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

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This Week in AI@ThisWeeknAI

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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@jason@Jason

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

This Week in AI@ThisWeeknAI

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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Bill The Investor@billtheinvestor

@Jason @ThisWeeknAI The panelists' insights on compute-driven capital reallocation will be crucial for tracking upcoming shifts in infrastructure-layer valuations.

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Sue Ennis@bigsuey

@Jason @ThisWeeknAI This is awesome…only thing missing conversation cohort wise is what’s being built in the intimacy & AI space @Jason we should chat :))) have taken over @RealdollHQ turning into the Apple Store of intimacy hardware & robotics amplified by AI.

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

I have much more complete lists of AI Founders and EVERYONE working in AI, along with 8,700 AI companies: https://x.com/scobleizer/lists

And my AI goes through all of that every day (about 40,000 posts) and puts them all into a news page: https://alignednews.com/ai

Should be helpful along these lines.

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Chris Ellis@ChrisEllis

@Jason @ThisWeeknAI how do we get an invite...lol

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Vigil AI@VigilAISec

@ThisWeeknAI @Jason @ChaseLochmiller @Jason , you missed AI security. We're ready to talk.

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主任@zhuren1992

@Jason @ThisWeeknAI 14 episodes in and still building, this lineup is top-tier talent.

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Tyler Klose@tylerklose

@ThisWeeknAI @Jason @ChaseLochmiller The craftsmen that build out all the physical infrastructure continue to get overlooked.

Without them, none of this is possible.

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Jason Joseph@AllergicToDrama

@Jason @ThisWeeknAI How has Bittensor not become bigger in silicon valley yet? Are ppl there so stigmatized about crypto they can’t see the obvious?

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