https://minutesof.com/david-sacks/ David Sacks: 49 verbatim quotes from 27 appearances on ai policy, anthropic and regulation. Latest August 2026. Every quote timestamped and linked to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:23:12 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/75132a0d-c0f4-4693-a21e-1fcc139a27ef/ https://minutesof.com/q/75132a0d-c0f4-4693-a21e-1fcc139a27ef/ “Because I think if he had if he had realized his dream of this highly regulated AI apparatus, I don't think that company would be set up for a hugely successful IPO.” — All-In Podcast Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:26 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/db67ec3a-2c83-40ab-9da0-9bfc8bb418d1/ https://minutesof.com/q/db67ec3a-2c83-40ab-9da0-9bfc8bb418d1/ “Because their whole right to charge this massive premium for tokens is because they're six months ahead of those open models.” — All-In Podcast Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:26 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/09a35ccb-c66d-4170-af84-a83c0ba3233b/ https://minutesof.com/q/09a35ccb-c66d-4170-af84-a83c0ba3233b/ “You know how long it takes the FAA to certify and approve a new model, in this case for airframes? Minimum of five years.” — All-In Podcast Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:26 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/a2ba80df-2c22-489c-a267-ee3e88591005/ https://minutesof.com/q/a2ba80df-2c22-489c-a267-ee3e88591005/ “You're gonna apply that regulatory framework to AI model releases? Game over. Forget about it. Your six months will be gone like that.” — All-In Podcast Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:26 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/68acbd25-bfb2-4770-bc67-f180123ce49d/ https://minutesof.com/q/68acbd25-bfb2-4770-bc67-f180123ce49d/ “A decent subset of the market is willing to pay a premium for true frontier intelligence, but Anthropic and OpenAI are on that hamster wheel.” — All-In Podcast Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:26 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/5c3a4cf0-19b8-4580-aa5a-2ec14b91a35a/ https://minutesof.com/q/5c3a4cf0-19b8-4580-aa5a-2ec14b91a35a/ “An open source ban is coming. They're not going to call it that. They're going to say that we simply have to apply the same standards to open models that we apply to close.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/ab840c35-3da3-44ce-9812-2f7411edce15/ https://minutesof.com/q/ab840c35-3da3-44ce-9812-2f7411edce15/ “Dario wants an FDA for AI, but he doesn't have enough political support for that. So instead, they do this Trojan horse of a FINRA for AI.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/8216b0bb-969b-4949-aba5-a23955612ff9/ https://minutesof.com/q/8216b0bb-969b-4949-aba5-a23955612ff9/ “Once you release an open model into the world, you can't roll it back and you can't monitor exactly how people are using it because they run it on their own hardware.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/94ea1f72-a9cb-45ca-9780-517ee4f8e556/ https://minutesof.com/q/94ea1f72-a9cb-45ca-9780-517ee4f8e556/ “Dario and OpenAI, they're gonna fund the whole thing. They're gonna contribute all the compute. They're gonna be behind it. They're gonna be the ones coordinating with the government officials.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/9cc01b7b-b785-4ad8-b401-086cda57014e/ https://minutesof.com/q/9cc01b7b-b785-4ad8-b401-086cda57014e/ “Because frankly, people in government have no idea how to monitor and control and set standards for AI safety. Technologically, this is way beyond them.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/c33a423d-05c0-41b5-954f-c182dc7b3c3a/ https://minutesof.com/q/c33a423d-05c0-41b5-954f-c182dc7b3c3a/ “The open models cannot comply in the same way and gradually they will be shut out of the market.” — All-In Podcast Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/f3b4d168-9f2d-45f2-9d75-211f84cbf6cf/ https://minutesof.com/q/f3b4d168-9f2d-45f2-9d75-211f84cbf6cf/ “Dario actually made this argument in the context of trying to ban export of chips.” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/2b83c415-855e-4002-9764-5328191bb619/ https://minutesof.com/q/2b83c415-855e-4002-9764-5328191bb619/ “And if we have thousands or millions of those and China has only dozens or a 100, whatever, then we're going to win everything.” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/7a146010-cfa9-41d9-a2a1-2a91d322f5f0/ https://minutesof.com/q/7a146010-cfa9-41d9-a2a1-2a91d322f5f0/ “But now we're basically banning the data centers. We're not gonna have those data centers full of geniuses. And he's done his best to restrict sale of chips to our allies as well.” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/508df0d8-ecdd-4207-8fc3-6fb129cfad95/ https://minutesof.com/q/508df0d8-ecdd-4207-8fc3-6fb129cfad95/ “So I guess our allies aren't gonna have the data centers either. So we are totally shooting ourselves in the foot.” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/04fbde5e-939a-4699-91c2-d7e28bd14257/ https://minutesof.com/q/04fbde5e-939a-4699-91c2-d7e28bd14257/ “And probably it would be a good thing if Dario really does believe in the data centers full of geniuses idea that he was arguing for last year, He should come forward and say, we're making a big mistake by over regulating data centers. Here's how we should do it.” