Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan

We have a great crowd today and we're definitely going to be putting this on YouTube, so I want everybody at home to hear how many people we have in the crowd. Make some noise. I'm Alex Kantrowitz, I'm the host of Big Technology Podcast, and I'm thrilled to be here with Mark Cuban for a conversation about everything AI. Mark, welcome. Thanks for having me.

So we're in the middle of this moment where we're hearing about the revolutionary power of artificial intelligence, where every day new capabilities are talked up. I've heard that, yeah. And despite the hype, our day-to-day isn't changed very much. For most people, Chat GPT is something they might try one day or it's a better Google. And so an AI agent is something that, you know, sounds like it's in the future, but isn't applicable today.

So how would you describe the gap between the hype? and the reality on the ground today. I don't think there is a gap. I really don't. I think, you know, if you're not using one of the large language models, whether it's Claude, my favorite, Chat GPT, Grok, Gemini, you know, from a business perspective, since this is a business and student audience, you're falling way behind.

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