Limitless: An AI Podcast

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So many new AI releases this week! Including xAI’s Grok 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6, we discuss their coding, reasoning, and benchmark performance. OpenAI also introduced a new full-duplex voice mode, which lets users speak and listen at the same time, and may preview future AI interfaces.
We also discuss Chinese AI labs building their own chips to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and imported hardware. And finally, a few updates on Meta’s new image and video models, ByteDance’s SeeDream image model, and Cloudflare’s payments API for micropayments and AI agent access.sis)
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Grok Is Back
2:03 Cheap Intelligence Wins
3:51 Cursor Deal Pays Off
6:21 GPT 5.6 Arrives
10:05 Voice Mode Breakthrough
15:17 China’s Chip Push
20:32 Meta’s New Visuals
25:06 ByteDance Joins Image Gen
26:36 Cloudflare Opens Payments
28:21 Wrap-Up And Farewell
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RESOURCES
Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale
Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Samsung’s brain-melting profits are clear evidence of the growing role of memory chips in the AI supply chain, with a focus on DRAM, NAND, and high bandwidth memory. 
Today we explore how Samsung and SK Hynix have gained pricing power as HBM demand strains factory capacity and pushes up costs for consumer devices.
We also cover the market reaction to recent earnings, including share declines even after Samsung reported record profits and beat estimates. We look ahead to the limited number of memory suppliers, slow capacity expansion, and the upcoming U.S. listing of SK Hynix.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Samsung’s Memory Windfall
1:32 AI Memory Power Shift
3:42 DRAM, NAND, and HBM
5:13 The Black Hole for Memory
6:40 Bubble or Supercycle?
7:38 Consumer Costs Surge
10:19 Prices Keep Climbing
11:43 Why Supply Can’t Catch Up
13:04 Memory Hits Consumers
14:14 How Long Can It Last?
15:09 Supply Still Tightly Constrained
16:25 Cheaper Memory, More AI
17:10 Stocks Hit a Bear Market
18:44 Sell-The-News Shock
19:56 Lessons from Past Cycles
21:16 SK Hynix Goes Onshore
23:13 IPO Demand Explodes
24:29 Long-Term Outlook Holds
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RESOURCES
Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale
Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

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In our 200th episode, we review nearly 200 transcripts to identify recurring themes and track how the AI landscape has changed over the past 14 months. 
Focusing on compute and memory as key AI investment themes, we revisit companies featured on the show and discuss future topics like specialized AI applications, local models, and space-based model training.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 200th Episode Victory Lap
1:49 Early Bets Proven Right
3:44 Memory and Chip Windfalls
4:59 The Cursor Thesis Pays Off
5:34 Limitless Portfolio Returns
7:46 Where the AI Puck Goes
9:32 Trends Rising and Fading
12:57 Google’s AI Comeback
13:47 New Frontiers in AI
15:32 Space, Science, and Specialized AI
17:47 Turning Intelligence Into Value
20:15 Local Models and New Devices
22:45 Recursive AI and Geopolitics
24:56 Optimism for the Next 200
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RESOURCES
Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale
Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

Inference is becoming more important than pre-training in AI chips, including how pre-fill and decode work and why more compute is shifting toward serving models. 
Today we walk through Etched’s ASIC system for transformer inference, its claims around efficiency and throughput, and the tradeoff between specialization and general-purpose GPUs like NVIDIA’s. 
We also look at custom chip efforts from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, and argues that inference demand may keep growing as AI agents and long-running workloads expand.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Inference’s New Frontier
2:14 Training Versus Inference
5:19 Etched’s Bold Bet
7:58 Building the Whole Rack
10:48 TSMC and the Hard Problems
13:29 Why Inference Matters
14:59 The Transformer Risk
17:02 OpenAI’s Jalapeno Chip
18:59 Why Accelerators Keep Winning
22:28 The Market Is Underpricing It
23:10 NVIDIA Is Still in the Game
24:56 Vertical Integration Wins
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RESOURCES
Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale
Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.

We are so back. Anthropic announced the return of Fable 5, its safety updates, and related releases like Sonnet 5 and Claude Science. 
In other news this week, we look into Meta’s brain-to-text research, OpenAI reports, new inference hardware, and recent robotics demos.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Fable 5 Returns
3:12 Banned, Safeguarded, Back
7:58 Sonnet 5 And Science
11:33 Meta Reads Your Mind
14:11 Meta's Compute Pivot
17:17 OpenAI's Power Play
23:26 Etched's Chip Breakthrough
27:37 Memory Market Shock
31:02 Robots In The Home
36:54 Industry, Not Housebots
39:01 Episode 200 Milestone
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RESOURCES
Josh: https://x.com/JoshKale
Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
Josh works with Anthropic as a contractor. All views expressed are his own and do not represent Anthropic, its leadership, or its affiliates. Nothing in this episode is investment advice.