Sign-In With GPT, Anthropic Vs. the Pope, Paramount Rebrands as Skydance | Diet TBPN
3 Oct 2026 · 32 min
In this episode of the Diet TBPN podcast, host Jordi Hays and two co‑hosts discuss a range of current tech and culture topics. They start with OpenAI’s new “sign‑in with ChatGPT” feature, framing it as a bring‑your‑own‑subscription (BYOC) model that could lower API cost barriers for indie developers and reshape AI product economics. The conversation then shifts to the ongoing debate between Anthropic and the Vatican over whether Claude (or AI models generally) can be considered conscious, highlighting theological, philosophical, and business implications. The hosts also cover media consolidation news, notably Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery’s rebranding to Skydance, and speculate on future branding strategies. Additional segments include a critique of app‑store‑style billing, the challenges of integrating AI inference into consumer products, Tesla’s Autopilot experience, and a light‑hearted discussion about domain name strategy (.si vs .com). Throughout, the tone is conversational, occasionally sarcastic, and the hosts blend technical insight with cultural commentary, offering both enthusiasm for emerging AI economics and skepticism about governance and market dynamics.
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Oh, we're getting Christmassy up in here.
Okay.
Here we go. Very Christmassy. It's Q4. We're in the correct— we're in the correct season now, so we can get pretty Christmassy.
That is right.
It's pretty tricky to stay in the middle.
Well, enough about Christmas, Jon. Let's, let's get into the news.
Let's talk about artificial intelligence. Yeah. So make it less Christmassy. It's too Christmassy. It's 83 days away. This is a— this is no more than 20 We're many days away before we get that Christmas.
I'll just leave this on.
Yeah. So there was this funny moment in a Dev Day this week where everyone's focused on the war of DOTS versus Muse versus Instinct. And there were a couple of times when you were like, I want to talk about sign-in with ChatGPT, which is the most boring and minute feature and very much not in the drama war for the personal agent where who's going to do your shopping, who's going to book your—
No, I just thought it was cool for independent developers.
Exactly. It's actually like probably more immediately relevant to the community that was there, like the developers, right?
Yeah. And do you remember when, like, flashback to 2 years ago, people were creating these magical new product experiences with the best models at the time, but they were in hindsight pretty rudimentary. And they would build something magical, scale up really quickly, and then be like, whoa, I just got stuck with like a $30,000 API bill. And so this is the solve for that because it allows users to bring their own compute.
BYOC.
BYOC.
Everyone knows BYOB. Now we're in the era of BYOC. And yeah, like, you know, most companies, they could usually figure out a way to say, hey, like, this service is going to use a ton of compute, so you got to jump on the Pro plan immediately. You got to set up a consumption, a credit card relationship, API credit, something like that. Metered billing, but it was just an extra step, an extra point of friction of you saying like, okay, I already pay $10 a month for this thing. Now I gotta actually pay for inference. And this gives like a different offtake. So yeah, Peter Yang was feeling the same way that you were. He said, I'm excited about DOTS, but even more excited about sign-in with ChatGPT feature. Letting users use their ChatGPT plan in your website or app makes a bunch of indie apps a lot more viable. Example, I have a live language learning app. that I wasn't planning to launch to users due to API costs, but letting users sign in with ChatGPT makes this viable. Hope they roll it out to non-enterprise folks soon. Who's actually running the project, said, I'm going to try and answer a bunch of questions that people have raised about signing with ChatGPT in the next couple of days. Before that, I want to let you know why they shipped it. The bring your own subscription stuff, it sticks out because it feels like it's potentially like the beginning of a new economic structure. Like, is this an app store where there will be a margin that accrues to OpenAI, or Is this more just like better for discovery? Will agents like reach for these because the sign-in is available? How much more smooth will this get? But, you know, at a high level, I think you described it well. A user can sign into an app or service. The Notion example is a good one because it's very intuitive. People already pay for Notion. You can imagine all the AI features that are there. And people were probably on day one of ChatGPT launching, copying from Notion into ChatGPT, copying back into Notion. Writing bindings, but if Notion wants to offer like a whole bunch of inference opportunities and agentic features inside, then they got to go to their clients and say, "Hey, you're paying ten twenty bucks a month for your seat." I we also need a bunch of money for inference. This offsets that. And so the way it works is a user signs into to an app like Notion, then authorizes the app to run the OpenAI model requests against their plan without managing an API key on Notion. This means drawing from the ChatGPT allowance instead of Notion credits, and it makes a lot of sense for bigger companies that have inference bills, as you mentioned. And they've all had to grapple very quickly with product tokenomics, which is just a new economic muscle and price elasticity curve they need to ride effectively. But the big thing is that it should over time allow leaner teams to offer inference-hungry features with way less friction. So it's worth clarifying that the feature only brings OpenAI tokens along for the ride. It's not OpenAI dollars, which is, I think, I'm trying to think a way where this could go, but the good example is like, let's say you have like some sort of AI book publisher where you're doing a bunch of token inference to generate the text of the book. Like you say, hey, I want to go take this, you know, general story, turn it into a book, and then print it and send me the book, right? There's 2 sort of costs there. One's inference.
