The Brutal Reality of Building Agentic Products Today
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Nautilo creator Dan Jeffries discusses building personal and collaborative AI agents, including persistent memory, private context, and deterministic tools that complement LLM judgment. The conversation also covers tradeoffs between local and cloud models, hardware limits, and…
Airbnb Is Building a ‘Company Brain’ for AI Agents
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Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle describes Project Everest, a “company brain” that captures employee workflow knowledge for AI agents, and the challenges of stale information and context poisoning. The episode also covers agent evaluation, measuring engineering value beyond token use and…
This Founder Raised $112M to Build Retail AI That Sells Like TikTok
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Zoe Weil discusses how Sequen’s retail AI ranking systems use signals such as scroll speed and hover duration to infer shopper intent without relying on identity. The episode also covers specialized models, low-latency Rust infrastructure, evaluation against b…
Diogo Almeida discusses Jev, TypeSafe’s model for bringing fast, reliable intelligence into software, and why he believes text-generation models are poorly suited to some real-world automation decisions. The conversation covers how Jev differs from classifiers and LLM-based approaches, r…
From Math Olympiads to Navier-Stokes: How Fast Is AI Progressing?
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The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington examines From Math Olympiads to Navier-Stokes: How Fast Is AI Progressing. The publisher describes it as: “AI systems have gone from struggling with grade-school math to helping solve research problems that have resisted m…
The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington examines From Voice Agents to AI Avatars. The publisher describes it as: “In this episode, Alex Smola, co-founder and CEO of Boson AI, explores the path from today’s voice agents to audiovisual agents and AI avatars. We discuss”. This is a creator-led accou…
Do AI Tokenomics Matter More Than Model Benchmarks?
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The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington examines Do AI Tokenomics Matter More Than Model Benchmarks. The publisher describes it as: “As reasoning models consume more tokens and AI systems become more expensive to run, understanding what those tokens actually buy is becoming i…
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