TBPN - Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Fable has been freed. Fable 5 is now available. Good news for the AI world. Of course, the Wall Street Journal says the battle over how to tame AI has just begun. Obviously, there's lots of back and forth on how these models get released. Who gets access? When people get access? Will the government get access at certain points? How fettered is the intelligence? How unfettered is the intelligence? But there's a number of interesting news. The interesting business, the interesting. detail that people are sort of pulling at is the new Fable 5 that is now released seems to have been nerfed in some ways. There's always been questions about, you know, okay, you don't want it to be able to build a bioweapon or hack a system. So locking down cybersecurity makes sense, but you should probably disclose that and be transparent about it. And then the question of how do you deal with the self-replicating AI if you just ask you to build an AI system that can build you a bioweapon, well, then you have the permission. You could just build me unfettered intelligence.
Starting point is 00:01:07 Exactly. So you have to nerve that. Cambridge Analytica unfettered, not limited by rules or any controlling influence. Wait, wait, what did you say? Unfettered. No, no. What source is this? Cambridge.
Starting point is 00:01:19 You said Cambridge Analytica. Which I don't think has a dictionary. They should launch a dictionary. That would be good. That would be great. Maybe. The Cambridge Dictionary. But the dictionary, the dictionary definition of unfettered is not limited by rules or any controlling influence.
Starting point is 00:01:36 So if there's like, if there's like a federal intelligence, you're going to get regulated immediately. Well, I just think like Neolab, like everyone wants to be the cool, friendly neolab. Yeah. There's space for kind of a sketchy villain. Well, we have Vipple from Together AI building open source AI, cloud infrastructure coming on show I'm sure he can talk about what's capable, what's possible when you are building unfettered intelligence. This is from the Financial Times.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Open AI proposes handing Trump administration a 5% stake. Joe Wisenthal is pushing back already. He says, I don't know about this path. Rather than equity stakes, why not make companies pay 20% of all pre-tax income to the federal government? And then instead of exercising shareholder influence, politicians and regulators could set rules on corporate conduct across industry. I like where he's going with this. Someone should try this. Contrary intake. But yes, Dean Ball already
Starting point is 00:02:34 chimed in on this news. He said, there are two broad ways this can work. One, you divide this 5% over all U.S. households handing each a direct stake, or two, you give the stake directly to the government. One is fine. Two is probably ruinous akin to inviting rats to live and reproduce in the walls of your house. Which is wild. says it will never stop 5%. Don't knock it until you try it, Dean. Yeah. There's there's some rats out there that can be quite excellent roommates. Are you a rat guy? I thought you were a mosquito guy. I thought you liked mosquitoes. I do like squirrels. Squirrels, okay. Squirrels. Yeah. I feel like I have a bond with squirrel. They're sort of the aristocratic rat. When I see a squirrel at my yard, I look at it and I just
Starting point is 00:03:15 salute. People have said you have the mind of a squirrel. They have. They've said that I have the mind of a rodent. Yes. Dean Ball continues. He says, it will never stop at 5%. It will go on and on. The governance will become a nightmare. Political capture will be real.
Starting point is 00:03:33 And it will generate precisely no goodwill with the public. Yeah, that's a good point. And we were talking about this before, this idea of like... Yeah, one of the challenges is even the way this was phrased in the Financial Times.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Yeah. The assumption is that it sounds like they're giving shares not to a sovereign AI fund, which is, I think, what was actually proposed, but just giving it to the White House. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, uh, given the disclosures that were made earlier this week.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Financial Times not having fun with it. So Trump denies conflicts of interest as filing show he made more than one billion dollars last year. Uh, 1.4 billion dollars of stocks bought, 432 million sold. Deals for watches and perfume. Yes, the Trump watch happened. Uh, I saw a crazy chart that said that, uh, Trump earned, out-earned coinbase in terms of profit from crypto in the last 12 months or something like that. I forget the exact stat,
Starting point is 00:04:28 but it showed all the different crypto platforms, and many of them were down because it's been a rough market. Some of them were up, but no one is up more than the president of the United States. Wild times, wild times. But yes, it seems like the green shoot here, the white pill, the optimistic outcome is that if there's lab nationalization, if there's some sort of distribution of equity, to Americans. It happens through the Trump accounts, through Social Security number, through some sort of identity that the individual can have a stake in as opposed to just going into some fund. We were talking about this with data centers where people are talking about. Tyler has the data. We can pull it up. Okay. Let's pull it up. Wait, do you have it? Or no?
