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A startup wants to pull magnesium from seawater without torching the environment. Another wants to take small language models to the podium …
A startup wants to pull magnesium from seawater without torching the environment. Another wants to take small language models to the podium for enterprise customers. Today @jason and @alex sat down wi
A startup wants to pull magnesium from seawater without torching the environment. Another wants to take small language models to the podium for enterprise customers. Today @jason and @alex sat down with @magratheametals’s @biglithium and @AI21Labs’s @origoshen to better understand the technology behind each startup’s push to change the world. Jason and Alex also discussed Cerebras’s latest IPO price range, ad-free TikTok, OpenAI’s PE push, and more! 0:00 Ori Goshen, CEO of AI21 joins the show 1:20 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off! 2:39 How meta-models can route between LLMs for better token cost efficiency 6:01 Jamba as open-weight; Maestro as proprietary orchestration 10:08 LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get 100 off towards your job post at https://LinkedIn.com/twist 12:56 AI21 customer roster: FNAC, US tech giants, Israeli companies 19:01 Alex Grant, CEO of Magrathea Metals joins to discuss pulling magnesium from seawater 20:03 Live video of the Oakland pilot electrolyzer 20:10 Deel - Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, get visas handled fast, and get back to building. Visit https://deel.com/twist to learn more. 22:01 Magnesium as a "gateway metal" for aluminum, defense, aerospace 23:38 Series A close, JV economics: 3,000/ton vs. 7,000/ton market 29:10 Sidebar bounty update: Glass Sidebar (Oliver Choy) demo 30:47 Netsuite - Get the free business guide Demystifying AI at https://netsuite.com/twist 31:47 Sidebar bounty update: Sidecast (Patrick Hughes) demo 36:09 Reducing scope to "real-time fact checker only" for final round 37:24 http://Ro.co: Ro's insurance checker will let you know if your coverage includes GLP-1s for FREE. Go to https://Ro.co/Twist for your free insurance check. 39:07 Cerebras IPO: 115–125 → 150–160 per share 44:19 Will OpenAI's compute commitments to Cerebras actually get funded? 49:40 OpenAI Deployment Company + Tomoro acquisition explained 53:51 Anthropic's parallel 1.5B PE joint venture with Blackstone & Goldman 56:40 OpenClaw's decline + competition from Cowork, Perplexity, Grok 1:04:22 TikTok's £3.99 ad-free subscription launches in the UK 1:09:09 Knicks sweep 76ers — Jason's playoff predictions 1:11:24 Off-duty: "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm 1:13:25 Off-duty: Fall of Civilizations podcast by Paul Cooper 1:16:37 States' rights, federalism, housing supply & closing thoughts 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇 Media
Source: AI21 Labs (X) | 2026-05-12