TBPN Live - U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 China, China, China is in the news. Top American execs are sounding alarms. The White House is divided on how to respond to recent advances in Chinese AI, has weighed crackdown measures. We talked about how this was coming. It is interesting. There's a lot of like hurry up and pedal to the metal and then pull back and then ban the American model and then are we going to ban the Chinese model in the similar way.
Starting point is 00:00:29 And lots of contradictions, lots of. insider baseball, everyone's critiquing everyone else. Lots of interesting takes. Also just some interesting data about what's actually going on with these models. How advanced are they? Where do they come from? How cheap are they to make? What are the economic impacts in America? But the Wall Street Journal has a nice little roundup here. We can take you through. So Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multi-billion dollar question. Should American companies be able to use Chinese artificial intelligence models? They certainly have been able to. hasn't been a problem for years, but now they're getting stronger. Open AI and anthropic
Starting point is 00:01:05 executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting that they will lead to, quote, a dystopian AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation. And that is the point of debate. Are you on the side of dystopian open source or liberating open source, the George Hots frame? Some analysis, Some analysts who study the AI industry, say the two companies, which are preparing for public listings in the next year, they just want to eliminate the competition. The emergence of highly capable open autonomous AI systems, including Moonshot AI's Kimmy K3 model in Alibaba's Quen 3.8 Max. And Alibaba is actually a massive investor in Moonshot. They have their own anthropic Google over there going on.
Starting point is 00:01:55 Alibaba is like very much the Google to. in the sense that they have a large position there, which were released in recent days and viewed favorably by investors and users, has turned the AI race on its head once again. Kimmy K3 was also competitive with U.S. models on some benchmarks. The debate over the new models, which are, quote, open weight, but not yet. They're about to open source them.
Starting point is 00:02:20 We'll see what happens next week. Allowing users to download and customize them with company data for specific tasks. Very, very good, very useful. Coensides with division in the Trump administration about whether to take steps to limit the use of models in the United States. Quote, one probable outcome of an open-weight model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes rather than a market product. AI is a public good, which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of digital
Starting point is 00:02:47 public infrastructure, Dean Ball, Open AI's head of strategic futures set in an ex-post. Friday, Dean-Ball made it to the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Now, the AI communism is just at the model level. Like there would still be a bunch of, like, a lot of people who are long compute, long neocloud, they say like, this is where the value should accrue. The data centers will accrue a reasonable margin and they will still continue to make money. And so it's not that this automatically leads to nationalization of compute in any way. People would still be paid, but the margins might be lower. Is at least the formulation here.
Starting point is 00:03:27 So, Ball, a former Trump administration official called such a scenario a dystopian hellscape, and he said he expected the Trump administration to make moves toward reducing the use of open source models. Ball later clarified that he wasn't advocating for the United States government to discourage Chinese AI. He also highlighted a central challenge with the AI race. Top-tier AI companies raised billions of dollars to pay for the vast computing resources needed to continue improving AI systems. If everyone uses AI systems that people largely don't pay for, there would be no way to finance. continued frontier AI development. Ball, who started at the company earlier this month and focuses on policy and strategy and OpenAI have said his comments, don't reflect the company's official
Starting point is 00:04:05 positions. He's just posting the company has developed its own models, own open models, and Chief Executive Sam Altman had previously said that Open AI's past approach of only developing closed tools was unwise. Other top AI executives have warned that open models present huge risk since developers and policymakers lack control over how they are used and modified. A lot of risk of cyber attacks. A lot of risk of annoying spam attacks. The cyber thing is very concerning and annoying if that really ramps up. But the good news is that the closed source models have been available to cybersecurity firms and a lot of big major companies. The finance industry, for example, has had access to mythos and GPT cyber for almost six months. And then just today,
Starting point is 00:04:47 Google announced a specific model Flashlight Cyber, I think. So they're trying to offer a similar capability, but really go down the cost curve because a lot of the cyber tools, there was incredible breakthroughs with Mythos, GPT cyber, like great benchmarks on those, but could be very expensive. We heard, I think, wasn't it, DeKesh Aurora said, I think he spent like a million dollars to find some zero-day bug and it was like totally worth it, but that's expensive for smaller companies that might just need, it would be great to just be able to go to a cheap cyber-tuned model, get approved by Google and say, hey, just go and read every.
