what we would call an agv takes the bowl to the front of house the bowl gets put into a locker the courier via door dash who breeds courier will wave their app in front of a camera and it will open up the locker that has the food that they're supposed to pick up so it just it takes out a lot of what we would call the the cost of assembly um which is more reduces mistakes right it's hard to make a mistake yeah we know exactly how many grams of every ingredient or put in that's exactly what you're supposed to get and so you get a higher quality product it takes a lot of the cost out you imagine ultimately that's going to be they're going to be couriers with that as well that you know i like to say autonomous burritos like is a waymo going to carry a burrito or is tesla going to have a a machine that carries food or you know is there another another company that ends up doing you know sort of the the things that the the autonomous delivery of things and the point is is well where we are right now is we've got customers and so those customers are starting to deploy this quarter and it's pretty interesting i mean you [8:41](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=521) can see that in our delivery kitchens the cost of labor is about 30 of revenue that's what the successful guy let's say 30 35 of revenue in a in a brick and mortar in a brick and mortar [8:56](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=536) **Travis Kalanick:** restaurants it's even higher okay when they're running our machine it's between seven and ten percent of revenue right amazing then you take out the cost of the delivery you know and now [9:08](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=548) it's becoming everybody can have a private chef which was your original vision for uber it was people don't know the original tagline but it was your your private everybody has a private driver everyone's private driver was the original for uber basically the infrastructure is already there And I said this on, you know, one of your recent, I think it was at the all in summit, Jason, but like, um, in the mobility cars, you know, I'm transport, uh, space, the roads were already there. The cars were already built. People weren't using their cars 98% of the day. So the infrastructure is already there to get people around, to do this as a service and do it very efficiently and conveniently with food. [9:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=591) The infrastructure is not there. Like, yes, restaurants have excess capacity. That's what Uber Eats utilizes. But to go and say, like, let's make 30% of all meals in a city sort of prepared and delivered by a service, the infrastructure is not there. So you have to build it. So our company, the mission is infrastructure for better food. so that's real estate that's software and robotics for the production and delivery of food in a super efficient way all right uh keith what are your thoughts any questions well he's not here but isn't this what david freeberg tried to do a few years ago yeah this came up on the last all in yeah there's the last one i was at yeah yeah it's up it's so the problem was i told freeberg people don't want to eat quinoa you gotta put a little steak in there maybe a piece salmon but he was kind of really i think eventually he relented and let people have a little bit of protein uh but yeah so it's such a great vision wait he he died as a vegan martyr i think the business died as a vegan martyr well there's a lot of people have died on that hill but the bottom line is if you're going to get into automation you have to it has to be end-to-end automation what i mean by that is like there are pizza there are pizza companies that have [11:12](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=672) come and gone automated pizza companies where it's like we have a pizza machine and everybody's like yeah this is amazing and you have a guy you have a million dollar pizza machine and then on the left you have a guy feeding ingredients into the pizza machine and on the right you have a guy taking the pizza out and then putting it in a box and doing all this so instead of one guy making pizzas i have a million dollar machine and two guys making pizza and so when you look at these like a robotic food production machines or food assembly machines. You have to look at the full stack and say, does it work with the ecosystem that exists in a restaurant? And does it go full stack from, you know, like, like, we have this thing where that machine we saw earlier. [12:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=720) The staff preps the food, they put the food in the machine, and then they leave. They're gone. This restaurant runs itself for many hours without anybody there. But this could be McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Nobody would know. That right there, that machine is an assembly machine, right? The food is prepped by humans and then assembled by this machine. for a chipotle or a sweet green this is like a a majority of their labor right you go up to a chipotle there's like 10 guys at lunch and you're still in line that machine right there does 300 bowls an hour right and so you go okay that's the this is what's called um like the assembly line it's just that front line where you basically assemble things i think sometimes i will call the make line what will happen over time is you'll have perpendicular lines going into it where you're producing food right so you'll have a production or make line going into an assembly line here and then you go oh wow so you have something that dispenses burgers on buns that's the dispenser that's the assembly right but it's like factorial on steroids basically yeah and then And it's like, how do you cook that burger? [13:18](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=798) That's what I call, that's what we call state change. So state change is the cooking of the food. Assembly is the like, how do I put it together and plate it? Doesn't this collapse? Like, for example, if you have a yield of 300 per hour, you said, out of that one machine. Yes. Very quickly, you can impute the value of having a smaller footprint store with five of these things in a faceless warehouse with drone delivery or cars, you don't need the physical infrastructure. So then don't you create a wasteland of real estate? Or how do you repurpose all the real estate? Well, the way to think about it is like 90%. Well, it's probably a little lower than that right now. Let's say 85% of all meals in the US are at home. They just are. And a vast majority of those meals are cooked at home. So, you know, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, they represent like 1.8% or 2% of all meals right now. It's very tiny, right? So what you're doing is you're using real estate and infrastructure to prepare and deliver meals to people at their homes. And so it's not... Restaurants still exist. We're still going to want to go to restaurants. [14:34](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=874) We're still going to want to go outside. We learned that during COVID. We knew it before. We definitely know it after. And so I don't, it's not really like a decimating real estate situation. It's taking a thing we used to do for ourselves and creating a service that does it higher quality. You know, sort of, I like to say, you don't have to be wealthy to be healthy and just infrastructure to get that cost down. And so you're doing something as a service that we used to do at home. i think in the super long run you're like what where's the story on grocery stores if you go to like in in 20 years i think everybody agrees you you will have machines making very high quality very personalized meals for everybody this would be good for keith because he measures stuff down to like five calories based on his histogram what's your what's your body fat like seven percent eight percent It's like 10. [15:33](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=933) Just opened his Instagram. He posted four times today about his body fat. He's like so disgusted with himself at 10%. It's like bad at 10. But I actually think the vision of this, actually the natural implication and maybe the home run version of this is everybody has a private chef in their house, a robot in their house that actually does this personalized because people do want to cook at home, but they don't have the time. Yeah, or space. And infrastructure, but man, these delivery services are charging. Rich people do this all the time, right? They do these crazy meal delivery services for 200 bucks a day. And this is just going to abstract it down to everybody. And man, people get creative when there's that empty space, to your point, Shamath, about what happens to all this space. When I lived in New York in the 80s and 90s, it was common to, in Tribeca, in West Chelsea, where I lived, to take storefronts, put your little architect's office in the front and live in the back. [16:28](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=988) and many people were hacking real estate we still need five ten million homes in this country and they're already doing this with malls i i keep seeing malls being turned into colleges and creative spaces one of them in boston they turned like the second and third floor into studio apartments for artists so you know where there's a will there's a way we could use the space i mean you know where this goes with chamas saying and where the real estate goes is we call it the internet food court where you know you're on amazon right it's the everything store now imagine that for food and then imagine you have an 8 000 square foot facility where basically anything can be anything can be made because if you have that machine you saw has 18 sort of dispensers for food 10 different sauces you get the idea now what what about when it's 50 or 100 dispensers for food what if you have multiple machines with 100 dispensers for food that's crazy you can the combinatorial math in terms of what's possible what could be made sort of you know goes exponential and so the internet food court is sort of the vision for where this all goes another example of the bitter lesson the bitter yeah we're going to get to that i guess [17:43](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1063) today in a very full docket before we get to that just a little bit of housekeeping here september 7th 8th 9th in los angeles the all-in summit again all in.com slash yada yada yada lineup is stacked and we're going to start announcing the speakers people have been begging us to announce the speakers i don't know maybe you gotta hold some back careful