Sam: We scallop maxed.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Thank you, Claude, for telling me the temperature. Useful for everything from deciding where air defense sites are in Iran to scallops, apparently.

主持人: Thank you for having us, Sam. This is a really cool place. Do you want to show us around?

Sam: Yeah, that sounds good. Yes.

主持人: What is this?

Sam: So, this is Impulse Cooktop. Um, it is, to my knowledge, the highest performance stove in the market. Um, but, uh, a couple things here that's interesting. So, one is we've, uh, we've set up the station with a ventilation hood as well. um to kind of show you how much power this thing's got available.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Notice that the ventilation hood actually turns on automatically.

主持人: Wow. Yeah.

Sam: When we start boiling. But look at how fast this is going. So, we're putting 10 we're putting 10,000 watts of power into a like mediumiz pan. Or pot. And uh we can boil about a liter of cold water about 40 seconds. This is I think a little more than a liter. Um But you can see it's already starting to boil. already own it.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Um, and we actually, one thing to note here is we have a partnership with Zephr. Um, so in stores nationwide, starting relatively soon, um, possibly like at the same time this video is posted. Wow. Um, there's going to, you're going to be able to buy, I'm going to turn this down a little bit. You'll be able to buy, uh, Zephr branded powered by Impulse products alongside the ventilation hoods now. And then we're also previewing features we'll have in the future, which is like coordination between the hood and the stove automatically. So, like I do that, it spins up.

主持人: Yeah. The speed goes to five to two. That's

Sam: And you also Why don't you play with it a little bit just to see how real time it feels?

主持人: And these are magnetic, right?

Sam: They're magnetic. So, you pull it off, it turns it off, actually.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: Oh, wow. Turns off as well.

主持人: So, you have to click it to do it. And then, wow, that is so cool. And it's so responsive. It's like very

Sam: We want it to feel analog just like how a gas stove feels because like most other induction stoves can't do this. Yeah. It takes a lot. We had to redo the power electronics and control systems from scratch and we control all the the firmware and hardware and everything like that to actually make this experience possible. So everything from the turn of the knob to the bubbles being formed there is under our our full control.

主持人: Wow. Yeah, that's amazing. [music] There's a lot of other things here. Is this testing? I see a lot of pots pan.

Sam: Yeah. Yeah. So when we get interesting context from customers for like my this pan works a little funky or like does it work with X? we end up just going and buying stuff and testing it. We also have a bunch of pots here that are actually wired up with thermouples so we can actually just reliably test like our temperature control power control al and power control algorithms so that like we know that there's no regressions when we go and release stuff to customers. We've actually we're in the process of qualifying an update that like triples the performance of our temperature control system. Wow.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: Which means when I say that it's like what does that exactly mean? It means it gets to the temperature you set about three times faster than it currently does.

主持人: Wow. That's that's very impressive. And I guess for QA, do you guys have like a system where you have a lot of people come in and test out stuff before it goes out or?

Sam: So, we have um we have we we're a small team. We're like 30 people total. Um the we QA every build we send out uh to customers obviously. Um and then what we also do is many of us have units at home. And so that's kind of the first wave. So it's like people are cooking at home and they'll see, you know, they'll see the builds, but obviously like for like the baseline, like let's test every edge case, we do it basically here on this station.

主持人: Wow. That's like the true definition of dog fooding. You're like trying it out yourself and making

Sam: Yeah. Yeah. But hopefully you're not eating dog food. But [laughter]

主持人: That's true. That's true. [music]

Sam: Here we have the

Sam: Yeah. So we basically Yeah. Here's the kind of the stove exploded on a table. But basically we went and like the idea here is like we went and effectively reinvented the stove from first principles around the idea of having a lithium-ion battery at the center of the system. So what does that exactly mean and how does that work? So basically, we put a 3 kWh LFP battery, lithium iron phosphate, inside home appliances, starting with stoves. That gives us an additional 15,000 watts of additional power. So that's like double what a typical induction cooktop has in terms of aggregate power across all the burners and stuff like that on top of what the wall supplies through a plug. And so we're able to actually bring to bear significant performance improvements over other appliances just from having more watts watts available.

Sam: So what we then did is we were like, "Okay, let's reinvent everything upstream of that." So we went and built our own custom power electronics and control system. So like this is one of our induction driver boards. Yeah. Um we've also got like this temperature sensor technology which we'll be using later when we cook. Yeah. Um we went we and then our induction coil. We actually ended up designing all of this from scratch. Like we did all the magnetic simulation etc. ourselves. And this allows us to actually control everything from the turn of the knob to the pan getting hot. And we control that entire end toend flow with kind of our own firmware embedded systems and and high level software.

