
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
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In #459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters, Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert and the hosts mention Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
So one of the dystopian worlds is described by Brave New World, so we could just be stuck scrolling Instagram looking at cute puppies or worse, and t…
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