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Yapping in Neuralese, GoPro v2, Jimmy Iovine in the Ultradome | Nikesh Arora & Andrei Serban, Kurt Tenenbaum, Philip Johnston
WithAndrei SerbanPhilip Johnston
MentionsJimmy IovineNikesh AroraBlue OwlBlue Owl Capital
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(00:58) - Yapping in Neuralese (08:50) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (11:47) - Markiplier Sends GoPro Stock Flying (19:42) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (36:13) - Elon Wants to Make Power Turbine Components (41:29) - Maersk Brings Sails Back (44:04) - Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo… More on the show's page
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Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space
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Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of Starcloud, explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade. After witnessing SpaceX's massive manufacturing scale at Starbase, Philip realized that declining launch costs would make space-based data centers…
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Apple PodcastsSuno Sparks Music Rights Firestorm, Travis Kelce’s Six Flags Play | Philip Johnston, Justin Murphy, Darren Rovell, Guillermo Rauch, Brendan Foody
WithDarren RovellPhilip JohnstonTravis Kelce
MentionsBrendan FoodyGuillermo Rauch
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(01:11) - Suno App Stirs Debate Over Music Rights (39:23) - Travis Kelce Joins Six Flags Stake (49:05) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:00:09) - Philip Johnston, founder of Star Cloud, discusses the company's upcoming launch of a satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 GPU, aiming to demonstrate… More on the show's page
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Data Centers in Space: Philip Johnston with Scott Hartley
WithPhilip Johnston
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Episode 58 of Venture Everywhere is hosted by Scott Hartley , Co-founder and MP of Everywhere Ventures talks with Philip Johnston , CEO of Lumen Orbit , a company that aims to deploy hyperscale data centers in space powered by solar energy and passive cooling. Philip shares his journey from… More on the show's page
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AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI
MentionsCoatueMark PapermasterPhilip Johnston
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Day 1 of RAISE Summit in Paris, the most high-profile AI summit in Europe. We pulled 10 of the sharpest founders, operators, and investors aside for their hottest takes on the debates defining AI right now.Open source vs closed models dominated the room, alongside agents rewriting how work gets… More on the show's page
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How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)
MentionsNick HarrisPhilip Johnston
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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… More on the show's page
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AI Hits a Power Wall. Starcloud Launches Data Centers Into Orbit
MentionsPhilip Johnston
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Philip Johnston is co-founder and CEO of Starcloud , a company building data centers in space to solve AI's power crisis. Starcloud has already launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit and is partnering with cloud providers like Crusoe to scale orbital computing infrastructure. As AI demand… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageTikTok Ban, Data Centers in Space… and What's a Vector? | E2073
MentionsPhilip Johnston
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Today's show: Alex sits down with two CEOs from companies freshly added to the TWIST500. We get a masterclass from Bob van Luijt of Weaviate, on vector databases helping AI and LLMs do what they do. An then Philip Johnston from Lumen Orbit explains his vision of building data centers in space! *… More on the show's page
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