主持人: That's so cool.

Sam: Um that has allowed us to basically build the highest performance stove in the market. Um now why do we have all this stuff split out? Well, I also sell this to other major appliance OEMs. So basically we built a modular platform. We call it impulse core. Um, and if you use impulse core, you actually have the you will get the highest performance appliances. You'll be able to build the highest performance appliances yourself as well. So, we've got multiple deals with multiple major appliance manufacturers, some of which have announced, some of which have not announced, and we'll be shipping globally this year u through a number of partners.

主持人: Wow, that's that's exciting. So, you have the main product that you guys build entirely yourself, and then you also have the core product that you sell out.

Sam: Exactly. And that gets us channel access to like every form factor of appliance, every market we may not be into. And also like it gets us into stores across the United States without us having to have like a big sales team. So we can basically operate much more like a software and like a software company than like a hardware company that needs a giant logistics footprint and ships large cardboard boxes across the country and has installation services and all this other stuff. We can really be kind of like intellectually heavyweight but a logistics lightweight basically. Yeah.

主持人: How long does it usually take for you to build something? Because you even said from the start thinking through first principles kind of reminded of how Elon thought through I think like SpaceX as well. I assume there's a lot of inspiration there. So I guess in terms of building these things out iterating through like what are the timelines looking like?

Sam: Yeah. So it took us four years flat from receiving or no three year it was it was it was it was 2021 we started the company in July 2021. We shipped our first renewable units. I believe the first one went to the American Housing Corporation guys in like June 2020 2024 or 2025. So this was uh four three three years and 11 months later was was how long it took end to end to do the entire thing from like company formation like literally I filled out Stripe Atlas to uh to landing products in people's homes. Wow. Um, I think we could have probably shaved six months off of that for various reasons, but like you know typically building a product where end to end you need to basically reinvent like core modules every single and there's also a heavy compliance requirement. basically getting this through the UL 858 tests, getting this through um some of the UL like other UL requirements we had to to meet and also, you know, there's a bunch of and we had to build like many many many units like 200 plus units to get before we even shipped one to a customer and put them through a battery of tests to make sure they were reliable, safe, etc.

主持人: And then we also had to develop all the software that runs on the device too. So it's not just you build the thing, but you have to build the thing and then make sure that the software on it is good.

Sam: Yeah. That works and continues to get updated. Exa. Exactly. So, so basically typically the length of time it takes to build a complex hardware device. I I think it's like it's two years if you don't have to really invent like new modules and systems, it's probably three if you you know if you do. Um just based on past experience from like my backgrounds in consumer electronics, worked on everything from Google Glass to Oculus, you know, other things like that. So worked on mostly face computers before I jumped into this space.

主持人: Yeah. No, that was one thing as well. starting consumer hardware and then pivoting now to it's like a passion as well because I heard that it was kind of prompted with a pizza trip to Japan.

Sam: Yeah. Well, I was actually not I was well I was not in Japan for pizza. I was in Japan for the ITE haptics world conference. So, we were working on game controllers at the time. Gotcha. So, if you've used the MetaQuest Pro, I was the controller. I I I I came up with that controller program. Yeah. Um back in like 2018 or 2019 or something like that. Um but um I was I was in or in 2019 I was at the IE haptics conference. I was like we went to this really good pizza place called Seavoy. I was like I got my pizza back in like 30 or 45 seconds and I'm like what is the power density required to like cook a pizza that fast? And I was like well that's that's a lot of watts and you can't get that out of like a tabletop toaster oven or something like that.

主持人: How could you build a tabletop device with that level of power? And it's like

Sam: the answer is you slam a battery into it. Great. And if you slam a battery into it, you're now not you you've decoupled the energy input from the wall with the devices power outputs. You can decouple the user experience from the grid.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: And that level of like approach has not been done in kind of the major home appliance space at all. And that kind of gave me the spark of an idea. Um I also realized another thread which was I was I was I was working at I was working at Meta at the time or I guess Facebook. It was called Facebook back then. Yeah. um and realized that if I wanted to build my own hardware company, um I was kind of like I think you can look at like Palmer Lucky with Oculus and it was like how did he prototype that and how did he figure out like where was like the the like where could you move things kind of like revolutionarily a step forward and it turns out he could do this like while like I think living in a trailer in his parents' driveway with like meager resources because it was just it turns out that like the lowhanging fruit had not been harvested yet. And the low hanging fruit was like,