hold a couple back but we got some really nice speakers lined up it is going to be extraordinary it is the best one yet i mean well done every year we have this well done yeah yeah every year we have this little bit of panic like um you know we're going to get great speakers and man they started flowing in this week it's going to be extraordinary almost as extraordinary as this delicious tequila behind my head here get the tequila tequila.olin.com deliveries begin late He's moving to the side. [18:36](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1116) You can't even tell it's tequila. Summer back here. Oh, nice. All right, listen. Oh, wow. Lots to discuss this week. Obviously, AI is continuing to be the big story in our industry. And for good reason, our bestie, Elon, released Grok 4 Wednesday night. Two versions, base model and a heavy model. $30 a month for the base. $300 a month for this heavy model. which has a very unique feature you can have a multi-agent feature i got to see this actually when i visited xai a couple of weeks ago where multiple agents work on the same problems and they and they do that simultaneously obviously and then compare each other's work and it gives you kind of like a study group the best answer uh by consensus really interesting according to artificial analysis benchmarks you can pull that up nick rocks for base model has surpassed open AI's 03 Pro, Google Gemini's 2.5 Pro as the most intelligent model. This includes like seven different industry standard evaluation tests, you can look it up, but reasoning, math, coding, all that kind of stuff. This is, you know, book smarts, not necessarily street smart. So it doesn't mean that these things can reason. And obviously, there was a little, there was a little kerfluffle [19:54](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1194) on X, formerly known as Twitter, where XAI got a little frisky. was saying all kinds of crazy stuff and needed to maybe be red teamed a little bit more decisively. Many of you know Grok4 was trained on Colossus. That's that giant data center that Elon's been building. And we showed the chart here, Chamath. You sent us a link to the Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton in the group chat. That's the 2019 blog post. We'll pull it up here for people to take a look at and we'll put it in the show notes. Maybe just generally your reaction to both how quickly Elon has, and that chart showed it, how quickly Elon has caught up. [20:36](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1236) And I don't think people expected him to take the lead, but here we are. Before we start, Nick, can you please show Elon's tweet about how they did on the AGI benchmark? It's absolutely incredible. Two things. One is how quickly, starting in March of 2023. So we're talking about less than two and a half years, what this team has accomplished, and how far ahead they are of everybody else as demonstrated by this. But the second is a fundamental architectural decision that Elon made, which I think we didn't fully appreciate until now. And it maps to an architectural decision he made at Tesla as well. [21:24](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1284) And for all we know, we'll figure out that he made an equivalent decision at SpaceX. And that decision is really well encapsulated by this essay, The Bitter Lesson, by Rich Sutton. And Nick, you can just throw this up here. [21:39](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1299) **Chamath Palihapitiya:** But just to summarize what this says, it basically says in a nutshell that you're always better off when you're trying to solve an AI problem taking a general learning approach that can scale with computation because it ultimately proves to be the most effective. [21:56](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1316) And the alternative would be something that's much more human labored and human involved that requires human knowledge. And so the first method, what it essentially allows you to do is view any problem as an endless scalable search or learning task. And as it's turned out, whether it's chess or Go or speech recognition or computer vision, whenever there was two competing approaches, one that used general computation and one that used human knowledge, the general computation problem always won. And so it creates this bitter lesson for humans that want to think that we are at the center of all of this critical learning and all of these leaps. In more AI-specific language, what it means is that a lot of these systems create these embeddings that are just not understandable by humans at all, but it yields incredible results. So why is this crazy? Well, he made this huge bet on this 100,000 GPU cluster, people thought, wow, that's a lot, is it going to bear fruit? Then he said, No, actually, I'm scaling it up to 250,000. Then he said, it's going to scale up to a million. And what these results show is a general computational approach that doesn't require as much human labeling, can actually get to the answer and better answers faster. That has huge implications. Because if [23:22](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1402) you think about all these other companies, what has Lama been doing? They just spent $15 billion to buy 49% of scale AI. That's exactly a bet on human knowledge. What is Gemini doing? What is OpenAI doing? What is Anthropic doing? So all these things come into question. And then the last thing I'll say is, if you look back, he made this bet once before, which was Tesla FSD versus Waymo. And Tesla FSD only had cameras. It didn't have LiDAR. But the bet was, I'll just collect billions and billions of driving miles before anybody else does. and apply general compute and it'll get to autonomy faster than the other more laborious and very expensive approach so i just think it's an incredible moment in technology where we see so many examples travis is another one what he's just talked about you know the bitter lesson is you could believe that you know food is this immutable thing that's made meticulously by hand by these individuals or you can take this general purpose compute approach which is what took, waited for these constructors to come into play. And now you can scale food to every human on earth. I just think it's a, it's so profoundly important. One thing I'll throw out there, Chamath, is the Tesla approach for autonomy is taking human knowledge. In fact, the whole idea [24:46](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1486) is to approximate human, human driving, right, is the whole damn thing. Now, depending on your approach in the technology can do like what's called an end to end approach, or you can look at, okay, perception, prediction, planning, and control, which are like these four modules that sort of you, you, you sort of engineer, if that makes sense. But it's approximating human driving to do it. The difference is that, you know, I think Elon's taken a almost a more human approach, which is like I've got two eyes why can't my car why can't my car do it like a human like I don't have any lidar spinning around on my head as a human why can't my car so it's kind of interesting he's sort of taking what you're saying Chamath on the computation side because hardware five is coming out on Tesla probably next year which is going to make a big difference in what FSD can do that's the compute side you're talking about but then he is approximating human Yeah, I just meant that, you know, other than the first versions of FSD, which I think Andre talked about, Andrej Karpathy talked about, you know, they're not really so reliant anymore on human labeling, per se, right? [26:04](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1564) So that's that interference. And then the other crazy thing that he said, subsequent versions of Grok are not going to be trained on any traditional data set that exists in the wild. The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training. That happened basically last year. And so the only way to then supplement that is with synthetic data where the AI creates, it'll sort of write an essay or it'll come up with a thesis and then it'll grade itself and sort of go through this process of self-learning with synthetic data. He said that he's going to have agents creating synthetic data from scratch that then drive all the training, which I just think is, it's crazy. [26:48](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1608) Just explain this concept one more time with a bitter lesson. Hand coding heuristics into the computer and saying, hey, here's specific openings in chess. Yeah, use chess, right? Yeah, so you're hand coding specific examples of openings in there, end games, et cetera, versus just saying, play every possible game and here's every game we have. so here's yeah yeah so the two approaches would be let's say like travis and i were building competing versions of a chess solver and travis's approach would say i'm just going to define the chess board i'm going to give the players certain boundaries in which they can move right so the bishop can only move diagonally and there's a couple of boundary conditions and i'm going to create a reward function and i'm just going to let the thing self-learn and self-play that's his version and then what happens is when you map out every single permutation when you go and play keith who's the best chess player in the world what you're doing at that point is saying okay keith made this move so you search for what keith's move is and you have a distribution of the best moves that you could make in response response. [28:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1680) or vice versa that was the cutting edge approach the different approach which is more you know what people would think is more quote-unquote elegant and less brute force would be jason for you and i to sit there and say okay if keith moves here we should do this we should do this specific variation of the sicilian defense and and it's too much human knowledge and i think what what it turned out was there was a psychological need for humans to believe we were part of the answer. But what this is showing is because of Moore's law and because of general computation, it's just not necessary. You just have to let go, give up control. And that's very hard for some people. And for others, it's also very hard in some circumstances where a car is driving down the road and it's learning in that process, which is why you need a safety driver. And I think Elon made the right decision to put one in there. Keith, your thoughts? Yeah, a couple of points. [28:50](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1730) It's