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Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness

The entire startup ecosystem is racing to build agent harnesses. Logan Kilpatrick, who leads Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, argues that scramble has a roughly 12-month shelf life. Models will ab...

2026-06-11

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LIVE: Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, makes the case that computing is undergoing its biggest shift in 60 years: from retrieval, where data centers store files we look up, to generation, where ever...

2026-06-10

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Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss

Alfred Wahlforss, co-founder and CEO of Listen Labs, is building an AI agent that interviews your customers at a scale no focus group ever could—thousands of voice conversations at once, drawn from an...

2026-06-02

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How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL

Cursor's Federico Cassano and Fireworks' Dmytro Dzhulgakov explain how they collaborated to build Composer as a specialized foundation model. The core insight: models have finite capacity in their wei...

2026-05-26

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Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch

Jake Stauch, founder and CEO of Serval, is building a ServiceNow for the AI era. His most contrarian bet is that the product should look like boring old enterprise software, but with unlimited intelli...

2026-05-19

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Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now

Most music platforms assume you're a listener. On Suno, 90% of daily users make something. Founder and CEO Mikey Shulman explains why that flips the model: the act of creating IS the entertainment, w...

2026-05-14

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ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything

Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, joins Sequoia partner Andrew Reed at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about how a four-year-old company built a frontier audio AI business with just over 400...

2026-05-09

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Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't written a line of code in ...

2026-05-05

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Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy

Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about the 20-year arc from the DARPA Grand Challenge to fully autonomous service in eleven cities and...

2026-05-05

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OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck

Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, joins Sequoia partner Alfred Lin at AI Ascent 2026 for a conversation that spans the full OpenAI stack. He explains why the company will never have e...

2026-05-02

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Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI

Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in chemistry for AlphaFold, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 for a wide-ranging conversation abo...

2026-05-01

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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed in the year since he...

2026-04-30

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From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader

James Cadwallader, co-founder and CEO of Profound, makes the case that we are living through the biggest platform shift in marketing history. The front door of the internet hasn't changed, but the vis...

2026-04-14

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How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly founded Ginkgo Bioworks in 2008 with a simple but radical idea: DNA is code, and cells are programmable. Sixteen years later, AI is finally making that vision real in ways that could resha...

2026-03-24

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Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space

Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of Starcloud, explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade. After witnessing SpaceX's massive manufacturing...

2026-03-17

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Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World

Nominal’s cofounders (Cameron McCord, Jason Hoch and Bryce Strauss) realized that the new age of reindustrialization requires a new approach to hardware engineering and testing that’s closer to how so...

2026-03-10

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Building the GitHub for RL Environments: Prime Intellect's Will Brown & Johannes Hagemann

Will Brown and Johannes Hagemann of Prime Intellect discuss the shift from static prompting to "environment-based" AI development, and their Environments Hub, a platform designed to democratize fronti...

2026-02-10

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What’s the Future of Vertical SaaS in an AGI World? Jamie Cuffe, CEO of Pace

Jamie Cuffe is solving one of AI's hardest problems: getting conservative, regulated industries to trust autonomous agents with mission-critical work. At Pace, he's building AI that replaces tradition...

2026-02-03

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Making the Case for the Terminal as AI's Workbench: Warp’s Zach Lloyd

Zach Lloyd built Warp to modernize the terminal for professional developers, but the rise of coding agents transformed his company's trajectory. He discusses the convergence of IDEs and terminals into...

2026-01-28

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Context Engineering Our Way to Long-Horizon Agents: LangChain’s Harrison Chase

Harrison Chase, cofounder of LangChain and pioneer of AI agent frameworks, discusses the emergence of long-horizon agents that can work autonomously for extended periods. Harrison breaks down the ev...

2026-01-21

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