What Kevin Rose has said about Google

4 quotes · 1 episode · Jul 16, 2026

Kevin Rose, American technology entrepreneur and investor, founder of Digg and co-host of The Random Show, has been quoted on Google 4 times in 1 episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, most recently on July 16, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Rose said cheap consumer camera systems plus APIs now let anyone build AI-driven home automation, including license-plate gate opening.
“I programmed it. So when it sees the license plate on my car, it automatically knows to open the gate because it knows it's me”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday” (Jul 16, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:44
Rose predicted the AI field will be dominated by three players: Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.
“It's a big three. It's three players. Okay. It's Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday” (Jul 16, 2026) · Listen from 1:29:49
Rose argued Google's unusual chip architecture is a bet on continuously self-improving models rather than discrete model releases.
“What Google is betting with this high throughput kind of wide memory architecture is the future is continuous learning”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday” (Jul 16, 2026) · Listen from 1:32:34
Rose said Meta has strong assets but lacks the talent to compete with the leading AI labs.
“Meta, I just don't think they're going to make it, man. Listen, they have great businesses. Instagram is phenomenal”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday” (Jul 16, 2026) · Listen from 1:33:44

Episodes

#875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday”
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 16, 2026 · 1 h 58 min
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose discuss Zen retreats, grief and mortality, rock climbing goals, supplements, psychedelic research, AI predictions and investing.