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The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266

Explore episode Jun 26, 2026

If I was an AI researcher, I would pick the one with the most compute. That's Google by far. The most data, that's Google by far. And the most smart people, that's Google by far.

Will Marshall

The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in…

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Anthropic's Recruiting Pitch: Access to the Frontier Beyond the Firewall

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Dave and Peter argue researchers are flocking to Anthropic not just for comp but to be present at the singularity. Anthropic reportedly shows applicants raw pre-trained model access. Will defends Google on compute and data.^{[1]

— Peter Diamandis

"The co-author of the Transformer paper left Google for OpenAI. The Nobel laureate behind AlphaFold left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. Thes…"

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Science

Why Earth Is Better Than Mars by Orders of Magnitude

The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Be… · Jun 26, 2026 Science

Planet Labs has imaged thousands of exoplanets. The verdict: Earth wins by several orders of magnitude. No place on Mars is better than the worst place on Earth. Life is either singular or extraordinarily rare in the universe — either way, this biosphere is worth everything.

There is no place on Mars that is better than the worst place on Earth, not by a little bit. This planet is so fucking cool.

Will Marshall

The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in…

Technology

70% of AI compute is inference

The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Be… · Jun 26, 2026

Will Marshall cited that approximately 70% of AI compute on Earth today is inference rather than training, and that share is set to grow.

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