Sam: "Oh, phone displays are really good. You can make a VR headset with a phone display or a tablet display." And the optics for this were the optics for it were achievable by someone who again was like, you know, basically like he he was like basically like a college age individual without like crazy resources, right? And so and so that said, you had to build a real company and do all this other stuff which he then did. Like the the big part of this was you did not have to be a large technology company to move the needle forward on the techn on the on the on the capabilities. Yeah.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Like typically to design something like oh I built like Face ID at Apple. It's like a multiund million dollar program where they had to acquire like an Israeli computer vision company that had the hardware like like one of my friends worked on that and it's like these are like big industrial efforts to kind of move the ball on like making the iPhone better for instance. And that's even that was true 10 years ago. It's even more true now. Um and so I'm kind of like well where can I do this? Like obviously VR got harvested and I was seeing even in VR it's like let's imagine I went left Oculus and I went to start my own VR company which I could have done.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Um well the first thing is well you need to spend a lot of money on component engineering and developing new components and stuff like that. And it's like it's not a reasonable ask for a VC to be like yeah give me $100 million to make custom displays. like your custom displays, custom chips, custom cameras. Like all of this stuff has to be custom custom custom because well, you're up against the Vision Pro and they're spending a lot a lot as well. There's no like there's no like architectural insight that makes that you can be more cle you can outmaneuver them by being being more clever. And so and so the second thing is was well friends with a lot of folks who kind of gave me this feedback on the consumer electronic side which is like I want to build a company that didn't doesn't have to get acquired like the big the big goal here is like

Sam: if you need to have an app store to make the thing work well you need to subsidize all these developers to basically come to your platform and I want you don't need an app store for home appliances. Now, maybe some people think that that that would be a good idea, but like ultimately I do not believe you need an app store for home appliances. And so, like you can ship them a stove and as long as it cooks, you are good.

Sam: Meanwhile, if I ship someone a game console, well, unless I'm paying game developers hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, aggregate, probably billions in some sense. If you look at how much like Meta Reality Lab spends on content for the Quest headsets and stuff like that, it's like that's it's an expensive proposition to actually maintain that two-sided marketplace, especially before the user base is mature. Um, I didn't want to have to run into problems like that, basically. So, I was like, okay, two things. Let's pick on a lowhanging fruit space where no none of the big tech companies are playing right now. And two, let's uh make sure there's no like app store or ecosystem requirement. Make sure like I could literally ship one of these and it's good.

主持人: Yeah. Um, the value is direct. Yeah, the value is direct and so and so those were kind of those were kind of two key guiding principles and

Sam: obviously realized that home appliances were an awesome space to get into because well there's a secret to getting better performance out of it.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: And then it was like okay what do you do first? And so the pizza oven thing was kind of a cool idea but I'm like well everyone's got a stove. Not everyone has a pizza oven.

主持人: Yeah. And I'm using my gas stove at home and I like my gas I liked my gas stove at home and I had tried a bunch of electric stoves. I tried I had an induction hot plate. I had all these things and I'm like these things are all like no one really got the UX right or any of these other things. And so I went and basically studied the space pretty deeply and realized that like yeah, this is probably the right entry point because it turns out the stove is if if you look at someone's home and you put an electric stove in someone's house, it's like 60 amps of their like 100 to 200 amp panel capacity is like just an induction stove, which is crazy. Yeah. So, if you can make a better one because you've got even more power available and you can reduce the requirement that it needs to like run on the the home, you can then install induction stoves in every house in America

Sam: and you can install better stoves in every house in America than much better stuff.

主持人: Much better stoves. Yeah.

Sam: And then the last piece is like, well, now I've got a battery in everyone's house. And if I have a battery in everyone's house, there's now energy storage all over the grid. And we all know like there's kind of a there's both a power generation concern but also a congestion concern on the grid where like we're adding all this new load growth. It's everything from AI to people getting EVs to also people's homes electrifying as well. Like they're getting heat pumps and air conditioning and stuff like that. And so if we can basically put energy storage on the grid kind of like invisibly in these like middle midsize machines, we're going to be in a very, you know, much better spot than if we didn't do that. So, that's been kind of my like thinking.

Sam: And then there's there's one last piece which is I think worth raising, which is we build this thing like it's a phone. And it's not like it's we view this as a consumer electronics device. We don't really build it like it's a home appliance. And there's a philosophical difference between what I would call kind of like electricity 1.0 and like what I would say is like the modern electric technology stack. So it's like batteries, power, electronics, embedded compute, electromagnetics, etc. Like everything is getting built around a very relatively narrow set of technologies. This is like okay, we've got a lithium-ion battery. Yeah.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: You've got like embedded computer stuff, you've got motors or induction coils or whatever, and then you've got power electronics. Um, and the real advantage of this is this is allows you to build softwaredefined hardware products. And so if you think of like the big innovation of like Tesla versus other car companies that like like Tesla did a couple key things. One is they they made the electric car work.

