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David Friedberg

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Yeah, San Francisco, it's 6% over $25 million and it starts at $5 million.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

So there's a transfer tax, an excess transfer tax above $5 million properties that scales up above $25 million to an extra 6% on top of your brokerage commission.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

So when you sell a house in San Francisco, you're paying 13% now.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

All right, let's go to topic number one.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

OpenAI is apparently suffering from a bit of an identity crisis.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

On Sunday, OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Obviously, it leaked immediately, probably the point of it.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

And she called out, in profit, she said their $30 billion run rate is capped, inflated by $8 billion due to a revenue share and some accounting with AI model providers.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Chamath, you pointed that out in the last couple of weeks.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Also, she said, Anthropic Stories built on, quote, fear, restriction, and the idea that a small group of elites should control AI.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Obviously, she's a fan of the pod.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

She also laid out OpenAI's pivoting, and she said they are going hard after business customers, and they want to win more.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

the agent platform layer.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

If you remember, they hired the architect of the open source project open claw, they didn't acquire open claw.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

So Peter Steinberger is working at open AI, cynical people said, Hey, maybe they want his next set of innovations to go inside of opening his products as opposed to the open source one, I kind of agree with that directionally.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

There's obviously Perplexity Computers doing really well.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

They quadrupled their revenue.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

And I was over at XAI earlier this week with Elon.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

I can tell you he's got some very cool stuff coming.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

And this new model, Spud, is coming from OpenAI.