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This Week in AI

Jason Calacanis
Openclaw
Artificial Intelligence
Productivity
Automation
Abridge
Anthropic
Gecko Robotics
Hermes Agent
Openai
Gemini 3.0
Ziosec
AI Security
Penetration Testing
Prompt Injection
AI Inference
Healthcare
Data Centers In Space
Fireworks AI
Recursive Self-Improvement
AI Costs

An experts-only AI podcast: Think the 'All In' podcast for AI. Jason + 3 CEO-level experts breaking down the news & trends.

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Recent Guests

Boris Sofman
Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics
Bedrock Robotics
Episode: Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19
Jeff Hawke
Co-founder and CTO of Odyssey
Odyssey
Episode: Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19
Ethan Barajas
Co-founder and CEO of Icarus Robotics
Icarus Robotics
Episode: Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19
Ryan Daniels
Founder, CEO of Crosby Legal
Crosby Legal
Episode: Why AI Models Aren’t the Product Any More | TWiAI Ep 18
Ali Ansari
Founder/CEO of Micro1
Micro1
Episode: Why AI Models Aren’t the Product Any More | TWiAI Ep 18
Jeffrey Quesnelle
From News Research, AI researcher
News Research
Episode: Hermes Agent, NotebookLM & LiveKit Founders on the AI Agent Race | TWiAI 17
Steven Berlian Johnson
Editorial Director of Google Labs and co-founder of NotebookLM
NotebookLM / Google Labs
Episode: Hermes Agent, NotebookLM & LiveKit Founders on the AI Agent Race | TWiAI 17
Russ Dassault
CEO of LiveKit
LiveKit
Episode: Hermes Agent, NotebookLM & LiveKit Founders on the AI Agent Race | TWiAI 17
Alex Finn
From Creator Buddy and YouTube
Creator Buddy
Episode: AI Layoffs, Compute Costs & Agents | Naveen Rao & Alex Finn on This Week in AI Episode 16

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Jason Calacanis
Host of the show focused on AI industry dynamics, tooling, and enterprise applications.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 8 ratings
  • Love the new show

    Can’t wait for things to get rolling!

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    United States6 months ago

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Listeners consistently praise high-signal guests and practical takeaways for enterprise AI projects.
Audience insights suggest value in candid discussions about AI governance and deployment challenges.
Sponsorships are seen as aligned with useful AI tooling and infrastructure discussions.

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#244
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#31
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#47
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#50
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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

The Future of AI: Personal Agents, Taste & Private Data | Lin Qiao & Demi Guo | E9
Q: How do customers actually adopt this in terms of data and deployment—on their own hardware or via managed services?
Customers typically start with private data tuning and controlled deployment, then decide whether to run on their own hardware or rely on hosted services. Fireworks offers a spectrum of abstraction—from low-level control for hackers to high-level automation for non-AI specialists—so teams can incrementally adopt frontier capabilities while maintaining data sovereignty.
The Future of AI: Personal Agents, Taste & Private Data | Lin Qiao & Demi Guo | E9
Q: Explain the product. Who is the customer that you're selling into right now, and what does the product do for them?
Fireworks targets AI practitioners and enterprise teams who need real-time, cost-efficient inference on tuned, private-data models. The platform provides layered abstraction from low-level tuning to high-level application development, enabling companies to deploy frontier models at scale with private data to improve accuracy and cost.
$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6
Q: Explain in simple terms what Modular does and why it matters for AI compute.
Modular provides a software layer that lets developers deploy AI models across different hardware types (Nvidia, AMD, Apple Silicon, etc.) without getting locked into a single vendor's stack, enabling heterogeneous, scalable, and more flexible AI deployments.
AI in Warfare, OpenClaw & The Stargate Mega-Campus | This Week in AI E3
Q: What is the role of AI in warfare and governance?
The speakers discuss that AI will be embedded in national defense and that corporations may be pressured by nations; responsibility frameworks exist but ultimately national strategy and laws shape deployment.
AI in Warfare, OpenClaw & The Stargate Mega-Campus | This Week in AI E3
Q: Should we learn to code?
The panel suggests that learning to think and understand system design is more important than chasing specific coding trades; natural language could become the next programming paradigm while foundational knowledge remains valuable.

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