not quite that binary, Chamath. I generally agree with your arc. But if you think about LLMs being the most important unlock in AI, LLMs are all trained on human writing. So someone wrote every piece of data that every LLM used, a human wrote at some point in history. So yes, it's true that they've shocked everybody, including OpenAI's original team, on the implications, the broad implications, the general applicability to almost every problem. But it's not like there was some tablets floating in space that weren't drafted by humans that we've trained on. As you get in non-LLM-based models, you may be totally right, but almost no one's really using non-LLM-based models at scale. On driving specifically, Travis is totally right, that humans are actually really good drivers, except when they get distracted. They get distracted by drugs or alcohol. They get distracted by being tired. They get distracted by turning the radio. They get distracted by chatting with their passenger. So training against human behavior has actually turned out to be a great decision because what for whatever sort of darwinistic reasons humans are pretty ideal drivers and so you don't have to reason from first principles [29:59](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1799) this is a much better path and i think again there may be a a broad level uh sort of lesson there the most important thing i think as a vc that you said uh as we've been debating for years [30:10](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1810) **Keith Rabois:** should we invest in companies like scale or mercor or any of these surge the truth is i think there's a very short half-life on human-label data. [30:20](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1820) And so everybody who's investing in these companies, just looking at revenue traction, really didn't understand that there may be a year, two years, three years max when anybody uses human-label data for maybe anything. Because we hit the end of human knowledge or just the collection of it is 99% done. Or you train on it so well that you don't need to label anymore. Like the machines know how to label as good or better than a human. And so like we're seeing this in the self-driving space is labeling was huge, right? You would have a three-dimensional sort of scene that's created by video plus LIDAR, let's say, okay, I have to label all of these essentially what become boxes. [31:10](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1870) like i've identified objects you're you're some of the players in the in the autonomous software space autonomous vehicle software space are no longer doing any labeling because the machines are doing it all just broadly it'll just be built into the chipset that this is a stop sign like it's like we know what a stop sign is we don't need the millionth time it's like those captchas like you're like find the stop sign or what's the traffic light and eventually the machines are just way better than humans at identifying these things for you to be very practical when you see a stop sign you don't have to identify that it's a stop sign you just see that every human when they encounter a stop sign 99.9 percent of the time they hit a break and they never act so nobody actually knows it's a stop sign it's just that hit a break when you see something that looks like this Yeah. [32:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1920) it's just a vibe. It's a vibe. I would just say that that's like intuited knowledge versus like the expressly labeled human knowledge. The question for me is, if everybody was so reliant on human labeling initially, if you're an investor now, when you see these Grok 4 results, how do you make an investment decision that's not purely levered to just computation? So if you look at these results, does it mean that there's 300 to 1,000 basis points of lag between just letting the computer's vibe itself to the answer versus interjecting ourselves? If interjecting ourselves slows us down by 300 to 1,000 basis points per successive iteration, then over two or three iterations, you've totally lost. [32:52](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=1972) so what does it mean for everybody that's not grok when they wake up today and they have to decide how do i change my strategy or double down i think look i'm i'm not in the investment game but if i were it would be all about scientific breakthrough so i sometimes get in this place where i'm looking i'm going down a path i you know i'll be up at four or five in the morning uh my day hasn't quite started but i'm not sleeping anymore and i'll start going like i'll be on quora and see some cool quantum physics question or something else i'm looking into and i'll go down this thread with gpt or gra and i'll start to get to the edge of what's known in quantum physics and then i'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding except it's vibe physics and we're approaching what's known and i'm trying to poke and see if there's breakthroughs to be had and i've gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that and i you know i pinged uh i pinged you on at some point i'm just like dude if i'm if i'm doing this and i'm super amateur hour physics enthusiast like what about all those phd students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool. And this is pre Grok 4. Now with Grok 4, there's a lot of mistakes I was [34:19](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2059) seeing Grok make that then I would correct and we would talk about it. Grok 4 could be this place where breakthroughs are actually happening, new breakthroughs. So if I'm investing in this space, I would be like, who's got the edge on scientific breakthroughs and the application layer on top of these foundational models that orients that direction is your perception that the llms are actually starting to get to the reasoning level that they'll come up with a novel concept theory and have that breakthrough or that we're kind of reading into it and it's just trying random stuff at the at the margins it's uh or maybe it doesn't happen no no so what i what i've seen and again i haven't used grok for i tried to use it early this morning but for some reason i couldn't do it on my, on my app. But so let's say we're talking grok three and existing chat GPT as it is. No, it cannot come up with the new idea. These things are so wedded to what is known. [35:21](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2121) And they're so like, even when I come up with a new idea, I have to really, it's like pulling a donkey source. You see, you're pulling it because it doesn't want to break conventional wisdom. it's like really adhering to conventional wisdom you're pulling it out and then eventually goes oh shit you got something but then when it says that when it says that then you have to you have to go okay it said that but i'm not sure like you have to double and triple check to make sure that you really got something to your point when these models are fully divorced from having to learn on the known world and instead can just learn I don't know. [36:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2160) synthetically yeah then everything gets flipped upside down to what is the best hypothesis you have or what is the best question you could just give it some problem and it would just figure it out so where i go on this one guys is it's all about scientific method right if you get if you have an lm or foundational model of some kind that is the best in the world with the scientific method game the f over you basically you just light up more gpus and you just got like a thousand more phd students working for you keith you're nodding your head here i agree with that i think that's fantastic because the scientific method also the faster it is the more you when you have a hypothesis the faster you get a response you're more likely to dive in and dive in and dive in recursively and recursively and every lag every millisecond lag causes you to like lose your train of thought sort of so to speak so you get the benefits that travis alluding to plus speed and you go places you never really guess this happens all the time when you run a company and you're doing like analytics and you have a tool that allows you to constantly query quickly quickly quickly double click triple click you get to answers that you never get to if there's [37:12](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2232) even a second or two second or three second delay let alone sending it to a human secondly where you actually see this today it's already happening if you look at foundational models that just apply to science there's lots of things about the human body let's say in health biology that we humans don't actually understand all the connections like why do we do x why do some people get cancer what other people not get cancer why is the brain work this way models trained solely on science tend to expose connections that no human has ever had before and that's because like the raw materials there. And we only have a conscious awareness of thought one, 10%. But when you apply it to other human domains, where you're training on human sort of data, human produced data, human produced output, they're limited to that output. So I think you just take the science and apply it writ large, and you're going to wind up finding things that no human has ever thought before. And it's the thing about science, though, is that it's the hypothesis that you then have to test in the physical world so the you're like okay have you got this hive mind this like you know this computation engine this brain of sorts you wanted to say consciousness but you stopped [38:25](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2305) yourself yeah i was like how do i describe the big c word yeah but but you need to be able to test in the physical world. So you could imagine a physical lab connected to one of these systems where then you could say, okay, like if it's a chemistry experiment, you could do chemistry experiments or physics. You get the idea. What could go wrong? It would be, it's yeah, no big deal. It's going to be fine. Okay. So, but, but this is where it goes because if you have a scientific method machine, you still have to be able to test your hypothesis. You have to go through the science and verification yeah exactly yeah wow it's kind of mind-blowing reminds me really mind-blowing if you remember i don't know if you guys remember dark matter and like the discovery of it and everything and as explained to me by lisa randall you know the the discovery was made not by knowing there