Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana discuss why founders should pursue contrarian ideas in a crowded AI market. They analyze how companies like Uber, Coinbase, and Flock Safety found massive success by tackling non-obvious, legally ambiguous, or seemingly impossible problems that others ignored.
Eric Zelikman, formerly of Stanford and xAI, discusses his research on AI reasoning (STaR, Q-STaR) and introduces his new venture, humans&. He argues for a paradigm shift from building AI with pure IQ to AI with EQ, focusing on long-term memory, human collaboration, and empowering users to achieve their full potential.
Raiza Martin, co-founder of Huxe and former leader of Google’s NotebookLM team, discusses the move from the text-based, source-grounded world of NotebookLM to building Huxe, an audio-first, mobile-first personal AI companion designed to create delightful and useful experiences in the interstitial moments of a user's day.
OpenAI researchers discuss the step-change in capabilities in ChatGPT-5, from coding and reasoning to creative writing. They detail the data-centric training processes, the shift toward asynchronous agentic workflows, and the future of AI development and its impact on the startup ecosystem.