
This Week in AI
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This Week in AI
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Weekly Roundtables with AI Experts and Founders. Stay ahead of the curve... Presented by PayPal Open: One Platform for All Business








"Any feature we release, a competitor could release within two weeks." @MatanSF (@FactoryAI) on why the moat isn't software anymore. @dsa (@livekit) on building the framework for voice, video, and physical AI. @gsivulka (@HebbiaAI) on what it takes to win in vertical AI. They join @jason on This Week in AI, Episode 11: 00:00 Intro & AGI debate 03:30 Factory: autonomy for software engineering 04:29 LiveKit: open source to ChatGPT voice 10:31 Hebbia: AI for capital markets 13:21 SpaceX-Cursor $60 billion deal breakdown 26:28 Moats in the age of vibe coding 38:10 Deterministic agents vs. open chaos 45:56 DeepSeek V4 01:05:23 OpenAI's spend problem 01:12:08 P-doom scores














"LM Arena is a cancer on AI. Labs have entire teams dedicated to hacking it." Edwin Chen (@echen), CEO of Surge AI, on why the industry's favorite benchmark is broken and how Surge hit $1.2 billion in revenue without ever raising. Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas), CEO of Perplexity, on Apple's AI advantage, Claude Code economics, the endgame of coding, and Perplexity Computer. They join @Jason on This Week in AI Episode 10: 00:00 Intro to Aravind Srinivas and Edwin Chen 05:25 Edwin on Surge: School for AGI 10:47 What Apple's next CEO should do 21:20 "The iPhone is not getting disrupted by AI" 23:55 Bootstrapping Surge past $1B without raising 30:58 Claude Code as a loss leader 33:30 Are we in the endgame for coding? 41:34 30% headcount growth, 5x revenue 50:29 "People don't buy models, they buy products" 58:00 "LM Arena is a cancer on AI" 1:05:41 Model Council and orchestrating frontier models Full episode on YT, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts below: @perplexity_ai @HelloSurgeAI

