Neo Arrives: Tele-Ops Today, AGI Tomorrow?

The Generative AI Meetup Podcast

From a tiny island in Seychelles to the heartland of Ohio, we unpack a wild week in AI. First up: 1X’s “Neo” humanoid—$20k to buy or $500/month to rent—promising laundry, dishes, and errands soon…with a lot of teleoperation today. We debate whether tele-ops is a feature (not a bug), who it employs, and how quickly autonomy could follow. Then we zoom out to the money: Nvidia touches a $5T valuation, OpenAI reportedly eyes a $1T IPO, and the industry’s circular funding loops raise both eyebrows and opportunity. We also test-drive OpenAI’s Atlas browser (a Chromium fork with action-taking ambitions), and dig into Cursor’s agentic coding push, new in-house model, and blistering growth—plus the eternal “moat vs. momentum” question. Along the way: a live Neo preorder, enterprise ROI reality checks, and why agents may turn devs into project managers. If you’re curious where robotics, chips, and agentic software collide, this one’s for you. Ask a question on our

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