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I love living in the present, man. It's great. Like, we're talking about real data centers in space. It's so cool. I mean, how do we not have a base on the moon fifty five years later? It seems like we should. And if you ask anybody who watched the moon landing, hey. When do you think we'll have a base on the moon? They'd be like, I don't know. Ten years, five years? I mean, we're gonna go up every year now. Right? And it's like, no. It's never gonna go back. It has no importance. I I wanna know what the hell is going on. I hope I live long enough to understand something about the nature of the universe. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Coda. Coda empowers your startup by bringing words, tables, and teams together. Strategize, plan, and track goals effectively with all your valuable data in one place. Go to coda.io/twist to get started for free and get six free months of the team plan. Oracle. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. Save up to 50% on your cloud bill at oracle.com/twist. And Stripe Startups. Stripe Startups offers early stage venture backed startups access to Stripe fee credits, expert insights, and a focused community of builders. Apply today on stripe.com/startups. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. It is Monday, October 6. Oh my god. The summer is over, and there is, snow in the mountains, so I should be able to, get on my skis next month. Very excited about that. With me again, Alex Wilhelm. How are we doing, Alex? Fantastic. We were just discussing the importance of deer hunting before the show, and I just wanna say it on record. Summer sausage is the reason why everyone should go hunt deer because it's the best thing in the world and was a key food ingredient to my youth. Oh, really? Summer sausage. Okay. Good to know. You know, I, living here in the great state of Texas, frequently people, I'll see them and they'll hand me a bag. Oh, great to see you. I brought brought you some sausage. I went went boar hunting. I went deer hunting. I, you know, whatever. And, people just hand you meat. It's the nature of the place. Like, people are wearing guns on their hips. They're handing each other meat. I'm chewing on a cigar. I love it. I love it here. Really enjoying my second year in the great state. Yeah. Deep into my second year. And, let's get started. I saw OpenAI and AMD are doing a deal, and this deal comes on the heels of just two weeks ago or last week, Jensen putting a 100,000,000,000 into Yeah. OpenAI. So I'm confused. Tell me everything. Okay. So we're talking a lot about project Stargate, Jason, and all the deals that are part of OpenAI's, …