Starting point is 00:05:24 line of code and just let me know if there's anything that's obvious. And that could be good. Yeah, and just be clear, they released 3.5 Flashlight and 3.5 Flash cyber. So it's not like Flashlight Cyber. Okay, but Flash is still cheaper than the big model, right? There's like the pro. And so I have to imagine that if you, given the choice, if you're like a mid-sized company and your choice is like go beat down the door to get into Project Plass Wing,
Starting point is 00:05:51 to spend $5 million to have Mythos read every line of. code or you're like, oh, well, I'm already a Google partner. I have a really solid business relationship with them because I've been buying ads and I have Google Webmaster tools set up. And I just want to go set up flash cyber, not flash light cyber. I imagine that the cost would be cheaper because they fine-tuned this model for the specific thing. So Anthropic CEO Dario Amade for years has warned about the risks of powerful and open AI systems saying in a recent Bloomberg interview that having AI models with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that are free to download could be harmful. He said it's a serious concern. Use of Chinese models, which are far cheaper
Starting point is 00:06:31 than U.S. counterparts, is surging at U.S. companies, prompting some investors to question the staying power of top model makers such as Anthropic and OpenAX. The current U.S. open source frontier is starting to catch up with China's. On Wednesday, Thinking Machines Lab led by former AI Technology Chief Miramir Maradi, released its first AI model as open weight, Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra is starting to see traction. That's interesting to hear. I haven't heard nearly enough buzz around Nemotron. I know Jensen has been investing in it. He's also investing in a lot of up and down the stack. I've been hearing buzz about the name, John. Nemotron's a good name. Nemotron. Why? Very cool name. People are, you know, there's some talks bubbling. People are saying it's
Starting point is 00:07:13 it's one of the best names for a family of models ever. What comes after Ultra? Isn't that what the, didn't Apple first do that with the M4 Pro, the M4 Max, the M4 Ultra? So we got to come up with an even better word for what happens after. Giga. Gigga, maybe. And then XA. The market's faith in anthropic and open AI, continuing to build more capable models that push the frontier, AI frontier has been at the heart of the boom, helping justify trillions of dollars in spending on infrastructure in the coming years. The threat that new players will vastly undercut what they can charge for advanced AI, I pushed down some tech and AI company stocks prices last week.
Starting point is 00:07:52 David Sacks, the venture capitalist and White House AI advisor, suggested that he read Balls Post as a confection to a regulatory capture strategy. Sachs and others have long seen calls for AI regulation by companies, such as Anthropica's efforts to use new laws and policies to stymie competitors. The weaponization of regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tool should be completely unacceptable, he said. Security-focused administration officials in the past year, have considered a slew of measures to crack down on Chinese AI companies, developing open models.
Starting point is 00:08:23 People familiar with the discussion said, they've weighed adding the businesses to trade blacklists, security warnings on Chinese AI companies, and a potential executive order targeting open models. So it does seem like even though Tyler Cowen, we were going back and forth with him about this, about, like, can you even ban it? You can't really ban anything in the land of the free. Like, the solution to piracy was not really to ban piracy. Like, you can still torrent things, but it's just so easy to use Apple TV and Spotify and Netflix that most people just wind up just paying $5, $2 for a song, or $10 a month for something, that it effectively killed it just because the product experience was better. This morning, our Treasury Secretary Besson was on Fox and said, this administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP.
