On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi “Masa” Son. He explains why he believes AI will soon be 10,000 times smarter than people, and why he thinks that’s good news. He also shares why slowing down AI development is the wrong answer and why SoftBank invests across chips, data centers, and robotics. And he reveals the simple rule behind his advice for investors, about thinking long and thinking big. Then, Christine is joined by a very special guest for the Debrief. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.

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On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque on why most young shoppers now check the resale price before they buy anything new, how robots and AI authentication changed the economics of selling one-of-a-kind items, what agentic shopping means for e-commerce, and what her data says about the health of today’s consumer. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.

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On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with Relativity Space CEO & former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the AI data center build-out, what he thinks about Silicon Valley’s timeline for superintelligence, what it takes to be an AI-native CEO, and explains why deep reasoning should be the #1 thing that young people study today. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.

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Relativity Space: @relativityspace | linkedkin.com/company/relativityspace

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Notes:

Annualized Anthropic Run-Rate Spend

4:32 - Represents aggregate annualized monthly revenue of Anthropic from 815 customers, including certain Blackstone portfolio companies, GP Stakes portfolio companies and BXCI borrowers.

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