Sam: But then the second thing they did is they built it like a phone where they controlled like the Model S was actually like I would I would argue the the Roadster wasn't exactly this, but the Model S really was this. It's like this was a car designed end to end like a consumer electronics program where everything including all the modules that go into it were coherent with the original vision versus oh we have to go use this component from this vendor or whatever. And because they did it that way it's just a better car than everything else. And obviously our friends across the Pacific and China figured out exactly the same strategy and they're really good at consumer electronics. So now they've got some of the best cars in the world with like Xiaomi and all this other stuff. Yeah.

主持人: Elon vertical integration or anything like that. It's like

Sam: there's a consumer electronics mindset of like you need to own the end product. And like my view is like everything from this knob turning. Yeah. To this coil heating up a pan we control. And making sure that we do that allows us and we have full software control which allows us to then you know do more things beyond what we're shipping on day zero as well.

主持人: Yeah. it'll be significantly better than anything on

Sam: and it's and it ends up being a platform for like and you can see with like Tesla with FSD you can see Tesla like literally going and they had a video where they basically went and said like the uh like they were sunsetting the Model S and Model X and they basically will go and show that all of those technologies are going into Optimus and so getting good at the technology stack is transferable beyond that. Basically,

主持人: it's very evident that you put a lot of care and quality into even just every tiny piece of the hardware. One kind of question that I assume a lot of audience members have as well is, do you have any plans to release a single cooktop, I guess, for

Sam: Oh, everyone asked for the single burner. Everyone asked for the single burner. I think we're going to have we're working on what what like tabletop devices we're going to we're going to ship, you know, in the in the near future. I think if you're if you're interested in that or like a twoburner, like we're definitely thinking of you guys. And I think that that's something that uh we're going to try to have a solution for in the the coming year or two or three. [music]

主持人: Great. Thank you for showing us the tour and the space. And I hear this is your dev unit that you have pulled up for us to show some cool tricks.

Sam: Yeah. Usually we have like an actual production unit, but this is like a dev unit that I've been working with behind my desk, but we put it in the studio for uh today to show you some new stuff. So

主持人: awesome. Yeah, we could cook some scallops and some pasta. So, do you want to get us started?

Sam: Yeah. So, I'm an idiot and I don't actually know how to use a stove. So, let me let me let's see if this Let's see if I can ask the stove what to do. Set the front right burner to the right temperature to sear scallops at.

主持人: This is AGI right here. If it gets

Sam: We got it. We got it. Yeah, we'll see if it work. We'll see if it works.

主持人: The front right burner.

主持人: Oh, wow.

主持人: Cool. So, it'll set to So, it's going to set some high temperature to sear scallops.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: I don't know. I tr I try I tr I trust Claude. I don't know. We'll see what happens. Wait, so cloud is the model that's running behind?

Sam: Yeah, it's running. Yeah, it's running cloud. I need I probably should run some like super fast Sarah Browse thing, but we'll get to that later. Get to that later.

Sam: Um, this was also part of an experience for me to teach myself on how to build agents end to end. Yeah. So, basically, I was like, well, the world's different. I need to actually learn how to do this stuff. Um, even though like I'm a hardware guy, I do have software background. I did take software classes in college. Um, I did I've deployed software in production facilities and stuff like that, mostly for servicing hardware companies. But, yeah,

Sam: let's try to build some AI stuff. So I went put Claude on the stove.

主持人: Yeah. No, that's very cool. I've never seen a use case of claude in the kitchen in some sense I guess. How has AI also helped in development or has it also accelerated whether it be R&D or testing things or trying out new?

Sam: Yeah. So I started so I've been using the AI dev tools since they basically came or I've been using AI for software relevant since it basically started being acceptable at it. So like I was I I when Sonet 35 came out I was like okay this is like we're actually this is good enough to start like you could vi you can actually can vibe code. But basically I was like I was playing around with cursor I was actually also just using the web web UI and just like being like give me a website I can download and I was like pretty reasonably impressed this stuff could actually work. Mhm.

Sam: Um, which is cool. But, uh, when cloud code came out was like was like when I had access to cloud codes like April or something like that, April or May this past year. I was like, "Okay, This is actually this is actually going for real, right?" Yeah. And what I started doing is I was like I noticed a gap in what we had for the company, which was we didn't have like fleet telemetry that was like our under our own control. So, I I was like, "Okay, really important to actually know what's going if you're about to ship a product. It's really important to know what's going on with your products and make sure that like you know make sure customers are happy but also like if something goes wrong like you can go look it up by like seeing oh there's a bunch of error flags in this unit or whatever. Yeah.

