Big Technology Podcast - The Fable Ban's Unintended Consequences + AI's New Economics — With Aaron Levie
Episode Date: June 22, 2026Aaron Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box. Levie joins Big Technology Podcast live from the Big Technology AI Summit to discuss the government-mandated recall of Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models... and what it reveals about where AI regulation is heading. Tune in to hear Levie argue that the recall — far from a conspiracy to kneecap the frontier labs — may be the closest thing yet to the "AI pause" critics have demanded, why he thinks the government is now effectively in the model-approval business, and how that shift could hand China the long-term economic edge. We also cover whether "token maxing" was ever real, why the application layer may capture more value than anyone expected, the open-weight models closing in on the frontier, and a quick lightning round on Siri, the "permanent underclass" meme, and SpaceX. Hit play for one of the sharpest, funniest reads on the AI moment you'll find anywhere, only on Big Technology. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aaron Levy is the CEO of Box.
He's one of the most insightful and fun voices on the future of this technology.
He actually was the fourth guest ever on Big Technology Podcast and the guest,
the only other time we did a live podcast together.
So with that, I am thrilled to welcome Aaron Levy.
Please join me in welcoming him.
All right to see you.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
Let's dive right into it.
I'm going to start, you know, again, since you're not at one of the labs,
let's start to talk about the biggest, most controversial moment now, which is,
the Anthropic Fable situation. Let me put to you what I call the Jassy mystery.
So what we know about...
I'm sure he likes that name.
Well, he didn't show up, so we can talk about it in this absence.
So what we know about the fable ban or the export controls on Anthropic is that Amazon found
a vulnerability in the software, and Andy Jassy maybe made a call to Dario, definitely made
a call to the White House.
and then very soon afterwards,
there were export controls
that were put on Anthropics Frontier model.
Those two fact patterns are probably not ideal.
So the mystery is, why did he do that?
Yeah.
And here's one hypothesis.
This is from Chimov.
He said Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta,
now have a serious non-zero opportunity
to tank the frontier labs.
Go to the government,
kneecap the lab's motion
of putting the latest models out into the wild,
become the trusted gate key,
gatekeeper between labs and the public by having the labs go through their clouds.
Okay.
Plausible?
I would say, I mean, anything's plausible.
I prefer Occam's razor on this one, which is, you know, ever since Mythos, you know,
Mythos very clearly was this event that basically said, you know, AI is obviously getting
super powerful.
It has all these risks associated with it.
we are going to give it to some, you know, small trusted partner network.
They're going to go evaluate their own tools.
They're going to evaluate these capabilities.
There's been a lot of sort of, it's a very kind of dramatic, you know, kind of rollout of a
technology.
And I think what that has done is it's created this flywheel where it almost incentivizes
even more drama and more research and more depth in, you know, security being the primary
space in a way that we could have already been doing since GPT4 if we wanted.
Like you can go and deploy these things to go find lots of vulnerabilities.
you can use them offensively or defensively.
But Mythos kind of created that extra air
of seriousness and uncertainty around it,
for good reason, because it's an incredibly powerful model.
So I go with Occam's Razor, which is Amazon obviously
has security research teams.
They're like any company at that scale,
we try and test and push the limits of models
in our particular domain of use cases.
Clearly at Amazon scale, you have a very large security team.
They're trying to jail break models all the time.
And so almost by definition, there's already a public
private partnership on all forms of jailbreaking models, you know, trying to push them to the
limits as a part of that, and especially with the surrounding atmosphere of mythos, I think it would
be very natural for Andy to either share that research or his team to share that research and that
escalates and then that sort of creates its own flywheel. But the idea that there's some kind
of board room levels, you know, sort of strategy meeting that says we now need to kind of like
co-op the technology, become the only interface to the government. This kind of puts us in the
pole position. I think it's less likely that and more likely this is a, this is a situation where
the mythos momentum continued. Fable obviously, you know, had ways of getting back to the mythos
level capability. And researchers, you know, sort of shared that information. And I don't, I think
there's like a basically, you know, very limited small percentage chance that then Andy and team knew
that like the very next event would be they'd stop the model. And that's not even
good for Amazon, like strategically.
Like, Amazon makes plenty of money
the more that Fable gets used in the world.
So I don't think you would,
I don't think you would do some kind of like,
you know, kind of maneuvering to create this.
So I kind of just go with this is,
it's a very chaotic kind of environment right now.
The government has, you know,
only a few tools at their disposal at any given time
to deploy against these things.