Starting point is 00:09:17 theft. If we see, especially their overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them because of this theft. So it will be, if the admin does take serious action here, I would expect that to be the line of reasoning where they could just sanction the companies behind these models, which I imagine would create a real opportunity for American open source. You would ultimately see a lot of these, you know, neoclouds, unable, I imagine, to serve the traditional Chinese open source models. I imagine that even open router would probably have to stop supporting that. But again, with an open source model, like, how do you even define it? Because if there's a research paper and then you go and
Starting point is 00:10:08 implement that and you train it or you take it, you fine tune it, or you use the data to bootstrap your own model, like, just like where in the supply chain, how many states, how many states, steps away, do you need to be to, like, not count on there? Didn't perplexity do, like, a 1776 deep seek very quickly? They did a fine tune. I think you did a fine tune on Deepseek as well. Yeah, it was like using a sparse auto encoders. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:30 I did it first, so. But, but, and, and what, what nationality was the model that you used as the base? Well, it was deep seek. It was trying. Wow. Confession. Uh, you can go now. Um, yeah, people are, are already angry at, at Besson's comments.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Uh, and are, in our, in our, in our. saying, funny that he's not mentioning that yesterday U.S. Judge approved Anthropics $1.5 billion copyright lawsuit settlement. I don't think they, I think they settled that they were in possession of books that had been torrented or basically acquired unlawfully. I don't believe that... Acquired unlawfully, sounds like they stole the book. I think they bought the books.
Starting point is 00:11:14 No, no, no, no. I think this was... No, they separately, they bought a bunch of books, trained on them and destroyed. And that just made people upset because no one was the idea of books being destroyed, of course. I think those were rare, like rare, rare books. The Wilmanitis collection was destroyed. Rare PDFs. Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary approval of the settlement last year
Starting point is 00:11:40 after ruling that Anthropic had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books. and the settlement was signed off on by a different judge yesterday. The payout will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated $500,000 works, shared among the authors and publishers who hold rights to them. Anyway, there was some news about whether or not Kimmy K3 is distilled. Tyler, can you take us through this Lisan Al-Gaiib post? Yeah, so he didn't actually make this chart. It was from someone else.
Starting point is 00:12:11 But basically, this shows a bunch of models compared to another, and it's like the kind of semantic similarities between them. Okay. So it's like if you use similar kind of diction or phrases, stuff like this, you just like pumped the models a bunch of times and you kind of can tell what's similar to each other. Yes. And you can see in this version, it looks like like Kimmeke III is very similar to Fable 5.
Starting point is 00:12:31 Fable 5 and then also Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5. So they might have gotten tokens from like all four of those models sort of mix them together. Also, I think this exact example, like only like a few prompts were used. It's not like super involved. It's also like this is very much just like correlation. Sure. It's not like proving that they distill or anything. They could have just used like similar, you know, post-training techniques or something like this.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Totally. But notably, GPD 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 share very little similarity to the anthropic models and vice versa. The anthropic models don't seem to be correlated with the open AI models, although the open AI models are correlated with with each other. So 5.6 Luna looks pretty correlated with 5.4 because they probably were like, well, we're building on the shoulders of the work that we've been done. And it's the same thing with Anthropic, where Fable has some of the same flavor as an opus or a haiku.
Starting point is 00:13:29 And that makes sense. That makes sense because people have been saying, oh, maybe those models were actually distilled from the big, like, mythos pre-trained, right? Yeah. Or vice versa. Or vice versa. You have a bunch of users that are doing rollouts on opi. trying to vibe code different things, and you take all that training data, and then you feed that into Fabl.
Starting point is 00:13:47 And Fable sort of like picks up on a lot of that because that's what the user said, wow, you really did a great job on this opus. Or you did really poorly. It pulls that out, but it's still learning the textual similarity. Well, people will go back and forth on this and debate the level of distillation. And also what the punishment for distillation should be. Should it just be a slap on the wrist or should it be something bigger? The only thing I would say here is like distillation against the terms of service. Yeah. And I think that suing Chinese companies, it would be a complete and total waste of time.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Ask anyone who's built a product that's been knocked. I disagree. Incredible aura farm. If you personally serve Xi Jinping the next time he's in San Francisco, meeting with a world leader. You show up to the UN. Serve. The world leader.
Starting point is 00:14:46 There's something about that that's, you know, extremely bold. But no, I agree with you. Very difficult. I don't even know if you went to your law firm and you said like, hey, we want to sue this Chinese company. Like how they would trace that down. Jim Kramer says, we must not let our companies use these Chinese models to save a few bucks. Open AI and Anthropic are correct. This is vital national security.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Please read Bing West's. Just released Catch 5. I respect the Chinese people greatly, but these companies are run by the PLA, for heaven's sakes. George Hots fires back under the tiny grad handle. He says, is this a joke? I'd be happy to use Anthropic if they put their weights on hugging face like the Chinese. American tech companies are rent extraction machines that have lost the plot.
