Meta's Moderation and Nvidia's Domination | E2069

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today’s show: Jason and Alex discuss Meta’s moderation announcement, Nvidia’s seeming domination in the processor space, Anthropic’s $2B raise and some fun products coming out of CES.

(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show. (5:15) Fire in Pacific Palisades and Malibu: Insurance and Startup Opportunities (9:48) Gusto. Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://gusto.com/twist (17:32) Meta's New Content Moderation Strategy and Zuckerberg's Motivations (20:09) Oracle. ⁠⁠TWiST listeners can try OCI and save up to 50% on your cloud bill at https://w⁠⁠⁠⁠ww.oracle.com/twist⁠⁠⁠

(22:35) More on Zuck’s motivations and what the new president can do (30:30) Squarespace. TWiST listeners: use code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain: https://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST (40:26) NVIDIA's AI Supercomputer Chip and Tech Industry Innovations (49:15) Lenovo's Rollable Laptop and Slack's iOS Integration (56:31) BYD's Supercar and Anthropic's Valuation (1:02:45) Jason's Experience with Luxury Japanese Minivans

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0:00.0	Look at this, folks.
0:00.9	There's no one in the driver's seat.
0:02.1	It's a sick-looking car with a crazy spoiler.
0:04.1	Obviously a lot inspired by Tesla from B-Y-D.
0:07.1	They kind of steal everything.
0:08.3	But watch that.
0:09.4	What?
0:10.1	It jumps.
0:11.1	Also, this is a McLaren, not a Tesla.
0:15.9	Jason, this does solve the enormous market hole for billionaires running from the cops who are on a poor road who need to jump over a pothole to prevent capture or a spike strip.
0:27.6	Oh, the spike strip if you're in a spike strip.
0:29.6	I like it.
0:30.6	I'm punching it up.
0:31.6	So yes, that's what this is for.
0:32.6	If you're running from the cops and a spike strip, no, this is like Batmobile level stuff.
0:42.0	There's no functional use for this thing except for us to talk about it.
0:43.6	Well played, B.Y.D.
0:45.0	I'm still a child. Come out with the feature that we can't help but talk about.
0:51.2	This week in startups is brought to you by Gusto.
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