Speaker
Luca
44 bits across the podcasts they've appeared on
One man used ChatGPT to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog for $3,000, reducing the tumor by 75% after vets gave the dog six months to live.
Elon Musk announced his TeraFab facility will have chip manufacturing capacity exceeding TSMC by 50 times, planned for 2030 completion.
US government AI runs on air-gapped hardware, meaning updates require physical delivery rather than internet pushes, causing multi-month delays.
A Facebook pixel needs at least 1,000 cookied users before it is considered 'seasoned' enough to enable effective retargeting and lookalike audiences.
Claude Opus solved a computer science problem that legendary researcher Donald Knuth had been stuck on for six to eight weeks, in just one hour.
Luca drew a parallel between the AI compute boom and the 1990s US fiber glut, where overbuilding took far longer than expected to be absorbed but ultimately benefited consumers.
Luca noted that a lawyer using AI today can handle 10 to 20 clients where they previously could only manage one or two.
A €30/month AI subscription represents the same financial burden for a student in Africa as a €200/month subscription would for someone in a Western country.
The GitLab founder generated 25 terabytes of his own health data to analyse his genome and design an mRNA vaccine cure for his bone cancer.
Manual undersea cable inspection contracts using human-operated drones currently cost approximately €500,000 each and are conducted every five years.
People actively using OpenClaw were reportedly spending $100 to $1,000 per day on Anthropic's Claude Opus credits, making them extremely high-value customers for Anthropic.
Luca's locally-targeted Reels were reaching approximately 30% of Malta's population organically, potentially warming audiences before paid retargeting.
New US regulations shorten the window for institutions to deploy IPO investments from 3 months to just 15 days, accelerating buying pressure early in SpaceX's IPO.
Luca revealed he spends roughly $350 per month on Replit credits across multiple apps he's building and experimenting with.
