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AI Podcasts

December 13, 2025

Proactive Agents – Kath Korevec, Google Labs

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The market is moving beyond basic "copilot" functionality. The next frontier is proactive, context-aware AI that reduces cognitive load and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on building or investing in multi-agent architectures that converge context across the entire product lifecycle (code, design, data) and prioritize human-in-the-loop alignment over pure autonomy.
  3. The "So What?": The fundamental patterns of software development (Git, IDEs, even code itself) are ripe for disruption. Don't be afraid to question old ways; the future of how software is built is being invented right now.
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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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Crypto Podcasts

April 14, 2025

Bringing the World’s Vehicles Onchain with DIMO | Rob Solomon

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Real Utility Drives Adoption: DIMO focuses on tangible benefits (cashback for data, vehicle tracking) beyond token speculation, making the platform sticky for everyday users.
  2. Tokenomics Power the Ecosystem: The $DIMO token is integral, used by developers for data access, with a burn mechanism creating deflationary pressure tied directly to network usage and revenue growth.
  3. Decentralization is the Moat: Building onchain provides a crucial advantage over closed ecosystems, ensuring user control, preventing platform risk, and attracting developers wary of centralized gatekeepers.
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April 14, 2025

The Biggest Market Crash Since 2020, What Next?

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Volatility is the New Normal: Brace for sustained higher volatility; cash and defensive positioning (energy, industrials) are prudent.
  2. Bitcoin's Moment? BTC is increasingly viewed as a macro hedge against instability and potential Fed easing, likely outperforming most alts.
  3. Policy Matters: Deficit reduction, trade wars, and Fed reactions are driving markets; understanding the administration's long-term goals (per Bessent) is crucial.
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April 14, 2025

Building the Future of Global Payments | Paul & Zaheer

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Specialization Wins: General-purpose blockchains struggle to optimally serve the massive, specific needs of stablecoin transfers; dedicated infrastructure like Plasma is required to unlock the next phase of growth.
  2. USDT is the Global Standard: Tether's dominance, especially outside the US, mirrors the Eurodollar system. It's the Schelling point for international digital dollars, unlikely to be displaced by domestic-focused or bank-issued alternatives.
  3. Focus on Fundamentals: Plasma bets on core utility (cheap/free, fast, secure transfers) and deep integrations over complex tokenomics, aiming to capture trillions in real-world commerce settlement.
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April 14, 2025

The Biggest Market Crash Since 2020, What Next? | Felix Jauvin & Quinn Thompson

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Valuations & Policy Collide: Overly optimistic markets hit a wall of peak valuations, expiring liquidity, and initially growth-negative policies.
  2. Bitcoin vs. The World: Bitcoin's near-term strength is tied to potential forced central bank liquidity, while major upside requires a breakdown in traditional fiscal/monetary stability. Prioritize BTC over most alts.
  3. Cash & Caution: Elevated volatility persists. Holding cash and focusing on resilient sectors (e.g., critical resources, energy) is prudent while navigating potential deleveraging events and geopolitical risks.
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April 11, 2025

Crypto Meets Chemistry :: Bittensor SN68 NOVA, Decentralized AI Drug Discovery

Opentensor Foundation

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Adversarial Advantage: Bittensor's miners are exceptionally efficient at finding flaws in AI models, turning a potential vulnerability into a powerful, real-time stress-testing mechanism crucial for robust drug discovery AI.
  2. Incentivizing Innovation: Token emissions provide funding and incentives for tackling high-risk, high-reward drug discovery challenges that traditional models struggle to support, fostering novelty over incrementalism.
  3. Digital-to-Physical Bridge: Nova plans to translate computational discoveries into real-world value through synthesis, lab validation, and strategic partnerships, aiming to become a pioneering crypto-native biotech entity.
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April 11, 2025

Trump Tariff Madness! w/ Ben Hunt & Jonah Van Bourg

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dollar Under Pressure: Aggressive US trade policies risk eroding the dollar's reserve status, making diversification into assets like gold and Bitcoin increasingly rational.
  2. Bitcoin's Moment: Bitcoin showed relative strength during market panic, bolstering its narrative as a non-sovereign hedge against policy error; it could be the "fastest horse" in a dollar diversification race.
  3. Navigating Volatility: For traders, volatility is opportunity (buy dips, anticipate intervention); for investors, it requires a long-term view, potentially adjusting allocations (e.g., less equities/bonds, more gold/BTC) and using dips strategically.
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