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00:39:58

Inside Sentience: Founder Sam Kececi on digital twins...

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2026/10/06

One of Sam Kececi's investors never got pitched by Sam. They found a link to his Sentience, talked to his digital twin over several days, and by the end the investor asked to write a check. Sam (the real version) just had to send the SAFE.Sam is the founder of Sentience, which builds digital twins of founders, operators, and execs that write, think, and communicate like them. Get the Check co-host Anika tried it over the last couple of weeks, and it actually writes exactly like her.Sam’s hot

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00:36:15

Cognition hits $1B ARR, Anthropic and OpenAI delay...

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2026/09/29

This week the pod covers one of the fastest companies ever to $1B ARR, the real reason Anthropic and OpenAI are delaying IPOs, and the data center company that started out mining Bitcoin.They start with Cognition. Devin the “first AI software engineer” launched in March 2024 and was a meme. Now there are ads around SF that say "Remember Devin. It's good now". Turns out the target audience just wasn’t in SF it was huge enterprises like Nvidia, Mercedes, the Army, the Navy, and Citi,

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00:34:26

Jev's System 1 model is 400x cheaper, Meta's Muse...

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2026/09/22

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down the three launches taking over the timeline: Jev, the new System 1 model from typesafe.ai, Muse, Meta's personal AI assistant, and Spec, Snapchat's big AR glasses keynote.They start with Jev, whose launch video pulled 36 million views on X. Founded by Diogo Almeida, one of the co-creators of ChatGPT, the pitch is a model that's 200x faster and 400x cheaper than a frontier LLM because it doesn't generate text at all — it makes

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00:49:25

AI doomerism gets 170M views, GPT-6 Astra, the...

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2026/09/15

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down the week AI safety took over the timeline: Dario's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, and Apple's foldable iPhone Duo.They start with the resignation tweet that hit 171 million views in six days, with Anthropic's own head of alignment publicly agreeing there's a 10% chance we're all dead within a decade uhhh what. The pod runs through every theory: regulatory capture, an IPO-timed cover

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00:55:19

Inside Flint: Co-Founder Michelle Lim on AI agents...

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2026/09/10

Years ago Michelle Lim posted an essay about Marxism and startups. This year it landed Flint a Fortune 500 customer. This week Get the Check sat down with Michelle to talk about writing online as a founder, running a third of Robinhood's app at 19, joining Warp when the company was a slide deck, and of course scaling Flint.Maya and Anika get into how a founding engineer becomes a head of growth. Michelle ran Warp's launch back when nobody did launch videos, built the referral flows and

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00:52:53

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, OpenAI’s...

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2026/09/01

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, the first real benchmarks on OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, and Instinct, the pre-revenue AI assistant that just came out of stealth at a $2.5 billion valuation.After debriefing the "hot girls of tech" X discourse, they start with Nvidia's biggest acquisition ever: Hugging Face at $12.9 billion, roughly 86x its rumored $150 million in revenue. Maya explains what Hugging Face

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01:26:35

Inside the FDA: Vinay Prasad’s First Podcast Since...

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2026/08/25

Inside the FDA: Vinay Prasad’s first podcast since leaving the admin on drug approvals, COVID, and market-moving scienceThis week the pod has Dr. Vinay Prasad for his first interview since leaving as director of CBER, the FDA's vaccine division. With over 300k followers on X and one of the top science podcasts in the world, he's one of the most listened-to experts in the field. He might also have as many enemies as fans: biotech executives, certain patient groups, and even Trump's own administration

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00:58:49

Inside Get the Check: Bella Malvini from Bridges...

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2026/08/18

When Maya was 12, her dad took her to YC Demo Day and Sam Altman asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her answer: a podcaster.* A decade later she texted Priya "I have a crazy idea," and Get the Check was born. This week the tables turn. Bella Malvini, founder of Bridges Social Club, sits down with the pod for their first real interview as guests. Before recording they tell her nothing is off limits.*Just kidding, she said “I don’t know”Bella takes the pod through their origin story:- How

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00:44:05

OpenAI and Hugging Face hack, Demis Hassabis and Jeff...

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2026/08/10

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod covers models breaking out of their sandboxes, a wave of big name departures, and Bending Spoons buying Airtable for a tenth of its peak valuation.They start with the sandbox escapes. Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic all had models slip out during safety testing, and two of the three exploited the exact same misconfigured Irregular sandbox, which is the very startup that’s supposed to be ensuring these models are safe. The OpenAI one is the wildest one: an

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00:45:06

Leopold's Situational Awareness fund blows up, big...

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2026/08/04

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod covers how Leopold's Situational Awareness fund lost $35B in a week, what big tech earnings say about the AI CapEx bet, and Simile's $200M Series B at a $2B valuation. They’re an AI startup that started as a PhD thesis about the Sims game.They start with Leopold. Columbia valedictorian at 19, one of five people at the FTX Future Fund, fired from OpenAI's superalignment team, then raised $225M off a 165-page paper. He went long memory and

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00:59:18

Inside Dimension: How a 5 person investment team is...

