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Pieter Levels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2088 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And meanwhile, Stable Diffusion, the company went like... the CEO left, a lot of drama happened because they couldn't make money. And yeah, so they gave us, it's very interesting. They gave us this, this open source model that everybody uses. They raised like hundreds of millions of dollars. It all, they didn't make any money with it or not a lot. And they did an amazing job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And now everybody uses open source model for free. And they did, you know, It's amazing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And now everybody uses open source model for free. And they did, you know, It's amazing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And now everybody uses open source model for free. And they did, you know, It's amazing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, and the strange thing is that this company raised hundreds of millions, but the people that are benefiting from it are really small. People like me who make these small apps that are using the model. And now they're starting to charge money for the new models, but the new models are not so good for people. They're not so open source, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, and the strange thing is that this company raised hundreds of millions, but the people that are benefiting from it are really small. People like me who make these small apps that are using the model. And now they're starting to charge money for the new models, but the new models are not so good for people. They're not so open source, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, and the strange thing is that this company raised hundreds of millions, but the people that are benefiting from it are really small. People like me who make these small apps that are using the model. And now they're starting to charge money for the new models, but the new models are not so good for people. They're not so open source, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

It's kind of like those frameworks, but then they didn't, you know, bribe enough influencers to use it. And they didn't charge money for the platform, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

It's kind of like those frameworks, but then they didn't, you know, bribe enough influencers to use it. And they didn't charge money for the platform, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

It's kind of like those frameworks, but then they didn't, you know, bribe enough influencers to use it. And they didn't charge money for the platform, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Man, mostly you don't know. Like, mostly I choose the ones that are most viable for me to build. Like, I cannot build a space company now, right? Would be quite challenging.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Man, mostly you don't know. Like, mostly I choose the ones that are most viable for me to build. Like, I cannot build a space company now, right? Would be quite challenging.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Man, mostly you don't know. Like, mostly I choose the ones that are most viable for me to build. Like, I cannot build a space company now, right? Would be quite challenging.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, I think asteroid mining would be very cool. Because, like, you go to an asteroid, you take some stuff from there, you bring it back, you sell it. You know, it's... But then you need to do... And you can hire someone to launch the thing. So all you need is, like, the robot that goes to the asteroid. You know, and the robotics is interesting. Like, I want to also learn robotics. So maybe...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, I think asteroid mining would be very cool. Because, like, you go to an asteroid, you take some stuff from there, you bring it back, you sell it. You know, it's... But then you need to do... And you can hire someone to launch the thing. So all you need is, like, the robot that goes to the asteroid. You know, and the robotics is interesting. Like, I want to also learn robotics. So maybe...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

No, I think asteroid mining would be very cool. Because, like, you go to an asteroid, you take some stuff from there, you bring it back, you sell it. You know, it's... But then you need to do... And you can hire someone to launch the thing. So all you need is, like, the robot that goes to the asteroid. You know, and the robotics is interesting. Like, I want to also learn robotics. So maybe...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy. Exactly. That's me with asteroid mining. Exactly. That's why I should do this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy. Exactly. That's me with asteroid mining. Exactly. That's why I should do this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it would be easy. Exactly. That's me with asteroid mining. Exactly. That's why I should do this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, but it seems, man, I sound like an idiot probably now, but it sounds quite approachable, like relatively approachable. You don't have to build the rockets.