Sep 16, 2025

The Startup Powering The Data Behind AGI

Edwin Chen, founder and CEO of Surge AI, shares the company's origin story, its rapid, bootstrapped growth, and its research-driven philosophy on data. He critiques traditional data labeling, explains why metrics like inter-annotator agreement fail for complex tasks, and offers a sharp analysis of benchmark hacking. Chen also details the future of data, from multimodal and agentic reasoning in rich RL environments to the need for hyper-specialized expertise for scientific discovery.

Sep 16, 2025

Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era

Box CEO Aaron Levie discusses the paradigm shift from cloud to AI, arguing that AI will augment jobs by automating non-strategic work and create massive opportunities for startups to tackle previously unsolvable problems with unstructured data. He covers the evolution of SaaS business models, the 'build vs. buy' debate, and offers key advice for founders in the AI era.

Sep 16, 2025

923: Graph Algorithms, GraphRAG and Causal Graphs — with Graph Guru Amy Hodler

Graph analytics expert Amy Hodler explores the power of graph data structures, covering fundamental concepts, graph algorithms like PageRank, and their application in fraud detection and supply chain optimization. She delves into the emergence of Graph RAG for enhancing AI systems and discusses the future of graphs as memory for AI agents and in causal inference.

Sep 15, 2025

Codex and the future of coding with AI — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 6

OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Thibault Sottiaux explore the evolution of AI-powered software development, from the first coding sparks in GPT-3 to today's GPT-5 Codex. They detail the concept of the "harness," the rise of agentic coding, breakthroughs in automated code review, and how AI agents capable of running for hours on complex refactoring will reshape the future of engineering.

Sep 15, 2025

Numeral: Building the Global Tax Platform

Co-founder Sam Ross discusses Numeral's journey from a personal e-commerce pain point to a venture-backed global tax platform. He covers the market opportunity created by outdated incumbents, the 'do things that don't scale' approach to finding product-market fit, lessons from fundraising, and how Numeral leverages AI to automate complex compliance workflows, shifting from a tool to a full-service solution.

Sep 15, 2025

Building Multi-Player AI Systems (and why it’s SO hard)

MeshAgent introduces a multiplayer AI paradigm, shifting from single-user systems to collaborative 'Rooms' where teams of humans and agents can work together with shared context. This talk explores the platform's architecture, developer tools, and its approach to solving real-world collaborative tasks.