Starting point is 00:15:30 No point continuing to defend them. They need to change if they want to win people back. Meanwhile, China. While, China is also thinking about export controls in the financial times. Apparently, Alibaba, BiteDance, and Zipu. Mofcom. Talk to AI companies, including Alibaba, BiteDance, and Zipu, on limiting the transfer of key data for the training of their models overseas,
Starting point is 00:15:53 as well as allowing their model weights to be downloaded by foreign users. Probably their Department of Commerce. That seems more like it. China would still let overseas customers access the models and services, but it sounds like they are leaning towards not making the weights open. We're going to see with the new Kimmy K3 if they actually release the weights next week. Dean Ball says, wow, two days in a row where things I said are likely to happen seem likelier to happen from two adversarial countries, almost as though my analysis was right and as though people should not have deliberately misinterpreted me as of making prescriptions, huh?
Starting point is 00:16:30 Dean Ball, Victory, Life. You got to take a victory laugh. for Dean Ball. He called it. No, I mean, he was saying, like, I don't necessarily agree with this, but just from his experience, this is how things might play out. And people were very sad with them about that. But here we are. It says Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China. Yeah, it's their Department of Commerce. That would go hard on a business card. It would. The Great Slop Wars continue. Let's pull up this video from Substack. They say today Substack is launching an AI detection feature via an integration with Parenthood. Graham going forward, you'll be able to scan post replies and comments on the substack app to see an estimate of how much of it was written by a human or with AI assistance. We care about this at Substack because it gets to the core of our mission to build an economic engine for culture. This is going to be bad for Tyler since he's mastered the ability to write exactly like an AI. What was that sentence you wrote by hand that was like according to studies, you're absolutely right and you just threw in every possible. A.I. I'maism and got flagged 100% by Pangram. No, I think people will enjoy this. The revealed preference is probably that people don't care if it's good and they enjoy the content. But we'll go
Starting point is 00:17:49 back and forth and debate it with Chris Best today and see where all of that is going. Now, do you think that substack writers should admit when they hire essentially ghost writers? Probably. Because sometimes you start a brand under a name. Like, not every post on Bloomberg.com is from Michael Bloomberg. In fact, none of them are. They're all from other people. But they disclose this is from, you know, some writer.
Starting point is 00:18:20 This is from Joe Wisenthal, right? But some new influencer brands have grown, even in the pre-AI era. I had a writer on my team when I was doing YouTube videos where I would write. write something, he would do a draft, we'd try to go back and forth. I'd put him in the credits, but I wouldn't like kick it off with like, hey, just so you know. And the chat says book authors don't. That is certainly true. That's 100% true. Some book authors will put like this is written by this person and this person. It depends on like the aura of the ghost writer. Some ghost writers actually do get credits in the book. But yes, most book authors. Like Tom Clancy, I think, passed away
Starting point is 00:18:57 and they're still producing books. There's a number of writers where their individual brand grew so big. that you can have like a new Tom. Yeah, they become their own brand. Yeah, I would imagine that 30% of the books in like an airport bookstore or just 100% ghost written and probably don't disclose it. I think, I do think it should be possible to get to the truth if you hunt hard enough, but I don't necessarily need you to put it front and center. For a substack author or creator, just put it somewhere that you have a
Starting point is 00:19:32 team of people that help you create your work. Well, Dave Eggers took to the financial time saying that no one is going to read AI books. He's, of course, the author of The Circle. He's an American writer, editor, publisher. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius is his 2000 memoir, bestseller. Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He says, gullible and ridiculous. No one will read AI novels.
Starting point is 00:20:00 I think people are already reading AI novels. novels, so maybe he means like no one who's cool or no one who he likes or something. Let's read through a little bit of this Financial Times article. Dave Eggers offers a hand so I can clamor aboard his 23-foot sailboat, moored in the shadow of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It's a grand setting with few frills as we sit on the stern a meter apart, fuel cans and fishing nets at our feet. There is no one around to disturb our conversation.
