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How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)

2026-05-13 · 68 min · 34 entities

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  • → references Fermi Paradox person
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
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    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis
  • → works at Arena company
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    CEO of Arena
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    CEO of Arena
  • → works at Lightmatter company
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    CEO of Lightmatter
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    CEO of Lightmatter
  • → works at Starcloud company
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    CEO of StarCloud
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    CEO of StarCloud
  • → discusses Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • → references wisprflow.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://wisprflow.ai/
  • → references lmarena.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lmarena.ai/
  • → references thisweekinai.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thisweekinai.ai/
  • → references paypalopen.com website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": http://paypalopen.com/
  • → references lightmatter.co website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lightmatter.co/
  • → references starcloud.com website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://starcloud.com/
  • → references Interaction Models person
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models
  • → references arena.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://arena.ai/
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2026/inside-a-retail-store-run-entirely-by-ai

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websites 16

  • mentioned wisprflow.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://wisprflow.ai/
  • mentioned lmarena.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lmarena.ai/
  • mentioned thisweekinai.ai website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thisweekinai.ai/
  • mentioned paypalopen.com website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": http://paypalopen.com/
  • mentioned lightmatter.co website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lightmatter.co/
  • mentioned starcloud.com website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://starcloud.com/
  • mentioned arena.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://arena.ai/
  • 0.45
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2026/inside-a-retail-store-run-entirely-by-ai
  • references wisprflow.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://wisprflow.ai/
  • references lmarena.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lmarena.ai/
  • references thisweekinai.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thisweekinai.ai/
  • references paypalopen.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": http://paypalopen.com/
  • references lightmatter.co website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://lightmatter.co/
  • references starcloud.com website
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://starcloud.com/
  • references arena.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://arena.ai/
  • 0.38
    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2026/inside-a-retail-store-run-entirely-by-ai

companys 11

  • mentioned Arena company
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    CEO of Arena
  • mentioned Lightmatter company
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    CEO of Lightmatter
  • mentioned Starcloud company
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    CEO of StarCloud
  • mentioned Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • works at Arena company
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    evidence rules-v5
    CEO of Arena
  • works at Arena company
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    CEO of Arena
  • works at Lightmatter company
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    CEO of Lightmatter
  • works at Lightmatter company
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    CEO of Lightmatter
  • works at Starcloud company
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    CEO of StarCloud
  • works at Starcloud company
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    CEO of StarCloud
  • discusses Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology

persons 6

  • mentioned Fermi Paradox person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
  • references Fermi Paradox person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
  • mentioned Jason Calacanis person
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    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis
  • hosted by Jason Calacanis person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis
  • mentioned Interaction Models person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models
  • references Interaction Models person
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    Link in episode "How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)": https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models

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Episode description as stored
The future of AI isn't a smarter chatbot. It's a model that watches your screen, listens to the room, and acts on what it sees. We dug into Thinking Machines' new interaction model, what it means for compute, and the layoff wave that's already here.This week's roundtable: Anastasios Angelopoulos (CEO of Arena, formerly LMArena), Nick Harris (CEO of Lightmatter, photonic computing chips), and Philip Johnston (CEO of StarCloud, building megawatt data centers in space). Thank you to our exclusive sponsor: PayPal Open, One Platform for All Business: http://paypalopen.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Cold open 1:21 Welcome to Episode 13 2:51 Is China closing the AI gap? Arena's data 5:16 Lightmatter and the photonic interconnect bottleneck 9:42 StarCloud 2, Nvidia Space Ruben 1, and orbital data centers 17:24 Thinking Machines' interaction model: what's actually new 28:22 Whisper Flow and the 3-pedal desk setup 33:48 Real-time desktop and camera awareness as the real unlock 40:25 Why this 100x's compute demand 42:43 The polarization of compute and $10M personal data centers 49:25 The layoff wave: Cloudflare, PayPal, Coinbase, Upwork 54:48 The 10x gap between AI-first and non-AI-first employees 59:52 Unlimited agency and the abundance future 1:00:46 Anthropic's Project Luna runs a retail store 1:03:45 Decoupling labor from value creation 1:05:03 P(doom) round 🔗 Guests: Anastasios Angelopoulos, Arena: https://arena.ai | @ML_Angelopolous Nick Harris, Lightmatter: https://lightmatter.co Philip Johnston, StarCloud: https://starcloud.com | @philipjohnston 🔗 Referenced in this episode: Thinking Machines, Introducing Interaction Models: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ LMArena leaderboard: https://lmarena.ai Lightmatter: https://lightmatter.co Starcloud: https://www.starcloud.com TechCrunch, Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/ Fast Company, Tech layoffs this week due to AI (Cloudflare, PayPal, Coinbase, Upwork): https://www.fastcompany.com/91538995/tech-layoffs-due-to-ai-this-week-cloudflare-paypal-coinbase-upwork Bloomberg, South Korea floats citizen dividend from AI profits: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-05-12/korea-s-massive-ai-boom-triggers-call-for-tech-tax-roiling-market PYMNTS, Inside a retail store run entirely by AI (Andon Labs / Luna): https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2026/inside-a-retail-store-run-entirely-by-ai/ Wispr Flow (voice-to-text tool Jason uses): https://wisprflow.ai Fermi Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox 🔗 Subscribe and follow: Newsletter and all platforms: https://thisweekinai.ai #ThisWeekInAI #AI #ThinkingMachines #Lightmatter #StarCloud #Arena #Anthropic #ProjectLuna #AIcompute #AIlayoffs #Superintelligence