Those are going to be kind of blunt instruments.
And this stuff is coming together very quickly
because of, you know, in some cases
the lack of technical capability of the government
compared to how powerful these models are.
It's like you don't, you know, when you see something that seems very scary, like,
oh my gosh, the thing could be, we can jailbreak the model and get back to Mythos level capability
and Mythos was the thing we're supposed to be scared about, then, you know, just like, stop it.
Like that, I think that's a very natural reaction based on the atmosphere that we've created in AI recently.
So I just go with that as the answer.
I mean, I like that you say the atmosphere that we've created in AI lately.
Everybody but me, yeah.
Well, I mean, it's fine because the company on the receiving end of this, though, is anthropic.
And, you know, you talked about these mythical capabilities.
They called the model mythos.
They put in the documentation that, like, it broke out of its containment and wrote the engineer while he was having a sandwich in the park.
Is it that surprising that this is one of the downstream impacts?
Yeah, but if you put that in your announcement, blog posts, you know, people might be able to kind of extrapolate and get pretty scared of things.
I think it's interesting.
So, you know, on the anthropic front, first of all, I have a huge amount of respect for the entire kind of stack of researchers and policy folks.
across AI. I happen to have disagreements with some of the categories, but I think there's a deep,
let's say, if you were, if you imagined a continuum of the most, like, you know, if you,
if you kind of had like the most, I mean, it's only in like a polite way, it will sound impolite,
but like, I mean, like, if you're the most dumer on one end of the spectrum and the most, like,
like, accelerationist on the other end of the spectrum, here's kind of the views. The most
Dumer possible is, was afraid of like GPD3 and GPD3 was going to like, you know, sort of accelerate
and, you know, kind of achieve some kind of unstoppable continual improvement.
And, you know, the accelerationist says, like, we need like fable 20 as soon as possible, right?
So that's sort of the continuum.
I'm probably like, you know, maybe two-thirds up to the accelerationist kind of side of things.
But if you were on the Dumer, and I'm trying to say the polite version of Dumer, like you're deep
in AI safety, you're very scared of the technology, you think there's as much likelihood of
bad things happening as good things, you know, happening. We have to win the race and control
and kind of stamp down on the technology. We don't want this to be this sort of thing that runs
in the wild. If you're on that end of the continuum, the thing that happened this weekend is
actually the best case scenario for you. So, so, like, you actually want there to be these
sort of like valves and like buttons in the government that just is like, we're just going to
stop it. I mean, that's Dario's position. Do you think he's happy with what's going on?
You know, I'm not going to, I won't try and guess any of that.
But I will just say if you had to establish a, if you had to establish a regulatory regime that said we are going to review models, we're going to push the limits of models, and we're going to have the ability to either roll back access to models or prevent their release in the first place.
We want that to be a regulatory approach.
You would need an event like Fable to effectively create the precedent for that environment.
Like, you're not going to wait for Congress to vote on this being the new kind of process.
You would kind of need something that sort of shocks the system into that kind of regulatory framework.
So all I'm saying is that if you were on this end of the continuum, this is actually an outcome that is sort of almost desirable.
Now, maybe you would wish that there would be more technical evaluation, more back and forth.
Maybe you wish the policy people were different on the other end.
Who knows?
But the idea that we now have established that the government can press the government.
a button and prevent the roll out of AI is actually like a probably a positive update for an
entire cohort of people.
Now unfortunately, I don't know that any of your guests represent that cohort, but I think
you could easily get some people that would be like, this is the greatest thing that's
ever happened in AI safety because now we actually have, we've created the case law essentially
for this.
We know we know the tool exists.
And then the next messy process is when should we use the tool again?
What should the real kind of ongoing process look like?
But I think that probably, I wish this wasn't the case,
but I think practically in the next three to five years,
we probably have to end up in an environment
where models do get evaluated by the government.
There is a sort of collaborative approach
between the government and research and the labs.
The government has to kind of green light
the release of the model.
I think it's probably become either too scary of a technology
or too economically powerful of a technology
for governments to not want to be
in that position, I think that that has massive implications when you kind of unpack it,
like just totally massive implications.
One being other countries now have far more incentive to stand up their own sovereign AI
initiatives.
So it's actually like maybe net negative for the U.S. economic position in AI, that this is the outcome.
I think somebody could take the other side and say, no, we'll always have the most powerful
models.
And so this puts us in the best position because now we can do like horse trading with other
countries of do you want access to our stuff.
