# 2025 Finale: Yann LeCun Raises $3B, Domain Addiction Confessions & Built 2 Scale Year Wrap

- Show: [Built 2 Scale](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale)
- Published: 2025-12-22
- Length: 1h 25m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year
- Listen: https://b2spod.captivate.fm

## Summary

Hosts Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox review the year's tech news, focusing on Yann LeCun raising $3 billion for a spatial intelligence startup and the implications for autonomous home company Elysium. They discuss Sergey Brin returning to coding at Google, the competitive landscape between Google's TPUs and Nvidia's GPUs, and Brett Adcock's Figure AI. The episode concludes with a 'Receipts or Regrets' segment where they evaluate predictions like robots in homes, the Guzman y Gomez IPO, and OpenAI's hardware ambitions.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=0) Introduction and Yann LeCun's $3B Raise
- [3:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=212) Impact on Elysium and Figure AI's Robot Rave
- [8:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=536) Voice AI Bandwidth and Human-like vs Fast Intelligence
- [16:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=988) Sergey Brin's Return to Coding and Google's TPU Strategy
- [20:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=1256) Receipts or Regrets: Robots in Homes and Guzman y Gomez
- [29:35](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=1775) Regrets: Sesame AI, Steve Irwin Reference, and Qantas vs United
- [39:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=2381) Receipts: Waymo vs Tesla, First Year ARR, and OpenAI as Apple of AI
- [51:47](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=3107) Rant: Coders vs Builders and Just-in-Time Software
- [58:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-22-2025-finale-yann-lecun-raises-3b-domain-addiction-confessions-built-2-scale-year#t=3498) Domain Buying Habits and Year End Wrap

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [Growth, exits & acquisitions](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/growth-exits-and-acquisitions)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises, companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Yann LeCun (other)
- Elysium (company)
- Figure AI (company)
- Brett Adcock (other)
- Deadmau5 (other)
- Sergey Brin (other)
- Google (company)
- Nvidia (company)
- Torch TPU (tool)
- PyTorch (tool)
- Guzman y Gomez (company)
- Sesame AI (company)
- Waymo (company)
- Tesla (company)
- OpenAI (company)
- Johnny Ive (other)
- Meta (company)
- Limitless (company)
- Qantas (company)
- United (company)

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