Join us as we train our neural nets on all things AI. We ask leading AI researchers and builders critical questions about the evolving technologies and their implications for business and society.

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Oege de Moor

XBOW

GitHub Copilot creator Oege de Moor’s XBOW is transforming cybersecurity with an always-on service-as-a-software AI platform.

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Eric Glyman

ramp

Eric shares his insights about how AI can transform business processes by deeply understanding user needs and automating tedious tasks to enable more strategic work.

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Gabriel Huber

Stanislas Polu

Dust

Dust’s co-founders believe one model will not rule them all, and that multi-model integration will be key to getting the most value out of AI assistants.

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Kareem Amin

CLAY

Clay is balancing imagination and automation to help go-to-market teams unleash creativity and scale personalized messages. While CRMs store data, Clay focuses on how to act on that data effectively. Kareem shares the company’s technology approach and his unique company-building philosophy.  

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Dean Leitersdorf

decart

Decart is pushing the boundaries of AI-generated experiences. Dean explains why solving fundamental limitations rather than specific problems could lead to the next trillion-dollar company.

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arvind jain

Glean

Glean is solving the problem of enterprise search, harnessing generative AI to synthesize, make connections, and turbo-change knowledge work.

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dan roberts

OpenAI

In recent years there’s been an influx of theoretical physicists into the leading AI labs. Do they have unique capabilities suited to studying large models or is it just herd behavior? To find out, we talked to our former AI Fellow (and now OpenAI researcher) Dan Roberts.

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Raiza Martin

Jason Spielman

Google NotebookLM

Martin and Spielman discuss the potential for source-grounded AI, and how they created such delightful AI podcast hosts.

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Sridhar Ramaswamy

Snowflake

Sridhar discusses Snowflake's advancements in AI, democratizing AI usage, reliable data applications, and their efforts to achieve high accuracy in AI solutions.

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Noam Brown, Hunter Lightman

and Ilge Akkaya

OPENAI

Noam and his research team describe project Strawberry, inference-time compute and the launch of OpenAI o1 which teaches LLMs how to reason better by thinking longer.

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Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim

Harmonic

Vlad and Tudor founded Harmonic with a mission both lofty—mathematical superintelligence—and imminently practical, verifying all safety-critical software.

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Jim Fan

Nvidia

Jim has spent his career pursuing embodied intelligence. At Nvidia he leads the group with the audacious task of training foundation models that span real-world robotics and virtual world agents.

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Eric Steinberger

MAGIC

In 2022 Eric realized that AGI was closer than he had previously thought and started Magic to automate the software engineering necessary to get there.

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Clay Bavor

Sierra

Clay describes how companies can capture their brand voice, values and internal processes to create AI agents that are delightful and truly represent the business.

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JIM GAO

Phaidra

Jim discusses the challenges of AI readiness in industrial settings and how we have to build on top of the control systems of the 70s and 80s to achieve the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Lin Qiao

fireworks

Fireworks Founder and CEO Lin Qiao, previously leader of the PyTorch team at Meta, discusses how fast inference and small models will benefit startups and enterprises.

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Thomas Dohmke

GITHUB

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke discusses how a small team at GitHub built Copilot on top of GPT-3 and quickly created a product that developers love—and can’t live without.

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Joe Spisak

Meta

Joe talks about the launch of Llama 3.1 405B and tells us why he thinks even frontier models will ultimately commoditize—and why that’s a good thing for the startup ecosystem.

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Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Klarna

Co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski tells how Klarna shipped its customer service assistant and how experimenting with AI is transforming the company.

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Misha Laskin

Reflection AI

Misha Laskin, co-founder of Reflection AI, talks about what we can learn from AlphaGo and Gemini to train the most reliable models for developers building agentic workflows.

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Kevin Scott

Microsoft

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott discusses the shift across the ecosystem to more inference compute as the frontier models continue to improve, serving wider and more reliable use cases.

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Mike Knoop

ARC Prize

Zapier co-founder and head of AI Mike Knoop talks about ARC Prize, a $1M+ competition to solve ARC-AGI, a benchmark that measures the ability to efficiently acquire new skills.

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INFERENCE

The New Ideas Needed for AGI

By Sonya Huang & Pat Grady - July 2

The strength of LLMs is also their weakness. A truly general intelligence may require a certainty in thinking and reasoning that cannot be found in language.

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MATAN GRINBERG

ENO REYES

FACTORY

Factory’s Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes are building a fleet of purpose-built agents designed to accomplish different tasks in the software development lifecycle, like code review or testing.

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INFERENCE

The Compound Lever: AI for Software Engineering

BY SONYA HUANG & PAT GRADY - June 25

For decades, software has provided the lever to move the world—now AI that can create software is levering that lever.

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HARRISON CHASE

LANGCHAIN

LangChain’s Harrison Chase explains custom cognitive architectures that allow agents to improve performance and find traction in the sweet spot of autonomy.

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“Goldilocks” Agents

BY SONYA HUANG & PAT GRADY - June 18

Custom Cognitive Architectures are powering the quickening evolution of more capable and reliable AI agents.

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