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Why Is Alphabet Spending $180B on AI Infrastructure? | Omnivore & Vivek Sinha


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Today’s episode unpacks Alphabet’s record $180B AI CapEx call, India’s new deep tech startup category, and founders building real impact in agritech and applied learning.

🗞️ News Highlights

Alphabet Q4 & CapEx: Alphabet crossed $400B annual revenue and plans $175–185B CapEx in 2026, signaling the largest AI infrastructure bet ever and putting Bangalore at the heart of expansion.

India’s Startup Definition: The government launched a Deep Tech Startup category with 20-year recognition and a ₹300cr turnover cap to better support long-gestation deep tech firms.

Claude vs ChatGPT: OpenAI is exploring ads for ChatGPT while Anthropic’s Claude rejects them — highlighting diverging bets on scale vs premium user experience.

🎙️ Guest Segments

Mark Kahn — Managing Partner, Omnivore

On why he backed agritech before infrastructure existed, how real agritech companies create value, and what founders get wrong about precision tech, margins, and impact.

Vivek Sinha — Founder & CEO, Emversity

Why he pivoted from online to on-job learning, how partnerships with corporates and campuses structure outcomes, how placement and internships work, and what Emversity learned from past efforts at scale.

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