In this episode of The Road to Abundance, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla explore how AI is finally stepping out of the cloud and into the real world. 🚗 Tesla launches its long-awaited robotaxi service, and we discuss why this is a turning point for real-world autonomy. 🤖 Why AI needs robots to truly learn, generalize, and evolve, plus the challenges of grounding intelligence in physical environments. 🧠 Tech giants are offering crazy money to poach AI talent, and we explore what this means for open source and smaller labs. 🧬 AI is now supercharging biology, from protein folding to materials discovery, and it’s only just beginning. Catch up to stay in the loop on everything shaping the AI landscape!
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In this episode of The Road to Abundance, Gordon Mullan and Govind Shukla explore how AI is finally stepping out of the cloud and into the real world.
🚗 Tesla launches its long-awaited robotaxi service, and we discuss why this is a turning point for real-world autonomy.
🤖 Why AI needs robots to truly learn, generalize, and evolve, plus the challenges of grounding intelligence in physical environments.
🧠 Tech giants are offering crazy money to poach AI talent, and we explore what this means for open source and smaller labs.
🧬 AI is now supercharging biology, from protein folding to materials discovery, and it’s only just beginning.
Catch up to stay in the loop on everything shaping the AI landscape!
NAVIGATION
00:00 – Introduction
01:01 – AI Talent Wars: Meta vs OpenAI, Apple, Anthropic
04:19 – Claude Code vs Cursor: The Talent Twist
07:00 – Apple WWDC: Quiet LLM Power Moves
10:23 – OpenAI: o3 Pro, Podcast, GPT-5 & Jony Ive Device
22:15 – Google: Gemini 2.5, Audio Search & AlphaGenome
27:37 – Grok 4 Reveal Incoming
29:03 – Mistral: Cloud Ambitions & Magistral Models
30:54 – Chinese AI: MiniMax, Seedance, Hailou
33:26 – Tools & Products: Dia Browser, ElevenLabs, NotebookLM, Animate
44:55 – Law & Order: AI Training Legal, CIA & JFK
49:58 – Science & Tech: AlphaGenome, Chai-2, Tesla Robotaxis
52:14 – Robotics: Robo-kickboxing & Tesla Robotaxi Launch
01:05:32 – Energy Storage: China's Grid Battery Breakthrough
01:10:05 – Ethics & Treats: AI Toys, Army Unit 201, AI Live-Sales
01:12:29 – Final Words
SERVICES AND LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
🔹 OpenAI vs Meta: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/zuckerberg-announces-meta-superintelligence-effort-more-hires
🔹 Claude Code vs Cursor: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-revenue-hits-4-billion-annual-pace-competition-cursor-intensifies?rc=ukjmk2
🔹 ChatGPT in Xcode: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-other-ai-models-to-xcode
🔹 Apple Foundation Models: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-2025-updates
🔹 OpenAI o3 Pro: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o3-pro
🔹 o3 Price Drop: https://x.com/sama/status/1932434606558462459?s=46&t=dUCVh9akIWxxNUIkrDJwJg
🔹 Deep Research: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/o3-deep-research
🔹 Podcast with Sam Altman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9mjd-65gw
🔹 Gemini CLI: https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/
🔹 Gemini Flash-Lite: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/flash-lite
🔹 Gemini 2.5 Release: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-model-family-expands
🔹 Gemma 3n: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
🔹 Gemini Scheduled Actions: https://www.theverge.com/news/681762/google-gemini-scheduled-actions-planned-tasks
🔹 Audio Overviews: https://blog.google/products/search/audio-overviews-search-labs
🔹 Claude-Powered Apps: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-powered-artifacts
🔹 Grok 4 Announcement: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1938561602640605363
🔹 Cursor Ultra Plan: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-ultra-a-new-higher-tier-plan-built-alongside-the-model-providers/104530
🔹 Cursor 1.2 Update: https://www.cursor.com/changelog
🔹 Mistral Compute: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-compute
🔹 Magistral Small: https://mistral.ai/news/magistral
🔹 EuroLLM Preview: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1laazto/the_eurollm_team_released_preview_versions_of/
🔹 MiniMax-M1: https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.13585
🔹 Warp 2.0: https://www.fastcompany.com/91356732/warps-new-agentic-development-environment-helps-developers-work-with-ai-coding-agents
🔹 NotebookLM Adds Belarusian: https://devby.io/be/news/izdateli-proigrali-v-sude-ssha-obuchat-ii-na-knigah-mozhno-piratit-net-by
🔹 AI Film Festival by Runway: https://aiff.runwayml.com/
🔹 Best Film: Total Pixel Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAeygE4d1A
🔹 Robot Football from China: https://youtu.be/W9KCnSUCHbo?si=A4OYpVpizR8e2cLW
🔹 Ilya Sutskever Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TfmU0l5vM
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