River and Tay unpack DeepSeek v4's 1.5 trillion parameter open-source drop and a Google paper on compressing models to run on phones. They test Gemini Flash Live 3.1 in 70 languages, compare it to Grok's voice model in ~20, and abandon a plan to drop a voice agent into Riverside as a third co-host. Tay demos his news-history tool — scrapes headlines, generates the historical timeline behind each. River updates on Hermes, their wiki-LLM COO agent on OpenRouter, and admits the reluctance problem: too many Telegram topics, not enough cron-job signal. They surface get hours (gethours.org) — their voice-agent venture auditing AI tools for SMBs in 70 languages, aiming to reclaim ~10 hours/week from the 50,000 tools on There's An AI For That.
The Land Book pricing rabbit hole pits Kimi 2.6 against Perplexity Pro and ends in a French-king-staged-potato-heist analogy. The deep dive lands on positive constraints: Vipassana's 10-day silence, Peter Thiel's "10-year plan in 6 months," and an agentless-week dare. AMA covers definitions of abundance, what felt impossible 12 months ago, firefly bioindicators, the Japanese fat cat screen-saver, parole judges granting freedom after lunch, and Tay's theory that the 12-15 minute lull in group conversation is evolutionary residue from scanning the horizon for woolly mammoths.
If AI disappeared overnight but you kept the tools you built — would you be ahead or behind?
Timestamps
(02:28) Weekly Check-in
(02:39) News
(21:01) Tools
(36:47) Building
(56:44) Rabbit Holes
(01:15:39) Open Questions
(01:19:25) Deep Dive — positive constraints
(01:41:13) AMA
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Iain McGilchrist — external vs internal intelligence
Cal Newport — Deep Work; student-of-history framing
Peter Thiel — "10-year plan in 6 months"
David Sinclair — Yamanaka factor human trials starting
Brian Johnson — psychedelic trip as "raw consciousness"
Buckminster Fuller — "more and more with less and less"
Muhammad Ali — case study in not knowing when to quit
Charlie of Charlie's Webs — 12-story paracord tree installations
BOOKS
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Lifespan — David Sinclair
Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
PODCASTS
The Great Simplification — Nate Hagens
The Great Humbling
The Tim Ferriss Show — Tim Ferriss
PROJECTS / TOOLS
DeepSeek v4 — 1.5T open-source model
Gemini Flash Live 3.1 — voice agent, 70 languages
Grok voice — xAI; ~20-25 languages
Gemma — Google models running on phones
ChatGPT Image 2.0 — strong for UI design
Flipbook — generative zoom-into-zoom book interface
Pickle — visual avatar for voice-only meetings
Kimi 2.6 — used for Land Book pricing
Perplexity Pro — pricing rabbit hole companion
OpenRouter — model routing for Hermes
There's An AI For That — directory of ~50,000 tools
Hermes — wiki-LLM COO agent in Telegram
get hours — gethours.org; SMB tool-audit voice agent
Land Book — intelligence layer for land buyers
Land Library — bioregional library venture (landlibrary.co)
Nature Club — facilitator-hosted events in nature (nature-club.co)
Colossal — woolly mammoth de-extinction