“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” The Generalist Podcast brings you weekly conversations with the people who live in these pockets of the future – visionary founders, prescient investors, and original thinkers. Each episode is designed to introduce you to new ideas, technologies, and markets and help you prepare for the world of tomorrow.
Simile leverages generative AI to build foundation models of human behavior, enabling the simulation of individuals and populations with over 85% accuracy. By creating digital twins from behavioral and interview data, the company allows enterprises to test strategies, products, and policies in virtual environments befo...
Physical intelligence represents the next frontier in AI, moving beyond digital tasks to enable robots to manipulate the physical world with human-like dexterity. Pete Florence, co-founder and CEO of Generalist, highlights the breakthrough capabilities of the Gen 1.5 foundation model, which demonstrates one-shot and fe...
Advanced AI development currently follows an inherently dangerous trajectory, driven by economic incentives that prioritize agentic, self-sustainable systems over safety. Jaan Tallinn, a veteran AI safety advocate and early investor in DeepMind and Anthropic, argues that the recent OpenAI/Hugging Face incident demonstr...
Periodic Labs aims to build "synthesis superintelligence" by bridging the gap between digital AI reasoning and physical scientific experimentation. While LLMs excel at coding and mathematics due to instantly verifiable rewards and complete context, scientific discovery requires navigating uncertainty and physical const...
Industrial control software has remained stagnant since the 1980s, creating a critical bottleneck for companies building complex hardware like rockets and nuclear reactors. Revel addresses this by providing a modern software platform designed to replace outdated, inefficient legacy systems. Founded by SpaceX veteran Sc...
Owning proprietary intelligence is becoming an existential necessity for enterprises as reliance on general-purpose frontier models creates significant cost inefficiencies and data security risks. Yash Patil, founder of Applied Compute and former OpenAI researcher, argues that companies should leverage open-weight mode...
Diode aims to revitalize American hardware manufacturing by creating an "AWS for electronics," enabling rapid prototyping and production of circuit boards. By integrating large language models into the design process, the company removes traditional bottlenecks, allowing hardware startups to iterate with the speed of s...
Physical intelligence represents the next frontier in robotics, shifting from rigid, pre-programmed machines to generalist models capable of navigating diverse environments. By integrating large language models with robotic motion, these systems leverage vast internet-based knowledge to generalize across tasks, moving ...
Markus Villig, CEO of Bolt, discusses the company's origins, culture, and strategies for competing in the transportation and logistics market. Villig emphasizes Bolt's underdog mentality, rooted in Estonia's history and culture, and its focus on operational excellence and frugality. He recounts Bolt's pivot to food del...
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