This Week in Startups
00:29:05 · Lon Harris
[00:29:05] S2: Alright. Let... I do wanna... I wanna talk... I wanna pause briefly and talk about This Week in AI. I wrote a, a brand new, demo went up today. I wanna share that right here. I did. We talked about this on the show, which is why I thought we would follow-up here. I connected everything in my life to my Plaud pin. I made a little graphic here about it. So I tied... Plaud has all these connectors now. You could connect it to your Gmail. You could connect it to your calendar, to your Slack, to your Notion, to your Grok bot, to your Claude. So that's what I did on the way home from, work the other day. I just recorded a voice note in my car. Here, I'll play this without sound. There's me about to record it. You can see my Plaud pin is on. I just talked out loud. Here's what I think would make a good Plaud demo. I'll connect it to these apps. I'll do this. I'll do... I'll route it through here. And then, I did... I put the whole post together. All of this was automated through Plaud's agent. I sent it to Claude to help me write the rough draft. I even emailed, Jacob and Jordan here at the office. Like, I sent them part of the transcript of my notes. Like, look this over for me. Tell me if there's visual elements I should add. I went to Grok Bot and had it look up extra clips. Like, I found... I had Grok Bot find this clip of us talking about Plaud that ties in to all the stuff that the demo's about. So check it out This Week in ai.ai. That's the new post over there. And check out Plaud and all of the various things that you could connect to your Plaud now that they have this incredible Plaud agent. And they got an agent in the app, Jason. So you could just connect all these things. Oh. And you could go right into the Plaud app, and you just tell their agent, send this recording to Notion. Send this to Claude. Send this to my Gmail. And it all is from one hub. It's it's very clever.
00:30:55 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:30:55] S0: I got a two point o request for you. Okay. I wanted to... I want you to create a series of keywords that when they come up in your Plaud, trigger actions from your Grok bot or whatever. Yeah. So, you know, if you say action item, email Jay Cal. Action item, make me a... Add to my to do list. All that kind of stuff. Mhmm. I wanna see if you can maybe, when you do a follow-up to this Plaud post, kinda get into that because I need to have that for ski season. When I'm in ski season Yeah. What frequently happens to me is, I'm on a lift and, first world problems here. I see a couple of things in the email. I have gloves on. I can't, you know, start taking my gloves off and typing. It's snow. It's gonna... I'm gonna drop my phone, all this kind of craziness. I wanna just have that stream of consciousness. Then when I get to the bottom of the lift, after I ski a run, it will sync with the Wi Fi. Right? The... These places all have Wi Fi at the bottom. Mhmm. When it syncs, then I wanted to take the actions and send those actions to the team. Yeah. That's what I need, in this crazy world. [00:31:59] S2: Set this up through Plaud. I think you need [00:32:02] S0: to go into figure it out. [00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that
00:32:03 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:32:03] S2: Tell Plaud agent, anytime I say this keyword in a recording, forward it to this Grok bot so that the Grok bot could do this or that, whatever. Or you could just do... I mean, you could... There's there's, like, five ways to do this. But that [00:32:15] S0: I want a whisper sync on my plaud. This is a little feature request. You know, when you get a a Kindle, you pay... I I don't... I think it comes with Kindle that they pick up low data usage Right. Over, like, five g to download the books. And I and I think Amazon has a data plan built into it. So you don't have to subscribe to this. So if you bought a book, it will download it. Right? Yeah. So you don't have to pay for another 5 g plan. I would love for Plaud to have that in, like, a $2.99 or $399 Plaud. So somebody send this to the CEO of Plaud and CC me, or I'll tell my Plaud to do that. What I really wanna have is if it had LTE or five gs, three gs, whatever, then it's just always syncing, always syncing. Right? That would be super magical for me. I need, like, an enhanced hardware version. I'm willing to pay for it to my friends at Plaud. Who knows what they Ad[00:33:10] S2: have in the lab? Get in on all of this with us and start experimenting with your Plaud. Check it out at plaud.ai/twist. Use the code Twist, and they'll give you an extra 10% off on your Plaud pin. And you could experiment with all the things you can do with your Plaud now that it's connected to literally every other AI app. Ad[00:33:28] S0: How great is our life that, we have partners, and we love their products. It makes life so easy.
00:33:28 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris, S1
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00:34:48 · Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris
[00:34:48] S0: Okay. Alright. Let's keep going. What's next on the agenda? [00:34:50] S2: On Thursday, OpenAI published a set of new data center commitments we can't get away from data centers. Just two days after voters rejected the rapid expansion of AI at the polls, reaffirmed its promise to pay the full cost of powering its data centers, says that for centers it owns and operates, it will solicit community input, publish construction plans, and it will avoid NDAs with public officials. A separate policy blueprint encourages lawmakers to enact similar commitments as laws per ballot PD and CNBC. Oh, we already talked about Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic all have outlined similar commitments. OpenAI told investors back in February it's targeting 600,000,000,000 in total compute spend by 2030. What do you think of this plan? Does any of this move the needle for the public on data centers? [00:35:36] S0: Does any of it move the needle for data centers? I I think it's great to be proactively communicating your plans. And so, yes, I think everything helps getting ahead of this. I'm not sure in this proposal if there's anything revolutionary, but [00:35:52] S2: No.
00:35:52 · Lon Harris, Jason Calacanis
[00:35:52] S2: No. [00:35:52] S0: Right. They have to just... You know, part of leadership is repeating yourself Mhmm. Over and over and over again and meeting with people and listening to people. This is what I've learned about, like, leadership, true leadership. You gotta listen to people. You gotta repeat back to them what they said so they know they feel heard. And then, when you actually have, a statement to make, you gotta repeat yourself. One of the things Trump does over and over again when he's doing these, like, clips, so when he's, like, getting out of the helicopter or whatever, he's doing a stand up with the press, whether they call that a gaggle or something. Yeah. [00:36:23] S2: They do.