Starting point is 00:05:17 Well, yes. So Cornbase made $1.26 billion at income. But pull up this chart because it is. is pretty remarkable. Yeah. But as I was saying with data centers, you guys, okay? I know it's Fourth of July weekend coming up. Here it goes. There we go.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Look at this. Okay, scroll up a little bit. Let's get it a little center. There we go. Core scientific. Let's lock it into the center. Galaxy. Let's lock in.
Starting point is 00:05:47 There we go. Amazing. Thank you. Out-earned biggest listed U.S. crypto firms. You have to imagine that is hyperliquid doing better? I feel like hyperliquid was on a tear for a while. I don't know how they're doing recently.
Starting point is 00:06:00 But anyway, staggering chart. But as we were talking about with data centers, there's one idea, which is just tax them, increase the tax base. But having taxes go into your local government is great and can provide roads and schools and pay for things and balance the budget, and that's great. But it's abstract, as opposed to the Ben Thompson proposal,
Starting point is 00:06:19 which was data center shows up in a small town. It's in, you know, a sparsely popular. area. There might only be 5,000, 10,000 residents in the city, but they all get checks for, he ran the numbers, and it was like $1,000 a month for some of these data center projects where they're making so much money and the town so small, they can do a meaningful check to the individuals. And that sort of direct payment, I think is going to be better received than this abstract. Oh, yeah, my government's better funded. But are they going to cut my taxes? Are they going to successfully build that road? I don't know. And it doesn't help me pay my bills.
Starting point is 00:06:54 which I think is what people want. What are you saying? Trump did, in fact, out-earn hyper-liquid by a meaningful margin. Hyper-liquid generated 908 million in total fees in 2025. Brutal. Yeah, so just like running very quick numbers
Starting point is 00:07:05 on the opening, I think. So if it's like 5%, let's say it's at a trillion or something, that's 50 billion. If you're giving it to households, like this idea, there's like 130 million households, so that's like $3701 of, like, equity per household.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Which I think is like, sure, maybe that's meaningful, but it doesn't seem like, that's really going to like change people's perceptions of the labs, if that's like part of the goal, right? Well, I think if it's, I mean, so. Maybe the nice thing. Maybe the right parlay with that.
Starting point is 00:07:35 So, I mean, the nice thing about the Trump accounts is that they are set up in a way that you can elect to donate to just children born this year. And when you segment by that, the denominator gets a lot smaller. and so the impact gets a lot bigger. So you could be all of a sudden looking at something like a few thousand dollars for every kid born this year or something like that. You can narrow it down. You could do every kid under five or you could do everyone under 18. And that type of, I mean, you're right.
Starting point is 00:08:11 It's not going to move the needle as much as broad distribution for everyone. But you can be a little bit more targeted with it. I don't know. There's different approaches. Ryan says, wait, does America get 5% of TBPN? Yes. I was never thinking about that. Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:27 We podcast for you, America. That's right. This is the funniest outcome is the most likely, and that's exactly what's happening here. Community ownership of this show. Somebody called me a Fed based on this news, and I said, I don't even know what to do with that, but I guess it's somewhat true. The actual story here, just to reset, opening eyes, apparently in talks according to, to the Financial Times with the Trump administration to give a 5% equity stake in the company.
Starting point is 00:08:56 The Financial Times describes the talks as early conversations, but the plans seem to involve other frontier AI players apportioning stakes in their companies as well. The obvious context around this story is at least on a straightforward read that AI companies need at least to stem the seemingly ever-growing negative sentiment around AI and data centers.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Doing business with the Trump admin has turned out well for other companies like Intel and Dell. Intel's the big one. one where post-government stake, I think the stock is up 200 or 400 percent, something like that? 400. 400 percent? Very, very strong performance for Intel.
