🍭 Elon’s Chips vs. Jensen’s GPUs ⚡

Good morning from the metaverse food court.

I’m stuck between a pineapple car and a robotaxi that can’t reverse.

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Jensen says China “wins” AI

• Tesla’s AI roadmap

• Tinder’s AI taps your Camera Roll

• Perplexity powers Snapchat search ($400M)

• Microsoft’s agents biff a fake marketplace

• 5 fresh tools to speed build & ship

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 AI Tools We’d Swipe Right On 🔥

🧠 Ancher AI
→ Your “Chief of Staff” for info. Summarizes company data and flags what actually matters.

🎨 Dazl
→ “Vibe coding” for real. Visually edit apps like Figma for code — tweak everything live.

🧪 Fire Your QA Today
→ Turn screen recordings into test cases. No scripts, no APIs — just hit record.

😜 iisee.me
→ Upload a photo, get a grid of faces that follow your mouse. Useless. Beautiful.

💻 Everywhere
→ Desktop AI that works across apps. Reads your screen, answers instantly, no switching.

Nvidia
🤏 China Will “Win” AI — Says The Guy Selling The Chips

The Bite: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Financial Times that China is set to “win” the AI race thanks to looser regulations and cheaper energy.

He warned that the U.S. risks falling behind if it slows innovation with
“too much oversight.”

He’s basically saying….
‘Regulate us less so we can keep the servers humming.'
(and the cash coming in…)

Snacks:

• China’s energy costs for data centers are up to 40% lower than the U.S.
  

• The U.S. just froze new AI regulations at the state level for 10 years.
  

• Nvidia controls 80% of global AI chips and spent record $$ lobbying in 2024.
  

• The Trump admin’s new AI bill includes massive tax credits for AI infrastructure.
  

• Huang says the “real race” is about who can deploy compute faster — not safer.

Why it Bites: This was never about China...
It’s about control…

When billionaires say “we’ll lose the AI race,” what they really mean is
“don’t make us follow the rules.”

It’s the same playbook as Musk and Altman;
- Sell existential fear
- Lobby for political control
- Let the public foot the electric bill.

We already covered how “billionaire beefs” distract from real accountability.

Now we’re seeing the corporate sequel:
global fear theater.

And while Jensen warns that China might out-compute us, American families are already paying for the GPUs with rising energy bills and drying water tables.

AGI’s not worth it if the planet has to power down to get there.

If this is the “AI race,” maybe it’s time we start asking who’s actually running — and who’s just running up the tab.

Steal This Prompt
🍉 Build a Fruit Car (Midjourney)

Turn any fruit (or rebellious veggie) into a cute, drivable cartoon car.

Perfect for posters, stickers, and “my mango has a V8” energy.

Bonus goofyness:
pit crew of blueberries… or a carrot spoiler that does nothing.

1. CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE FREE PROMPT

2. Paste into Midjourney

3. Replace the #’s with your fruit / style / angle

4. Watch it cook — valet pulls up in a pineapple coupe

   
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_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

💘 Tinder wants your Camera Roll

→ Tinder is testing a feature called Chemistry, which uses AI to analyze users’ photos (with permission) and answers to personal questions to “get to know” them better and improve matches.

💻 Inception raises $50M for AI that codes and writes

→ Inception secured $50 million to develop diffusion models that generate both text and code, aiming to compete with OpenAI’s GPTs and Anthropic’s Claude in developer productivity.

👻 Perplexity inks $400M deal with Snap

→ Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity to power a new AI chatbot and search features inside Snapchat, replacing in-house systems with Perplexity’s AI search tech.

📌 Pinterest doubles down on open source AI

→ CEO Bill Ready said the company’s switch to open source AI models for visual search is cutting costs while matching proprietary systems’ performance.

🧪 Microsoft builds a synthetic market to test AI agents

→ Microsoft Research created a simulated marketplace to study how AI agents behave under competition — and many failed in unpredictable, chaotic ways.

_Tesla
⚡ Tesla’s AI Chips Might Be Real This Time (Maybe)

The Bite: Elon Musk just dropped Tesla’s AI chip roadmap and for once, it sounds like more than vapor.

He says the company’s custom chips will roll out through 2028, starting with AI5 (sampled in 2026) and AI6 (doubling performance by mid-2028).

AI7 and AI8 are already in the sketchbook.
The latter, Musk says, will be “out of this world.”

Snacks:

• AI5 will be built by both TSMC and Samsung, with identical software across foundries.
  

• AI6 = ~2× performance boost, mass production mid-2028.
  

• AI7 + AI8 planned for 2029–2030+, hinting at a decade-long silicon ladder.
  

• Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi (launching 2026) will start on older AI4 chips.
  

• Musk says each new generation will follow a “fast-follow cadence.”

Why it bites: Elon’s finally doing the one thing that could actually break Nvidia’s monopoly: building his own silicon.

If Tesla pulls this off, it’s not just an EV play — it’s a compute independence move.

That’s good for AI, long-term. Fewer chokepoints, fewer GPU lords.

But let’s be real: we’ve heard “it’s coming soon” before — from self-driving cars that still can’t find the driveway.

And while every AI lab is now chasing its own chip (Anthropic → AWS, OpenAI → Microsoft, Tesla → Dojo), the real question might be:

Are they decentralizing power… or just reskinning the same bottleneck called TSMC?

Elon’s roadmap might be the first anti-Nvidia manifesto disguised as a chip timeline.

But until one of these chips drives itself to work, it’s all just compute theater.