
Stacked Podcast · 2026-08-07 · 24 min
OpenAI just gave every free user unlimited access to Luna and pushed Sol down to the cheapest paid plan, which means frontier-quality AI is about to land in the hands of roughly a billion people who have never seen anything better than a basic free chatbot. Nick and Jack unpack what that does to the startup ecosystem, whether anyone can still compete on model quality alone, and why most people genuinely can't tell a mid-tier model from a flagship. Then: a New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $576 million into a remedy fund over harm to kids, with the judge comparing the company to a factory whose product is advertising and whose pollution is the psychological harm to children. Plus AMD buying Talos, whether governments should be regulating any of this, the $100K/month deal Jack almost landed and how a single warm intro started it, DeepSeek raising prices specifically to shed customers, and why Anthropic wants Claude locked inside its own ecosystem. Watch on YouTube: Step-by-step roadmap to $25K w/ AI: ️ Main channels: youtube.com/@nicksaraev & youtube.com/@Itssssss_Jack