One is— Send me the book, I'll scan it back into the computer, and then I'll turn it into a playable Video games.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. But you can't offset the cost of printing books with OpenAI tokens in any way.
Yes. Yes.
But you could have the user spend their OpenAI credits to run the text generation side of the business. But I do think this could go further. The example that I gave was generative video. I'd like to have like a front door to AI that can handle the full billing relationship. So if I need to generate a video, I can just add that to my tab.
And you went through this with Higgsfield where you're using codecs to make videos.
Yep.
And somehow Higgsfield has like $500 of yours now and it's locked in there and it's unclear how you can get it because you ended up buying like the wrong kind of credit or something like that.
Yeah.
Very simply.
I ended up setting up like a consumer subscription and then I also bought API credits. So I have consumer credits and API credits. And in order to use the consumer credits, I need to write a new binding in Codex to use the frontend as opposed to just the API, which is happily used.
And that would be using computer use, which would cost you more upfront.
Maybe a little bit. It's very unclear. And so all of these things are very messy. And so, yeah, I mean, between computer use, MCP, APIs, this might not even be a discussion because Like you're very, like we're pretty close to the workflow happening out of the box, even without direct integration. But then there's a question about will the apps like push back? But there is a world where even if you're, if you're an inference provider, you're maybe fine with not owning the front door if you're generating so much more demand because you're integrated with the big platforms and you say, yeah, I'm actually losing the customer billing relationship, but I'm going to 10x my revenue because I'm like the model or the inference provider of choice when people go and they ask for a particular particular integration.
Yeah.
And so there's always this dance with these integrations. You know, we were talking about it yesterday with the NeoClouds versus NVIDIA strategy where, okay, well, if NVIDIA actually does get DGX Cloud Lepton off the ground and if you're on there, you're gonna get so much more business and your utilization rate's gonna be so much higher, but you're not gonna have the leverage over the customer. It's always this like, careful dance. And then ultimately, if an app store does emerge, everyone gripes over, you know, the 30% tax, like the Apple tax is the same thing. You could wind up there in the age of AI. But I think from a consumer perspective, like having a consolidated business, really, like billing relationship would be great. Even in the world where computer use can go like plop down your credit card and set up an API key, it's still nicer to have like one point of billing and then True, like the buck stops with one model. It's like, okay, you want to do this? It's going to be $10.
Is it cool? Yeah, it's the same reason that some people want all the streaming services to be rebundled.
That, and also why a lot of consumers are like, yeah, it's awesome when I subscribe to something on the App Store because it's so easy to unsubscribe in the App Store. You just go to your iOS subscriptions and you say, look, I'm canceling that. And it can't be, why are you canceling it? Make sure you call us. Like all that annoying stuff that happens when you're on like some website and they're like, well, you actually have to call between, you know, 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM and we take a 2-hour lunch in there and you gotta explain yourself and listen to our pitch for why you should stick around. Apple like makes it one click.
Yeah, turn down the discount to stay.
Exactly, exactly. Apple like turns all that off. And so that could be this like complex dynamic. App Store economics are always complex, but it might not matter because you can just go and with computer you say like, yeah, like set up this API key, use this credit card. It's a little hesitant still and I don't think it's polished among any of the models. A lot of them really hesitate. They'll even say, like, don't give me your API key, please put that in your environment. Don't give me your credit card number, I don't want it accidentally leaking or anything like that. Even if you are being bold, the models will often be really hesitant. I remember I was trying to use Computer Use to send an iMessage. I was like, go do a bunch of stuff, I'm gonna leave, I don't want you to send me a push notification. Just text me. I have a text message open in iMessage. The window's right there. Go in that box and tell me when you're done, and then I'll get it on my phone. It'll just come from me. And it spent so many tokens being like, I don't want to screw this up. This is high stakes. Like, it really knew that, like, botching an iMessage computer use thing could be, like, ruinous, you know? Because it winds up texting.
