🎙️ EP 187: xAI’s Supercomputer Eats a City’s Power. DeepMind’s Cheap Spy Drops.
Published: January 20, 2026
Duration: 12:11
Elon Musk’s xAI just powered up a monster - a single-site AI cluster that now uses more electricity than San Francisco. And DeepMind? They just figured out how to monitor AI misuse 10,000x cheaper. Things are heating up (literally).
We’ll talk about:
How Colossus 2 is changing the frontier AI race and what xAI’s trillion-token dreams look likeWhy DeepMind’s new “activation probes” could replace costly LLM safety checksThe rise of “analog hobbies” and the wild 1,200% surge in yarn kit salesGoogle’s Gemini API doubling in 5 months and OpenAI hitting $20B revenueA new wave of tools...