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Exponential View by Azeem Azhar

Weekly deep dives on AI and exponential technologies from a global expert featured in The Economist, WSJ and Financial Times. Join investors, C-suite execs and global leaders and change how you think about the future. www.exponentialview.co

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9:39

🔮 Live from Davos: Musk special

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/22

Live from Davos: Today, the conversations have turned practical. Geopolitics feels less like a forecast and more like a constraint, while AI is no longer about distant futures but about whether it actually works inside businesses today. The question here is not whether these shifts are coming, but who adapts fast enough when the ground starts to move. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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54:51

🔮 Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption,...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coListen on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyWe understand the coal industry better than the AI economy right now. Anthropic’s Economics team, led by Peter McCrory, is changing that. I invited Peter to break down their latest findings in the Economic Index report.We discuss: (00:00) Anthropic’s Economic Index report(01:20) Claude’s two distinct usage patterns(06:22) Examining AI’s impact on the labor market(09:20) Where most

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10:10

🔮 Live from Davos: waiting for Trump

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/21

Live from Davos: Trump lands in Zurich as a queue like I've never seen forms at the Congress Center. The mood is expectant, edgy, nervous. Carney captured it yesterday when he declared the rules-based order dead, that this isn't decline but rupture. The Europeans are waking up to the fact that they can't make their own chips or train their own models. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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9:03

🔮 Live with Eric Schmidt from Davos

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/20

Live from Davos: On his 25th trip – with the USA House looming large and Trump’s arrival imminent – Eric Schmidt and I dig into this “Shakespearean moment,” where AI is heading fastest and why he’s an optimist on the technology but a pessimist on the politics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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32:45

🔮 The new moat in 2026

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/16

Listen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsEarlier this month, I briefed members of Exponential View on the year ahead. I explored how the act of making has been transformed, why authenticity and meaning will become the new scarcity, and whether the foundations of energy and capital can hold. I also address the question I was asked most in 2025: when will the AI bubble burst?Paying members can access the full Q&A session here.Skip to the best bits:06:43 From execution to orchestration09:02 The agentic

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61:26

🔮 Anthropic's Head of Economics Peter McCrory on...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2026/01/15

Anthropic have just released a new Economic Index report. They’ve analysed millions of real Claude conversations to map exactly where AI is augmenting human work today, and where it isn’t. This is the best empirical window we have into how AI is reshaping work right now. I spoke with Peter McCrory, their Head of Economics, who led this research. You can watch the recording here, or wait until next week when we’ll have the edited version out on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.In the meantime,

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21:31

🔮 The best of my 2025 conversations: Kevin Kelly,...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/12/26

This year, I recorded 30 conversations on AI, technology, geopolitics, and the economy.What follows is a 20-minute edit, a way in. If you only had 20 minutes to orient on key ideas that were top of mind in 2025 and will hold as we step into the new year, these are the ideas I’d start with:Listen on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyJump to the key ideasPart 1 - AI as a general purpose tech2:27: Why this matters3:06: Kevin Weil: The test for a startup’s longevity4:01: Matthew Prince: The “Socialist” pricing

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25:17

🔮 Reflecting on 2025, the year AI became real

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/12/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coThe year AI became realAs we approach the end of the year, I want to reflect on what made 2025 special – what we learned about AI, what surprised me, and what it all means for the road ahead. This was the year artificial intelligence stopped being a curiosity and became infrastructure. The year models got good enough to do real work. And the year we began to understand just how profoundly this technology will reshape

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24:07

🔮 What it will take for AI to scale (energy, compute,...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/12/11

Listen on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyI recently set out my macro view on the next 24 months of AI. The response was strong and many of you wrote in with questions. In this episode, I build on that analysis and answer your questions.Some highlights:(03:36) The biggest AI constraint right now(10:43) Why mid-2026 is a crucial turning point(18:41) The market’s reaction to OpenAI’s code red(20:51) The best strategy for middling powers?🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for every video – including the ones we don’t

