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The Business of Tech

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Artificial Intelligence
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The Business of Tech, hosted by leading tech journalist Peter Griffin. Every week they take a deep dive into emerging technology and news from the sector to help guide the important decisions all Business leaders make.

Issues such as cybersecurity, retaining trust after a cyberattack, business IT needs, purchasing SaaS tools and more.

New Episodes out every Thursday. Follow or subscribe to get i... more

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Yu Liu
Co-founder of Heidi Health
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Episode: Heidi: the AI scribe shaking up NZ healthcare
Jeff Hawke
Co-founder of Odyssey AI, London-based frontier AI lab focused on world models
Odyssey AI
Episode: Kiwi co-founded world‑builder hits $2.5 billion valuation
Ming Cheuk
Auckland-based AI entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of ElementX
ElementX
Episode: China’s AI and robot revolution
Blake Harkness
Christchurch AI engineer, advisor on AI adoption for NZ businesses
Harkness AI; Young Kiwis in AI
Episode: China’s AI and robot revolution
Brandon Hutcheson
HSO's head of Quantum, founder of Aware Group (now part of HSO)
HSO
Episode: AI vs public sector jobs
AJ Tills
Growth marketer and co-founder/leader at Exaba, previously at Uber and Crimson Education
Exaba
Episode: From Uber to Exaba: AJ Tills takes on Big Tech storage
Alex Stewart
WombatNET founder and Wellington-based wireless provider
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Episode: Is Starlink eating rural NZ?
Andreas Hamberger
Enterprise architect, AI governance specialist, author of Space Mafia
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Episode: Space Mafia: How orbital AI changes everything
Qiulae Wong
Leader of The Opportunity Party and parliamentary candidate
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Kiwi co-founded world‑builder hits $2.5 billion valuation
Q: What are the biggest scientific or technical hurdles you're focusing on right now?
Multimodality (integrating vision, audio, and other signals) and learning by experience, including causal learning, pose the toughest challenges, but progress is being made toward simulating high-quality multisensory data and leveraging it to train more capable agents.
Kiwi co-founded world‑builder hits $2.5 billion valuation
Q: Why world models instead of chasing the giant language model race?
World models address a different problem space by grounding AI in perceptual data and real-world dynamics, which can be more directly useful for robotics and interactive simulations. They are designed to be complementary to language models and could merge in the future, offering broader applicability and robustness across industries.
Kiwi co-founded world‑builder hits $2.5 billion valuation
Q: Jeff, welcome all the way from London. Tell us what Odyssey does and why the capital came together from such high-profile backers.
Odyssey focuses on world models—foundational AI that learns from observation and interaction with the world to simulate and predict future states. This approach is meant to generalize across robotics, gaming, and beyond, creating a backbone for practical, deployable AI that can be scaled with strategic partners like AWS, AMD, Nvidia, and investors who see a path to a ChatGPT-equivalent moment.
China’s AI and robot revolution
Q: Blake, tell us about your background and what drew you to AI.
Blake describes studying mechatronic engineering, embracing AI early on, and building a consulting practice to help NZ businesses adopt AI while also running programs to help younger people enter AI careers.
From Uber to Exaba: AJ Tills takes on Big Tech storage
Q: Give us the origin story of Exaba and the seed funding you've just closed.
Exaba emerged from a focus on cost-effective, local data storage; we secured about 11.8 million in seed funding to accelerate go‑to‑market, deepen ties in New Zealand, and expand to the US and Australia.

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A tech-focused interview show that centers on practical implications of emerging technologies for businesses, featuring founders, executives, researchers, and journalists who translate complex innovations into market-ready insights. Episodes commonly cover AI applications and governance, national tech policy, industrial and manufacturing trends, digital twins and infrastructure, and the strategic role of data-driven decision making in marketing, product development, and public sector tech. The conversations blend hands-on experiences, real-world case studies, and policy or regulatory context, often weighing opportunities against risks like sovereignty, privacy, and market disruption. A notable pattern is spotlighting NZ-centric case studies... more

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