Subvolts take AI consolidation heats up with key deals and growing public backlash. Dec 30, 2025 - Developers
- Learn about hardware partnerships and new AI technologies like Groq that could impact development.
- Business
- Understand AI consolidation trends and emerging anti-AI sentiment that could affect market adoption.
- Everyday users
- Get informed about AI's societal impact, including job concerns and the rise of AI agents and surveillance.
This episode provides a solid roundup of significant AI industry developments and societal reactions.
We Got Slopped in 2025
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On AI Inside, hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss AI consolidation, including Nvidia's Groq chip licensing and Meta's Manus acquisition. They also cover growing anti-AI sentiment, OpenAI's preparedness role, and reflect on 2025's progress and future shifts toward AI agents and surveillance.
AI Inside covers big tech buying AI startups and making deals, like Nvidia licensing Groq's fast chips. It also looks at people getting worried about AI taking jobs and changing society, and what's next for AI.
This episode offers insights into the rapidly evolving AI landscape, detailing major industry moves and emerging societal concerns. It's for anyone tracking AI's impact on business and society, particularly those interested in how frontier labs like OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Nvidia are navigating consolidation, public perception, and the development of advanced AI systems.
- HostJason Howell
- HostJeff Jarvis
- Episode Title: We Got Slopped in 2025
- Show: AI Inside
- Length: 77 minutes
- Nvidia Deal: Licensing Groq technology and hiring executives.
- Meta Acquisition: Bought Manus for $2 billion.
- Sam Altman Salary Offer: $555k for a daunting role.
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack AI consolidation as Nvidia licenses Groq's fast inference chips and Meta buys Manus for $2 billion. Growing anti-AI sentiment over jobs, mental health, and politics emerges alongside OpenAI's high-stakes preparedness role. Finally, Jason and Jeff reflect on 2025's jagged progress and 2026's agent and surveillance shifts.
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CHAPTERS:
- 0:00 - Start
- 3:27 - Nvidia, joining Big Tech deal spree, to license Groq technology, hire executives
- 4:50 - Explaining the Groq deal
- 15:11 - Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about
- 16:50 - 3 reasons buying Manus could give Meta a much-needed AI boost
- 27:41 - An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?
- Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?
- 29:46 - Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’
- 45:11 - ‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
- 47:15 - * Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated Items
- 51:27 - * What Human-Horse Interactions may Teach us About Effective HumanAI Interactions
- 52:27 - * FakeParts: a New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes
- 55:45 - Karpathy's year in review
- 58:37 - https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-hbr-charts-that-help-explain-2025
- 1:04:29 - Jason:
1. Love/Hate and Confusion (people don't know how they really feel about AI)
2. General agents show potential but need a LOT of work
3. AI for companionship - 1:05:39 - Jason:
1. How productive ARE we really?
2. AI Shopping moves beyond the demo
3. A budding surveillance problem
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Questions people ask
- What deals are happening in AI?
- Nvidia is licensing Groq's fast inference chips, and Meta acquired the AI startup Manus for $2 billion.
- What are people saying about AI?
- There is growing anti-AI sentiment regarding jobs, mental health, and politics, with Bernie Sanders criticizing AI.
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