Starting point is 00:09:31 And being difficult to do business with the admin has been unambiguously bad for others. And now there's a vehicle with the Trump accounts that can facilitate equity transfers from corporations to average Americans. Again, these are early conversations. So we're very light on the details, but we'll be discussing this news, of course. In other news, Jersey Mikes is filing for. initial public offering. Jersey Mikes is going public. The sandwich chain,
Starting point is 00:09:58 Jersey Mikes filed for IPO. Today, it's looking for a $12 billion valuation after being acquired by Blackstone last year for $8 billion. Let's give it up for Blackstone. Yeah. They needed a win.
Starting point is 00:10:10 They're getting a nice 50% markup in just a year. Forced out of buying single family homes. Yeah. That's not true at all. There hasn't been any regulation around that whatsoever. They do own 95% of homes, apparently, something like that. No, it's like half a percent or something. It's low.
Starting point is 00:10:28 But Jersey Mikes has 3,300 locations across the U.S. and Canada. Plans to open 300 shops in the UK and Ireland. Peter Cancro, Jersey Mikes founder, who's not named Mike. You would assume he was, but the founder of Jersey Mikes is in fact named Peter. He started the business in 1975 when he was 17 years old. Wow. Young. Overnight success.
Starting point is 00:10:52 He actually founded the business when he purchased a sandwich shop in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, called Mike's Subs with a $125,000 loan that he got from his then football coach, who was also a banker. So you're playing high school football in New Jersey, and you have an idea to buy a sandwich shop as a child. Coach was like, this guy's a star. I should give him a six-figure. SBA loan. Also, $125,000 in 1975, is like $25 million by today's standards.
Starting point is 00:11:30 Also, that's just such a, at least personally, at 17, if I had a couple thousand dollars in my bank account, I was feeling like the king of the castle. So, $125,000 to buy a sandwich shop. We don't really know what the financials were of the sandwich shop. It's very possible that, you know, it was just such a slam-dunk deal that even a 17-year-old could operate it. This is a no-brainer. It might have just been a no-brainer, but clearly an incredible story. $125,000 in 1975, just using inflation, not investing in the market, not compounding, using the general CPI inflation numbers, that gives you $775,000 in today's dollars.
Starting point is 00:12:17 So if you're a 17-year-old football player, just go to your football. coach and say, hey, can you loan me three quarters of a million dollars? CH in the chat says, coach, I need A-100s. Yeah. You might be able to go to your coach and, you know, basically get the financing to set up some type of neoclap. Yeah. So we grew the company for almost 50 years, 1975 to 2025, basically, before transitioning
Starting point is 00:12:40 to chairman this April, former Wingstop CEO Charlie Morrison now leads the company. The ticker will be J.M.K.E. Jersey mics. So go check it out. The other news. The Office of Personnel Management, OPM, otherwise known as other people's money, is ending taking other people's money via paper for retirement. OPM ends paper-based retirement process. The U.S. Office of Personal Management says it has digitized the retirement process for government employees. This might seem like a boring news item, but the story behind it is actually kind of wild. Up until now, the process, for government employees and U.S. veterans to retire and start receiving their pensions
Starting point is 00:13:25 could take up to six months. That's a long time. This is because it's entirely paper-based and manual. Spike Brem, who helped with the effort, described how crazy this turned out to be in reality in a post on X. They said they did it. The Mad Lads actually did it. I never talked about my time at Doge last year because it was so controversial and contentious. Early last year, Joe Gabia, founder of Airbnb and current U.S. chief design officer, recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the office of personnel management to solve the retirement paper problem. Processing a federal retirement took months.
Starting point is 00:14:07 And in the extreme, retirees could wait up to six months for their full pension to arrive. What was the holdup? Paper. Remember hearing Elon talk about the mine in Pennsylvania? We got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone. There were literally acres of file cabinets as far as the... I'm going to go ahead and say this was a feature, not a bug.
Starting point is 00:14:29 You like this? I think people generally yearn for the mines. And so it's possible that it's possible that it wasn't the most efficient way to do business, but it was the most fun way. But now you're like a single issue of voter. Like, we got to return. We got to go back. We got to bring back the mine.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Yeah. Okay. Okay. You're in the minds. A controversial position, but enjoy it. Storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paste-up history. A simple case might be a quarter or a half-inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. One famously took up a whole palette.
