Ben Thompson

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42,103 appearances 120 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 21 Aug

Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 5.

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices · 1 May 2026 podcast

And in theory, if all this training is gonna be worth it, it has to shrink as a proportion of compute because the training manifests in a model that is used for inference. podcast-host

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · (Preview) Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

I'm doing okay, Andrew. podcast-host

Um, how are you? podcast-host

Uh yeah, I mean uh I usually don't interview VCs. podcast-host

Uh, you know, they're always wanting to talk their book, but like I guess I have an exception. podcast-host

If you have driven an F one car in R V C then then I will uh Well his life story podcast-host

Well, his life story podcast-host

think there is an interesting point here, which is like you can there you you can look at someone like Nico Rosberg, absolute life of privilege, right? podcast-host

His dad was also an F one champion, one of the you know father son sort of combo there. podcast-host

He grows. podcast-host

well. podcast-host

Um, you know, I've been coming here doing Visa my whole life. podcast-host

I mean, that's that's a line that I think that occurred in the interview. podcast-host

And you know, he speaks five languages, went to very high in international schools, obviously came up with you know, to succeed at F1. podcast-host

You know, it's always striking. podcast-host

Like you have to be in a cart by the time you're like five years old. podcast-host

Five years old might be too late, which which speaks to I always find it fascinating to talk to podcast-host

anyone at the absolute top of their game because I I there's so much that goes into it that you don't appro like how do you actually incorporate all the inputs of an F1 driver? podcast-host

It's like it's not just your eyes, it's not just your hands, it's like your butt, like your sense of podcast-host

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