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AI Podcasts

December 13, 2025

Minimax M2 – Olive Song, MiniMax

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "Small is Mighty" Paradigm:** Don't underestimate smaller, specialized models. M2 proves that smart engineering, real-world feedback, and iterative reasoning can outperform larger models in specific, high-value domains.
  2. **Builders, Embrace Iteration:** Design your agents with "interleaved thinking." The ability to self-correct and adapt to noisy environments is critical for real-world utility.
  3. **The "So What?":** The next wave of AI agents will be defined by their robustness, cost-effectiveness, and ability to generalize across dynamic environments. M2 is a blueprint for building practical, scalable AI that developers will actually integrate into their daily workflows.
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December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 12, 2025

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI bubble is inevitable. Focus on defensible positions: deep product integration, proprietary data, and distribution, rather than just raw model performance.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The opportunity lies in productizing AI for specific "jobs to be done" within niche industries, creating intuitive UIs, and building in validation, not just building another foundational model.
  3. The "So What?": We're about to figure out the true "job to be done" for many industries. AI will unbundle existing businesses by exposing their hidden inefficiencies or non-obvious defensibilities.
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December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 28, 2025

What Can DeFi Users Actually Do on Canton Network Today?

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Institutional Migration. As large-scale capital seeks on-chain efficiency, it will gravitate toward networks that offer privacy as a default.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor Infrastructure. Track the rollout of Canton-native stablecoins to identify when the liquidity floodgates open for professional traders.
  3. The Bottom Line: Canton is building for the "Quiet Money." If you are looking for the next dog coin, look elsewhere, but if you want to see how the global financial system actually moves on-chain, this is the network to watch over the next year.
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December 26, 2025

2025 Year in Review

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Infra-as-an-Asset" to "Infra-as-a-Service" means valuations will now track real cash flows rather than speculative multiples.
  2. Prioritize protocols that pivot to B2B strategies or vertical integration.
  3. The next 12 months will reward those who build for users rather than for the "crypto-native" echo chamber.
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December 26, 2025

Keith Singery & Garrett Oetken: TAO.com Wallet, Bittensor, TAO Flow, Governance, Subnets | Ep. 77

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Capital is migrating from passive staking to active participation in specific intelligence commodities.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the founders behind subnets before swapping tokens.
  3. The Bottom Line: Bittensor is becoming a modular AI stack where the value lies in the integration of specialized subnets rather than isolated performance.
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December 26, 2025

2025 Crypto Year in Review, Part 1: Shit Talking Edition

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from speculative points to protocol revenue.
  2. Monitor L2 sequencer revenue models.
  3. 2025 is the year crypto stopped pretending and started building businesses.
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December 26, 2025

Our 2026 Crypto Predictions

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI capex cycle is the new North Star for crypto liquidity. If next-gen chips underdeliver, the risk-off contagion will hit crypto first.
  2. Accumulate blue-chip DeFi protocols like Aave or Morpho. These middlemen are better positioned to capture fintech integration than speculative L1s.
  3. 2026 is the year crypto stops selling potential and starts selling efficiency. Survival depends on being close to the customer.
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December 26, 2025

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The transition from passive liquidity to proactive, infrastructure-integrated market making.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols that control the issuance layer rather than those just providing a venue for existing assets.
  3. The Bottom Line: Liquidity is a commodity, but distribution and issuance are the only durable moats in a high-speed SVM environment.
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