🎙️ EP 166: China’s $250M AI Chip Machine, Stanford’s AI Reality Check & ChatGPT’s App Store
Update: 2025-12-19
Description
What if China builds the one machine that powers all AI chips without help from the West? And what if 2026 is the year AI gets judged for real?
Today’s episode breaks down some of the biggest shifts in AI that everyone’s talking about—but most people still don’t fully get.
We’ll talk about:
- China’s shocking progress on building an ASML-grade EUV machine (the one thing Nvidia and GPT can’t live without)
- Why Stanford says 2026 will be a “reality check” year for AI
- The launch of ChatGPT’s new app store and how it turns ChatGPT into an “everything app”
- A wild AI education stat: 1.5M learners joined Google’s AI Agents course in 5 days
Keywords: EUV machine, AI predictions 2026, ChatGPT App Store, Google AI Agents, AI chips, Claude Code
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