Sam: So I started using I think this was sonnet 4. I started using sonnet 4 with cloud code and I was basically went and built an end toend fleet telemetry system from like terraform like like all like like infrastructure and terraform deployed on AWS. I've never done any of that stuff before and it was kind of this like you know hardware guy learns enterprise SAS sort of sort of sort of venture. But it was also a like how to use the agentic tools to like you know really build something durable. So that's that's how that was like and you can look at like my GitHub commits and all that other stuff and it just basically took off at that point.

主持人: Yeah, that's amazing.

Sam: So by the way the temperature control on this thing is like it's already at temperature.

主持人: It's not like smoking or causing

Sam: it's not smoking or anything like that

Sam: but raw dog these scallops. Well, not raw but yeah, you get the idea, right?

主持人: Yeah, we can do like four four scallops or maybe five. I feel like the temperature because that's one thing too, right? So, this will probably retain the heat of the pan um even as you

Sam: Well, that doesn't matter. So, that the the thing is the way this product works. Yeah. We control the temperature. So, this thing is holding 446. Yeah. And you notice when I added that scallop, it starts dipping, but it's going to put more power in to kind of keep it under control.

主持人: So, you have like complete control.

Sam: Complete clos loop temperature control end to end. So, this thing like doesn't smoke, doesn't burn.

Sam: And you'll see like you can start seeing the crust on the bottom of the scallops right there. I don't know when we're supposed to flip these things.

主持人: Yeah, we could probably flip it. I mean, in like 10 more seconds, like get the color. But yeah, that's great. And I assume you can Wow. And it also shows like the temperature down.

Sam: It shows the temperature of like, you know, like there. Yeah.

主持人: The burner status. Great. Okay.

Sam: Yeah. So, I can go look at that. That was looking pretty good.

主持人: Yeah, that's looking really good.

Sam: Yeah. So, I can go I kind of seared that one on a weird angle, but you know, you get the idea.

主持人: Yeah. But these look really good. And I love how it shows the real time burn status to be able to understand like where it cuz it also just dipped down like 10 10°ish.

Sam: And also, you can like lift the pan up and it resumes. No problem.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: So, like pretty straightforward.

主持人: Yeah. No, that that's amazing. And then I guess we can start with the water, right? because it also boils water at an insane pace.

Sam: Yeah. So, we can put up to 10,000 watts of power into any burner on this thing. Yeah. Um, so that's like three times what most induction stoves are and like it's like five times what they are when they're not in that like boost mode in a bunch of cases, which is often time restricted because they don't have the temperature sensor to know that it's like under control basically.

Sam: So, I just put 10,000 watts into this thing.

主持人: Wow. It's

Sam: And you can see the bubbles are already forming on that thing.

主持人: That's pretty insane. And it's like, okay, it's already, you know, it's already 150° at the bottom. It's like, it's climbing really rapidly.

主持人: Great. And we could get the past over there. Do you want to grab that and then we can start moving stuff over? Great.

Sam: You can probably just dump it in because honestly

主持人: Yeah. Should we? It's already

主持人: How much do we want to put in?

Sam: We could do three of them or

主持人: Yeah, we just we pasta max. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Sam: Yeah. Honestly, yeah, let's just do all of it.

主持人: Great.

Sam: Oh, yeah. I did. I didn't realize there were four. These are probably Are these probably good?

主持人: Yeah, I think these are good. Good. Yeah, the color looks good. So, we can hear Do you want to put them on this plate?

Sam: Yeah.

主持人: Wow, these look amazing. Wow, the color and everything.

Sam: We scallop maxed.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Thank you, Claude, for telling me the temperature. [laughter]

主持人: It's great.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: Useful for everything from deciding where air defense sites are in Iran to scallops apparently.

主持人: Yeah. The whole the whole spectrum. Great.

Sam: Yeah. So,

主持人: makes sense.

Sam: We going to use this pan for anything else or we good?

Sam: Yeah. So, I think we're good. We'll just boil the pasta and then we'll use this other pan to kind of assemble the final dish.

主持人: Okay, sounds good. So, I'll go put this guy over there.

Sam: Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

主持人: And then Yeah, we could put this over here for now.

主持人: And then how long of a How how much uh time do we need to wait for this thing?

Sam: Um this one I think is only 5 minutes. But yeah, we can

Sam: So this thing is going to boil over pretty fast, but we can we'll we'll turn it down in a second.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: So you see how Look at how crazy this is, by the way.

主持人: Yeah, it's

Sam: And look at the control authority. It's like Oh, basically nothing.

