5,000-Year-Old Bacteria, Solar Storms, Dogs, and Meta’s AI War
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36:55>> Yeah. >> that no longer needs you to have a ChatGPT subscription or any of these other things and they have all they have billions of devices everywhere and become the first AI of choice, it is going to become very sticky for some of these model providers. So we'll see. But but Yann LeCun is out at Meta. He's starting his new thing. I think he's going to need more than a billion dollars. >> Yeah, he has a billion dollars already from the likes of Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt. >> Yep. >> Um and it values at 3.5 billion. >> Already. >> Already and in like 6 months of starting. Crazy. >> going to and this is just the the valuations of these AI companies is just outrageous. But again, people are viewing it as, you know, end game

37:36technology. So >> Yeah. >> Uh with that, we are going to wrap up our rundown for this Friday. Touched on a nice fun microbiology story. Although it's not that fun if it ends up killing us all. Solar storms and earthquakes, maybe this was not so happy and dandy. But we had our are you smarter than a scientist we got nine out of 10, shared genetics between us and dogs, and the battle for AI continues as people throw money everywhere. We are we are going to ask again for feedback. This is going to be the third episode that comes out this week. We're splitting it out so that they're shorter, more bite-sized, easier to consume and digest on your commute, during your workout, and it just becomes

38:18easier to share with friends if you want them to listen to a specific section. So let us know if you do like that structure and that setup, we will continue on accordingly. I am your host, Lester Narh, joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD, who may be as smart as a scientist, Christian Choudhury. We will see you all next week.

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Ancient cave bacteria, solar storms, dog personality genes, and Yann LeCun’s billion-dollar break from Meta AI.