Starting point is 00:20:30 The nearest toilets are Portaloo's, a short-by-dose. right away. The birthing fees are negligible, making it one of the cheapest places to live in Uber wealthy Silicon Valley. I hadn't thought of that. Sailboat, if you're at a tech company, this has got to be the next big lock-in trend. Antonio Garcia Martinez did this. He did. He talked about in his book, Chaos Monkeys. I'm not, I won't be satisfied until I see LARPERS posting images on Twitter being like, hey, I just moved to San Francisco. I'm building the next one person, $25 billion. I'm finding a houseboat in San Francisco. And Rafael.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Yeah. How much? For 1,000, it actually works out to $1,483 a month, apparently, if you finance it through boat trader. Goodbye, Tyler. It's only about $200,000 to live in a 2022 houseboat. 2022, that's a brand new houseboat. Yes, you have to think about the, yeah, the slip fees, but you could easily come in and have your own house on the water. No, the average, the average one bedroom rent in San Francisco is like two grand, three grand right now.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Yeah, you can have a whole house and a boat. And a boat. It's amazing. This is the hack. If you get a job in tech and you're printing, making six figures, move into a houseboat. Let's pull this up. Is this an option in LA?
Starting point is 00:21:46 Should members of the team be doing this? Should we recommend this to guys? Look at this brand, almost brand new. I feel like Jackson is a 2024 Lamere Modern 11. It's a 36 foot houseboat. We have a video here. Well, Dave Eggers says they call it a $10. dock with a million dollar view.
Starting point is 00:22:05 Look at this, John. This? Yeah. A couple thousand bucks a month. This is where the next great startup will be born. Yeah. Garages are out. Garage boats are in.
Starting point is 00:22:15 And also like, oh, take your shoes off. It's natural to take your shoes off when you're on a boat, you know? Right? Unless you've got boat shoes. Wear boat shoes to the place. The Lemaire Modern 11 offers reliable performance and strong power with two Yamaha 25 high thrust engines providing a total of 50 horsepower. It's two cabins and one.
Starting point is 00:22:32 head ensure overnight comfort for extended stays. How about year-long stays? How about a decade-long stay? The boat's design includes an upper deck terrace with flexi-teak flooring, enhancing its appeal for relaxation and entertainment, and might I say locking in. Standard features such as air-conditioning. We have air conditioning on our houseboats with reverse cycle heat, heated floors, LED lighting. LED. LED lighting. Yeah. The inclusion of foam-filled composite floats and galvanized steel subframe ensures durability and stability.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Did we just solve the housing crisis? Send this to Sager and Jetty immediately. This is seesteading. This is the teal thesis. Everyone living in houseboats, just more to each other. Boatrader.com is saying that this is amazing. Modern houseboat would come out to just $2,259 with only $52,000 down. I promise that we have no financial relationship with boat trader.com, even though I'm making a pretty strong pitch here.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Yeah. I love it. Should you recline your airplane seat? What do you think? People are going back and forth on this. Brandon Duck says, I don't remember subscribing to this channel, but I've been listening for 10 minutes. I'm having a good time. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Last name, Ducks, comes on just for the half. Yeah, make it make sense. Make it make sense. I just happen to be here for the duck section of the show. Andrew says I'm going to need a double-wide houseboat, L-O-L, bootlegging distilled anthropic models on the houseboat. There we go. Living the dream.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Okay, so should you recline your airplane seat, there's a central investigating the central dilemma of our time. Joshua Rothman and the New Yorker wrote a piece. Imagine this scenario. After a long drive to the airport, you've just taken off for a 15-hour flight. Where are you going? 15 hours is so long.
Starting point is 00:24:32 How long was the flight to Austria from L.A.? I think it's like 12 hours. I think you're going to the Middle East. You're going to the Middle East, maybe. Okay. You're in coach, and a family of three is sitting behind you. A man, a woman, and a toddler.
Starting point is 00:24:44 They seem nice. But as the flight continues, the kiddo grows restless. He kicks your seat and pokes her toys into your shoulder. Stop that. You hear the father say, the toddler incredibly quiets down.
Starting point is 00:24:55 The cabin lights dim. It's time to sleep. Yet just as well. rest closes in, you sense motion. The seat in front of you is reclining. You watch as it comes all the way back. Now you feel cramped with someone else's seat in your face. You also notice some stiffness in your shoulders.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Your fingers caress your own recline button. Surely the reclined upon are entitled to recline. Just as you start to lean back, you hear a clearing throat. You turn around to see the dad who fixes you with his gaze. Excuse me, he says. Would you mind keeping your seat up? I think it's game on. They put the button there.