主持人: Yeah, it's instant. It's like

Sam: So, let's set it to like two. This is This is what high is on, you know, for mortal for me mortals. We'll just leave it like that. Um, and then set timer for 5 minutes from now. See if it works. I don't know.

主持人: Yeah. Wait, this test unit, I mean, it's already put in a lot of work.

Sam: Yes, we got a timer over there. It's for 5 minutes.

主持人: Wow. Yeah. And you can see the tenth, the time, everything.

Sam: Yeah.

主持人: Wow. That That's amazing. I guess when you go through iterating through ideas, is it just a lot of dog fooding and then you

Sam: Yeah. And also it's also it's the fact if you can use AI now to prototype stuff's just so much faster like this UI is a concept UI that we um our our our product manager worked with our design firm on and she's already like two steps beyond this. But basically what we did is I was like okay uh just give me the latest Figma. And I took the latest Figma using the Figma MCP and managed to get this running on here. And this UI was enough to basically give us the starting point to be able to build some of these AI features so you could see stuff.

Sam: So like I I'll give while this is going, you got, you know, we got four more minutes so I can show you some other stuff while we're here. So I can be like see it.

Sam: Pull up a recipe for Kenji Lopez Alts Korean Fried Chicken.

Sam: And this is going to the internet. So it's going to, you know, it takes like 30 seconds or something like that because again I'm like I'm not I'm not you know I'm not like LLM tool call optimizer. I'm like a hardware guy but basically but basically goes goes does a web search gets the URLs goes to various sites figures out a good recipe that works and then it um and then in the in the agent harness it basically converts it to a a defined schema which then shows up on the screen. So it goes into recipe steps and stuff like that. So then and then you can use the knob you actually had to go do it. So, by the way, it has its own timers.

Sam: So, it'll be like coat the wings with whatever. And then it says, "Wait, you know, 30 minutes," and it'll it'll go do that. And then when you get to preheat the oil, it actually sends a command to the burner. So, it'll actually say like, "Okay, it'll say uh like it there's a command to confirm." So, I can click that. It's going to set that to 351 177. I there's some bugs in terms of unit use and stuff like that, but bear with me. And then it's like make the batter, go do it. Wait for so they can see it. and then, you know, fry the wings and it'll actually have a timer while you do it. So, it's like, okay, we'll set it to, you know, set it to the preheated temperature. Do that and then, you know, serve or whatever. And so,

主持人: this UX is very nice where it even shows the image. Let's use

Sam: Yeah, it shows all the stuff. And it's super flexible. It's super flexible, too. So, like I'll um I can go pull up something else. I'll be like, um, find another thing. Um,

Sam: Pull up a recipe for egg fried rice, but modify it to include charu pork.

Sam: We'll see if this works. [laughter]

Sam: So, charu pork, egg fried rice. So, it's giving you a bunch of instructions. So, it says like we don't have day old rice, unfortunately, so we can't cook it right now.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Um, but it goes to scramble the eggs, sets the temperature to the scrambled eggs.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: And then it's like get the charu pork. Apparently you pre-marinate it. Assumes I have charu pork on. But you can get that on we actually.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Um and then it actually raises the temperature up. Raises it to 200.

主持人: Wow. Yeah. I can see.

Sam: And then it lowers it for the aromatics.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: And then it's like stirfry the rice and then finish and serve. And so you can go.

Sam: What's fun is even scing backwards it makes me do that. But that's just a that's just my own limitations of my own agent harness. But you can see that this actually like this actually works, right? So um also this was actually commanding this one to this temperature to do it. So it can do multi-burner stuff. So it was basically saying like this is a walk heat the walk over here. So when it was I forgot to mention that. So it was doing this for all of the like prep stuff and then it was basically saying assuming there's be a walk here that would be going and doing it. And that set that to 350.

主持人: Wow. That's very smart for the tossing and it'll do multiple burners and knows it knows the capabilities of the stove.

主持人: Wow. And do you want to start the the burner?

Sam: Yeah. What are we What we What are we doing on this one?

主持人: So it we just need to turn it on medium medium high. Umish. I don't really know the We're just burn uh melting some butter rather.

Sam: Oh, you just want to melt some butter. Okay. Yeah. So you know we can melt butter. You want to brown the butter or No.

主持人: No. Um

Sam: Okay. So you want you don't want to brown the butter? Cool. So I'll set it to 250 or 260 which will not brown the butter.

主持人: Great.

Sam: Um and then So why don't you just get some butter?

主持人: Some butter. We have some butter here.

Sam: How much butter do I actually need?