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/373935a0-51c2-4f65-a590-713e524d6ddf/ https://minutesof.com/q/373935a0-51c2-4f65-a590-713e524d6ddf/ “And it makes you kind of question, do you only fight for the doomer side of the argument? Or are there versions of the positive side that you're willing to fight for politically?” — All-In Podcast Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:30:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/08230fe1-71b8-405e-93b3-726af9084c3f/ https://minutesof.com/q/08230fe1-71b8-405e-93b3-726af9084c3f/ “Meaning that over the past year, you've had this roughly 10 x run up in memory chip stocks, and you've seen this overall huge rise in any stock that's related to the AI boom.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:16:11 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/0aedba27-2554-4bc0-a130-e228914f12f6/ https://minutesof.com/q/0aedba27-2554-4bc0-a130-e228914f12f6/ “I think there was something like a 10% pullback in the Nasdaq from the peak. But when you look at this momentum trade, was down like 30% or 40%.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:16:11 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/4539a2dc-69c6-4f11-a40c-8a82c9735292/ https://minutesof.com/q/4539a2dc-69c6-4f11-a40c-8a82c9735292/ “I think there will be a return on all of this capex and this is temporary market volatility amplified by leverage.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:16:11 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/62b103f6-6774-4c42-9053-300c3f5ea97c/ https://minutesof.com/q/62b103f6-6774-4c42-9053-300c3f5ea97c/ “if you had said to people a few weeks ago that the second company to release a reasoning model along the lines of o one would be a Chinese company, I think people would have been surprised by that.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/46422149-e63f-4853-92d5-12d0d475bfb0/ https://minutesof.com/q/46422149-e63f-4853-92d5-12d0d475bfb0/ “if you had asked most people in the industry a few weeks ago how far behind is China on AI models, they would say six to twelve months.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/73cecf18-6302-4ffe-ba6b-32c73ed695f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/73cecf18-6302-4ffe-ba6b-32c73ed695f1/ “On this one, I'm with Palmer Luckey and Brad Gerstner and others, and I think this has been pretty much corroborated by everyone I've talked to that that number should be debunked.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/a4ede3f9-51af-4927-b48a-d925bdf7fed7/ https://minutesof.com/q/a4ede3f9-51af-4927-b48a-d925bdf7fed7/ “Dylan Patel, who's leading semiconductor analyst, has estimated that DeepSeac has about 50,000 hoppers. And specifically, he said they have about 10,000 h one hundreds, They have 10,000 h eight hundreds and 30,000 h twenties.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/c35e5045-0094-4d11-8d15-94e56f582513/ https://minutesof.com/q/c35e5045-0094-4d11-8d15-94e56f582513/ “you add up the the cost of a compute cluster with 50,000 plus hoppers and it's gonna be over $1,000,000,000.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/e157002e-0548-4018-aec6-14d72fa3e027/ https://minutesof.com/q/e157002e-0548-4018-aec6-14d72fa3e027/ “When you would ask it, who are you? Like what model are you? Five out of eight times, v three would tell you that it was ChatGPT four.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/9fa7ca82-6d26-4877-b86a-cb19e2e279d5/ https://minutesof.com/q/9fa7ca82-6d26-4877-b86a-cb19e2e279d5/ “And so if you're if you're behind and you're trying to catch up, then open source is a strategy that actually really makes sense for you.” — All-In Podcast Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:52:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/48b25075-4c42-46d5-a70a-dbe03534a82a/ https://minutesof.com/q/48b25075-4c42-46d5-a70a-dbe03534a82a/ “And so that comment that Jason made sort of, I think there's so much to unpack there on how that happened.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 28 May 2022 05:34:50 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/e88c4c8b-c5b7-4e20-a491-e403a6cda516/ https://minutesof.com/q/e88c4c8b-c5b7-4e20-a491-e403a6cda516/ “One was these, you know, foreign wars, these interventions that we've had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, that were disasters.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 28 May 2022 05:34:50 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/d12b7016-2127-4be1-8b74-d2d2598f3aad/ https://minutesof.com/q/d12b7016-2127-4be1-8b74-d2d2598f3aad/ “He then took the issue of trade and basically broke down the Democrats' blue wall and the Rust Belt by basically pointing out the ways that our trade our bipartisan trade policy, just like our bipartisan foreign you know, our war policy had led to the deindustrialization of the of the Rust Belt.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 28 May 2022 05:34:50 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/4a9c1dda-b009-43f3-bf3d-5766c7c3697a/ https://minutesof.com/q/4a9c1dda-b009-43f3-bf3d-5766c7c3697a/ “And I'm not old enough to remember The US getting into Vietnam. But the thing to understand about all those wars is that they were incredibly popular at the time that we entered them.” — All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/0be61ad9-b516-46c3-8210-2a3b549a08f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/0be61ad9-b516-46c3-8210-2a3b549a08f1/ “I'm willing to arm Ukraine under Cold War rules, I e, the way that we armed the mujahideen in Afghanistan.” — All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/77f11780-bb37-4449-8ef5-f3d2f308a946/ https://minutesof.com/q/77f11780-bb37-4449-8ef5-f3d2f308a946/ “You've got Austin saying that our objectives here go beyond Ukraine is to basically to kick Russia out of the League of Great Powers.” — All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/a40114ae-b2a9-401d-8df3-aa5297e177b7/ https://minutesof.com/q/a40114ae-b2a9-401d-8df3-aa5297e177b7/ “the Russians have a naval base at Sevastopol that gives them control over the Black Sea.” — All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/45b64153-d2b7-4bf2-82fe-2e080e6806f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/45b64153-d2b7-4bf2-82fe-2e080e6806f1/ “South Korea, fifty one million people under three hundred deaths. You take a a Western European nation like Czech Republic, they had a huge COVID outbreak, a spike just like the rest of Europe.