This Week in AI
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Runlayer CEO Andy Berman oversees AI rollouts for Fortune 500s. He says the models are ready for enterprise-level work, but the companies aren’t. “An LLM without access to the right tools and resources, and specifically the data sources, which most companies will not give access to today… is almost useless.” New TWiAI with Andy Berman, Runlayer, John Nay, Norm, @jason and Lon Harris 0:00 PayPal - Pay zero processing fees on your first $100K in eligible PayPal payment volume. Learn more at 1:43 What we learned from Anthropic's S-1 9:30 Why only 2-3% of companies are really using AI 18:03 Jason's "reverse to-do list" agent 23:23 Will AI labs evolve beyond charging per token? 32:36 Browser use is basically solved 41:24 Are colleges giving performative "slop" degrees? 53:00 Why r/opensource banned AI projects 59:39 So what happens to the junior lawyers and analysts? 1:06:01 Peter Thiel's "math people vs. word people" binary 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
This Week in AI140,559 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
Software is dead?! Eragon’s Josh Sirota says that logging into a SaaS platform will soon feel like buying a CD instead of streaming your favorite song. Users just want the output now, with no more worrying about the interface. The panel debates whether this means software developers will disappear, or simply transition into software managers. Is there some level of human judgment that agents still can’t fake? Plus Anthropic now watermarks every word that Claude writes? Will this solve our AI Slop/Dead Internet problem or is it more of a nuisance? And the panel reacts to Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of AI abundance. 0:00 Guest Intros 3:30 Anthropic to watermark Claude text 5:50 Cracking down on AI Slop 10:45 Will slop-trackers push users to open source 16:21 Jason's "No Clankers" proposal 23:01 Parsing Zuckerberg's techno-utopian manifesto 39:27 The distillation double standard 44:28 "When you're behind, go open…" 51:17 Texas freezes new data centers 1:04:12 Is software dead? 1:05:39 Software managing, not engineering 1:10:24 Everyone is vibecoding cc: Will Bryk, Exa, Josh Sirota, Eragon, Kash from TaxGPT.com, TaxGPT, @jason, Lon Harris 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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One shotted by Opus 4.7 The full prompt: "Make a website for This Week in AI podcast with great branding."
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"Big tech doesn't want to train people anymore. They're taking their 10x employees and making them 11x, 12x, 13x." - @jason This week's roundtable: 1. Kanjun Qiu Kanjun 🐙, CEO of Imbue, open source agents. 2. Jeremy Fraenkel Jeremy Fraenkel, CEO of Fundamental, large tabular models for enterprise data. 3. Karri Saarinen Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear, product development system for teams and agents. TWiAI Episode 14 out now
This Week in AI155,004 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
OpenAI solved math Tudor Achim reacts live to OpenAI solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem.
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Alibaba says their latest model, Qwen3.8-Max, trails only Anthropic’s best, at just a fraction of the cost. With the White House likely backing off threats to block foreign open weight models entirely, is there any way for the American frontier to keep pace? And will US open weight models ever catch up to their Chinese counterparts? We asked Poolside’s CTO Eiso Kant, EXO Labs co-founder Alex Cheema, and Qloo founder Alex Elias to break down where the AI race currently stands. Plus Hank Green thinks AI is addictive… Would you allow AI to monitor your baby overnight if it helped them sleep?… And Jason’s pitch for licensing companies to test out their autonomous driving systems. 0:00 Guest intros and open 7:36 Small vs. frontier models: a false choice? 10:03 Why Poolside thinks coding is the path to AGI 12:55 A first look at EXO's 16:24 The White House's open source pivot 20:21 Margins, compute, and "dirt to intelligence" 36:02 Jason's self-driving auction pitch 37:58 Hank Green's AI apology 38:45 Is AI addictive? 1:08:31 What does it mean for AI to be "privacy first"? 1:10:29 Enterprise AI sovereignty and "colonization" This Week in AI Ep 25 is streaming now! 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
This Week in AI79,515 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
"The iPhone will not be disrupted by AI at all" - Aravind Srinivas Aravind believes the better AI gets, the stronger Apple's position becomes. @jason Why? 1. Years of capacity already locked in for Apple Silicon. 2. Your data stays secure 3. People trust Apple as their digital passport This Week in AI Episode 10 is out tomorrow at 8 AM PT.