It would be over. It would be over.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it would be cut. The other reflection is like this whole App Store concept, this whole sign in with ChatGPT, bring your inference around, let's partner on distribution, let's integrate into the app, let's be the front door. Sam originally launched this 3 years ago at the very first Dev Day 2023. They had a product called GPTs and there was the GPT Store and Everyone was like, wow, okay, I totally see the vision. And then it was like 3 years of languishing and tussling and back and forth.
Yeah, it was maybe too early.
Yeah, and there's just been so many integrations like Walmart and Apple where people have said, okay, I want to do an integration, but it has to be really, really good and to my favor. And then it breaks down like the Siri integration that's going away because they're migrating to Gemini is Actually atrocious. Like you will ask a question and and it's like yeah, of course it didn't work. You ask a question, you ask a basic question, and it will say like oh do you want to ask ChatGPT? And then you need to click click a button, and then you click a button, and it gives you an answer. And if you want to go deeper, you can say open in ChatGPT, and then it opens it. But ChatGPT doesn't get all the context of whatever happened before; it just opens the app. And so it's like the worst possible like broken flow because like both companies were like. begrudgingly working together basically and being like, look, neither of us want to work together, but the boss has signed a deal. So we got to, we got to do something here. So let's both—
We got to pretend.
Let's both fight it out anyway. I'm interested in, in like your thesis of will there be like a Flappy Bird moment or like a small dev team that figures out like, hey, if we can be the victor in the tool that gets pulled off the shelf when, you know, there's 1.2 billion users, probably like, you know, they'll always give that quote about like 400 million people are asking about health questions. Like there's probably like 400 million people that are asking about, I don't know, some niche thing. And if you can be the tool that funnels and you actually use it as the top of funnel, we could definitely wind up talking to a founder who's like, oh yeah, I actually like basically figured out how to be the tool of choice.
Yeah.
I log in, I monetize the inference better, and I scale to $100 million ARR in a couple months, which is interesting. At the same time, there's going to be a lot of companies like this would be such a solution for Instinct, right? But they would never do it because they're trying to actually go up against on the core feature.
Yeah.
And so there's this weird dynamic where Noah was on Invest Like the Best being like, I spend 75% of my time trying to secure compute. I'm burning so much money. I got to raise all this money. And like the solution's like right there, but it's like if you take that apple, like you leave the garden. Yeah. You are, you are, you're in trouble probably. But who knows?
On the enterprise side, OpenAI announced a partnership with Base10, our friends over there. Oh, cool. Just a few days ago at Dev Day. That's like a really good enterprise example cuz you can now basically get access to open models through your overall like OpenAI like commit, which is cool and it's native in Codex. And then the other use cases that I'm thinking about are like, you know, all those like generate headshot apps, right? That have been super popular. Those are super compute intensive. And so being able to use, basically get access to Images 2.5 is pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where like you've built an interesting funnel, you've built an interesting harness, you've built an interesting wrapper, but your compute is scaling really unfortunately. And you have a— and you have the ability to like off-take there. Yeah, it's very, very interesting.
Trey's saying Coogan's War on Christmas. Yeah. What do you have against Christmas, John? We're in Q4 and you're asking, put away the decorations. It's kind of distracting. Do we really need them?
Leave it, leave it, leave it. Pope Leo said, in this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art From what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity. Very interesting. What did PG reply? He said, since your opinions are meant to last, you should consider what you'll say when AIs are trained on visual experience as well as art made by human artists, because that is presumably coming.
Well, what prompted this, John?
Walter Isaacson chimed in. Popes have been hiring good artists for a long time. Yeah, what prompted this? There's an article in the New York Times about the interactions between Anthropic and the Vatican. Danny summed it up. Anthropic, Claude has a soul. Pope Leo says, nah. Anthropic says, please say Claude has a soul. Leo says, nah, here's a book-length explanation why that's not true. Anthropic says, we're pretty sure Claude has a soul. And Pope Leo responds with this. Yeah, a lot of people are duking it out here. The bombshell report in the New York Times. Christopher Hale sums it up here. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical launch in May because the Pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah's team then privately lobbied the Pope's advisors, quote, to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously. Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. Okay. People are getting worried. They're debating, is it God or is it computer? Neal Koslow doesn't like it. He says, I am increasingly concerned about the AI psychosis inside Anthropic. Imagine zealously trying to build something you believe to be a conscious God while running around and claiming it will end the world.
