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Cheeky Pint

Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.

Last published 29 October 2026 69 posts collected by Sputnik

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“A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that like the problem is solved now because we are going to have open source models… But from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time. You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that.” — Sam Altman, Cheeky Pint
Sam Altman · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think we have done a great job of explaining to people why we think all of the potential downside of this technology is worth it… you paint this picture of the future where it's like a new industrial evolution. And maybe the last one wasn't that good and this one sounds worse. And I will have no job, no ability to like have control or choice or freedom of my future. And AI is so dangerous that you're going to have to have a crazy surveillance stage so we don't all die… This is like a terrible sales pitch.” — Sam Altman, Cheeky Pint
Sam Altman · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of one trillion IQ join society.” — Sam Altman, Cheeky Pint
Sam Altman · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Big model smell and feeling of benchmaxing are kind of like inverses of one another.” — Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
Alexandr Wang · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Is that Instacart account really for me, or is it for the Muse? Because I think, like, over time, I think that the question is, is the total addressable market for all of commerce just increasing dramatically?” — Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
Mark Zuckerberg · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's not like anyone planned for distillation to work super duper well, but it just turns out that you can get a lot of capabilities naturally through some form of distillation.” — Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
Alexandr Wang · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This lane is open because everyone else seems to just be obsessed so much with just automating knowledge work, which, I mean, isn't even that charismatic version of the future, right? Because it's like, all right, like, a big part of our belief too is that the kind of highest use of superintelligence is invention and creation, not automation.” — Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
Mark Zuckerberg · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The naming of some of the models is like so egregious... Some of the times the numbers go backwards and sometimes it's just like a totally different word and you have another set of words. And like, I just like, how is somebody who's not carefully reading API design specs supposed to know what they're supposed to pick?” — Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
Alexandr Wang · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You don't want a moralizing lecture for why you're wrong for asking it to do the thing. Obviously, if you're trying to do something that's catastrophic, it needs to gracefully, without pissing you off, not do it. But in general, we view alignment as more of a question of instruction and values alignment with the person who it's intending to serve.” — Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
Mark Zuckerberg · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's like entrepreneurship on hard mode. It's like the opposite of Lean Startup. Like, Lean Startup is like, yeah, you like see if you get something working and then you double down and then you see if that works, then you double down. Like, you cannot do that in AI.” — Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
Alexandr Wang · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One is if AI works overall, plenty of other people want all our compute... So I think that you, in order for it not to work out, it's not just that we have to fail, AI overall has to fail.” — Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
Mark Zuckerberg · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you really dig into the supply chain a little bit, it's some PhD student who made a benchmark as part of their... As the course of them doing their PhD. And so you're kind of outsourcing all of your product thinking to that PhD student who happened to make a viral benchmark.” — Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
Alexandr Wang · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →

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Cheeky Pint is hosted by John Collison , Alex Rampell and Matt Huang .

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