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"Any feature we release, a competitor could release within two weeks." Matan Grinberg (Factory) on why the moat isn't software anymore. dsa (LiveKit) on building the framework for voice, video, and physical AI. George Sivulka (@HebbiaAI) on what it takes to win in vertical AI. They join @jason on This Week in AI, Episode 11: 00:00 Intro & AGI debate 03:30 Factory: autonomy for software engineering 04:29 LiveKit: open source to ChatGPT voice 10:31 Hebbia: AI for capital markets 13:21 SpaceX-Cursor $60 billion deal breakdown 26:28 Moats in the age of vibe coding 38:10 Deterministic agents vs. open chaos 45:56 DeepSeek V4 01:05:23 OpenAI's spend problem 01:12:08 P-doom scores
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"If you had a great tutor, you wouldn't sit down and say please write my paper for me." - Steven Johnson The first generation raised on ChatGPT booed AI at graduation. Three founders unpack why, plus Apple's brand new Siri, NotebookLM's biggest update, and whether anyone "wins" the agent race. This week @jason covered these topics and more with: • Jeffrey Quesnelle (emozilla) building Hermes Agent at Nous Research Nous Research • Steven Johnson (Steven Johnson) Editorial Director of NotebookLM @NotebookLM and Google Labs • Russ d'Sa (dsa) building the voice infra behind ChatGPT, Tesla & Grok at LiveKit LiveKit 7 moments worth your time: 1:40 Hermes Agent and the open source race 7:32 Why AI got booed at graduation 10:48 LiveKit powering ChatGPT, Tesla, Grok 27:50 The massive Siri update 52:49 "Functional AGI, unevenly distributed" 57:24 Brittle to brilliant: agents that now just work 1:02:00 Tokenmaxxing and the $1M a year engineer
This Week in AI71,682 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
"Nobody has actually lost their job to AI. They lost it due to the promise of AI." - Tanay Kothari Meta cut 8,000. Intuit cut 3,000. Anthropic is paying $1.25B a month for compute. China is winning the open-source war. And the Pope just called for AI to be disarmed. This week we covered these topics and more with: - Erik Bernhardsson (Erik Bernhardsson) is running the GPU cloud powering it all at Modal. - Tanay Kothari (Tanay Kothari) is running $100M in marketing with two humans and a swarm of agents at Wispr Flow. - Richard Socher (Richard Socher) is building recursive self-improving superintelligence at Recursive and the future of AI search at You.com. They join @jason on This Week in AI Episode 15, out now.
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$250k of investments in one minute Two guests showed @jason their OpenClaw projects live on This Week in Startups, and he offered them both $125k each! xiaoan shows how his project takes what Meta glasses see and completes actions using voice and OpenClaw. Vishnu (An Engineer's Log) built which allows you to launch an OpenClaw instance for just $4.00/month!
This Week in AI113,261 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
A columnist told Meta's Muse agent it couldn't read his iMessages, and it read them anyway. George Sivulka of Hebbia, Scott Stephenson of Deepgram, and Dan Mishin of Manifest OS join Jason and Lon to discuss everyone’s favorite AI assistants, and whether these industry leaders have concerns about sharing their personal lives with Zuckerberg’s fuzzy new agent. Plus, OpenAI is holding back GPT-6.1 Astra after UK government simulations showed it launched unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, the AI tool that has recorded Scott's screen, mic, and speakers for eight months, and what AMD is getting for $8.2B with Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. @jason Lon Harris George Sivulka Hebbia Scott Stephenson Deepgram Dan Mishin 0:00 Jason's flight attendants are scared of AI 1:55 Meet the panel: Heavy, Deepgram and Manifest 2:17 OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra over safety regressions 7:41 Hugging Face hack and Nvidia's open agent safety platform 16:11 AI psychosis and getting one-shotted by agents 28:46 AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B 32:08 Will open source commoditize world models too? 34:34 Is the AI buildout bigger than the railroads? 36:59 Around the horn: which AI agent are you using? 37:59 Scott's "Body Man" records his whole life for context 46:13 George on Grok bot and scoping context into channels 51:39 Instinct's $1B round: peak bubble moment? 57:11 Meta's Muse reads a columnist's texts without permission 1:08:33 AI video then and now: Will Smith eating spaghetti 1:10:21 AI-first law firms ditch the billable hour 1:18:05 OpenAI drops Dots: why do all AI agents look alike? 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
This Week in AI22,608 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
"My kids are going to have access to the workforce equivalent of millions of people worth of labor at their fingertips” The AI infra buildout, AI in warfare, open source mania, and the future of labor with special guests: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos (Arena.ai), Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI), & @jason. 00:00 Welcome & Guest Introductions 02:22 Crusoe's Stargate partnership: 1.2GW campus 12:05 Qwen running on an iPhone in airplane mode 25:40 Crusoe Spark: modular data centers 36:51 Jevons Paradox & the $2M/month token bill 41:17 The coming labor crisis 55:51 Should you learn to code? 1:03:09 AI in warfare & the Dario debate Watch on on Apple: Watch on Spotify: Watch on YouTube:
This Week in AI86,237 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
The era of the Copilot is over. OpenClaw is here. But what are its limitations? @jason sat down with three AI CEO's: Mitesh Agrawal (Positron AI), Alex Elias (Qloo), and Kash from TaxGPT.com (TaxGPT) to discuss: 00:00 Welcome to This Week in AI! 03:17 How are CEO’s using OpenClaw? 19:09 Automating the "Great Hiring Hiatus” 27:11 Saving Independent Film with AI Extras 33:04 Solving the Global Accounting Crisis 36:04 The $1 Million One-Person Tax Advisory 43:05 Demo: The Autonomous Content Clipper 1:10:23 Micro-Agents vs. "Ultron” We are currently at AO21 or 21 days after we first used OpenClaw
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