Yeah. And to their credit, they're not claiming that it will end the world, they're saying that there is a real possibility.
Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. Interesting that there's less of a white pill there. Like, I don't know. There's a world where you're like, yeah, we're going to build God and, like, it's going to be amazing. Like, P-Doom negative 1,000. Like, it's going to be even— it's going to be the best thing ever. There are no risks because It's God. It's going to—
The creator.
Yeah, it's the creator. It's going to love us. Like, it's going to be so— it's going to be amazing. It's going to save us, you know? That would follow. But there is a little bit of like cognitive dissonance that it's like, well, what kind of God is it? Like a devil?
Well, and I think that— A God that's bigger? I think what a lot of people should be asking themselves right now is, is Claude Force conscious, right? Because— I mean, that is the intelligence powering the Salesforce sort of ecosystem in many ways. And so at what point do you have to ask, is Salesforce, you know, if Salesforce is sort of embodied by Claude, is Salesforce conscious?
Salesforce has been godlike for decades though.
Yes.
People understand that it's a deity for customer relationship management.
That's right.
Fern Hobart says, looking at the current debates about Anthropic makes me feel guilty for not keeping up with some academic domains. I honestly had no idea that we'd solved consciousness and determined which substrates can and can't support it. Thought that one was more up in the air. He's joking, of course. I haven't found anything from someone in Anthropic saying models are conscious, just that they might be now or in the future. And yeah, that was something interesting in the New York Times article. Olaw really goes back and forth. He's like, I don't know. And I thought that was interesting that he was He was advocating for— he's a we gotta talk about it guy. Basically that. He was saying, like, I don't know, I don't have a firm position. And through multiple reports, it's not like he was ever like, I'm convinced of this and I'm trying to pull people towards this discussion. He was just like, yeah, this is an interesting question. Consciousness is unintuitive. Why the heck is there such a thing as the experience of being me in the first place? What's the cutoff for which things can get it? When? Seems hard to be confident when everyone's operating on an N-of-1 view. Yeah, very odd.
At the same time, that Vatican visit was at the time where they were adding seemingly like $1 billion of run rate a day.
Yeah.
And like the whole company, like when you're growing that quickly, like the whole company's—
You would put money over God in that scenario, basically, is what you're saying? I'm not saying I would. But it's reasonable to think that that was the calculation.
Yeah.
And they have a bunch of founders for a reason, right?
Yeah. Oh yeah, it is true. And Ola really does seem to be like the guy to send to this because he's actually really deeply engaged with this question. How many people are actually paying for this AI thing? It's only 2% of US households pay for AI. I guess this feels low. Co-founder Nick says we live in an X bubble. Only 2% of US households pay for AI. 25% of households pay for SiriusXM. Have you ever subscribed to SiriusXM?
I wonder how this gets counted because I feel like you are in a couple of—
right?
Yep.
Yeah.
Yep.
And then maybe it rolls over or something.
But well, I think they might be counting. I think it might be like sold in with the car. Yeah, because that's user acquisition for SiriusXM. Yeah. No one wants SiriusXM.
Yeah.
And so they're thinking like maybe if they try it, they'll They'll stick around.
Yeah.
And I'm sure to like— I've never activated the free SiriusXM.
Yeah. And I wonder—
I'm sure when you activate it, you have to add a credit card. And so then it does roll over.
Yeah. So maybe you need to go a little bit more like— because 55% pay for cloud storage across probably Google, Dropbox, Box, et cetera, and/or iCloud. And so I wonder if— does this include people who are on X premium accounts that includes Grok, right? Or like if you have a Google account that is on a premium subscription and got you a little bit of Gemini, does that count in here? Like there's a lot of bundling that's happening in—
SiriusXM did around $8.5 billion of revenue last year, currently trading, their market cap is around $8.5 billion.
Yeah.
And so yeah, the business is, Generally on the way out, but relatively robust in the meantime.
Where do you want to go next?
There's some new— there's a new South Park episode that depicts a town infested with podcast-obsessed billionaires. Jason over at This Week in Startups is saying, what?
Did you watch it?
Feels like it's made for him, made for all of us. I don't even know when something goes out on TV. I don't Usually hard to find. I don't usually know how to— yeah, how to get access to it.
It's funny.
Yeah.
That we're learning about this from like a Forbes article.