was dark matter there and observing it but observing there was something you know gravitational forces around this other matter and then they said but wait what's causing that and that's why they found dark matter so these ideas you know the idea that an llm could actually do that come up with something so novel is it doesn't it feels [39:36](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2376) like we might be right there right like we're kind of on the cusp of it one of the seven most difficult problems in math with the most important problems in math is proving a general solution to this thing called mavi stokes which is basically like viscous fluid dynamics and conservation of mass we use it every day in the design of everything you know what it hasn't been proved isn't that the craziest thing where you're just like how is this even possible we use it to design airplanes to design And everything, it hasn't been proved. And so you could just point a computer at this thing, and you would unlock all these incredible mysteries of the universe. And we would probably find completely different propulsion systems. We could probably do things that we didn't think were possible. Teleportation. I mean, who knows what's possible. [40:18](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2418) But remember, remember, you know, how Elon talks about Brock and about AI generally, is about why are we here? What is the purpose? meaning of the universe what is the meaning of the universe how does it work and a sort of fierce truth-seeking mechanism there let me ask you a question keith travis jason if you guys were running grok 4 to be so much fun how do you judo flip open ai because they are marching steadfastly towards a billion Mao, then a billion Dow. It's a juggernaut. So how do you use the better product in a moment to judo flip the less better product? Look, yeah, I mean, here's the thing, right? So you do the Elon way. So you get a bunch of missionary, like full on missionary engineers that work twice as hard. And you have a culture that is ultra fierce, truth seeking. And you don't, you don't get caught up in politics, bureaucracy, BS. And you just you go for it. And I think, you know, that's where you know, and then you go, wow, scientific breakthrough scientific method, like you start winning on truth. And that will start, I believe that will start to give the product awesomeness of OpenAI a run for its money. But like the product of OpenAI, the product department, those guys are rushing. They're really good. They're not only ahead of the game, but they [42:05](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2525) feel like it just, they're just leading in a lot of different ways. But if you are better at truth, you will eventually have an AI product manager. Yeah, and on a tactical basis too, people forget how good Elon is at factories and physical real world things. What he did standing up Colossus made like, Jensen Wan was like, how is this possible that you did this, right? So pressing that, his ability to build factories, and he said many times like, the factory is the product of Tesla. It's not the cars that come out of the factory or the batteries it's the factory itself so if he can keep solving the energy problem with solar on one side and batteries and standing up you know colossus two three four five he's going to have a massive advantage there on top of travis you know the missionary individuals which by the way was what he backed before sam altman corrupted the original missionary basis of opening i made a closed ai and a you know this is nothing derogatory towards him but he did hoodwink and stab elon in the back it's not nothing personal i mean he just screwed him over and would you say he bamboozled him bamboozled him screwed him hoodwinked him you know pick your term here but uh he did it he [43:22](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2602) didn't dirty the original mission was to be like a thousand open source all this content that's the other piece i think is a wild card you know and then i'll i'm interested in keith's position But open sourcing some of this could have profound ramifications. I think open sourcing the self-driving data could have a really profound impact. Elon wanted to do something really disruptive, like he open sourced his patents for, you know, charging. If he open sourced the data set and self-driving, does anybody have the ability to produce robo taxis at the scale he can do it? I don't think so. Well, if Travis's hypothesis is true, then everybody will. [44:00](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2640) Well, everybody will what? Sorry, everybody will what, Shimon? If you have access to the money that buys the compute, everyone could solve that problem. What's the hardware piece I'm talking about? Which problem? He said if he published all the FSD data, could somebody build an autonomous vehicle? Well, yes, but could somebody produce 100 million robo-taxis from a factory with batteries in them? Okay, that's a different question. That's the thing I'm saying. And not really, because last time I was a guest on, you know, and we talked about vertical integration, products really require vertical integration. So ultimately, you have a self-driving something that is custom built for knowing it's going to be self-driving and it interacts differently. The cost structure is different. The controls are different. The seating is different. Everything. You build a product taking advantage of where in the stock you have the most competitive advantage, but then you leverage that and it reinforces. [44:54](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2694) It's still why Apple, despite missing the AI wave, is still a pretty good company from any empirical standpoint. I mean, their performance is absolutely miserable on the most important technology through the last 70 years. But the company is still alive and still worth trillions of dollars because it's vertically integrated. OpenAI, at a career point, they do have a good product team. And they need to stay ahead of the product level because they can't compete on the factory level. The way to stay ahead of the product level is shipping a device. They've got to ship the device. It's got to be good. [45:24](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2724) It's got to be right. It's got to be the right form factor. It's got to do things for humans that are unexpected. But then if they do that, they're like Apple plus AI. Chamath, what's the paper you're talking about before? What was the name of it again? The Bitter Lesson. It could apply to autonomous driving is right now it's still like, hey, how do I drive like a human? We talked about that. But the leapfrog moment here could be like, hey, drive a car, make sure it's efficient, don't hit anybody. and just simulate that a quadrillion times and it's all good, right? But right now we're still trying to drive like humans because we don't have enough data and therefore can't do enough compute. [46:04](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2764) That's the global lesson, by the way. Chamath, you're totally right. Conceptual, you know, the blog post is right, but that's only true when you have enough data. And depending on the use case, the level of data you need may not be possible for years, decades, and you may need to hack your way there through human interactions. Physical world AI is lacking in data, and so you just try to approximate humans. I don't know if you guys have seen this. In related news, OpenAI and Perplexity are going after the browser. Perplexity launched Comet for their $200 a month tier. I actually downloaded it. I'll show it to you in a second. [46:40](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2800) But this is a really interesting category. It's something developers can do already, and they do it all the time. you know but having your browser uh connected to agents lets you do really interesting things i'll show you an example here that i just fired off while we're talking so i just asked it hey give me the best flights from united airlines and business class from new york city from san francisco to new york city it does some searches but what you see here is it's popped up a browser window and it's actually doing that work and you can see the steps it's using and then i can actually open that browser window and watch it do that this is just a screenshot of it and it will open multiple of these so you could i was doing a search the other day saying like hey tell me all the autobiographies i haven't bought on amazon put them into my you know shopping cart and summarize each of them because i like biographies and i like i'm doing here and when it did this last time it put my flight into like and i was logged in under my account and it basically put it into my account in the checkout so again this isn't like if you're a developer you do this all day long but this really seems to be a new product category i'm curious if you guys have played [47:57](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2877) with it yet and then what your thoughts are on having an agentic browser like this available to you to be doing these tasks in real time you can also connect obviously your gmail your calendar to it so i did a a search tell me every restaurant i've been to and then put it by city and then i was going to open my open table and then pull that data as well what's interesting about this keith and i know you're a product guy and done a lot of product work i'm curious your thoughts on it is you don't have to do this in the cloud. You're authenticated already into a lot of your accounts, nor do you have to worry about being blocked by these services because it doesn't look like a scraper or a bot. It's just that you're a browser doing the work. Your thoughts on this? Have you played with it at all? Yep. I think it's a great Hail Mary attempt by perplexity. I think up since something like this, perplexity is toast. For the stat about chat GPT is going to a billion users, like it's becoming the verb, you know, the way you describe using AI for a normal consumer, there's nothing left of perplexity if they can't pull this off. So it's a great idea because like the history of like consumer technology companies is whoever's up has uphill ground, like in a [49:10](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=2950) military sense, whoever's first has a lot of control. This is actually what Google should be doing truthfully. Like I think Google's also Google search cross search is toast. And since they have chrome and they theoretically have a quality team in gemini they should be