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The Elon vs Sam FEUD Explodes + GPT-5 First Look & Remote Construction Robots

Built 2 Scale · 14 Aug 2025 · 1h 22m

What this episode covers

Hosts Matt Perrott (BuildPass) and Scott Wilcox (W & Elysium) discuss the explosive feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the launch of ChatGPT-5, and the economic crisis in AI startups where compute costs exceed revenue. They analyze Google's aggressive Gemini integration across its productivity suite and Perplexity's $34B bid for Chrome. The episode concludes with a deep dive into robotics, covering Y Combinator's Flywheel AI for remote construction equipment, Figure AI's humanoid laundry demo, and Unitree's low-cost humanoids, predicting a 'ChatGPT moment' for robots in 1-3 years.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
Perplexity, Flywheel AI, Figure AI, Unitree, Tesla, Nvidia
Products
ChatGPT-5, Grok 4, Claude, Google Chrome, Gemini, Notion AI
Tools
Cursor, Notebook LM
Also
MIT

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