Are we already in the Singularity? | E24

<p>This Week In Startups is made possible by:</p><p>Paypal Open</p><p><br></p><p>Today’s show:</p><p>On a podcast this week, Sam Altman made a bold declaration: “We are now, like, in the singularity.” A bold claim which Alex puts bluntly to this week’s panel. Grant Lee of Gamma and Philip Johnston of Starcloud sound off… Is this actually the Singularity, and if so, why do things still feel so normal?</p><p>Plus the panel and guest host Alex Wilhelm discuss the infrastructure and economics that will make singularity-scale AI buildout possible… NVIDIA’s strongly worded letter about open-weight models… Moonshot’s new Kimi K3 twist on open-source licenses… Stripe’s reported $10B run at OpenRouter… and more.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guests</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Grant Lee on X:<a href="https://x.com/thisisgrantlee"> <u>https://x.com/thisisgrantlee</u></a></p><p>Gamma:<a href="https://gamma.app/"> <u>https://gamma.app/</u></a></p><p>Philip Johnston on X:<a href="https://x.com/PhilipJohnston"> <u>https://x.com/PhilipJohnston</u></a></p><p>Starcloud:<a href="https://www.starcloud.com/"> <u>https://www.starcloud.com/</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Relevant Links</strong></p><p><br></p><p>TechCrunch: Gamma hits $110M ARR:<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/ai-powerpoint-killer-gamma-hits-2-1b-valuation-100m-arr-founder-says/"> <u>https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/ai-powerpoint-killer-gamma-hits-2-1b-valuation-100m-arr-founder-says/</u></a></p><p>Nvidia: How Starcloud is Bringing Data Centers to Space:<a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud/"> <u>https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud/</u></a></p><p>Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter:<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/open-weight-models-letter-1.pdf"> <u>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/open-weight-models-letter-1.pdf</u></a></p><p>CNBC on Nvidia-OpenAI infrastructure plans:<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nvidia-and-openai-in-talks-for-up-to-250-billion-dollar-ai-backstop.html"> <u>https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nvidia-and-openai-in-talks-for-up-to-250-billion-dollar-ai-backstop.html</u></a></p><p>Kimi K3:<a href="https://www.kimi.com/en"> <u>https://www.kimi.com/en</u></a></p><p>Crusoe announces strategic Starcloud partnership:<a href="https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-to-become-first-cloud-operator-in-space-through-partnership-with-starcloud"> <u>https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-to-become-first-cloud-operator-in-space-through-partnership-with-starcloud</u></a></p><p>Andrej Karpathy on YouTube: “Let’s Build GPT”:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY"> <u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY</u></a></p><p>Demis Hassabis Starcloud post on X:<a href="https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1999296127276126417"> <u>https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1999296127276126417</u></a></p><p>RAISE Summit:<a href="https://www.raisesummit.com/"> <u>https://www.raisesummit.com/</u></a></p><p>Lilian Weng exits Thinking Machines post:<a href="https://x.com/lilianweng/status/2081816923088814421"> <u>https://x.com/lilianweng/status/2081816923088814421</u></a></p><p>Baseten:<a href="https://www.baseten.co/"> <u>https://www.baseten.co/</u></a></p><p>Fireworks AI:<a href="https://fireworks.ai/"> <u>https://fireworks.ai/</u></a></p><p>Legora:<a href="https://legora.com/"> <u>https://legora.com/</u></a></p><p>OpenEvidence:<a href="https://www.openevidence.com/"> <u>https://www.openevidence.com/</u></a></p><p>Yahoo: Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter:<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/stripe-talks-acquire-openrouter-potential-215104525.html"> <u>https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/stripe-talks-acquire-openrouter-potential-215104525.html</u></a></p><p>Sam Altman on the Relentless podcast:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv3CEAS_w34"> <u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv3