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Jason Calacanis

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

So the estimates I've seen is that to stand up one gigawatt of AI compute costs about $50 billion in capital, land, power, shell, chips, everything, all in around 50 billion.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

Do you have to front all of that money when you create a new data center?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

Or how much of it do you do?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

How much of it can you get debt for?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

Does 100 billion raise only get you two gigawatts?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

Or does it get you five?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute

Like, what does it get you?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

Jason, I'm pretty sure you believed you were the vicar of God before the encyclical.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

So this is nothing new for you.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

Sacks, you wanted to jump in there?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

With respect to new college grads, I was going to say that I think the single most marketable skill in the economy right now has got to be proficiency and clod.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

If you're going into a firm right now and you're the only one who knows Claude, it would be like you're the only one who knows how to work a spreadsheet or a word processor.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

The advantage would be enormous.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

Now, I think that's probably a short-term arbitrage because eventually everyone's going to have to figure out how to use these tools.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

But as a young college graduate right now, you have such an advantage if you're an AI native, right?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

just knowing how to use these tools.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

And this thought partially occurred to me when I saw what our producer, Nick, has been doing with using Cloud for, you know, he's been creating this daily briefing document.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

Apparently, I didn't know this thing existed.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

Well, I thought it would just be AI slop and it would just kind of give me a roundup of news that I was getting in my X feed anyway.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Pope vs AI, Anthropic's Digital God, AI Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?

But actually, the thing that was really impressive about it was that it predicted topics that I would specifically be interested in based on my previous comments on the pod.