Starting point is 00:25:25 They would just take it away. Yeah, I think I've always expected everyone to just recline. Everyone reclines. Everyone has the same amount of space. It's the conservation of space. And the whole bitch. It's really hard to make the argument that the vertical seat is more comfortable than the recline seat. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:25:41 So I think everyone commit to comfort. Everyone commits to comfort. And then the chat is sharing the real alpha stand up immediately when the flight land. Have you seen those meta-rayban videos where people sprint to the front? It's so rude. The guy is like, like, You know, he's like, as soon as he goes beep, he just bolts and passes everybody and gets to the front. Very rude.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I don't think you should do that. This is antisocial behavior. I don't think you should recline your seat. How is it antisocial? Because you're infringing on something. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. But they put the button there. Horrible take.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Horrible take. That's like, don't use the bathroom on the plane. They put the bathroom there. It's okay to use the bathroom. My entire life, even as a child, I was looking up waiting for, you know, the seatbelt sign to, you know, to be up in the air, they build signs off, you recline your seat.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Everyone recline. Everyone reclines. All good. What about ordering a Diet Coke on a plane? If I'm sitting next to you, will you order a Diet Coke or is that antisocial behavior? That's completely different. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:41 What's your stance on JBL in the airplane? A little betty walk. Bro JBL, you know. I do think that could be the next trend. The big question is, are you bringing on your, you know, smart, portable, beaker? or maybe from an open AI.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Are you bringing that on the plane and talking to it the whole time? Is that offensive? I think that's deeply offensive. Have you seen when like a band is traveling? Yeah. And they start playing on the plane? Have you seen these videos?
Starting point is 00:27:10 No. That sounds cool, though. I'll send you one. That would make me jump. So this all started because in 2014, 538, we got to have them on the show. Nate, obviously. 538 asked around 1,000 flyers
Starting point is 00:27:24 what they thought about reclining their seats. 41% of them said that reclining was rude. So they lost. It's not rude. It's over. That number seems to have risen, though. In 2020, Eric Jones, a math professor who writes about travel statistics on the website, The Vacationer conducted a similar survey and found that 77% of respondents objected to reclining.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Wow. Sheep-sheeple over here. We got sheephole in the building. I think you should be able to recline if you're, like, dressed nicely. If you're wearing sweatpants, then you don't get to recline. You don't get to recline. Sort of conditional rewind. Should kids be able to kick the seat in front of them as much as they want?
Starting point is 00:28:01 See, that's something I will totally put up with. I'm totally fine getting kicked in the back by a kid. Because it's so brutal as a parent as a kid to be on a plane. They're locked up in the plane that's miserable. And just tough it up. You're reclined. You have multiple inches of padding. Unless you got Ron Aldo back there, you're going to be fine.
Starting point is 00:28:21 Order that hot pizza pocket. Live life. in the permanent underclass. Live a little, for God's sake. Ramp launched a model router. Brexton loves it. He says, Ramp launching a model router is God tier product expansion. The winds are blessing it. The market is exhausted with token maxing, proliferation of new models, sovereignty. This is the first time I've looked at the launch and went, wow, this
Starting point is 00:28:46 might be the start of a new core product. Yeah, there's been a bunch of speculation about this, but it makes a lot of sense. Ramp's promise is to save you time. in money. The CFOs are increasingly annoyed by token routing. We talked to Eric Glyman about this last week. Are you using the craziest frontier model burning millions of tokens to answer the weather? Maybe that should have an expense report attached. And so very, very exciting to see where this goes, how they roll it out. I know it's in alpha with a number of customers. And I believe that the product's actually available to non-ramp customers as well. so you can use their product exclusively.
Starting point is 00:29:24 Eush says going after everything time and money touches. I love it. I love it. Anyway, leave us five stars on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Sign up for our newsletter at TBPN.com. And we love you. We love you. Throwing flashbang.
Starting point is 00:29:39 Goodbye. Flashbang and the horse.

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