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2026/07/28

Nikhil Namburi went from tracking down the investment fund behind his college scholarship to a 5 person investment team that manages $1.65B at Dimension.They just announced an $800M Fund III. They’ve backed Anthropic, Modal, and Chai Discovery, which are some of the hottest AI startups.We sat down with Nikhil to talk:How to break into VentureWhy hyper-concentration freaks out normal VCsWhy becoming a VC is a horrible economic propositionIf you watch till the end he flips the interview on us (first

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00:58:58

China’s Kimi K3 beats Anthropic, Stripe bids for...

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2026/07/21

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down three stories. Thinking Machines been relatively quiet for the last year and finally shipped their first model, Kimi K3 is higher than Anthropic and OpenAI on certain benchmarks, reigniting the debate that Chinese open source may beat American frontier AI. Also, Stripe's rumored bid for PayPal, and Chai Discovery's Series C. Maya spent all night texting the group chat about why Chai would not get her check.They start with the model drops

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01:12:39

Phoebe Gate’s Phia scandal, viral AI 2027 team is...

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2026/07/14

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down Meta's comeback model launch, the AI 2027 team's new AI 2040 paper, and the cookie stuffing allegations against Phoebe Gates' shopping startup Phia.Muse Spark 1.1, the first big release from Meta's superintelligence lab. Meta stock jumped 13% on the launch, and the model is on par with GLM 5.2 while priced slightly cheaper, plus 4 to 6x cheaper than the Opus models. One year after the Llama 4 disaster and $14B for Alexandr Wang, the turnaround is

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00:37:40

Palantir and Nvidia competing with OpenAI, OpenAI...

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2026/07/07

If you’ve also been getting distracted by the world cup in the office like the hosts have, you can further distract yourself by also trading the World Cup on Kalshi. Sign up at kalshi.com/sign-up?referral=getthecheck and get $10 when you trade using our code.This week the pod breaks down Palantir's new AI partnership with Nvidia, the reported plan for OpenAI to hand the US government a 5% stake (for free??), and if Etched's chip is vaporware or has $1B in credible customer pipeline

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00:47:30

GPT 5.6's exclusive rollout, Chinese models are...

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2026/06/30

In this episode of Get the Check, Maya and Anika kick things off debriefing some international miscommunication chaos before diving into GPT-5.6's Mythos-style rollout, the U.S.-Iran ceasefire that isn't really a ceasefire, and Baseten's massive new round.They start with OpenAI. GPT-5.6 is out, and it's a genuinely good model, but the real story isn't the model itself, it's the government holding it back. The U.S. government is temporarily restricting access, releasing it to

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00:56:02

Midjourney uses $500M revenue to go into medical...

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2026/06/23

In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts break down three big stories: Midjourney's surprise pivot into medical body scanning, Snap's sixth attempt at AR glasses, and Taste Labs, the $18.5M seed-funded startup trying to bring ~taste~ to AI.They start with Midjourney. The AI image generation company, which is bootstrapped and at $500M ARR with only 163 employees, just announced a full-body imaging system that uses sound waves instead of radiation to produce 3D models of your organs. The

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00:49:25

SpaceX IPO, Anthropic's Fable 5 pulled by the US...

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2026/06/16

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down three massive stories: the SpaceX IPO, Anthropic's Fable 5 model getting pulled by the US government hours after launch, and Jeff Bezos' new physical AI company Prometheus raising $12 billion.They start with SpaceX. The company IPO'd on Friday at a $1.7 trillion valuation, popped to $170 a share, and now trades above $2 trillion, making Elon the world's first trillionaire. Robinhood literally crashed from the traffic, and 30% of

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00:57:54

Anthropic says AI is improving itself, tokenmaxxing...

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2026/06/09

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down Anthropic's RSI blog, the end of the tokenmaxxing era, whether personal AI assistants are finally close, and Supabase hitting a $10B valuation because of the rise of vibe coding.They start with Anthropic's recursive self-improvement paper, which says 80% of code merged at Anthropic is written by Claude, and that Mythos makes the right research decision 64% of the time. The hosts get into what RSI actually means, is it AI improving its own

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00:52:04

Robotics data labeling, AI layoffs, Cognition is so back

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2026/06/02

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod covers three stories: why everyone has a robotics data collection startup, whether AI is actually killing jobs or just making everyone work more (maybe both??), and Cognition's comeback after everyone thought the model players would cook them.They start with robotics data labeling. As humanoid robots become a real thing, the race is on to get the training data to make them work. The problem is you can't just scrape Reddit like you could for GPT

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00:36:00

Inside Kaizen: Co-founders Kenneth Acquah and Michael...

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2026/05/26

One day on the Muni to work, Anika saw someone that looked familiar. She realized she knew him from his Slack profile picture, classic SF. Ken’s company, Kaizen, had been automating healthcare workflows at the health tech startup she worked at, saving hundreds of ops hours a week. She knew she had to get Kaizen on the pod, and this is that pod!Kaizen is an AI agent automating the most repetitive, time consuming work in healthcare like credentialing therapists across 50 states and every insurance

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