So I think it's, you know, I like the fact that this is a super interesting debate, and I have like a huge appreciation for every part of the continuum because I think it's like so intellectually interesting. I still land on the, hey, we probably want to treat this technology more as a substrate technology and then regulate the applied use cases. So we should regulate if you use AI to break into something. We should regulate if you use AI to do bio, you know, kind of research that leads to dangerous things. We shouldn't regulate the model itself.
But I totally understand the other views that are on the other end of this.
And I think it's kind of very natural with this important of a technology
that it has to be somewhat of a democratic process of how we decide to regulate it.
Yeah, you remember there were all those petitions, six-month pause,
and everyone kind of laughed at them.
Yes.
This is effectively the best way to do that type of pause.
Yeah, I mean, this is, if you were in the pause AI movement,
this is, again, like, this is a great outcome.
We now have proven how we can pause AI.
Now, it's an interesting kind of, like, mechanic that they chose.
It's sort of this export control thing.
But effectively, if you have an export control where non-US nationals can't use the technology,
like, effectively, that's pause AI, because your end API users of these models
almost have no way to fully ensure at all times that their end users don't sort of fall into
some kind of criteria that's off-limits.
And there's already companies that are pulling back.
J.P. Morgan, for instance, has told it's Hong Kong users, no more clot.
Right. So, okay, so now if you really wargame this out, like two,
to three, four more years out. This is kind of interesting. So we have this like sovereign cloud
kind of comparison, but cloud, you know, for better or worse, basically became a commodity. Like,
whether you're running in a cloud in, you know, there's like lots of, you know, performance
implications, like some are faster, some are cheaper, but like largely like you can get a web server,
you know, built out wherever you are in the world, you can get storage built out wherever you
are in the world. We can build sovereign clouds. Sovereign AI is a, is a different,
kind of, you know, has some intricacies that are different, right? Like, like,
intelligence just is not commoditized yet. We don't have everything having the same model
capability. So there's lots of really interesting implications, which is, well, what if, like,
one country has access to, you know, frontier intelligence before the other country,
you know, what does that mean geopolitically? What does that mean economically? Obviously, now,
if you're another country, you have so much commercial incentive to make sure that you can
build out labs and have access to frontier intelligence as a kind of hedge against the U.S.
So who's a net winner in that? Probably China. And so what's interesting is like you end up
I don't know if, you know, probably most people saw the Dorcasch Jensen interview. And you can,
you can actually, it's a Rorschach test. You can watch that through two totally different lenses.
You can have one lens, which is, which is like, Dorcasch is totally right. We have this huge lead.
Like this stuff is so dangerous. But if we control it, then like we're going to control everything.
the other lens, which is probably more of the Jensen angle, is like,
actually, you know, these other countries have a lot of incentive to also get this right.
And so even if it's like a $500 billion problem for them,
they just might deploy that much capital on this problem,
and they will eventually get it right.
And so at the outcome, actually, we haven't gotten any gains as better intelligence
from the rest of the world, but what we have lost is our economic superiority in this technology category
because what we've caused is a catalyst for all the other countries to have to build out their own stack.
And if they build their own stack, it's probably going to be chips from China,
models from China, et cetera, which I don't have any reason to be against other than just
like I want America to win the economic angles on this.
And so this is sort of this debate that happens on like where should you apply export controls
and what are the implications of that downstream?
And even this week, post-fable, we see that, you know, you have models that are certainly
not fable performance level, but opus 4.7, 4.8,
level, which is a big update for a lot of people on what is now possible with open weight
to models that we just didn't have kind of visibility into before.
Yeah, I think you shared recently that the open weight model or open source models,
the capabilities are not that far away from the frontier.
And in fact, as these models get smarter, they're almost going to saturate with intelligence
where there's not going to be such a big difference between, let's say, the smartest open
source model and the frontier, don't you think?
And so won't this push people to open source?
Well, so the big ongoing conversation, and I think you have some guests that can really represent, you know, what they're seeing on the front lines is, do you have a sort of fast takeoff scenario of model capability in progress and with some kind of continual learning, kind of self-improvement dynamic?
And then it stands for reason that like the company with the most compute or the country with the most compute and you get the fast takeoff, you get sort of a virtuous flywheel that maybe has sort of has some compounding, you know, benefits to.
it that are just, you know, unreachable by anybody else. That's a scenario. Another scenario is
that that's another just incremental capability. Everybody kind of catches up to it. And you always
have this sort of, you know, kind of two loops going at all times and the closed providers and the open
providers, and they're kind of always within three to six months of each other. The world is so
different from a market structure standpoint, whether we end up in an outcome where we have sort
of an exponential progress in the models that kind of continually learn versus the closed source
models.
