#268 Kiren Sekar: The Future of Physical Operations Is AI-Powered (Here's Why)
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. How AI Is Transforming the Physical World | Samsara’s Vision for the Future of Operations In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Kiren Sekar, Chief Product Officer at Samsara, to explore how AI, edge computing, and IoT are revolutionizing the world of physical operations - from fleets and factories to farms and field teams. Samsara has quietly become the digital backbone for thousands of frontline businesses, collecting trillions of data points across...
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#267 Nabil Bukhari: Exploring the Future of AI-Powered Enterprise Networking with Extreme Networks
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What does the future of enterprise networking really look like? In this episode, Extreme Networks’ Chief Product & Technology Officer Nabil Bukhari joins Craig to explore how AI, autonomous agents, and platform thinking are transforming the core infrastructure of modern businesses. From managing mission-critical networks to building agentic systems that collaborate, troubleshoot, and scale autonomously - this is a deep dive into how connectivity is being redefined from the ground up. Whether you’re a tech leader, CIO, product builder, or simply curious about how...
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#266 Andy Kurtzig: How Pearl Uses AI + Human Experts In Professional Services
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. What if AI could actually be trusted in healthcare, law, or even car repair? In this episode, Andy Kurtzig, founder and CEO of Pearl (formerly JustAnswer), reveals how his platform is solving the biggest problems in AI: hallucinations, liability, and monetization. Pearl blends large language models with real human experts across 700+ categories—so users get AI speed and human-verified accuracy. Whether you're a doctor, mechanic, or just someone with a question, Pearl offers fast, affordable, and...
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#265 Jeff Lu: How Akool Uses Gen AI to Make Live AI Avatars & Voices
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What if you could translate any video into any language—instantly—and make it look like the speaker was really speaking it? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Jeff Liu, founder and CEO of Akool, to explore how AI avatars and real-time video translation are eliminating global language barriers. With a background at Apple, Google, and Stanford, Jeff is leading Akool to the frontier of generative AI: cloning faces, voices, and emotions in live video streams. We dive into the technical architecture behind Akool’s real-time avatars, the role of large...
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#264 Amr Awadallah: Vectara’s Mission To Make AI Hallucination-Free & Enterprise Ready
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. What’s stopping large language models from being truly enterprise-ready? In this episode, Vectara CEO and co-founder Amr Awadallah breaks down how his team is solving one of AI’s biggest problems: hallucinations. From his early work at Yahoo and Cloudera to building Vectara, Amr shares his mission to make AI accurate, secure, and explainable. He dives deep into why RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is essential, how Vectara detects hallucinations in real-time, and...
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#263 Jarek Kutylowski: How DeepL Is Using AI to Break Language Barriers
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What if language was no longer a barrier to global business? In this episode, DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski joins Craig Smith to unpack how AI-powered translation is reshaping the way companies communicate across borders. From real-time speech tools to enterprise-grade language workflows, Jarek shares DeepL’s journey, the tech behind their LLMs, and why accuracy, nuance, and localization matter more than ever. If you're building for a global audience, this conversation is a must-listen. About Jarek: Dr. Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski is the founder and CEO of DeepL,...
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#262 Deepak Chopra: How to Use AI to Expand Human Consciousness
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. Can AI expand human consciousness? Or is it just a simulation of wisdom? In this mind-bending episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with world-renowned spiritual teacher and author Deepak Chopra to explore the future of Artificial Intelligence, consciousness, health, and spiritual awakening. Deepak unpacks the ideas behind his latest book, Digital Dharma, and shares how his team built a small language model—DeepakChopra.ai—designed to serve as a digital health and spiritual...
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#261 Jonathan Frankle: How Databricks is Disrupting AI Model Training
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This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking. Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today’s innovative AI tech companies who upgraded to OCI…and saved. Try OCI for free at What if you could fine-tune an AI model without any labeled data—and still outperform traditional training methods? In this episode of Eye on AI, we sit...
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#260 Ash Anwar: How Molecular You Uses AI for Early Disease Detection
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. What if your blood could reveal the future of your health - years before symptoms ever appear? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Ash Anwar, co-founder of Molecular You, to explore how AI and advanced biomarker analysis are transforming how we detect and prevent disease. From a real-life case where stage 1 pancreatic cancer was caught early, to the science behind tracking 250+ dynamic biomarkers, Ash breaks down how Molecular You is shifting healthcare from reactive...
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#259 Anjney Midha: a16z’s Strategy to Turn AI Startups into Unicorns
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AGNTCY - Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit and add your support. What does it really take to turn cutting-edge AI research into a successful foundation model company? In this episode of Eye on AI, we sit down with Anjney Midha, General Partner at a16z, to unpack how he helps scientists and researchers transform their breakthroughs into scalable, real-world AI businesses. From his early backing of Anthropic to launching Mistral and Black Forest Labs, Anjney shares a behind-the-scenes look at how AI infrastructure companies are born. We...
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The Future of AI is Open-Source | Manos Koukoumidis on UMI & The AI Revolution
Is closed AI holding back innovation? In this episode, Manos Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi, makes the case for why the future of AI must be open-source. OUMI (Open Universal Machine Intelligence) is redefining how AI is built—offering fully open models, open data, and open collaboration to make AI development more transparent, accessible, and community-driven.
Big Tech has dominated AI, but UMI is challenging the status quo by creating a platform where anyone can train, fine-tune, and deploy AI models with just a few commands. Could this be the Linux moment for AI?
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Why open-source AI is the only sustainable path forward
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The difference between “open-source” AI and true open AI
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How OUMI enables researchers and enterprises to build better AI models
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Why Big Tech’s closed AI systems are losing their competitive edge
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The impact of open AI on healthcare, science, and enterprise innovation
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The future of AI models—will proprietary AI survive?
The AI revolution is happening—and it’s open-source. If you care about the future of AI, innovation, and ethical tech development, this episode is a must-watch.
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(00:00) The True Meaning of Open-Source AI
(02:15) The Open vs. Closed AI Debate
(07:54) Why Open AI Models Are Safer
(10:34) Defining Open Data
(13:21)Beating GPT-4-O with an Open AI Model
(16:36) Open AI in Healthcare
(19:31) Why Open Models Will Dominate
(23:07) How OUMI Makes AI Training Fully Accessible & Reproducible
(28:44) UMI’s Collaboration with Universities
(32:29) The Shift Toward Open A
(36:41) Can We Build Truly Open AI Models from Scratch?
(40:20) The Role of Open AI in Eliminating Bias
(45:02) Will Open AI Replace Proprietary AI Models?
(50:19) How OUMI Works
(54:44) The Open AI Revolution Has Begun