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Zero Shot

The Ken
Artificial Intelligence
India
Voice AI
Perplexity
Anthropic
Sarvam
Openai
Startups
Chatgpt
Microsoft
Google
Data Centers
Foundational AI Models
Venture Capital
AI Impact Summit
UPI
Cloud Technologies
Fintech
New Delhi Declaration On AI
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Join Brady Ng, Praveen Gopal Krishnan, and Rohin Dharmakumar of The Ken as they discuss the big ideas in artificial intelligence. You’ll get the macro view, explore their experiments in practical applications, go deeper than the news coverage you’ve seen, and hear about the implications of the latest developments. Nothing is off the table.

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On May 5, Anthropic released 10 financial services agents. The company said they "pair best" with Claude Opus 4.7, a "state-of-the-art" model that leads the industry on financial agent benchmarks. And the hype followed. The media called the agents a ... more

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Abhishek Pathak
Lead Analyst, IT Services and Internet at Motilal Oswal Financial Services
Motilal Oswal Financial Services
Episode: HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
Kashyap Kompella
Founder and CEO of RPA2AI Research
RPA2AI Research
Episode: HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
Shashank Bijapur
Co-founder & CEO of SpotDraft
SpotDraft
Episode: 'The application layer is dead': SpotDraft's Shashank Bijapur on why System of Record is the real moat
Saeed Musheer Ahmed
Founder of FinStep Asia; FinTech entrepreneur and ex-regulator
FinStep Asia
Episode: Anthropic's agents are your new finance professionals. They don’t offer investment advice
Sharath Chandra
Founder of EmpowerEdge Ventures; advisor to startups
EmpowerEdge Ventures
Episode: Anthropic's agents are your new finance professionals. They don’t offer investment advice
Dhananjay Yadav
Co-founder and CEO of NeoSapien
NeoSapien
Episode: The AI wearable market is full of dead devices. NeoSapien thinks India can turn the tide
Sumanth Raghavendra
Founder of presentations.ai and co-founder of The Ken
presentations.ai / The Ken
Episode: How Presentations.AI went from $0 to $5M in revenue with zero new hires
Afra Wang
Writer behind Concurrent; co-host of a Mandarin language podcast CyberPink
Concurrent; CyberPink
Episode: China built AI differently than the US. Can India do the same?
Muralikrishnan B
President, Xiaomi India (former); has PhD on how platforms create lock-in
Xiaomi India
Episode: Zero Shot Live: Who will survive Agentic AI in India?

Hosts

Brady Ng
Host with recurring presence and co-host roles across multiple episodes.
Praveen Gopal Krishnan
Co-host and frequent participant; deep involvement in show discussions.
Rohin Dharmakumar
Co-host and lead Pancake-based discussion contributor; provides enterprise and AI industry perspective.

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 29 ratings
  • Brevity is the soul of subscription

    Great insights but you guys have to figure out how to compact it the way the Economist and others do. Otherwise the incisive ideas get lost in all the convoluted chatter.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    Nair DA
    India3 months ago
  • Bold and investigative with first principles

    Talk is on what’s incentivising the actions in AI and the bigger business interplay. Focus on what’s happened at macro level for india, China and USA

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ak_rulz
    India4 months ago
  • Interesting conversations on AI

    What I particularly like about Zero shot is it’s not a traditional Q&A or reading out headlines from International newspaper, rather it’s free flow discussion among 3 intellectually curious hosts which makes it interesting and also fun at the same time.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Curious_Idiot
    India7 months ago

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Bold and investigative with first principles and macro AI focus.
Great insights but the show could benefit from tighter editing to keep ideas crisp.
Not traditional Q&A—free-flow discussions among three curious hosts feel fresh and engaging.

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HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
Q: Why would a services firm do a large investment rather than licensing or using open models?
Investing allows control over IP and monetization pathways, alignment with India's sovereign AI agenda, and access to strategic enterprise relationships, which could yield longer-term competitive advantages beyond simple licensing.
HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
Q: What exactly is HCLTech buying into with this investment in Sarvam?
The panel frames it as a strategic bet on a sovereign, India-focused frontier model that could become foundational for India's sovereign AI stack, with potential to monetize through integration, services, and future data-center and enterprise deployment opportunities.
China built AI differently than the US. Can India do the same?
Q: What does the example of a luggage factory using AI tell us about real-world deployment in China versus the US?
Afra and her co-hosts discuss how a Chinese leather factory uses AI image recognition to map cowhide flaws and generate optimal cutting paths, illustrating how available industries and data work enable AI solutions that may not exist in the US market, underscoring that AI deployment is highly contextual to local supply chains and capabilities.
China built AI differently than the US. Can India do the same?
Q: Can you briefly introduce the China OS vs. America OS concept and why you wrote the updated 2026 version?
Afra explains that the piece uses an operating-system analogy to highlight how two nations run different governance, talent, and cultural systems, and why naive one-to-one mappings fail; she credits the idea to observations from her circle and co-authors, emphasizing that power, energy, talent, and sovereignty shape AI ecosystems distinctly.
Salary, Bonus, Equity… Tokens?
Q: How do you handle token budgets in practice at Clueso, especially across engineers, designers, and sales?
We monitor monthly spend, incentivize productive use rather than sheer consumption, allow experimentation, and use project updates to contextualize why tokens were spent and what value was created.

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What is Zero Shot about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A thoughtful, forward-looking tech discussion that centers on artificial intelligence from multiple angles: regulatory and competitive dynamics, enterprise tooling, and AI-enabled business models. Episodes frequently feature guests from law, startups, and large tech organizations to unpack how AI stacks, data ownership, pricing shifts, and policy developments intersect with real-world product and market strategy. Notable is the willingness to connect macro shifts in AI with concrete industry outcomes—from Indian regulatory cases to enterprise tool governance and the evolution of AI-native startups. Listeners likely gain practical perspectives for pitching guests, sponsoring opportunities, or identifying sponsorship-ready topics tied to AI a... more

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