主持人: You could We could cut it. Do you want to cut like a third? You could put it down the table.

Sam: Yeah. That sounds like that sounds like a patriotic amount of butter and then we can Yeah. Let the butter go.

Sam: Yeah. So, by the way, this will like this will just melt and it won't burn because of the temperature control. Okay.

主持人: We just dump or like So, we could do like half of that, but if you want to make it more cheesy and um rich, we can just do everything.

主持人: Okay. I mean, I don't think we need to do everything.

Sam: Yeah.

主持人: I think cheese maxing is, you know, good to a certain point.

Sam: Yeah. Yeah.

主持人: Also, if you cheese max, you're not looks maxing.

Sam: Indeed, that's true. Cuz you know, this cheese, this [clears throat] cheese and butter are going to m as we say.

Sam: Shout out to our brain rod overlords. Um Yeah. So, this is, by the way, this is just going to melt. It's going to be awesome.

主持人: Mhm.

Sam: So, I don't know what the melting point of Parmesan is, but you know, it's probably above it.

主持人: Mhm.

Sam: Um and also, you'll notice that nothing's burning.

主持人: Yeah. Nothing's brown.

主持人: This is very And it's also not sticking as well, like the cheese.

Sam: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because this is basically enabled by this active temperature control technology.

主持人: Yeah. No, it's it's going well. Do we want to add a little more butter? And then we can

Sam: How much more? Probably like that much more.

主持人: Yeah. Probably Yeah. Like another chunk. Perfect.

Sam: Cool.

主持人: Great. Wow. Everything is moving just very in a controlled manner, which is very nice.

Sam: It's very chill.

主持人: Yeah. Very very chill. And that's the idea here is like it's like it's like you can

Sam: this takes a lot of I mean you can make you can overcook things but you can't you won't be able to burn things because of the temperature control.

主持人: Yeah, that makes sense. Great. Okay. And then we could probably

Sam: feels like it look I I think we want more cheese. I think

主持人: I would agree. Yeah, we could add a little more cheese.

Sam: Yeah, I think we want to you Yeah, got to offset those Chinese peptides in our systems, you know, given we're in San Francisco.

主持人: Indeed. Yeah. I guess while we're going, do you also have call outs that you want to make? hiring, you know, new launches.

Sam: Um, I mean, I think we're just really excited. We're just really excited to, uh, you know, get the product out. We're la we're launching in showrooms nationwide with Zephyr, like probably about the time this video is out. Um, they're I think they're like showrooms getting their units right now. So, basically, we're really excited to be in hundreds of store, like literally hundreds of stores nationwide.

主持人: Wow.

Sam: And I honestly think that there's this like story here of like what are we actually building? Mhm. We uh we realized that home appliances, we stopped calling robots robots when they work. And we figured out how to automate some of the hardest problems in the kitchen. Like holding temperature consistently, like the fact that like this just works.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: And the fact that like I can I don't have to uh like there's no browning, burning, anything like that.

主持人: Minimal sticking. Maybe get a little bit, but you know, we can like Yeah. Add the pasta to that.

Sam: But basically, we figured out a lot of the key automations we can actually and then we built this software defined hardware product. Yeah. That allows us to layer intelligence on. But then the question is like, well, how are you going to get these things into people's homes for real? And I made a realization a while back that's basically like, well, you're not going to alter human behavior of like how they get machines in their kitchen. Like, you need to show up where they're actually going and buying these things. Mhm.

主持人: Mhm.

Sam: And so the realization was like, well, we've got this deal with Zephr, who makes, you know, they're one of the top, they're the top ventilation hood brand in the United States. Um, well, beneath every hood, there's a stove. And if we now are in all of these countless, you know, stores across America, um, this is going to be a lot of Americans first contact with like products like this. And

主持人: That's true.

Sam: we can then deliver experiences, you know, empowered by AI like as the the stove is like an embodied intelligent thing. Yeah. And it's a logical first step into a broader spectrum of like bringing like actual smarts to the home for the first time. Like I think the first era of smart home was like we can actually put phone chips in products.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: The next era is like no, these things are intelligent and useful and they do things that are like not a party trick but actually like hey we looked up the temperature to sear those gallops today and it just works.

主持人: That's true.

主持人: Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. I I love the mission. I think, you know, having it in households worldwide eventually.

Sam: Yeah. So, we're actually we're also launching globally this year as well. We've got a really exciting set of announcements queued up for that as well, but more more to come on that side.

主持人: Great.

Sam: Um, this is looking fire.

主持人: Yeah. Should we add the scallops in and we can then like a final mix around and we should be good. We could try it out.