putting these two things together and hoping to compete with chad gpt they are going to lose the search game like the assets their best at google right now have nothing to do with search it's every other product is the only thing that's going to save that company if they can figure out how to use them travis your thoughts on this category anything come to mind for you in terms of you know feature sets that would be extraordinary here i know you like to think about products and the consumer experience it's really interesting so you know i've been spending as you guys know i've been spending my time on real estate and construction and robotics and so i've been out of the this kind of consumer software game for a long time but super interesting over the last six months there have been a number of consumer software ceos like when i hang out with them or whatever they're like yo how are we gonna how are we gonna keep doing what we do when the agents [50:23](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3023) take over yeah the paradigm shift is so profound that the idea that you would visit a web page goes away and you're just in a chat you have an agent that's just taking care of your flights for you. So I, I kind of, I think there's a leapfrog over that. I think it's just like you tell something, yo, I want to go to New York. Can you, you know, I'm sort of looking at this time range. Can you just go find something I'm probably going to like and give me a couple of options. Yeah. And it's just a whole, you have an interface and then, you know, is perplexed, is this thing that you just showed him perplexedly, is that the interface or do I just have an agent that just goes and does everything for me. [51:06](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3066) And is this the start of that? You know, I just haven't spent enough time. I do know that every consumer software CEO that has an app in the app store is tripping. They're tripping right now. And I mean, big boys. I mean, guys with real stuff. And sometimes I'm doing like, almost like therapy sessions with them. I'm like, it's going to be fine. You actually have stuff. You have a moat. you have real stuff that's of value. They can't replace it with an agent. So you're lying to them. You're doing hospice care and you're telling them everything's going to be okay, but the patient's not missing out of line options on Robin Hood while he's like, yeah, yeah, tell me more, tell me more. [51:46](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3106) Yeah, he's supporting all these things. There's certain things that are protected and there's certain things that aren't. That's all. Well, Tramath, let's talk about that because you and I are old enough to remember General Magic. This vision was out there a long time ago with personal... digital assistants, and you would just talk to an agent, it would go do this for you. This feels like a step to that, where it does all the work for you, presents you the final moment and says approve. So look, I think you're a butler. Yeah, I think what you're describing is what we want. But I think more specifically for today, Keith and Travis, totally nail it. [52:24](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3144) **Chamath Palihapitiya:** Look, I think building a browser is an absolutely stupid capital allocation decision. [52:29](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3149) just totally stupid and unjustifiable in 2025. Specifically for perplexity, I think their path to building a legacy business is to replace Bloomberg. Everything that they've done in financial information and financial data, in going beyond the model, has been excellent. As somebody who's paid $25,000 to Bloomberg for many years, the terminal is atrocious. it's terrible it's not very good it's very limited and anybody that could build a better product would take over a hundred billion dollar enterprise because i think it's there for the taking i wish that perplexity would double and triple down on that and so when you see this kind of random sprawl let's do it let's just go do it when you do the random sprawl i think it doesn't work but i just want to say like a browser is like the dumbest thing to build in 2025 because in a world of agents what is a browser it's a glorified markup reader it's like handling html it's handling css and javascript it's doing some networking it's doing some security it's doing some rendering but it's like this is all under the water type stuff i get it that we had to deal with all that nonsense in 1998 to try lycos or google for the first time but in 2025 there's [53:57](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3237) something that you just speak to and eventually there's probably something that's in your brain which you just think and it just doesn't you're thinking i need a flight to jfk or at the maximum today in a very elegant beautiful search bar you type in get me a flight and it already knows what to do. Keith, in some ways, this is a step towards that ultimate vision. So you'd think it's worth it to, you know, sort of perplexity to make this waypoint, perhaps, if you look at it as a waypoint between the ultimate vision, which is a command line and earpiece. How do you get distribution, Jason, for the 19th web browser in 2025? Well, yeah, that is a challenge. And I think most people are speculating Apple, which has a lot of users might buy perplexity or do a deal with perplexity and give them that distribution because of the Justice Department case against Google. [54:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3291) So there's been a lot of speculation about that. But Keith, what do you think? Well, I don't think they'd buy anything worth it. Like, what is Apple going to get? I mean, we continue this failed strategy of Apple. Right. Apple has missed every possible window on AI and continues to miss it. And it has cultural, I think the CEO has challenges. I think culturally they have challenges and they have infrastructure challenges. So it's not an easy fix, but buying perplexity is not going to help. Chabot's strategy is actually a pretty coherent one for perplexity, co-op perplexity. So I think that's not about it. [55:20](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3320) Pick a vertical and own it strategy. Not a bad idea, especially because you need unique data sources. Some of those data sources may or may not license their data to OpenAI. So you can do some clever things there. But I don't think there's any residual value that Apple would get out of perplexity, except there's some product taste. But what are you going to spend? Like a billion dollars for product taste? I mean, Mark's spending hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars or whatever he's spending these days. And, you know, Grok, if anything, Grok 4 shows that Mark really does need to spend money to build a whole new team because everything they've done in AI has also missed the boat. [55:55](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3355) Well, I mean, Keith, the way you phrase it there almost makes it worth it for Apple. to throw a Hail Mary, have a team with some taste because that's how they tend to do things is something that is elegant. And why not just throw your search to it? Throw 10 billion at complexity team and see what happens. What's elegant would be if there's a bunch of agents in just a chat box. Seeing a bunch of visual diarrhea is not elegant. It's lazy. On our little Bloomberg clone, I'll give you naming rights. So you can call it the polyhapatea. So, hey, can somebody bring up the polyhapeteer? You know what's so funny? [56:33](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3393) Actually, it just rolls right off your tongue. TK, listen, we were trying to do a screen of companies and it maxes out at five companies on a specific type of screen where you're like, you're trying to compare stock price to EBIT and you're like, okay, I can only choose five, I guess. So, which five should I choose? That happens when LaFont was on, right? Like two episodes ago, he was like, I can't pull this up. It's limited to six companies. Dude, so what do people use Bloomberg for? They have a back five. They use it for the messaging. Now, like my team has traded huge position via text message on Bloomberg. [57:06](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3426) So there is something very valuable there. But the core usability and the core UI of that company has not evolved. I have my contribution. And Perplexity is very good at that, by the way. They do a very good job. I got a new domain named Travis. Let this one just sink in here. This is my way to weasel my way into the deal. Begin.com. Begin.com. You own them, don't you? I do. I'm just a little, I snipe some good ones once in a while. I got begin.com and I got annotated.com. Those are my two little domains. Bro, you're like one of these old people that show up at those flea markets. Oh, like the road show? [57:39](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3459) And then they almost said you got a Picasso? The antique road show. And you're like, oh, I have this thing that I bought, 1845. Guys, Jason is the daddy in GoDaddy. Okay, that's just what it is. I'm your daddy. That's what it is. Who's your daddy? Hey, speaking of daddy, let's go on. to our next story is now the right time for a third party elon seems to think so last week he announced that x he would be creating a new political party i'll let you decide who daddy is in this one uh he said quote when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft we live in a one-party system not a democracy he's not yet outlined a uh a platform for the american party we talked about it here last week i listed four core values which seem to get a good reaction on x fiscal responsibility slash doge sustainable energy and dominance in that manufacturing in the u.s which elon has done uh single-handedly here pronatalism which i think is a passion project for him and shabat you punched it up with the fifth technological excellence according to polymarket 55 chance that elon registers the american party by the end of the year. And, you know, one thing I was trying to figure out is just how unpopular are these [58:58](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3538) candidates and these political parties. This is a very interesting chart that I think we can have a great conversation around. It turns out we used to love our presidents. If you look here from Kennedy at 83%, his highest approval rating, his lowest was 56%. That was his lowest approval rating. So he operated in a very high band. Look at Bush 2 during after 9-11. 