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/5f19391d-b997-4e43-90e9-ae2a3cf45bf7/ https://minutesof.com/q/5f19391d-b997-4e43-90e9-ae2a3cf45bf7/ “I think the right policy is to end lockdowns but wear masks. The problem with the politicians is half of them didn't want to end lockdowns and the other half didn't want to wear masks.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/a73bd93f-9fbd-4712-8f92-0ed0d57da994/ https://minutesof.com/q/a73bd93f-9fbd-4712-8f92-0ed0d57da994/ “Bill Gurley has been tweeting a lot of great research that around police departments that are unionized, there's a lot more complaints against them.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/4d2a8de7-ba30-4974-b4c0-0eecca7b6fe6/ https://minutesof.com/q/4d2a8de7-ba30-4974-b4c0-0eecca7b6fe6/ “Who today is willing to do that? I mean, that was the the idea that led to political liberalization in the West. It's really a unique feature of western democracies and liberalism.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/f930460b-07b8-4da1-9db4-c8f7e5ed0ea4/ https://minutesof.com/q/f930460b-07b8-4da1-9db4-c8f7e5ed0ea4/ “Somebody who's been tested in a crisis because there's a very high chance that this VP pick will become the president given Biden's age and everything going on in the world.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/abd36cc5-2071-4ea3-981c-9d5ff4bd42ab/ https://minutesof.com/q/abd36cc5-2071-4ea3-981c-9d5ff4bd42ab/ “I tweeted that the pandemic, that under reaction caused the pandemic and overreaction will cause the depression. And I think that's kind of where we are right now.” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/ac6881b0-e16b-4b37-ba51-162f4210db90/ https://minutesof.com/q/ac6881b0-e16b-4b37-ba51-162f4210db90/ “I think we should end lockdowns but wear masks. And it's very hard to find anybody, you know, in the political spectrum who who agrees with that” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/48b565da-d98d-4225-9be8-19f69af8a7d3/ https://minutesof.com/q/48b565da-d98d-4225-9be8-19f69af8a7d3/ “the data seems to suggest that people 60 who are healthy don't have sort of preexisting conditions are 50 times less likely to develop or there's a 50X greater chance for those 60” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/2e73e35f-01ae-420a-94d6-5b16acc91c2c/ https://minutesof.com/q/2e73e35f-01ae-420a-94d6-5b16acc91c2c/ “if those jobs opportunities are now available via Zoom and you can be doing them from anywhere, are people still gonna choose to live in San Francisco?” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/2794d0c8-58ec-4ba7-b168-a7693229ea3e/ https://minutesof.com/q/2794d0c8-58ec-4ba7-b168-a7693229ea3e/ “Decoupling from China is gonna be a bipartisan issue now. I think both candidates now will be well, Trump is gonna is gonna run blaming China for for what happened,” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/f416bfb9-09c1-4837-a356-39fe7d021aac/ https://minutesof.com/q/f416bfb9-09c1-4837-a356-39fe7d021aac/ “It doesn't really make sense for us to be dependent on China for our antibiotics, for our medicines, for our PPE, for any of these products that are important for national survival.” — All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/43e8bf7b-5434-4a4f-a398-d8482d105f12/ https://minutesof.com/q/43e8bf7b-5434-4a4f-a398-d8482d105f12/ “The articles were saying, you know, California only declared shelter in place one week ahead of New York. How can it be doing so much better?” — All-In Podcast Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:54:35 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/fa9d3051-1d89-497f-a103-1959a63def7d/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa9d3051-1d89-497f-a103-1959a63def7d/ “If in New York, New York has been hit about 12 times harder than California, but if the doubling time is just two days, one week is a 12x difference.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:54:35 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/f1ab87c6-45cf-4cb1-8503-e6ff15fd83c6/ https://minutesof.com/q/f1ab87c6-45cf-4cb1-8503-e6ff15fd83c6/ “I think that there should be a separate team, kind of a czar for the 2.0 response, which should be focused on how do we create a new system that gets us out of lockdown but doesn't re trigger the exponentiality of the virus.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:54:35 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/317bdd12-eb0a-45ca-84f2-6ebb317bc8cf/ https://minutesof.com/q/317bdd12-eb0a-45ca-84f2-6ebb317bc8cf/ “The post office should put one or a number of these in everyone's mailbox. This is the first step to having a more fine tuned policy than just quarantine.” — All-In Podcast Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:54:35 +0000