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Open source is going to win it all: Harvey proves it | E2328

This Week in Startups

Aug 21
This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

Aug 21
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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman https://Superhuman.com Sentry https://sentry.io/twist Lightfield https://lightfield.app Today's show: Jason's been saying it for years now (and we've got an All In clip from 2023 to prove it). O...

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This episode examines how AI is reshaping research, enterprise software, and autonomous machines, while highlighting the strategic choices startups face as technology becomes more accessible.
02:25
AI turns scattered web data into actionable intelligence
07:51
Human taste makes automated systems reliable
09:43
AI agents need human feedback to learn.
13:12
An IPO could mark OpenAI’s next funding milestone
19:38
Open-source competition could commoditize AI assistants
25:19
Proprietary data, not models, becomes the moat
33:43
Client data protection drives AI independence
34:32
Open-source models will power most corporate AI
44:17
Compete upward by exploiting larger rivals’ gaps
49:33
Autonomous golf carts turn tinkering into opportunity
57:04
Software is the hardest part of autonomy
1:00:12
Open-source autonomy meets everyday transportation
1:03:00
AI creates more time for meaningful interests
1:06:25
Clever growth hacks can violate terms

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What is Jason's Grok Bot up to?
00:00
Systems over goals
05:17
Superhuman - Superhuman Go is an AI chat that's always there when you need it, already aware of what you're doing, and doesn't ask you to start from zero. Sign up to get the best in AI at https://Superhuman.com
09:43
OpenAI will go public soon
13:08
Top line ARR matters way less than churn
14:19
Sentry - Your team should be focused on shipping features — not chasing down bugs. New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to https://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST
20:43
Lightfield - Name one person who's ever enjoyed updating a CRM. Exactly. Lightfield's AI agent does it for you — it even prospects and books your meetings. Used by thousands of startups. Free at https://lightfield.app
29:55
Harvey launches Tenet
30:52
"Open source is going to win it all"
34:32
Allan Guo of Willow joins
35:58
Managing a single source of truth across a team
39:18
Lon and Jason love the Toyota Alphard
47:00
Stanford student and AV expert Ethan Goodhart joins
51:00
How Ethan got Jensen Huang to go for a ride
1:00:09
Punk Rock 101
1:00:37
Phoebe Gates' secret Harvard class
1:06:24

Transcript

Jason Calacanis: Open source is going to win it all. A&O litigators and DLA litigators are both using. Harvey, let's say. Harvey now is like, not only do we not trust OpenAI with this, we need to have our own model. Harvey was probably spending, if I had t...