Starting point is 00:15:04 I wonder what was going on with that particular federal government employee that they had a whole palette. Were they jumping around from job to job or something? I don't know. Each case was hand processed by caseworkers and cubicles deep underwent. So you clock in at the ultimate lock-in factory in the mine, in a cubicle, underground, processing someone's pension. They checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly. Many weren't when handed the long tail of complex issues. We watched as they key data into a black and white terminal transmitting to the cobalt mainframe built many decades ago.
Starting point is 00:15:40 We got to keep the cobalt flowing for sure. We can't update that. It's such a good programming language. It just sounds so cool. Cobol. No one wants to write Ruby on rails. You want to write cobal. Since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review and additional rounds for complex cases. Case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. Sometimes it would sit in place in one place for days waiting to be picked up. To OPM's credit, they'd been multiple rounds of
Starting point is 00:16:07 digital transformation spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. Then there was a big effort in the mid-90s, but the systems were desperate, or disparate, and it was a total is getting them to talk to each other. There was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the forms necessary just to be mailed into the mine and stopped into the paper file.
Starting point is 00:16:28 And a few federal agencies were even using it. When we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation delivered by a software contractor. The black pill was seeing the entire, the terrible quality of the software and interaction with the contractors coming from Silicon Valley. I couldn't believe how low the talent quality bar
Starting point is 00:16:45 was for selling software to the government It's clear, as the O-G-U-S-D-S people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. It's a huge moat. Delivery of quality product, be damned. We fired the vendor and took over the project. They'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it.
Starting point is 00:17:04 At first, we tried to bend it to our will to actually connect all the various data sources and get decent U.X for caseworkers in the mine to use. But we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. this time. I had to go back to New York. I had a new job waiting for me a four-month-old, the wife whose patience was running out. But I got to watch from afar that the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. Now they've fully done it. Huge congrats to the team. Well, yeah, very interesting. There's other news. SpaceX apparently is maybe working on a phone. At the very least, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that during SpaceX's recent IPO
Starting point is 00:17:43 Roadshow, before SpaceX went public, they were showing investors a prototype of something sort of like an iPhone. AI enhanced, maybe thinner. The Wall Street Journal has some reporting around it, and it's an interesting story. Elon's denied this a bunch, but the reporting seems pretty good at this point, that at least it was a demo. It's hard to see why he wouldn't at least take a shot at. is kind of my point of view.
Starting point is 00:18:14 He has one of the greatest telecom companies ever created, Global Satellite Network. Theoretically, over time, any person on the entire planet could have an Internet-connected, you know, SpaceX device with Starlink. It makes a lot of sense. The other factor that I've just continued to think is quite interesting is the App Store as a moat is being diminished by AI.
Starting point is 00:18:40 There's just so many things. there's so many things, there's so many apps on my phone that like five years ago I used a lot today I don't use it all. So an example being like, I don't even need like the weather app. Yeah. I can just be like, I can ask chat, give me the weather for the next week. The beer app? Yeah, and I don't even need that because I can just be like vibe code me, my own beer app today. No, but obviously it's not like an efficient way to use.
Starting point is 00:19:05 It's probably better to just open the weather app. But at the same time, I'm very used to it. The other thing is like even things like surf reports. Like, I'll just pull a surf report in chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so there's a lot of, like, the long tail of apps are no longer, like, a lock-in to the iPhone for me, and I assume a lot of other people. Okay. Yeah, we got to have a chicken and egg debate about this.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Let me finish reporting the SpaceX news, and then I want to ask you to dig into the source of why that's happening. But first, SpaceX developed an early prototype of an AI-focused handset. The device is said to be slimmer than the iPhone, runs proprietary operating system, uses XAI technology built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips set. So they're not vertically integrating the chip like Apple Silicon just yet, but Elon has fab chips before for Tesla. So not out of this, not out of the question. Elon Musk reportedly demo the prototype to potential investors during SpaceX's recent IPO Roadshow. The product fits with Musk's broader everything app vision, but it's still early and may never ship. about a Musk built phone have circulated for years. There's videos on YouTube with like tens of
Starting point is 00:20:15 millions of views that are like the Tesla Pi phone is coming next week. And it's all just completely fake clickbait. But it, the demand. It gets you every time. It doesn't get me every time. Stop it. But Elon's actually commented on this. You're sitting there in your Apple Vision Pro, you see the video and you're like, I shouldn't click it. I know it's fake. I know it's fake. And then you click it and you're like, ah, it got me again. Yeah. No, it is. ridiculous. But Elon has had to comment on this many times. He said the idea of the idea of making a phone makes me want to die, he said in October, but if we have to make a phone, we will. Funny way to say it. In February, he denied a Reuters report that SpaceX was building a phone that could
Starting point is 00:20:56 connect directly to Starlink satellites posting on X. We are not developing a phone, and no one is commenting on this right now. So very, very early stage. My question about apps, I think you're right, The number of apps, it used to be every month there was a hot app. Every year there was a hot app, specific apps for specific things. What is driving the collapse? Because when we talked to Mark Pinkis yesterday, he said that Apple is not pushing small apps. Like Apple is not a, the app store is not a reliable source of distribution for vibe-coded apps, for games, for anything. And so back in the day, he was able to grow Zinga on the Facebook platform, which was very open.
