

Sources with Alex Heath
Sources features candid conversations with the leaders shaping what’s next in AI and the broader tech industry. Host Alex Heath has covered Silicon Valley as a journalist for more than a decade. He talks with founders, CEOs, and technologists about the news of the moment, the bets they’re making, and what they see coming next.
Episodes


Qualcomm’s CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle

Reflection’s founders on building a DeepSeek of the West

OpenAI’s Dots lead on the future of ChatGPT
Dots represents the next evolution of AI, shifting from reactive chat interfaces to persistent, proactive agents capable of independent, long-horizon task execution. By embodying these agents with distinct identities and integrating them into communication platforms like Slack, users can delegate complex, multi-day wor...

Factory CEO on why AGI is already here

Satya Nadella on Microsoft's agent bet and AI’s trust problem
The rise of AI agents marks a fundamental shift in digital interaction, moving beyond simple chat interfaces toward autonomous "autopilots" capable of managing complex, long-running enterprise workflows. Microsoft is positioning its Copilot ecosystem to serve as this new control plane, integrating infrastructure, model...

Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack
The current AI landscape represents a transformative shift, moving beyond initial hype into a phase of practical application and enterprise integration. Salesforce’s strategy centers on grounding AI in reliable customer data, utilizing a "headless" approach where metadata is recomposed into dynamic, intelligent interfa...

Baseten’s CEO on why every company will want to own its AI
AI inference serves as the critical backbone for deploying models in production, bridging the gap between raw compute and functional applications. As enterprises prioritize "owned intelligence" to maintain data sovereignty and cost control, the demand for specialized software stacks that manage heterogeneous compute ac...

Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Meta's biggest AI bet yet
The future of artificial intelligence depends on distributing powerful technology to the general population to foster broad-based prosperity and maintain essential checks and balances. Rather than allowing a small number of labs to hoard capabilities, Meta is prioritizing open-source models and personal agents like "Mu...

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s next model and the AI backlash
OpenAI is prioritizing safety and alignment as model capabilities reach unprecedented levels, necessitating a strategic shift in development. Recent internal observations of misalignment and the "Hugging Face" incident prompted a deliberate delay of a Frontier RL training run to reallocate resources toward robust safet...

Trailer: Sam Altman on the Sources Podcast

Meet the most AI-pilled CEO on Earth
AI integration into daily workflows requires a shift from simple automation to "compound engineering," where systems evolve to make subsequent tasks easier. Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, highlights how AI agents now function as full co-workers, capable of scaling human taste by learning from historical data, such as style...

This AI will push back if you're rude to it

The AI writing app fighting AI slop
Writing tools have stagnated for two decades, leaving writers trapped in transcription-focused software that ignores the creative process of pre-writing, drafting, and rewriting. Marker, a new AI-powered platform, aims to restore intentionality by treating writing as a recursive process of discovery rather than a mere ...

This AI tells you what your friends won't

The billionaire paying AI researchers to stay out of Big Tech

A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri

AI is turning sketches into real-world products

Is Polsia AI slop or a cheat code for startups?

Substack’s CEO on AI slop, free speech, and taking on YouTube
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