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This Week in Startups · 2026-11-03 · 84 min · 16,273 words

Odyssey CEO Oliver Cameron is 90% sure we live in a simulation | E2358

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All right, it's twist for Monday, November second. Twenty Twenty six. There's snow in Tahoe uh I'm going to Japan and Davos in January.

Things are about to heat up. Cool down. And The most exciting thing. is Grok bot. Grok bot is the most exciting thing right now. What's going on with Grok bot this being'cause all I did all weekend when I wasn't with the family and going to a Halloween party.

was just hang out with my Grockbot. I'm so addicted. Yeah, uh it's a it's a very compelling piece of software. So Grockbot users spent the weekend complaining that they were burning through their weekly usage limits in just a few days, Jason. Uh Elon Musk responded on X, the cost of serving Grockbutt was unsustainably high relative to revenue. He did not give any specifics on cost or whether the limits were cut or by how much. This comes two weeks after SpaceX's earnings call, where Elon called Grockbot the fastest growing product he'd ever seen. Uh SpaceX president Gwyn Shotwell said it hit eight hundred thousand paid weekly users, more than doubling in a month. Uh, Grakbot starts with a$30 a month premium plan. The$100 and$200 plans get higher limits. Uh and you posted last night that Launch currently spends under 40K a year on AI tools, including Grakbot, and gets, in your opinion, two million plus in value. So Is this just a people need to suck it up and spend a little bit more Two

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