Geopolitics Meets AI | Brainpower Is Back Featuring Paul Allen (But Not That One)

About this episode

This episode discusses the intersection of geopolitics and AI, featuring updates on model comparisons and community developments.

Zion, hear me! For Season 2 of the Mere Morpheus podcast I'm going to be uploading the Morpheus builder weekly updates. My reason for doing this is to make it more accessible for those who want an update directly via their podcast app and to have them all in one place. If you'd like to participate they are held weekly on the @MorpheusAIs Twitter spaces. So enjoy Episode #71! Recorded: 30 April 2026  AI SUMMARY: This episode covers DeepSeek V4's strong benchmarks versus top models and its real‑world workflow value, contrasting large open‑weight models with smaller, efficient alternatives. It discusses coding with GLM 5.1, multimodal debugging, and using models like Grok 4.2 for cost‑effective code audits. Claude's outages highlight the need for resilient, provider‑agnostic agent stacks. Updates include Figure AI's robotics ramp, geopolitical shifts in AI access favouring decentralisation and community news like Morpheus migrating to Base and upcoming Consensus talks. Timeline:  (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:11) Hands-on coding: comparing DeepSeek v4 with GLM 5.1 (00:04:10) Personal benchmarks: when to switch models and agents (00:08:26) Hybrid strategy: cheap coder, premium…

People in this episode

Host: Kyrin Down

Guest: Paul Allen

Topics covered

• AI
• geopolitics
• technology updates
• coding
• community news
• model comparison

Keywords

• AI
• DeepSeek V4
• GLM 5.1
• Grok 4.2
• Claude outages
• Figure AI
• Morpheus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Morpheus, Figure AI, GLM, Grok, Claude, DeepSeek

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