Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

Alex Wilhelm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This Week in Startups · Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299 · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

All right, we're gonna we're gonna scoot through a couple of topics really quick before we run out of time because there's a lot more I wanna get you guys on. voice-verified

Uh first of all, uh Tomas, if you look at open routers data and you see what are the most popular models in the last week, the names are Deep Seek V four flash, MIMO V two point five from Xiaomi, high three preview from Tencent, and then Minimax M three from Minimax. voice-verified

Uh I view that as startups being intelligent, going back to our model routing question. voice-verified

And kind of choosing what's the error model to guide things, that startups, even though they're very AI intensive, might already have in place ways to offload some compute away from these kind of frontier leading models. voice-verified

And therefore they're not gonna get whacked by the cost concerns we've seen enterprise customers screen about for weeks now. voice-verified

Am I correct there or am I being too optimistic about where startups have been deploying their AI inference in the last six months? voice-verified

negative gross margins are bad? voice-verified

Cursor, Tommy, those are great. voice-verified

Shout out capitalism. voice-verified

Um All right. voice-verified

Does anyone else want to weigh in on this before I take us in an entirely different direction? voice-verified

Well, this is why I think that the open router value ad or the moat that it has is its auto switcher that chooses models for you and providers for you. voice-verified

As an open router user, I love that because it takes that off my plate. voice-verified

But it also means that it becomes not just my gatekeeper, but also my tour guide into the world of AI, which I think is gonna be a really important door to hold on to. voice-verified

Unsurprisingly, they just raised someone helped me out here, 113, something like that. voice-verified

Yep. voice-verified

In the last month. voice-verified

Forget the exact number. voice-verified

All right, uh, turning the page. voice-verified

Seed prices. voice-verified

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