Tyler, can you find out if it's— if it's out and if it's out, if you could watch it at like 10x speed and then kind of report back in a few minutes and give us your review. Tesla stock jumps 5% on better than expected vehicle deliveries report. The delivery figure represented a 2% decline from a year earlier, but an unexpected increase from the prior period. Tesla stock was down 20%. 21% for the year as of Thursday's close, trailing all of its mega-cap tech peers. Okay, so I was not surprised to see this at all. I think that Tesla, and the reason for that is purely anecdotal, purely vibes-based analysis. I ordered a Tesla like 2 months ago and just got it this week.
Yeah. It wasn't like it was sitting in lots. And there were so many rumors of like, oh, all the Cybertrucks are getting sold to SpaceX. It's this circular deal. There were pictures of like a lot that was filled with Teslas. They're not moving.
And yet when I was ordering—
I would try and buy one and they'll be like, you have to wait 6 months.
And when I was ordering mine, I was intentionally speccing it to try to reduce the lead time.
Oh, really?
There's like people online talk about like if you spec it this way or you get this What is there to spec? Cyberbeast or—
Okay.
But basically, there's like less demand. There's still a lot of demand for the Cyberbeast.
Because there's only one color, right?
Yeah.
There's no like— you can't get deviated stitching.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a bunch of like more minor things.
Do they have a tailor-made program?
They should.
They should.
They should. But here's the thing.
Okay.
I had the experience this week of Autopilot.
Yeah.
It worked perfectly for like 50 minutes.
Yeah.
And then I had to intervene.
Yep.
And going from the car driving itself to suddenly I have to drive my car in traffic is the most jarring, brutal experience because you realize how insane it is that we still all drive our cars. Like, once you try it, I don't think you can go back.
Yep.
Especially for— I've always loved driving. Like, I've never really, like, minded commutes. They're obviously great if you can avoid them, but I even going on a 20-minute drive to get an errand is generally enjoyable for me.
Yeah.
But when it comes to the daily commute, every single day there's some amount of people that are experiencing Autopilot for the first time.
Yes.
And it's the most viral experience because it is— it's the first, like, technology that I've tried that actually feels like life-changing, especially if you're in the car for like 30 minutes a day, which a lot of people are. And it's the most viral thing because it's so magical. It feels like this thing that we should have had for a long time, but it's here now and it works.
Well, it was promised a decade ago by a bunch of companies. Everyone was like, Level 5 by 2020.
Yeah. And so it's here now and it works. And when you experience it, you tell all of your friends. And I think all these other auto manufacturers, if you rewind a year ago, everything that Elon had gone through with politics and facing competition overseas and more EVs coming online from a bunch of other manufacturers that are much better. They're much better built cars. Yeah. The Lucid Air is so much better. I'm incredibly happy with my Tesla. And at the same time, I can look at it from 20 feet away and point out a bunch of issues with the build. Every other auto manufacturer that sells cars primarily for utility is way more in trouble than I think generally people are picking up on. And the reason for that is when we have anybody that's in the automotive space on the show, we ask them, when do you think you're going to be able to get autonomous self-driving working? And they all chuckle and laugh, and you can tell it's like—
Hard problem.
Could be like 7 years out. And they are so—
Doug DeMuro used the word appliance. He's like, the Model 3 is the best appliance car. It's like— and DHH has talked about this where it's like his Model Y is like the best appliance car, but then he wants something with a gas engine, a stick shift, 3 pedals. Like he wants something that's super engaging for driving. Yeah. And then if he's not driving, he wants to be driven. And those are 2 separate categories now. And it's like If you're an automaker, which one are you in? Oh, wait. Skydance, Paramount, Warner Brothers Discovery has a new name. It's just Skydance. Yeah, that's exciting. So David Ellison joined X for the first post ever. Right.
Let's watch the video.
Let's watch the video. Let's throw it on. A movie about movies. Let's see what they got. Can you name any of these movies? What's this? Do you have any idea?
Whoa.
He knows.
Ball Nation.
Look at this.
I'm not gonna be able to name anything.
You don't know that one? You don't know that one? Oh, Ben's showing off now.
Yeah, show off, Ben. Go off.
Yeah.
They don't just live on screens.
Says, we have big goals for Skydance. We intend to pursue them with passion, imagination, and willingness to take smart risks. At the same time, we'll honor what makes Paramount and Warner Brothers special, giving both studios the opportunity to grow, tell more great stories, and bring those stories to even broader audiences around The world couldn't be more excited about what we're going to build together. Very exciting.