Starting point is 00:21:37 and you could go viral within Facebook for a completely separate piece of software, not just content. And then you could keep that customer relationship, monetize that customer relationship off platform forever. Not the case anymore. Also, just discovery. People don't open up the app store as much, I think, and say, oh, what are the top apps? Oh, what are the recommendations? I would love a new entertainment app. They're like, no, I got that.
Starting point is 00:22:00 One new app, please. They don't, that's not a behavior. But why is- Let me go to the App Store. I would like one or two new apps, please. Yeah, yeah. But why? So why is it not happening?
Starting point is 00:22:14 Is it because the super apps are getting more super in the sense that you don't need, you used to need, you needed Snapchat for stories, you needed TikTok for vertical video, you needed YouTube for a long form. Now Instagram can satisfy a lot of those things. If there's some new feature that pops up, Instagram will add it very quickly.
Starting point is 00:22:32 As you mentioned, Chachypti and the AI chat apps can do a lot of other things that you might need a separate app for. But is it that the apps consolidated or is it that Apple pushed that? It's a good question. I mean, I think part of it is like we had 10 years of like very real innovation around what types of applications were possible or needed on a like powerful mobile device. And so I think that you just had like saturation, right? I still, I've said this a bunch of times on the show, but given that, you know, rewind to the chat GBT moment,
Starting point is 00:23:11 I would expect there to be a lot more like net new hit apps in the app store. And today, if you look at the top charts, obviously dominated by World Cup related things, but it's sports betting, like streaming apps. The Trump accounts are doing very well. And so it's not like, you know, if I'd, you know, fallen asleep at the chat chabot moment and woken up today, I'd expect to go and be like, okay, there's probably a bunch of new popular hit consumer apps. And it just turns out that AI has been an extending innovation for a lot of existing apps. And so I just think the combination of LLMs and chat apps being able to just do so much for you
Starting point is 00:23:53 and going to continually be able to do more for you. And vibe coding is, again, a positive tailwind for anybody building potentially a new device. even if it was, you know, especially if it's based on Android, but even if it was like an entirely new operating system. Elon built a new operating system for Tesla. But that's not the Elon goal. He's not the open platform guy when Twitter, when he purchased Twitter, the API got smaller and more expensive.
Starting point is 00:24:24 Tesla's not an open ecosystem. You can't deploy a different self-driving system onto your Tesla. It's a closed system. It's a competitor to the Apple ecosystem. It's an equally walled garden. But it would be his. I'm just saying it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to take a crack at a new device. Oh, there's a huge incentive to.
Starting point is 00:24:45 I completely agree with that. No one wants to be locked in the Apple ecosystem. So you want to build your own ecosystem or your own walled garden. But the idea that it would be a non-walled garden is sort of, it would be an uncharacteristic strategy, I think. I agree. Yeah. Anyway, there's another story. There was a couple that climbed to the top of the Empire State Building yesterday.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Did you see this? I did. And they put up a flag and they got married or they proposed or they got engaged. Proposal. And brands have immediately jumped on it. Let's go. Let's give it up for some advertising. No, there's backlash already.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Jack Appleby said this is so, so embarrassing. These brands think they really did something. lover boy is the worst. Congrats. You put your logo on a flag, really innovative stuff. The lack of originality and clever thinking in modern social media is just ridiculous. Everyone had the exact same idea. There's a meme we got to get on the action.
