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AI with Alec. Get smarter on AI. The easy way.

Alec Coughlin
Artificial Intelligence
Calm
Polsia
Tacnode
Enterprise AI Agent
Llms
Vuemotion
Biomechanics
Governance
Evident
L'oréal
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Lovable
Autos
ICTI
Context Lake
Large Language Models
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Tokenization
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Conversations with leading technical minds in Artificial Intelligence - from CTOs of pioneering AI startups to AI architects at Fortune 500 companies. We explore their strategies, implementations, and innovations to help you better understand and deploy AI in the real world. Hear enterprise AI insights and practical perspectives you won't find anywhere else. If you're a technical leader, business ... more

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Could Tacnode be the next Databricks? Yes.

Imagine the world before writing. Before books. People had to learn everything from scratch.Thanks to writing, thanks to books, knowledge compounded. Everyone could learn from each other.

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The promise of deploying autonomous AI agents at scale hinges on infrastructure and architectural truths. AI isn’t magic or a silver bullet. It most definitely isn’t one size fits all.

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There's a short list of people who shaped my AI journey before I even knew it was a journey. Henrik Werdelin is at the top of that list.

We met in NYC in 2011. A few months before he launched BARK.

I was the furthest thing from technical. He had a... more

Creativity is magic. 75% of your creative team’s week is logistics, 25% is actually creating. What happens when you invert that?

Shane Hegde has spent eight years fixing that problem and the implications for modern CMOs are staggering.

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Xiaowei Jiang
Founder and CEO of Tacnode
Tacnode
Episode: Are Your AI Agents Reasoning From a Snapshot That Never Existed? | Tacnode Founder + CEO
Jason Dobbs
Founder and CEO of ICTI
ICTI
Episode: "We Don't Do Tokenized Assets" Is the New "We Don't Do the Internet" | Jason Dobbs
Henrik Werdelin
Author of a book and founder involved in PreHype and Autos
Autos; PreHype
Episode: The AI Questions CEOs Are Running Out of Time to Ask | Henrik Werdelin
Shane Hegde
CEO of AIR (creative operating system)
AIR
Episode: 75% of Your Creative Team's Week Is Wasted. Shane Hegde Built a Salesforce for Creatives to Fix It.
Ben Cera
Founder/CEO discussing Polsia and autonomous AI for business
Polsia
Episode: Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera
Greg Boone
Guest with hands-on AI implementation experience
Episode: Greg Boone: AI Isn't an Intern, It's an Everything Machine | AI with Alec E26
Chase Clark
Lead UX Researcher at Calm
Calm
Episode: 2 Weeks to 2 Days: How Calm's UX Team Tests 10X More Concepts with AI Prototyping | Chase Clark
Thomas Menard
Global head of a GenAI platform and lab at L'Oréal
L'Oréal
Episode: Good Pirates Ship Fast: L'Oreal's AI-First in 90 Days (May '24), Accelerating Since | Thomas Menard
Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Co-founder, co-CEO of Evident
Evident
Episode: Banks Have 2-3 Years Before AI Leaders Pull Away, Forever. AIWA E23 w/Co-CEO of Evident.

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Alec Coughlin
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Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera
Q: What is the vision for Polsia in terms of autonomy and investment, and how might that evolve into a portfolio approach?
The guest describes a roadmap toward 100 percent autonomy, the possibility of turning Polsia into a portfolio manager or startup studio, and even creating investment structures where Polsia allocates capital to multiple ventures in parallel, selecting winners based on performance.
Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera
Q: What does Polsia do for existing businesses versus new ventures, and how does it handle outreach and marketing tasks?
Polsia can autonomously perform outreach, create landing pages, run ads, and contact potential partners or customers, often achieving results that previously required multiple people. It demonstrates both maintenance support for existing operations and new business creation.
Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera
Q: Could you contextualize how many people or companies are using Polsia and what those users are actually building?
The guest explains that Polsia is already being used by a growing base of solo founders and small teams, with a run rate in the millions and diverse use cases from finding medications in stock to workforce management systems, showing the platform's versatility and tangible outcomes.
Bret Greenstein: 'If You Can't Imagine It, You Can't Make It'-Science Projects to AI Transformation
Q: If you could wave a magic wand and make a 100,000-person company AI native in 2-3 years, what would that transformed future look like?
Bret describes an enterprise where AI is deeply embedded across processes, enabling a 100,000-person company to operate with the same productivity as a 300,000-person workforce by offloading repetitive tasks to AI and letting humans focus on judgments, experience, and accountability.
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Q: How do you balance AI adoption with security and governance in regulated environments?
By creating an AI Center that standardizes UI, provides explainability and verification, and anchors AI usage in a trusted framework with auditable sources, guardrails, and centralized governance.

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Across recent episodes, conversations center on practical enterprise AI implementation, AI infrastructure, and organizational transformation propelled by senior leadership. Guests range from founders and chiefs of AI platforms to CIOs and heads of AI strategy, who discuss building scalable AI ecosystems, governance, data strategy, and the real-world impact of AI agents, multi-agent workflows, and automation in large organizations. The show blends technical depth with business context, offering actionable frameworks, tooling choices, and anecdotes from major enterprises, startups, and regulated industries. A standout theme is turning AI from pilots into pervasive, trustworthy capabilities, with an emphasis on context, memory, and human–machi... more

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