92% was his peak. His lowest was 19, right? Wartime president. But then you get to Trump 1, Biden, and Trump 2, historically low high approval. Their high watermark, 49 for Trump 1, 63 for Biden, one of one and then 47 for Trump too. And their lowest 29, 31, 40. So maybe it is time for a third party candidate. Let's discuss it, boys. [59:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3591) I have no idea how to read this graph. I'm like, what is happening here? This is the worst formatted. chart this is a confusing chart but well the reason i'm putting it up is for debate so you should be saying thank you we're debating that it's creating great debate why did you put it up here's another one gallup poll americans desire for a viable third party 63 percent in 2023 so it's it's bumping along an all-time high okay i'm really concentrating on this one okay anyway i'm going to stop there what's the gray i'm going to let you okay god those are the different sense during that time period and how popular parties were. Let's stop here. This is a good place to stop. I just blew a GPU. Yeah. A couple of points. Yes. The idea of Elon creating a third party is for any other human being like absolutely absurd and ridiculous. Elon has obviously done incredible things. So dismissing anything he's touching is a bad idea. However, I think the best metaphor I've seen is it's a little bit like Michael Jordan tried to play baseball and he became a replacement-level baseball player, which is actually really hard to do, by the way. [1:00:57](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3657) Elon is probably a replacement-level politician. He's Michael Jordan for entrepreneurial stuff, but the third-party stuff is not going to work. First of all, that chart is misleading. It's a flaw of average. It's both badly designed and it's a flaw of average. Trump is incredibly popular among Republicans. He actually has the highest approval rate of any Republican ever measured in recorded history. it's 95 reagan was peaked out at 93 it's just democrats don't like them which is perfectly fine being polarizing is is an ingredient to being successful including with people on the show like the point of accomplishing things in the world is you don't really care what half the world thinks you need to make sure that there's a lot of people who like you and really approve and are enthusiastic about what you do and trump is about as popular with his party as anybody's ever been ever, period. No exceptions. Secondly, MAGA has kind of already changed the Republican Party. Trump is sort of like a third party takeover of the Republican Party. And so it's kind of already happened. And maybe you can do this every 20 years or 30 years. I don't think you can have like this kind of transformation on one party within a too compressed period of time [1:02:11](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3731) for a lot of reasons. Third is really smart parties absorb the lesson of political science. Unfortunately, I studied political science. I wasted kind of my college years. And instead of saying CS and maybe then I'd be coding stuff and doing physics like Travis. But one thing I did learn is smart parties absorb the best ideas of third parties. So the oxygen is usually not there because there's a Darwinistic evolution of if you get traction on an idea, it's really easy to conscript some of those ideas and take away the momentum. No third party candidate that's a true third party has won a Senate seat since 1970. [1:02:50](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3770) And that's actually Bill Buckley's brother. And so he has some name ID. The other thing Elon, I think, is missing in the proponents of what he's doing is people vote not just for ideas, they vote for people. It's a combination. The product is what do you believe and who are you? And you can't divorce the two. Trump is a person, and that generates a lot of enthusiasm. And it's one of the reasons why he has challenges in midterms, because he's not on the ballot. His ideas may be on the ballot, but he is not specifically on the ballot. So unless, because Elon can't be the figurehead of the party, he literally can't constitutionally, you need a face that's a person, Obama, Clinton. [1:03:29](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3809) Like, there's reasons why people resonate with Reagan. without that personality specific ideas just are not going to galvanize the american people okay so the counter to that and what people believe he's going to try to do is win a couple of seats in the house travis win maybe one or two senate seats if you were to do that those things are pretty affordable to back a couple of million dollars for a house race senate maybe 25 five minutes. million. If Elon puts, I don't know, 250 million to work every two years, which he put 280 million to work on the last one, he could kind of create the Joe Manchin moment. And he could build a caucus, a platform, Grover Norquist kind of pledge along these lines. So what do you think of that? [1:04:21](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3861) If he's not going to create a viable third party presidential candidate, could he, Travis, this, pick off a couple of Senate seats, pick off a couple of congressional seats. Okay. So first I have this axiom that I'm making up right now. Okay. Okay. It's called Elon is almost always right. Okay. All right. Elon was right about everything. Seriously, let's just be real. And like, honestly, the things he's upset about and that he's riled up about, especially when you look at the deficit, like, man, I am right on board that train. Part one, part two. we've never had somebody with this kind of capital that can be a quote unquote party boss outside of the system. Right. And there's a lot of people that agree with the types of things he's saying. And he knows how to draw, you know, he, Elon in his own right, kind of has a populist vibe, like he does his thing. And he's turned X into what it is. And he's, he's a big part of X. [1:05:29](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3929) And so I think it's the I think it's great. And honestly, there's, there's the moves you can make on Senate and House and just having a few folks, and then being you being levers then to get the things you want done. That's part one. And then part two of that is the threat of that happening can make good things happen separately, even if it doesn't go all the way. I just love it. i'm on the elon train yeah i'm i'm in love with this role for elon more than picking a party because he's picking a very specific platform that i think resonates with folks which is just balance the budget don't put us in so much debt and let's have some sustainable energy you know job done great jobs yeah the problem with that is like he's actually wrong about the reason why we have a deficit or debt it's not because we're undertaxed it's we're massively overspending. [1:06:21](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=3981) No, I think he believes we're overspending. They should have been supporting the last beautiful bill. Because if you just held federal spending to 2019 levels, 2019 is not like decades ago, literally with our current tax revenues, we would be in a surplus. $500 billion. Yeah. So all we need to do is cut spending. Now, I admit that- Why didn't that happen with the big beautiful bill? So this is where details do matter. i think there is a willingness in a you know discipline problem on both parties and i think maybe he can help fix that the second thing is that we have these arcane rules particularly in the senate that you need 60 votes in many ways to cut things except through very hacky methods and that's a reality so the best thing truthfully you could do is help get a republican party to 60 votes and then in then in theory he could be absolutely furious if you didn't cut back to 2019 levels, but it's very tricky. Or you can just overrule. The filibuster is an artifact of history. And at some point, some majority leader is just going to say, we're done with the filibuster and just steamroll through all the cuts at 50 or 51 votes, which you can do. There's no constitutional right to a filibuster. It is an artifact of centuries of American history. [1:07:39](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4059) And at some point, it's going to go away. So maybe the time is now. Maybe we should just fix everything now. I think you're exactly right. I think that the filibuster, it's just a matter of time. I think it's on borrowed time. And I think in a world where it is on borrowed time, Jason, I think your path is probably the one that gives the American party, if it does come into existence, the most leverage. which is if you control three to five independent candidates, you gain substantial leverage. I just want to take a step back and just note something. I don't know if you guys know this, but the only reason we're even having this conversation or this is even possible is because in 2023, the FEC, Federal Elections Commission, they actually released guidance and they changed a bunch of rules. [1:08:26](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4106) **Chamath Palihapitiya:** and the big change that they made then was it allowed super PACs to do a lot more than just run ads. Up until that point, all you could do if you were a super PAC is just basically run [1:08:38](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4118) advertising, television and radio. I guess online as well. But what they were allowed to do starting in 23 was they were allowed to fund ground operations. They were allowed to do things like door knocking, phone banking, you know, get out the vote. So in other words, what happened was a super PAC became more like a full campaign machine. And Trump showed the blueprint of using a super PAC, specifically his to win the presidential election. So he was able to fund this massive ground game, he built infrastructure across the swing states, he was obviously incredibly effective. And now that playbook can actually be used by other folks. [1:09:21](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4161) And so to the extent that Elon decides to use those changed FEC rules, Jason, I think what you said is the only path. But I just I thought I just wanted to double click on Keith's point, because it's so important. I do think the filibuster is going to go away. And it is because the the arcaneness of these rules, having to do a reconciliation build and, you know, needing a supermajority veto proof supermajority and the other case, it just means that nothing gets done. And I think somebody will