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Oct. 15, 2024

James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Techno…

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey shares his unique career journey from a history major to a tech leader, discussing the evolution of technology from the .com era to modern AI implementations.

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Aug. 6, 2024

Agentic AI Employees You Can Hire Today with Surojit Chatterjee, Foun…

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, Surojit Chatterjee, founder of Ema AI, former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase and ex-Google VP, discusses the future of AI employees in enterprise. He explores how Ema's AI employee...

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July 16, 2024

How LiveKit is Giving OpenAI's GPT 4.0 Voice in Real-Time with Russel…

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, host Will Summerlin interviews Russel D'Sa, the founder of LiveKit, a company building critical infrastructure for real-time audio and video communication, used by OpenAI to voice ChatGPT.

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July 9, 2024

AI-Enabled Medicine: Transforming Patient Care & Mobility w/ Dr. Thom…

In this episode of the Autopilot Podcast, Will interviews Dr. Thomas Fu, an emergency medicine physician and founder of Enabled Health.

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June 18, 2024

Powering AI: Energy Bottlenecks, Hyperscalers, & AGI w/ Freda Duan, P…

In this episode, Will sits down with Freda Duan, investor at Altimeter Capital. They explore critical topics such as the energy bottlenecks in AI development, the future of AGI and ways in which we may have already achieved i...

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May 24, 2024

The Cutting Edge of Diffusion and Democratizing AI Video Generation w…

In this conversation, Will sits down with Paras Jain, co-founder and CEO of Genmo AI. They dive into AI video generation, diffusion, his path from self-driving cars to rapidly scaling Genmo to 1 million global users with six employees, the future of personalized AI video content, and more.

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May 3, 2024

Building AI Infrastructure with Benchmark-backed Fireworks AI Co-Foun…

In this episode, Will Summerlin is joined by Lin Qiao who shares her journey from leading the PyTorch team at Meta to founding Fireworks, a company focused on specialized, customized AI models for enterprise companies and startups. They explore the challenges of training and inference costs in buil…

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April 26, 2024

How AI is Powering Defense, ISR, and the Military Tech Stack with Mod…

In this episode of Autopilot with Will Summerlin, Modern Intelligence CEO John Dulin discusses the vital role of AI for the future of U.S. military defense and intelligence.

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April 18, 2024

AI for Creators: Automating Engagement Between Creators & Fans with M…

In this episode, Will sits down with Maggie Sin, the CEO and Co-founder of MyCompanions.ai.

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April 10, 2024

AI for In-House Legal Teams: Streamlining Research with Responsiv's C…

In this episode, Will interviews Jordan Domash, Cofounder and CEO of Responsiv AI.

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April 3, 2024

Manufacturing's AI Revolution: How Atomic is Automating Tool and Die …

In this episode, Will sits down with Aaron Slodov, CEO and Cofounder of Atomic, a company using AI to automate tool and die creation in manufacturing.

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March 27, 2024

Automating Circuit Board Design Using Reinforcement Learning with Ser…

In this episode, Will Summerlin interviews Sergiy Nesterenko, founder of Quilter (backed by Benchmark), a company that designs PCB circuitboards end-to-end using reinforcement learning.

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