Starting point is 00:25:44 And what's interesting is that a lot of these are beverage brands. It looks like drink culture pop. Drink high yo, drink lover boy, drink sprits, bulletproof. I guess that's bulletproof coffee. Fashion Nova, New York City. Just the account in New York City? I don't know. Petco.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Stop breaking treats in two. It is a fun meme format, but brands always, it's very, very hard to break through if you're just piling on the top meme. What do you think? And, yeah, so this whole thing was when I first saw the video of the flag going up, and they kind of botched the flag. I'm not going to lie. It seems like they didn't fully anticipate the wind conditions that day. The flag was quite hard. the writing on the flag was quite hard to read.
Starting point is 00:26:35 I would have liked to see them erect like a full-size billboard up there. Something permanent. Yeah, something more permanent and certainly more legible than the flag. And then the quote was, when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. But then they were just kind of making out and proposing. And yeah, just it felt like... It has a little bit of like the AI cadence to it or like the don't love your job, job your love. No, I mean, that's a, that's a...
Starting point is 00:27:12 It doesn't make a lot of sense. Yeah. Could be a little more terse, I suppose. But anyway, I just don't know if they were... I'm still impressed. It's just hard not to be impressed with a climbing. Did they climb up from the sidewalk or did they take the elevator and then hop out and then start climbing? Because this wasn't like an Alex
Starting point is 00:27:31 Honnold from the base free climb, free solo. How fast is this helicopter going, by the way? That's just the lens, baby. This is a 600 millimeter lens. Lens compression, Jordy. You're learning optics. Optics. This is looking through a telescope, basically. Dave says
Starting point is 00:27:48 quick tip for goth couples from the Matrix. Make sure to account for wind speed. Yeah. I agree. I heard some recording of a helicopter pilot who was dispatched sort of a emergency response, NYPD. And I think with helicopter pilots, they're like, alert, sir, we have two individuals on the top of the Empire State Building. He's like, that's that's cool. He's like, that's
Starting point is 00:28:12 awesome. Why are they up there? They're like, oh, they're not supposed to be. They're trespassing. He's like, oh, okay, bummer, but still impressive. Yeah, good, good story. Good story for them. I don't know if it made the sort of maybe political impact or whatever impact they were trying to have. But happy for them. And congratulations to the couple. Yeah. You know what I need, John? What do you need? Jensen's signature black leather jacket. His leather jacket by Tom Ford is being auctioned off. I'm so curious how this ended up with Sotheby's.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Did Jensen pass it along? He needed a few he needed a few bucks and just said like, you know, wanted to use it as a way to raise some capital or did someone else get their hands on it and take it to Sotheby's. I, so the estimate from Sotheby's is $40,000 to $60,000. I just think this goes way higher. I think there's so many people that would love to, to own this just for the novelty of it. It's a very unique item that will be a part of history.
Starting point is 00:29:19 And so 40 to 60 just seems way too low. What's funny is a lot of the people that can afford this are like competing with Jensen and probably don't want to glaze them too much. You don't see Mark Zuckerberg pulling this out probably because he's like, I'm going to be the best. I'm going to have the biggest market. I'm going to spend the most money with you. Yeah. I'm not just buying your GPUs.
Starting point is 00:29:40 I'm buying your old clothes. Yeah. I'm buying your old clothes. We've got to close out maybe with this Jensen meme from Andre. I wake up, not a loser, infinite money, because meta employees consumed 73.3 trillion AI tokens in a single month, which roughly costs $221 million a month or around $2.65 billion a year. I thought it was higher. That sounds low based on what I thought they were spending in terms of tokens.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Might even be higher. Who knows. But it is very interesting. And Vida has also partnered with AI cloud firms with revenue sharing, taking circularity to a previously unseen level. I don't know. Sale and lease back, all sorts of these financial deals. These happen all the time.
Starting point is 00:30:27 in other industries, it's just sort of new seeing it in tech because we are in this industrial era. So very interesting news, but good news for InVidion. Anyway, thank you for watching TVPN. We are off tomorrow. It is... Fourth of July. So we're having a long weekend, folks. And leave us five stars on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Sign up for our newsletter at TBPN.com. And we'll see you on Monday. Cortisol rising. A good name. We love to.
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