eventually get impatient and just steamroll this thing. We've never had so many people say they feel politically homeless as we did the last two cycles. [1:09:57](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4197) And that includes many people on this podcast, people in our friend circle. And I think just the idea that Elon could create a platform that people could opt into and support, just the existence of that would make the other two parties get their act together. By the way, the other thing that- And I think that's what we need is a little bit of a stick there and a carrot. Yeah. Hey, if you don't control spending, there's this third option. And if Travis and I are in it, and Keith, I know you'll never leave the Republican Party, but Chamath, you know, you're probably set where you want to be right now. [1:10:28](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4228) But I can tell you, we go through our top 10, 20 list. Out of those, 50% will join Elon's party day one. The other thing, Jason, that Keith said, which I think is really important is, if he were to run people, I think they have to transcend politics and policy. And I think they need to be straight up bosses, people that have enormous name recognition, so that effectively, what you're voting is a name and not an agenda. Equivalent to, I think, what happened to Schwarzenegger when he ran, he ran on an enormous amount of name recognition in the Great Davis recall he didn't run on the platform i don't think any of us could mention jd vance had this great book capture people's imagination he's an incredible speaker he pisses off a third or two-thirds of the country depending on where you are in the country but you can't ignore him i think elon can find 10 jd vance type characters and back them fairly easily he is a magnet for talent people will line up i have been contacted by high profile people i was i was actually thinking of running can you put me in touch with elon i was thinking more like actors and sports stars meaning where they just come with their own inbuilt distribute like i think you almost have to [1:11:44](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4304) to rank x followers and instagram followers and do a join and say okay these are do you know what i mean like i think it's like totally different guys it's painful like let's not get more celebrities as politicians like let's get like people who've led large, large efforts, large initiatives, complex things. Ideally, but they still have to communicate, right, Keith? They have to be able to communicate on a podcast. That's the new platform. If they can't spend two hours, three hours chopping it up on a podcast like this or Joe Rogan, you know, that's Kamala's, the reason she couldn't even contend was because she couldn't hang for two hours in an intellectual discussion. [1:12:25](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4345) If you can't hang, you're out in today's political arena. Yeah, I get that. It'll be interesting to see if he can tune his algorithm for talent, which is epic, to tune for politics because it's a slightly different audience. But if you can tune the algorithm and quality, that might work. I think you can win a few house races. I think that's doable. I don't think you can win a Senate race. Well, there it is, Elon. Keith doesn't think you can win a Senate race, but he thinks you can win a couple of congressional ones. Thanks for giving him the motivation, Keith. I appreciate it. I'm sure he's going to love that. [1:12:54](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4374) That is the biggest mistake you've ever made. He's not going to win two. So people in the Republican Party right now are going, oh, no, don't poke the tiger. Listen, that's how Trump got into politics. So I don't want to be Obama here. You just Obama. Elon, right. Yeah. Congratulations. All right. Listen, SCOTUS made a big decision here. This is a really important decision. They've sided with Trump for plans for federal workforce rifts, reductions in workforce, for those of you who don't know. So, as you know, Elon, Trump, they wanted to downsize the 3 million people who are federal employees. [1:13:34](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4414) This is just federal employees we're talking about. We're not talking about military and we're not talking about state and city. That's tens of millions of additional people. If you remember, Trump issued this executive order back in February when we got in office implementing the president's Doge Workforce Optimization Initiative. and he asked all the federal agencies hey just prepare a rift for their departments consistent with applicable laws was part of this eo okay in april the american federation of government employees afge sued the trump administration saying the president must consult congress on large scale workforce changes this is a key debate because the congress as you know has power of the purse they set up the money but the president and the executive branch they have to execute on that. And that's what the key is here. So they accused Trump of violating the separation of powers under the Constitution Act. AFGE has 820,000 members. In May, a San Francisco-based federal judge sided with the unions blocking the executive order. The judge, who was appointed by Clinton, said any reduction in the federal workforce must be authorized by Congress. This is a key issue. And the White House submitted an emergency appeal, yada, yada. Eight of nine [1:14:46](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4486) Supreme Court justices sided with the White House in overturning this block. And so the reasoning, it's very likely the White House will win the argument of the executive order. They have the right to prepare a rift. The question is, can they actually execute on that rift? And who has that power, Chamath? Does the power reside with the president to make large scale rifts? Or do they have to consult Congress first? Your thoughts on this issue? It's an incredibly important ruling, incredibly right, I think President Trump should have absolute leeway to decide how the people that report to him act and do their job. If you take a step back, Jason, there are more than 2,000 federal agencies, employees plus contractors, I think number almost 3 million people. If you put 3 million people into 2000 agencies, and then you give them very poor and outdated technology, which unfortunately, most of the government operates on, what are you going to get? You're going to get incredibly slow processes, you're going to get a lot of checking and double checking. And you're going to ultimately just get a lot of regulations because they're trying to do what they think is the right job. So since 1993, what have we seen? [1:16:13](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4573) Regulations have gotten out of control. It's like 100,000 new rules per some number of months. It's just crazy. So eventually, we all succumb to an infinite number of rules that we all end up violating and not even know it. So if the CEO of the United States, President Trump, isn't allowed to fire people, then all of that stuff just compounds. So I think that this is a really important thing that just happened. It allows us to now level set how big should the government be. But more importantly, the number of people in the government are also the ones that then direct downstream spend that make net new rules and if you can slow the growth of that down you're actually doing a lot in many ways i wish elon had come in and created doge now like could you imagine if doge was created the day after this supreme court ruling it would have been a totally different outcome i think because with that supreme court ruling in hand these guys probably would have been like a hot knife through butter Travis so I think it's a big deal except that ruling doesn't happen without Doge that Doge caused that ruling to occur true well the EO did you could have passed that was all Doge style though you know what I'm [1:17:34](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4654) saying yes if they wasn't firing people yeah they probably wouldn't felt the need to your point Travis to actually file this but Travis if you are living in the age of AI efficiency right now operations of companies is changing dramatically can you imagine telling somebody you you can be ceo but you can't change personnel that's the job you get to be ceo but you just can't change the players on the team you can buy the knicks but you can't change the coach you know you can grow you just can't shrink it it's like running a unionized company which actually does exist are large companies where you can't do any of these things right do they still exist or are they all gone quickly yeah probably i think this just gets back to what what is actually congress authorizing when a bill occurs and there's certain things that are specific and certain things that aren't and i don't i'm not sure that in a lot of these bills it's not very specific about exactly how many people must be hired and so if it's i'm just doing the common man's sort of approach to this, which is like, if, if the law says you have to hire X number of people, then that is what it is. If the law says you, here's some money to spend here, the ways in which to spend it, [1:18:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4731) but it's not specific about how many people you hire, then that is different. Yeah. It should be outcome-based. Hey, here's the goal. Here's the, the key objectives, right? Travis is totally right. Like there are, there's a variety of different laws, some with incredible specificities, some with very broad manage. The constitution clearly says that all executive power resides in the president of the United States, period. There's no exceptions there. However, Congress does appropriate money. And post-Watergate, many people think Congress has the power to force the president to spend the money. And you can debate that. You can debate it on a per statute basis. And that will be more nuanced. And that's going to get litigated whether the president can refuse to spend money that Congress explicitly instructed him to spend, sometimes called impoundment. That's a very interesting intellectual debate. This one's a [1:19:41](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4781) **Keith Rabois:** little bit easier. It'll get more complicated again, like this EO is only approved to allow for the planning. I think the vote might be closer. I think there's still a majority on the [1:19:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4791) Supreme Court for the actual implementation, but