Chamath Palihapitiya

You had to learn a different language, actually.

Really?

Yes.

They did.

It's actually a performance tonight, but there's a lot more focus on, okay, let's get down to the brass tacks.

We hear a lot of CEOs talking about AI, but actually a lot of the conversations I'm having in the Congress that are already is just about, okay, where's the ROI from all the AI?

Wow, business.

It's actually business.

It's actually trying to get to the first principle, to the roots of, okay, how do you actually get artificial intelligence to deliver on the promise?

And funny enough, a lot of it comes down to this really interesting gap that exists in AI, which is like all the information and data set that you need to actually turn all of this into actual return on investment and productivity gains, especially for these like large infrastructure, large asset owners, like the energy or mining or manufacturing companies of the world.

And so that's a big focus.

Yeah, that's exact.

Yeah, that's right.

We do about 30% of our business is defense.

So we work or Department of War, I guess I should say.

A lot of it's focused on how do you actually use technology to fight against the speeds of development of countries like China, for example, in terms of manufacturing speeds.

And a big part of that is actually understanding the quality and the welds, putting together the actual welds, put pieces together.

This is actually a huge bottleneck for the US.

We have these manufacturing and forges that are 100 years old doing things 100 year old today that they did back then.

The technology that we're using to deploy to help manufacture certain components of a submarine or be able to help expedite how fast a destroyer is and turn around to get it out and patrolling borders and deterring conflict.