And it's like a five-year gap in progress.
And that just goes again kind of exponential.
Totally different market structures.
The one where we have this exponential progress is, again, it's probably actually net positive
for America in that case.
In which case, the export controls probably worked.
It means our kind of top three, four labs have this incredible superiority.
we control access to this technology.
That's actually a good scenario, like economically speaking.
It might not be like a total net good scenario for society, but it's good for the U.S.
Let's just say that's one scenario.
A lot of people are betting that that's where we're at with research.
The other scenario, and like China sits around and they probably bet on this scenario,
is no, we're going to be able to keep up.
We're going to throw more compute at the problem.
We're going to get more data.
We're going to build our own flywheels.
And it's always three months out, you know, kind of behind.
And if it's three months behind and it's an open way,
provider that has more of a commoditization kind of business model approach because they just want
to sell more infrastructure or chips or they just want to reduce our superiority in the space,
which is actually like strategic for China to do.
Like everybody wonders like, why are they doing this open weight stuff?
It actually makes total sense.
Like you're just reducing U.S.'s dominance in a field, and it might be worth a couple hundred
billion dollars to do that for something that might be worth, you know, $10 trillion.
So if that keeps up, because there is real economic advantage to doing it.
so, then you have this new kind of, you know, sort of dynamic that plays out, which is maybe
the layer of incremental value shift is effectively the applied layer of AI. So if you think about
there's the lab layer and then there's the applied layer. Like the cursors. The cursors, the
Harvys, the Sierras, the Decagons, the boxes. Which is amazing because everyone said they're just
a thin wrapper on top of large language models, but now maybe that's where the value comes.
Yeah. So, and, you know, it's one of these things which is like we just have to not be binary
about it, like everything I'm saying, I think the frontier models still make way more money
in the future than they do today. Because what happens at the routing layer is you still sort of say,
hey, I want Fable or GPD5, you know, five or whatever the next model will be. I want that to be
the orchestrator. I need like the super intelligence at the orchestration layer, and I need
super intelligence at the review and sort of like, you know, fix and check the work of the other
agent. And so you have like a barbell, you know, maybe U-shaped model where you use frontier intelligence,
but then everything in the middle, you can just say, no, I'm going to take that to Nemotron or Kimi26 or GLM 552 or whatever.
And then all of a sudden it's like you have super high cost, you know, inference in one part of the workload, super low cost, still pretty good inference in another part of the workload.
But who has the incentive to do that?
It's the applied layer of AI because, because like the business model of the applied layer is obviously like our job is to, you know, give you the best model for the job, not just the model from just our lab.
So it's cool because we actually now have a good kind of push pole between Frontier Labs and the applied layer,
where you probably wouldn't want it to be that we're all sort of only in the orbit of one or two companies,
you know, commercially and economically.
You'd want to make sure that there's some good tension there.
And so I think that's kind of the direction things are headed between kind of the token costs,
the open source models becoming so good, and then maybe even some of this regulatory dynamic.
I think the applied layer sort of incrementally gets,
gets more of that opportunity, which is obviously great.
So you've talked about open source and you've just mentioned China.
But what can you tell us about La Chantan Fette?
It's great memes.
So folks, La Chiton Fette is a rumored open source model from Mistral
and has been the subject of great fascination from the Internet, wouldn't you say?
There's great comedy.
John, Dan, can we show people what we're talking about?
about let's roll image A. This is La Chantin Fette. The number one model from Europe, yes.
My French, rudimentary French, it translates to the very fat kitten. Can we roll B? This is a standard
day in Paris now. Yeah. But it does show something that there's so much eagerness for AI that
there's now fan art for this potential model from Mr. Rowe. We've reached a really important
sort of phase in the cycle. So, you know, I do think that it is kind of cool because some of the
things that you maybe discounted the importance of all of a sudden just like have so much more
importance. Like I'm watching the, I don't know if folks are watching the fireworks, base 10
space as an example. Like it's pretty cool that we now have these open weights models that you can
effectively post-trained on your particular domain of task and you can go and, you know, eke out
another five or ten points of performance on these types of models.
And again, that's only possible because of the mistrales, because of the Chinese, you know,
kind of open weights models.
