OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Brian McCullough is the host of Techmeme Ride Home. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why everyone's using ChatGPT to make Ghibli art 2) What is Ghibli 3) OpenAI's product dominance stands out 4) The Studio Ghibli copyright question 5) The AI servers are at capacity 6) The AI datacenters are still probably built out too early 7) What's CoreWeave? 8) CoreWeave's IPO disappoints 9) OpenAI eyes $40 billion fundraise 10) Is Silicon Valley about to lose its monopoly on tech? --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Open AI's new chat GPT update leaves the internet jiblified and asserts its dominance once again.
0:06.6	The Corrieve IPO leaves some concerned that the AI run is ending and is Silicon Valley's monopoly coming to a close.
0:14.9	We'll cover it all on a big technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
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1:15.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. Ron John Roy is out today. He'll be back next week. We'll
1:20.9	actually be on on Wednesday. And joining us this week, we have a special guest, Brian McCullough,
1:26.2	the host of the Tech Meme Ride Home podcast is here for a great episode where we're going to cover everything from the new
1:31.9	Ghibli era of OpenAI, hopefully we'll cover the new Google Gemini model, and we'll also touch
1:38.9	on this Corweave IPO, which we're waiting for live. Great to see you again, Brian, and welcome
1:43.3	to the show. Alex, thanks as ever for having me. live. Great to see you again, Brian. Welcome to the show.
1:50.3	Alex, thanks as ever for having me. It's great to have you. And you're coming at an auspicious week because we've definitely seen AI in the headlines, not for models, really for a consumer
1:56.3	product. And that is the chat GPT update that did a bunch of things.
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