Episode #26
EP26: The crypto to AI pivot & SpaceX drops Grokbot + Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 jumped to 61 on the intelligence index and caught Claude Opus 5. Anthropic is paying SpaceX AI a 3x markup on inference. And one AI builder runs his entire back office on a 7 euro agent. Rik and Ben are joined by Mark, a senior engineer on sabbatical from Aave, now based in Lisbon and shipping mobile apps, an AI golf swing analyzer and an open-source LLM ranking tool. Grokbot ships and quietly logs you in through Cursor. Ben does the gigawatt math live. And an AI agent hacks a gym booking system to free up a slot for its owner. IN THIS EPISODE: • Grokbot's onboarding runs through a Cursor authentication loop, which raises a fair question about whether it was built at Cursor and shipped under SpaceX AI • Grok 4.6 jumps from 56 to 61 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index, landing right behind Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 • One gigawatt of AI compute costs roughly 50 billion dollars. Elon added two in a year, and the payback period compressed from four years to one • Anthropic signs a deal with Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin miner converting compute capacity to AI datacenters • gstack: twelve agents from Garry Tan that make Claude and Codex argue over a specification before either one writes code • A fake door test where 30 percent of users RSVP'd to a paid feature that did not exist yet • Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic, and the biggest training crawler on Ben's own products is Amazon • An AI agent hacks a gym booking system and cancels other members to hit its goal • 7 euros a month for an agent that files every invoice straight to your accountant CHAPTERS: 00:00 Cold open 00:35 Meet Mark: Aave sabbatical, padel and Lisbon 04:41 Step Racers, an AI golf coach and Open LLM Rank 11:47 Cursor Cafe, Claude Cafe and the 24-hour cafe wars 14:31 gstack, spec-first building and 28 questions from Codex 21:01 The fake door test: 30% clicked a button that didn't exist 23:03 Grokbot ships and logs you in through Cursor 30:28 Grok 4.6 hits 61 and joins the frontier 32:23 $50 billion per gigawatt: Elon's payback math 37:12 Anthropic and Riot: Bitcoin miners become AI datacenters 39:05 Bots overtook humans, and Amazon is crawling everything 44:58 Sell your product to the agents, not the humans 49:13 The $500M podcast and the co-host who walked away 56:23 Rage bait and the agent that hacked a gym 59:55 7 euros a month runs the entire back office 1:04:41 Hardware, health sensors and getting people in a room MENTIONED: Grokbot, Grok 4.6, SpaceX AI, Cursor, Cursor Cafe, Claude, Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable, Claude Code, Claude Cafe, Anthropic, Codex, GPT 5.6, OpenAI, gstack, Garry Tan, Y Combinator, cmux, Buzz, Hermes, OpenClaw, Tmux, Tailscale, Aave, Riot Platforms, IREN, Yellow Heart, Ticketmaster, Step Racers, Open LLM Rank, DataFast, Marc Lou, Cloudflare, Reddit, LinkedIn, Worldcoin, Greg Eisenberg, Peter Levels, Alex Cooper, Dave Portnoy, Mark Pincus, Zynga, Duolingo, Playtomic, Island DAO, Solana HOSTS: Rik — https://x.com/rikventure Ben Broch — https://x.com/brochchain Mark — https://x.com/marklaunches LISTEN & WATCH: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhKe2X1RW-kLTDigvkMz4w Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRP Apple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580 Substack — https://godmodepod.substack.com/ New episode every Saturday.