it may not be 8-1 when there's a specific plan that has to navigate its way through the courts again. Yeah, it's super fascinating. Yeah, I wonder if they're going to get to the point where they're going to say in every bill, you need to hire this number of people to hit this goal. I don't know if they can. That's where it gets borderline unconstitutional, where you actually prescribe that the president, in the exercise of his constitutional duties, has to hire a certain number of people. That feels pretty precarious. Well, I'm not sure, Keith. It's just like they prescribe a whole bunch of other things. You must appropriate money to this specific institution to do this specific work. [1:20:38](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4838) But that's not an executive function. Like if you said like the secretary of state has to have X number of employees doing something, the secretary of state is your personal representative to conduct foreign affairs on behalf of the president of the United States. It gets a little bit more messy as you translate it to people that the president should. I mean, yes, Congress does set, you know, which people are subject to Senate confirmation, what their salaries and compensation bans are. So it's never going to be fully binary where the president can do whatever he wants. And it's never going to I don't think it'll be constitutional for Congress to mandate and put all kinds of handcuffs on the president. [1:21:17](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4877) Well, then you also have performance that comes in here. What if you look at the Department of Education and say, scores have gone down, we've spent this money, we're not getting the results, therefore these people are incompetent, therefore I'm firing them for cause, and I'm going to hire new people. How are you going to stop the executive from doing that? There's been a bunch of litigation in parallel to this litigation about the president's ability to fire people. And for the most part, the Supreme Court's basically, with maybe the exception of the Federal Reserve chair, said that the president can fire pretty much anybody he wants. I mean, that's the way to go. I hate to be cutthroat about it, but if the results aren't there, then you fire people. Yeah. If they're a presidential appointee, the president should be able to fire you at will. Just like if you were a VP at one of our companies, the CEO should be able to fire you at will. But what about, Keith, if the whole department sucks? Hey, you guys were responsible for early education. You had to put together a plan. The plan failed. Everybody's fired. We're starting over. You should be allowed to do that. How are we going to have an efficient [1:22:19](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=4939) government? Some of these departments were created by congressional statute, like the Department of Education in 1979. And you're right. Every single educational stat has got worse in the United states since the department was created but there is a law on the books that says there shall be a department of education so you may have to repeal that all right listen we're at an hour and a half gentlemen do you want to do the fico story or should we just wrap jama and we got plenty of show here it's a great episode anything i don't really have much to say on the fico story i thought these other topics were really good though we did great today this is a great panel i'm so excited of you guys are here let me just ask you guys um any off-duty stuff that you can share with us with the audience any recommendations restaurants hotels trips movies you watch books you read keith i know that you are an active guy what's on your agenda this summer anything interesting you can share with the audience that you're consuming conspicuous or otherwise well i don't want to share any good restaurants or hotels because oh you're gatekeeping you're gatekeeping come on man give us your favorite it's like if you had a babysitter yes can i get your nanny's [1:23:33](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5013) email there are there are things that are what do you call it no marginal cost consumption like netflix so for example um you know this documentary on osama bin laden is phenomenal like i don't know if any of you have seen it i haven't seen it and you know i i'm a student of this stuff and i i thought you know i knew the whole story and etc watch episode one just start with episode one and it just blew me away with new information new New footage, just absolutely incredible stuff. So I highly, highly recommend it. What was the big takeaway for you so far? I don't know if there's any specific takeaway, but just so many parts of the story are misunderstood and not really understood, and how various confidences of somewhat random things lead to a very catastrophic result. But it's as dramatic as the best movie, but it's a full documentary and you will learn things and absorb things i i just i've had friends while i've been recommending it to friends and for a story you think you know it's incredible incredibly revealing okay travis anything you got on your plate there that you're enjoying the restaurant a dish i mean look you know i mean jason you know i go to austin a lot yes like basically from march [1:24:50](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5090) till October. I do about 15 weekends in Austin. I have a lake house. Jason's hung out a couple times. So I, I love water skiing. That's my whole thing. That's my like, that's, I just love it. It's just my thing since I was a kid. Yeah. And it's like it's, I call it lake life. So that's a thing. And then I recently, this little bit of like a side quest. i recently purchased the preeminent backgammon engine xg xg that's right it's uh acronym is it's extreme gammon and so the preeminent engine so all the pros rate themselves based on this it was done it was built by this amazing entrepreneur this guy zavier who is just a full-on sort of ultra ultra i mean just what's the word i'm looking for it's not like a savant essentially but hasn't worked on it for many years so i'm getting back into it and love it and making it like taking modern machine learning sort of deep learning techniques and like big compute and saying can we push the game of backgammon forward so super exciting and ultra training apps to get people up to speed quickly i played in my first backgammon tournament in cached so that was pretty cool no wait yeah okay yeah all due respect you found uber you're very high profile you go to this back and is this like held at the motel eight [1:26:28](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5188) in like a conference room in the back. It was amazing. It was like a month ago or so. There's like a big tournament and it was, so the United States Backend Federation had this big tournament. I guess it was at the Los Angeles LAX, at the LAX Hilton. Oh, yes. It was in the basement of the Hilton. Great. And it was like... Next to the Dungeons and Dragons convention? It had those kinds of legit vibes. I love it. And like people, so I went in super low pro, just did my thing, but eventually was recognized. But I was not recognized as the founder of Uber. I was recognized as the owner of XG. Ooh, the owner of XG is here, well. [1:27:15](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5235) And then there was like a full on melee that basically occurred. They're like, oh, the owner of XG, Travis is here. Chamath, I feel like we've got a window here to do the all in backgammon. high-end tournament we gotta lock this down now we gotta lock down the all-in backgammon set i get the co-branding rights on this okay absolutely xg well no the all-in xg you know like because i love a great backgammon set if we could make like a ten thousand dollar one chamath we could kill turtles or white rhinos all the animals that you know um freeberg's trying to protect we could murder them and then make that would be so great yes like maybe the white could be you know rhinos and then you could take something else elephants Something, you know, just really tragic, and then eat the meat and make the backgammon set for you. [1:28:06](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5286) I love backgammon. Honestly, like, if I wasn't attempting to be like expert poker player, that is the game. I mean, if you're talking about a Pandora's box where once you open it, oh my God, you can go down the rabbit. Backgammon is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful game. I love the vibes of sitting. Travis and I sat. I got some cigars out. We pour a little of the all-in tequila, tequila.allin.com. We get that going. A couple of the all-in cigars, and then we have the all-in back. It's a wonderful hang. Yeah. Keith, would you consider giving us some of your money playing back? Absolutely. We got to get some of that money on the table because you don't play poker with us. [1:28:51](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5331) I don't play poker, but backgammon, yeah, that sounds great. and I'll bring better tequila. I'll bring better tequila. We're going to upgrade your tequila. We'll do a little taste-off. Yeah, so you've insulted now Elon with the Senate seats and sacks with his tequila. My tequila's much better, trust me. Wait, what? Okay, who is left in the PayPal mafia you'd like to insult before this episode? Yeah, and you can talk about Reid Hoffman. Or Peter. Anything about Peter? Reid can join Elon's party. He's collecting a bunch of misfits, so we might as well take Reid too. All right, listen, this has been another amazing episode of the number one podcast in the world, the all-in podcast for your sultan of science who couldn't make it today. [1:29:29](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5369) He's at the BEEP conference that we don't mention. And David Sacks, who is out making America safe in AI and crypto. Chamath Palihapitiya, World's Greatest Moderator. Travis. Keith, thank you for coming. Thanks for participating. You guys were great today. What a panel. See you all next time. Bye-bye. We'll let your winners ride. Rain Man David Sacks I'm going all in And it said we open source it to the fans And they've just gone crazy with it I'm going all in Besties are gone That's my dog taking out It's in your driveway sex Oh man We should all just get a room and just have one big Hugh Georgie because they're all just useless. [1:30:25](https://realalpha.app/v/KypnjJSKi4o/?t=5425) It's like this sexual tension, but they just need to release them out. Wet your feet. Wet your feet. We need to get merch. I'm doing all in. I'm doing all in.