Alex Kendall, CEO of Wayve, discusses the architectural shift from AV 1.0's hand-engineered robotics to AV 2.0's end-to-end deep learning. He explains how Wayve's generalization-first approach, powered by world models and diverse data, allows them to scale across hundreds of cities and multiple automotive OEMs, creating a path toward a general-purpose embodied AI foundation model.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li discusses the history of AI, from the creation of ImageNet that sparked the deep learning revolution to the future of AI with spatial intelligence and world models. She introduces 'Marble', the first large world model, and explains its potential to unlock new frontiers in robotics, virtual production, and scientific discovery, all while emphasizing a human-centered approach to technological advancement.
Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, details the LeRobot project, aiming to replicate the success of Transformers in the robotics domain. He discusses the vision of creating a massive open-source community, tackling data scarcity, and the future of physical AI hardware, arguing that we are at a key inflection point for robotics similar to where LLMs were years ago.
Tech leader and investor Michelle Yi discusses the critical technical aspects of building trustworthy AI systems. She delves into adversarial attack and defense mechanisms, including red teaming, data poisoning, prompt stealing, and "slop squatting," and explores how advanced concepts like Constitutional AI and World Models can create safer, more reliable AI.
Google DeepMind researchers Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter detail the creation of Genie 3, a model that generates interactive, persistent worlds from text in real time. They cover its breakthrough spatial memory, emergent physical intuition, and its potential to revolutionize gaming, robotics, and AI agent training.
Partners Olivia and Justine Moore discuss the latest in consumer AI, including Grok's uniquely social and fast image generation, Google's interactive world model Genie 3, the user backlash to GPT-5's personality changes, ElevenLabs' licensed AI music model, and the emerging fragmentation of "vibecoding" platforms for technical and non-technical users.