And the cost curve has gone down so much that there are actually some situations,
which is, oh, actually, maybe I should train a model just for my use case because it's literally
like economically now, it's not even like I want control.
It's actually economically advantageous for you to do so.
So is this the answer to like the big token maxing hype where like everyone's spending
all this money on tokens and not really understanding where they're going or whether there's
an ROI that...
Yeah, I mean, I think that in practice, that phase probably lasted two and a half weeks.
Like from the moment that meta token max...
Are you saying the media overhyped token max?
No, I would never claim that.
We should go through your various podcast headlines, but the...
We're not going to do that.
We got the cat pictures and that's it, yeah.
No, but like, I mean, if I had to like capture the cycle of like the first token maxing, you know,
meta has a leaderboard, uses the most tokens possible to now, you know, the last weeks of
rumors of like, we're shutting down everything.
No one can use AI.
Yeah, it's about a two-month period.
So it's, you know, people need to like probably, you know, always kind of step back and just
be like, okay, is what we're doing like a pragmatic, you know, thing for work or we just
sort of like getting kind of hyped up too crazily on something?
What's interesting is this phase was so short that I don't ever think it reached outside
of the tech industry.
I was, I was, I was, I, we kind of host these CIO dinners in every city that we go to.
And I was, we had a dinner like, within three days of like the token maxing like, like initial spike on like Google trends.
Like the word finally emerged.
And like three people had heard about it.
And so I feel confident that it died.
Right.
They haven't heard about because their employees are out spending the tokens.
Yeah, fair point, fair point.
So hopefully it will have completely died by the time it reaches, reaches the rest of the world.
And then we can just move to more normal environments.
And, and but the, the thing that.
that is true of the phenomenon is that these agents are just using hundreds of times more tokens
than they were before. And so, you know, when we launched our first kind of AI use case within
box, our product, the average number of tokens that was being used on a task was like 5,000, 10,000,
20,000 tokens. Now our latest agents might use a million tokens or 5 million tokens on executing a task.
And so that's, you know, in some case, that's 100x increase in number of tokens.
And the reason for that is obviously like what's happening is right as we solve one use case,
when you would think that we can drive down the cost curve of that one use case,
all of a sudden a model capability allows us to now add another use case that's much harder.
And then our appetite just grows to solve harder and harder and harder problems.
And so it's this funny thing because people get confused.
They say, I thought AI was supposed to be getting cheaper.
And it's like, yes, you can actually think about it as cheaper if you looked at like the unit of intelligence.
The reason it's more expensive is because we're now taking on bigger tasks.
And so we're getting confused because we're like,
why is this the one tech trend that doesn't have sort of the Moore's law phenomenon?
And it's because actually, no, we're outrunning the efficiency improvements
in our appetite for what these models can go and do.
And so it's actually what you need to do is have like a way to normalize the cost of the tokens
to the tasks that you can now deploy.
And then if you look at that, then that starts to look cheaper on a per task basis.
it's just, again, our tasks are getting bigger or more accurate or more effective,
and that's going to happen for quite some time.
The reason why token maxing took off as a concept is because people saw the exponential revenue,
right?
The fact that Anthropica and Open AI were at zero, 2023, now they're like going to do $50 billion
this year at the very least.
And so people are looking for an explanation.
And either the answer is, either the answer is this is real or it's somehow inflated.
And that's why people go to token maxing.
So if I'm hearing you write, what you're saying is all this spend is much more legit than some of the online discussion makes it out to be.
Well, I think if I had to officially provide my own takeaway for my own point, it would be, it would sort of be there's sort of always this experimentation phase of a new technology.
And this happens to be a relatively expensive technology.
So thus the experimentation phase is expensive.
and then what will happen is enterprises will deploy AI
and then they'll sort of peel,
they'll start to see like where are the real use cases,
where are the ones that aren't as real,
they'll wind down the ones that aren't as real,
the ones that are real,
they'll then look at it and they'll say,
is there a way to do it at a lower cost
once we understand it enough?
Or do we still need the frontier intelligence
for everything we're doing?
And that's actually just like a pretty normal,
I think, process that everybody's going through right now.
But, you know, I think about it,
like our engineering team, we are not token maxers in the sense of like there's no leaderboard.
We're not incentivizing overuse of tokens.
We're just saying use it as effectively as possible to get your work done faster.
And our growth rate of spend is exponential.
And we're like totally happy about it.
Like nobody internally is other than like, ah, we got to like shift some things around and
make sure we plan for this even more next year.
Like that's obviously a stressful conversation.
