Jason Calacanis
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“[Anthropic has] a decent lead on everybody else, whether it's three months or six months. Obviously they're probably six 12 months ahead of open source. Maybe they're three, six, nine months ahead of their contemporaries, but they have a lead.”
“There is a chance that we're going to see job loss increase in the short to midterm and then eventually the displaced people are going to have to learn or leave the workforce. Which is what happened during other revolutions like this.”
“Intelligent sovereignty is different than privacy... Now intelligent sovereignty is you can't tell me what to think. You can't use your AI to analyze my photos, to analyze my emails, and tell me how to interpret the world.”
“after OpenAI announced their jalapeno chips, after Anthropic started making chips, after AMD did successful projects with both of these companies, after Elon said he's going to do his own fab, Nvidia's taking the gloves off, David. They are going to own the whole stack.”
“you're going to spend 10, $20,000 per employee on local compute so that they can token max ... It's literally gonna be a server per individual in your company.”
“I think Apple is a screaming buy right now... they will put so much downward pressure on Claude and OpenAI by just putting local models and supporting them with this memory architecture.”
“the industry needs to regulate themselves... they should self certify each model before asking the government, which doesn't understand the models, to certify them.”
“this is something I would have never okayed because it would have cost $500,000 ten years ago to make it ... And in four to eight hours they made the whole intranet”
“I was starting to think, well, maybe I should vibe code my own Slack so it's integrated into everything we do at a deeper level. ... Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, the Google Suite, Microsoft Office will bespoke software start to replace those.”
“I keep bringing up the Heritage foundation and I'm sure you've looked at their data. They have a lot of people trying to figure out where fraud exists, investigating it, and it's de minimis. It's a couple of thousands of cases they can find. So even if you extrapolated them 10x or 20x pick your multiple, it would never swing a major election.”
“Birthright citizenship case was Trump versus Barbara. On the first day of his second term, Trump, as you know, signed an EO ending automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants or those on temporary visas. ... The court struck it down six, three, maybe five, four.”
“On June 30, Howie in the Commerce Department. ... He lifted controls on Fable 5. Mythos 5 was restored to US customers this past week, June 26th.”
“Airtable just got acquired for less than it raised. It's a profitable SaaS company. A great product. $480 million. Half a billion dollars in annual revenue, growing 20% a year.”
“it was kind of shocking to see Abbott come out and Shapiro come out because those two People were the most pro data centers, right? And if you kind of double click on it, they just want to make sure you're not tapping into the grid.”
“Nvidia just had a record setting earnings report... 96.2 billion in revenue in the quarter... More than double Wall Street's expectation was 92 billion. They guided for 70% growth next year.”
“I'm willing to give up my license plate data if somebody knows my exact whereabouts for 30 days of my license plates. I. I'm okay with that because I have children”
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"[Anthropic has] a decent lead on everybody else, whether it's three months or six months. Obviously they're probably six 12 months ahead of open source. Maybe they're three, six, nine months ahead of their contemporaries, but they have a lead." — 2026-05-22-podcast-all-in-podcast-spacex-s-2t-case-nvidia-s-shock-selloff-america (2026-05-22)
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On ai-job-displacement-debate:
"There is a chance that we're going to see job loss increase in the short to midterm and then eventually the displaced people are going to have to learn or leave the workforce. Which is what happened during other revolutions like this." — 2026-05-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-anthropic-s-digital-god-pope-vs-ai-job-loss (2026-05-29)
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On ai-safety-as-regulatory-capture:
"Intelligent sovereignty is different than privacy... Now intelligent sovereignty is you can't tell me what to think. You can't use your AI to analyze my photos, to analyze my emails, and tell me how to interpret the world." — 2026-05-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-anthropic-s-digital-god-pope-vs-ai-job-loss (2026-05-29)
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On nvidia, frontier-lab-vertical-integration-to-sovereign-ai-stack:
"after OpenAI announced their jalapeno chips, after Anthropic started making chips, after AMD did successful projects with both of these companies, after Elon said he's going to do his own fab, Nvidia's taking the gloves off, David. They are going to own the whole stack." — 2026-07-03-podcast-all-in-podcast-ai-sovereignty-wars-palantir-nvidia-deal-scotus (2026-07-03)
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On open-source-share-shift-bullish-for-compute:
