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Stargate, AI/Crypto Executive Orders, & DeepSeek
1/ Elon vs. The Stargate Project
The drama is real: Elon Musk and Sam Altman went head-to-head on X, sparking a fiery debate over the controversial Stargate Project funding.

It’s a rivalry that has come to the forefront- OpenAI vs xAI!
2/ David Sacks & Trump’s AI + Crypto Power Play
It’s been a historic start to the presidency. Trump just signed an executive order—backed by David Sacks—that could turn the U.S. into the crypto capital of the world.
This EO is huge for the industry. After years of regulatory uncertainty leading to debanking and stifling innovation, this order demands a clear market framework, stablecoin guidelines, and more.
Today President Trump signed Executive Orders to make the U.S. the global leader in both Crypto and AI. I appeared on @FoxBusiness to discuss.
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks)
12:24 AM • Jan 24, 2025
This signals the gloves are officially off. AI and crypto are ready to build without burdensome regulations.
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3/ DeepSeek Challenges OpenAI
The AI race just got spicier. DeepSeek is making waves, training cutting-edge models for a fraction of OpenAI’s costs—and their evals are incredible.
DeepSeek is sick!
1️⃣ fully open source
2️⃣ on par with OpenAI o1
3️⃣ outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini in almost all benchmarks
4️⃣ API is 17 times cheaper than GPT-4o for input tokens ($2.50 and $0.14)— desunit (@desunit)
11:00 PM • Jan 20, 2025
Could this be OpenAI’s fiercest competition yet? The stakes in the AI race have never been higher.
4/ Big Week for Freedom & AI Innovation
It’s been a monumental week for tech, freedom, and the future of AI. Excitement is in the air.
This is the week where decades happened.
Crypto is now legal.
AI is now free.The entire blue empire is being shut down by executive order. And after the postwar order, we enter the post-Internet order.
— Balaji (@balajis)
11:15 AM • Jan 26, 2025
There’s never been a better time to build in AI, crypto, and other frontier technologies. Get going!