The AI Fix OpenAI's $6.5 billion pen and the AIs obsessed with Tokyo’s weather
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Feb 10, 2026 Nick Roberts, entrepreneur and CEO of Vasantis who builds software and experiments with AI tooling. He recounts the moment code generation changed development. They explore OpenAI's $6.5B pen purchase, an AI-only social network obsessed with Tokyo’s weather, and practical ways small teams can adopt AI like ambassadors and tooling experiments.
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Lip-Syncing Robots Blur The Uncanny Valley
- Researchers taught a robot to lip-sync without programming every syllable to make interactions feel more natural.
- Mark warns smoothing the Uncanny Valley could make robots eerily convincing and raise new problems.
Rubin Packs Chips For Faster AI Training
- NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform bundles CPU, GPU, networking, and DPUs to accelerate large-model training and inference.
- The hosts note it promises big speedups but may raise churn and cost for organisations swapping older chips.
Qwen Fuels Open-Source Momentum
- Alibaba's Qwen hit 700M+ downloads on Hugging Face and dominates open-source model adoption globally.
- The episode highlights a geopolitical split: US firms trend closed-source while Chinese firms favour open-source ubiquity.