主持人: But yeah, thank you again for showing us the test unit and just the amazing So

Sam: this is by the way this this unit is just a slightly earlier manufactured unit but it happens to be it hasn't happens to be unlocked have an unlocked bootloader. So I've been I've actually been realizing that like I need to step up my game like I mean I think I heard like Sergey Bren's coding now you know it's like sort of like that. So like if you're a 30 person hardware startup like the CEO better be coding right. So

主持人: that's true that's true.

Sam: So that's yeah and you know as long as I don't get oneshotted by GPT or you know other stuff I avoided the whole 40 you know thing but

主持人: yeah that's fair that's fair. No, but it seems like you're doing pretty cool things. And I guess for the audience, will these AI tools as well be out when the stoves are?

Sam: Yeah. So, the goal is that with if you buy an impulse cooktop today, these these features are this is a preview of features we can do. Um, so no guarantees that features are exactly parody, but uh I want to have these features out this year and in and in in homes across America.

主持人: Great. And it'll probably be, you know, similar to how Tesla does software updates. Like you'll constantly do software updates.

Sam: Yeah, we we've done like over 10 OTAA updates. um so far for customers. Um we've got one coming up probably by the time this video is out that uh dramatically improves temperature control. Great. Um so you didn't notice it before, but basically it it's significant. It it takes about 40 seconds to get a pan up to temperature. Um on the public release right now it's about a minute 50. Um but we're really excited to get you know get kind of the performance that you see right here um out to customers uh very soon actually.

主持人: Great. Yeah, that's exciting. Feel like a lot

Sam: going through final QA right now. Mhm. Great. We can try the pasta now.

Sam: Also notice the butter is still not burned.

主持人: Yeah. Don't see any brown butter.

Sam: There's a bunch of like little little bit of uh little bit of little parmesan. Uh

主持人: some parmesan crisp though. It's

Sam: probably going to taste pretty good, honestly.

主持人: Yeah.

Sam: Yeah. That's fire.

主持人: We can try a little and then we can have some also. We'll have some judges as well trying it. Seems very cheesy. I We didn't really try it for salt, but I don't know.

Sam: I think it's okay. I think you put enough salt in the water.

主持人: Mhm. Yeah.

Sam: I'm a very big Parmesan fan, so I I think this is good. Yeah. I'm going to I'm going to have some off this plate because this

嘉宾: just jumping in here. Uh that was amazing. You guys uh really cooked and Sam, you've been cooking, which uh I think restores some faith in American dynamism. Uh we have three very special guests, including uh one person that you know particularly well. Come on in, guys.

主持人: Amazing. Okay.

主持人: Hold here. And I guess Sam is the one who kind of tinkered with this. You can also eat as a talk. But yeah, this is his debut unit. So he kind of has like a cloud code for a stove and yeah, he's been working on it. So he's the mastermind behind everything.

嘉宾: Great. Good job, guys. Okay.

嘉宾: Scallops. And you guys can all just

Sam: It told me the temperature to cook for it. So if you get food poisoning, it's Cloud's fault. [laughter]

嘉宾: Nice. So you guys cooked it on the impulse day.

Sam: Yes. So induction stove.

嘉宾: Wow. Really good.

嘉宾: 78 out of 10, dude. It's amazing. I feel like, did you guys use butter on?

Sam: Yeah, we use a good amount of butter. [laughter]

嘉宾: You see that stick? That was a full stick at the beginning.

Sam: We used half half a stick of butter.

嘉宾: Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. I love it. The French. I'd eat this all day.

嘉宾: Okay. This

主持人: Yeah. So, an approval of impulse stove.

嘉宾: Great.

嘉宾: So, an impulse together,

嘉宾: man.

Sam: Yeah.

Sam: I do have some XAI credits, so we'll we'll try Grock next time.

主持人: Okay.

主持人: Yeah. Maybe a voice feature as well to talk back to you while you're cooking. That would be great.

Sam: Unhinged mode. Unhinged mode.

主持人: Yeah, unhinged mode.

Sam: I got to do it. I got to do it.

主持人: Great. Well, thank you again, Sam. This is amazing. Like, amazing place. Amazing.

Sam: Thanks for coming through.

主持人: Yeah,

主持人: but best of luck with the launch and everything. And everyone can find it where in

Sam: you can buy if you buy direct. We're shipping now. People have had them for like a year. Impulseabs.com. But, uh, we're also launching nationwide in Zephr in showrooms that have Zephyr products. Um, and we'll be in a couple hundred showrooms. Wow. Basically by the time this video drops.

主持人: Great. So, you might be able to see us in your in your neighborhood. Yes, go check those out.

主持人: Awesome. Thank you.