"you're going to spend 10, $20,000 per employee on local compute so that they can token max ... It's literally gonna be a server per individual in your company." — 2026-07-03-podcast-all-in-podcast-ai-sovereignty-wars-palantir-nvidia-deal-scotus (2026-07-03)
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"I think Apple is a screaming buy right now... they will put so much downward pressure on Claude and OpenAI by just putting local models and supporting them with this memory architecture." — 2026-07-18-podcast-all-in-podcast-can-the-ai-industry-regulate-itself-stripe-wants (2026-07-18)
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"the industry needs to regulate themselves... they should self certify each model before asking the government, which doesn't understand the models, to certify them." — 2026-07-18-podcast-all-in-podcast-can-the-ai-industry-regulate-itself-stripe-wants (2026-07-18)
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On lovable, vibe-coding-app-builders, saaspocalypse-thesis:
"this is something I would have never okayed because it would have cost $500,000 ten years ago to make it ... And in four to eight hours they made the whole intranet" — 2026-07-15-podcast-all-in-podcast-former-intel-ceo-on-what-went-wrong-what-s-next (2026-07-15)
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On saaspocalypse-thesis, vibe-coding-app-builders:
"I was starting to think, well, maybe I should vibe code my own Slack so it's integrated into everything we do at a deeper level. ... Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, the Google Suite, Microsoft Office will bespoke software start to replace those." — 2026-07-15-podcast-all-in-podcast-former-intel-ceo-on-what-went-wrong-what-s-next (2026-07-15)
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On california-mail-ballot-count:
"I keep bringing up the Heritage foundation and I'm sure you've looked at their data. They have a lot of people trying to figure out where fraud exists, investigating it, and it's de minimis. It's a couple of thousands of cases they can find. So even if you extrapolated them 10x or 20x pick your multiple, it would never swing a major election." — 2026-06-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house (2026-06-29)
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On scotus-birthright-citizenship-2026:
"Birthright citizenship case was Trump versus Barbara. On the first day of his second term, Trump, as you know, signed an EO ending automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants or those on temporary visas. ... The court struck it down six, three, maybe five, four." — 2026-07-03-podcast-all-in-podcast-ai-sovereignty-wars-palantir-nvidia-deal-scotus (2026-07-03)
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On government-gated-frontier-releases:
"On June 30, Howie in the Commerce Department. ... He lifted controls on Fable 5. Mythos 5 was restored to US customers this past week, June 26th." — 2026-07-03-podcast-all-in-podcast-ai-sovereignty-wars-palantir-nvidia-deal-scotus (2026-07-03)
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On seat-based-saas-ai-disruption:
"Airtable just got acquired for less than it raised. It's a profitable SaaS company. A great product. $480 million. Half a billion dollars in annual revenue, growing 20% a year." — 2026-08-15-all-in-podcast-google-s-ai-brain-drain-spacex-s-huge (2026-08-08)
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On state-datacenter-siting-moratorium-risk:
"it was kind of shocking to see Abbott come out and Shapiro come out because those two People were the most pro data centers, right? And if you kind of double click on it, they just want to make sure you're not tapping into the grid." — 2026-08-21-podcast-all-in-podcast-dario-defends-himself-datacenter-panic-ai-doomer (2026-08-21)
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On cuda-moat-erosion-to-nvda-rerate:
"Nvidia just had a record setting earnings report... 96.2 billion in revenue in the quarter... More than double Wall Street's expectation was 92 billion. They guided for 70% growth next year." — 2026-08-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-nvidia-s-historic-quarter-saas-comeback-bessent (2026-08-29)
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On license-plate-retention-privacy-vs-safety:
"I'm willing to give up my license plate data if somebody knows my exact whereabouts for 30 days of my license plates. I. I'm okay with that because I have children" — 2026-08-18-all-in-podcast-flock-ceo-garrett-langley-on-controversy (2026-08-18)
Sources
- 2026-05-22-podcast-all-in-podcast-spacex-s-2t-case-nvidia-s-shock-selloff-america
- 2026-05-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-anthropic-s-digital-god-pope-vs-ai-job-loss
- 2026-07-03-podcast-all-in-podcast-ai-sovereignty-wars-palantir-nvidia-deal-scotus
- 2026-07-18-podcast-all-in-podcast-can-the-ai-industry-regulate-itself-stripe-wants
- 2026-07-15-podcast-all-in-podcast-former-intel-ceo-on-what-went-wrong-what-s-next
- 2026-06-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house
- 2026-08-15-all-in-podcast-google-s-ai-brain-drain-spacex-s-huge
- 2026-08-21-podcast-all-in-podcast-dario-defends-himself-datacenter-panic-ai-doomer
- 2026-08-29-podcast-all-in-podcast-nvidia-s-historic-quarter-saas-comeback-bessent
- 2026-08-18-all-in-podcast-flock-ceo-garrett-langley-on-controversy
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