But we're not stressed about the idea that we're spending on AI.
Like we're quite excited about the productivity game.
that we get. And so I think what's happening is, is every enterprise is having to kind of go through
their own journey on that. Like, they're deploying it in some teams and some teams are saying,
oh my gosh, this is, this is like the greatest thing of all time. And then other teams, you kind of
look at what they're doing, you can't see any kind of measurable improvement in the output
of that organization. And so then you're like, okay, you know, like maybe, maybe it's not as
effective there. But I am, I would say, like, I think it's very easy to kind of capture one or two
anecdotes and then and then kind of over extrapolate on the overall themes, I would say the vast
majority of the current agentic spend that's happening is sustainable because partly because it's
actually coming mostly from engineering and engineering related tasks. And this is an audience that
is kind of technically capable of determining whether they like the work product that's coming
out of the AI. Maybe as it gets to other parts of knowledge work, you know, those people will not be as
sort of familiar with how to do the ROI measurement,
and then it'll get even messier.
But so far, I think it's actually been largely,
you know, totally reasonable.
Okay.
We have a couple minutes left.
Let's do a small lightning round.
Oh, no.
So my first take here is that series really good.
It's going to be really good now.
Yeah.
What do you think?
I agree.
What?
Elaborate.
Oh, is it a lightning round or is it like you want to hear a five-minute answer round?
You give like a 60-second answer.
Oh, I mean, what could be easier than pressing a button on your phone and talking to it?
And if you, you know, at least based on the announcement, they've taken Gemini, which is a very good model and been able to, I don't know if it's fork or distill or something within there is sort of Gemini-grade intelligence.
So if you get Gemini-grade intelligence and voice on your phone and press a button, I think you're just going to use that for a lot of things.
And then, you know, I think the exciting thing is like imagine that hooked up to various apps on your phone.
and you're like, hey, order this thing for me, or, you know, go and add this calendar entry.
Like, I think those are very plausible daily use cases that we will have.
And it's exactly the sweet spot for Apple to kind of own that space.
Yeah, no, I think Apple did it finally.
That was good.
That was good time.
Are you going to tell me if my answer is right at the end of each one?
Okay.
That's, yeah, this is how it works.
Okay, okay.
So we agree.
One for one.
How about this one?
Permanent underclass.
I don't like this one.
This one, I don't like at all.
not only do I disagree with it, but I think it's just like a bad meme to have in the atmosphere.
I think it's like not good for college students coming into the workforce of having so much stress about, you know, what company to join and, and what's going to, you know, kind of play out.
I do think companies actually do the job market and disservice, though, by not being as clear on their own philosophies on this, which some of it is reasonable because it's like, oh, man, we're just like, we're getting thrown through a loop.
There's so much innovation, but I do think that companies need to be somewhat clear on,
hey, here's how we want to use AI.
We want to use AI to accelerate our work or accelerate our technical innovation
or accelerate our ability to hit customers versus, you know, no, we're actually, like,
our metric is as few employees as possible, you know, with AI.
Like, you kind of do want to, you know, be able to have some stance.
And I think companies have been very confused.
And that lets this meme somewhat persist, you know, for, you know,
you know, the internet.
Okay, I won't rate that one.
Thank you.
All right, last one is the SpaceX performance,
good or bad news for open AI and anthropic?
Oh, well, it's obviously good news.
You don't think Elon took some of their money
because he pitched the market on an AI company
and that's where the money got funneled into?
I'm not sure I've seen like a limit of appetite of...
That's true.
I mean, there's a literal limit of money in the world,
but I don't know that that is zero sum at this stage.
So I think people are pretty clear that if the revenue of this entire category of the frontier models and the infrastructure stack is measured in the trillions, then you can have 20 companies that all take a piece of that at different layers of the stack.
So I'm not sure I would be convinced that that would be zero sum.
Did you buy SpaceX?
I actually did.
Okay.
Not, you know, I don't know if I'm embarrassed or not, but I'm not going to say the amount of shares.
but I wanted to be a part of the movement.
So I'm on Robin Hood, buying my retail shares of SpaceX.
I'm up like 15 bucks now, per share, per share.
But so I'm happy.
Amazing.
Well, Aaron, you know, you answered my email when we were just at the very start of this podcast,
four episodes in, came on the show.
I feel like every single time we talk, something crazy is happening.
That's a guarantee at this point.
Boy, are you in the thick of it.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Good to see you.
Thank you so much.
Aaron.
Thank you everybody.
