This Week in Google (Audio)
Hosted by Jeff Jarvis and Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau · TWiT
4.2from 861 ratings
- 150
- Episodes
- 147
- Transcribed
- 861
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 82M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Google (Audio)
The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. You can join Club TWiT (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast (https://twit.memberful.com/checkout?plan=134285) ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.
- Publisher
- TWiT
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
147 of 150 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 894: Ghosting Meta Muse - Will Cloud Spending Sink AI's Biggest Players?
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
IM 893: It All Comes Back to Cats - From Academic Papers to 1.2 Million Startup Ideas
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IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's actually really, really expensive to run. On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on Twitter, I'm still calling it Twitter, that the cost of his GrokBot was, quote, unsustainably high. compute that it generated, which is a nice way of saying that they are losing money on every user, but they're making up for it in volume. […]
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- Martin Woodward
- Spencer Thompson
- Mike Gannotti
- Patrick Hillmann
- Lon Seidman
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 81,750,878
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 806 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 55 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 96 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts This Week in Google (Audio)?
Jeff Jarvis and Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau host the show. Published by TWiT.
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