And yet connected by something deeper.
So is the actual app and platform going to be called Skydance?
Yeah. Well, the company, I think, is going to merge into Skydance.
But I'm wondering, are they going to— are they— is there a possibility in the future that we could get a Skydance Max?
Yeah, I was thinking they should at least for a couple months rename HBO Skydance and then rename it back to HBO and then go back to SkydanceBO and then back to HBO and then HB Skydance and then back to HBO because you got to keep people guessing with that brand. It's not like everyone knows what HBO is.
Putting aside the debt load on the business, this bundle is extremely compelling.
Totally.
And I think like, yeah, this is a— it's very disappointing for Netflix, I think, to see how all of this has come together. Like, I think they can both— they obviously can both coexist and consumers will pay for both. But this combination of assets and IP is super compelling from live to news to—
Like CBS has some of the like lower tier content that you can just throw on in the background, like the laundry television that Netflix has gotten so good at. Like, CBS has that in the catalog. Like, there's a bunch of great shows that people can just watch and it's just serialized stuff. So it's not like it's just Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight that's on there and that's the only crown jewel, although that is a very valuable crown jewel. They gotta bring Nolan back to Marvel— or not Marvel, DC.
DC.
DC. Because if they can reboot the DC Universe with Nolan, Bring him back for Superman, put everything together, let him run free. The Dark Knight trilogy extended. That would be fantastic. Although I think he might be done with his video game era or his comic book era. Oh, Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck put out some— there's a video of him being interviewed.
Takes.
We should listen to this.
In order to be a video model that's successful, you just need a huge volume of video. Initially, it learns things like what is red, you know, and then it learns more and more specific information to get to the cinematic information. It's the sort of last stage. And in order to obtain that information, I was concerned that most of the models being used had trained on my peers, people I know's work, and I was uncomfortable with that. And I thought, that's not really a viable business. So I sort of created that last layer, which was an understanding of cinema and cinematic components that did not need to be.
And so how did you create the last layer without doing all of the, you know, essentially copying of what came before it?
Because open models, just like open language models, open video models are available to be trained on. And so you just unfreeze the weights and you say, okay, just unfreeze the weights, bro. 8631. Now here's step 8632. So you could take existing Open models that didn't work very well and that weren't cinematic, but that had just aggregated a bunch of social media footage or random video online, and teach them to meet cinematic standards.
Oh, so it's fine to train on ours, our content, but not on your buddies? Make it make sense.
I think he's kind of saying like, train on everything, right?
No, no, rather than—
he's describing what's actually going on.
Which is what you're doing to everybody to learn from. They retain the proprietary nature. In other words, they benefit from the learning that they're creating.
This is funny. Ben Affleck. All right, gather round. So you want to freeze the base weights first, learning rate 2e-4. He's in the thick of it. Yeah, I remember a year ago, some AI lab founder was telling me, like, yeah, he was like, I ran into Ben Affleck at some event and he used compute as a noun. And I was like, that's when I knew he was like dialed in.
Yeah. When he went on Joe Rogan, everyone was like, oh wow, he's a—
Yeah, no, he's been deep in this. Ben Affleck reveals that seeing OpenAI models made him call Matt Damon and warn, we're finished, before realizing its researchers knew little about how movies are made. So.
We got to talk about .si domains.
Okay.
Suhail says, get your .si domain, people. Appreciate Rob, @rob@snagged, for helping us lock it down.
Mm-hmm.
And I'll start by saying Rob and the Snagged team are some of the finest domain brokers I've ever worked with. Rob helped us get tvpn.com back in the day. That's right, yeah. And then I'll say next that I don't think it's worth getting your .si domain at all. I think superintelligence and trying to rebrand it is corny, and you should focus whatever energy you were gonna put on getting a .si domain on just getting your .com. But I would do it.
Yeah.
I would do it with Rob. I think the whole scramble, like, already .ai domains are obviously inferior to .coms in every single use case.
Yeah.
And so using like the second-tier version, the .si, Sure. Is even worse.
I'm hearing sort of a pitch for like a third-party candidate because, of course, Donald Trump came out and said we need to be SI, superintelligence. Then Gavin Newsom fought back and said we got to use AI. And you're saying .com. So, sort of a third party, just pure commercialization.
Yeah.
What does .com actually stand for? Commercial entity, right? That's great.
That's a good question.
That's not going anywhere. Anywhere.
Yeah, yeah. Commercial or company?
Commercial or company.
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