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This Week in AI Podcast Spotlights 30+ Founders Across Infra, Models, and Robotics

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Who's actually building AI? 3 months and 14 episodes into This Week in AI, @Jason has sat down with founders and operators across infra, models, dev tools, consumer, creative, robotics, healthcare, and more. INFRA & COMPUTE Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe) @ChaseLochmiller Lin Qiao (Fireworks AI) @lqiao Chris Lattner (Modular) @clattner_llvm Nick Harris (Lightmatter) @theanalognick Mitesh Agrawal (Positron AI) @mitesh711 Alex Cheema (EXO Labs) @alexocheema Philip Johnston (Starcloud) @PhilipJohnston Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI) @NaveenGRao Russ d'Sa (LiveKit) @dsa FOUNDATION MODELS & RESEARCH Kanjun Qiu (Imbue) @kanjun Carina Hong (Axiom Math) @CarinaLHong Jeremy Fraenkel (Fundamental) @fraenkelj EVALS & BENCHMARKS Anastasios Angelopoulos (Arena) @ml_angelopoulos DEV TOOLS, CODING & AUTOMATION Karri Saarinen (Linear) @karrisaarinen Matan Grinberg (Factory) @matanSF Spiros Xanthos (Resolve AI) @spirosx Wade Foster (Zapier) @wadefoster CONSUMER & SEARCH Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) @AravSrinivas Richard Socher (youdotcom & Recursive) @RichardSocher Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow) @tankots Steven Berlin Johnson (NotebookLM) @stevenbjohnson CREATIVE & MEDIA Demi Guo (Pika) @demi_guo_ Victor Riparbelli (Synthesia) @vriparbelli Mikey Shulman (Suno) @MikeyShulman Grant Lee (Gamma) @thisisgrantlee ROBOTICS Jake Loosararian (Gecko Robotics) @jakeloosy Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics) @bsofman HEALTHCARE Shiv Rao (Abridge) @ShivdevRao Trey Holterman (Tennr) @TreyHolterman ENTERPRISE, VERTICAL & DATA George Sivulka (Hebbia) @gsivulka Kashif Ali (TaxGPT) @ChKashifAli Alex Elias (Qloo) @ape TALENT & WORKFORCE Ali Ansari (micro1) @aliansarinik Jonathan Siddharth (Turing) @jonsidd Thank you all for joining! Episode 14 out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szd0TYQquSw&t

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Really excited about This Week In AI after 14 episodes... Amazing panelists who are building AI

Going to host an @thisweeknai panelist dinner next Thursday the 28th in SF

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Who's actually building AI? 3 months and 14 episodes into This Week in AI, @Jason has sat down with founders and operators across infra, models, dev tools, consumer, creative, robotics, healthcare, and more. INFRA & COMPUTE Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe) @ChaseLochmiller Lin Qiao (Fireworks AI) @lqiao Chris Lattner (Modular) @clattner_llvm Nick Harris (Lightmatter) @theanalognick Mitesh Agrawal (Positron AI) @mitesh711 Alex Cheema (EXO Labs) @alexocheema Philip Johnston (Starcloud) @PhilipJohnston Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI) @NaveenGRao Russ d'Sa (LiveKit) @dsa FOUNDATION MODELS & RESEARCH Kanjun Qiu (Imbue) @kanjun Carina Hong (Axiom Math) @CarinaLHong Jeremy Fraenkel (Fundamental) @fraenkelj EVALS & BENCHMARKS Anastasios Angelopoulos (Arena) @ml_angelopoulos DEV TOOLS, CODING & AUTOMATION Karri Saarinen (Linear) @karrisaarinen Matan Grinberg (Factory) @matanSF Spiros Xanthos (Resolve AI) @spirosx Wade Foster (Zapier) @wadefoster CONSUMER & SEARCH Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) @AravSrinivas Richard Socher (youdotcom & Recursive) @RichardSocher Tanay Kothari (Wispr Flow) @tankots Steven Berlin Johnson (NotebookLM) @stevenbjohnson CREATIVE & MEDIA Demi Guo (Pika) @demi_guo_ Victor Riparbelli (Synthesia) @vriparbelli Mikey Shulman (Suno) @MikeyShulman Grant Lee (Gamma) @thisisgrantlee ROBOTICS Jake Loosararian (Gecko Robotics) @jakeloosy Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics) @bsofman HEALTHCARE Shiv Rao (Abridge) @ShivdevRao Trey Holterman (Tennr) @TreyHolterman ENTERPRISE, VERTICAL & DATA George Sivulka (Hebbia) @gsivulka Kashif Ali (TaxGPT) @ChKashifAli Alex Elias (Qloo) @ape TALENT & WORKFORCE Ali Ansari (micro1) @aliansarinik Jonathan Siddharth (Turing) @jonsidd Thank you all for joining! Episode 14 out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szd0TYQquSw&t

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