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29:27

🔮 The real bottlenecks in AI + Q&A

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/12/05

In today’s session I reflected on why AI’s bottleneck is no longer the models but the systems expected to absorb them.I followed with a Q&A that touched on* OpenAI’s competitive position* Where value will accrue in the stack* The role of energy and grid limits* The impact of cybersecurity risksEnjoy!Azeem This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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24:13

🔮 The S-curves rewriting our economy

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/12/05

Listen on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyYesterday, I unpacked the commercial reality behind Gemini’s release and OpenAI’s “Code Red.” Recent moves look defensive and could narrow OpenAI’s route to a $100 billion in revenues.But past the immediate competition, we are seeing overlapping S-curves of technology rewriting the rules of our economy. In this video, I step back from the leaderboard to look at the transition from scale to reasoning, the “TAM fallacy” that is blinding investors, and the emergence

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29:18

🔮 ChatGPT in history

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/11/28

In today’s session, I used ChatGPT’s third birthday as an opportunity to show how the exponential age is unfolding in real time. The technology improves rapidly, people integrate it into their lives but our institutions adjust much more slowly - a tension I explored in my first book. Enjoy!Azeem This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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21:31

👀 The AI productivity paradox

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/11/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coListen on Apple PodcastsThe AI industry is sending mixed signals – markets are turning red while teams report real productivity gains. Today, I examine the latest research to understand this split reality.Skip to the best part(02:53) Unpacking three years of AI productivity data(09:54) The surprising group benefitting from AI(14:33) Anthropic’s alarming discovery(17:29) The counterintuitive truth about AI

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47:58

🔮 Breaking down the job market shake-up & the new...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/11/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coListen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsSomething important is happening with the labor market. US employers announced over 153,000 job cuts in October, the highest monthly total in more than two decades. Amazon announced about 14,000 corporate job cuts as it pivots towards AI-driven operations. At the same time, research shows that entry-level opportunities are shrinking and new entrants to the job market have it harder

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25:36

The split reality of AI: rising productivity, flat...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/11/14

In today’s live, I explored why AI feels transformative for individuals but frustratingly slow at the organisational level. It’s the exponential gap that I dissect in my book: organisations struggle to update old processes in the face of rapidly improving technology. Enjoy!Azeem This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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16:52

🔮 The infinite-compute economy has already started

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/11/07

Listen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsThe cloud boom, the chip frenzy, the race to build ever-larger data centres – surely we are simply riding the hype cycle of GPTs and chatbots?That view is far too small.What is happening is a structural re-engineering of the economy. From an economy that uses computation to one that is built on computation. Global computing power has grown by roughly 11 orders of magnitude since 1972 – a 62% compound annual increase across five decades. Every technological leap,

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20:28

🔮 The demand for infinite compute

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/10/31

In today’s live I asked whether the cloud and chip surge is exuberance or something deeper. The answer is that we’re seeing a profound, structural shift: the economy is moving into a computational fabric alongside the physical elements of the real economy. I’ll publish more on this topic this weekend.Happy Halloween!Azeem This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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45:20

🔮 Inside the US-China decoupling: AI, rare earths,...

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/10/23

Watch on YouTube Listen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsI got together with China expert Jordan Schneider to understand his view on the new phase of the US-China competition. Both countries are using trade policy, export controls and industrial strategy to shift the balance of global power. Just earlier this month, China rolled out its toughest-ever curbs on rare earths and related tech. Yet, the US and China economies remain tightly bound. Jordan and I sit down to make sense of this. Jump to the best

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55:25

🔮 Is the China-US race entering a new paradigm?

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/10/17

Today’s live featured Jordan Schneider, founder and host of ChinaTalk, who’s been analysing China’s rise for years. We examined how rare earth policy, export controls, and tariff carve outs suggest a shift in China’s relationship with the US: from containment to system building. I’ll publish more detailed notes and reflections soon.Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.exponentialview.co/subscribe

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46:43

🔮 How Al is breaking and rebuilding the internet economy

Exponential View by Azeem Azhar ·

2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.exponentialview.coI recorded a conversation with Matthew Prince, co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare, a company that sits at the heart of the internet. Few operators have Matthew’s vantage point on how the network is evolving, which makes him uniquely placed to answer: if AI agents read, who gets paid?Jump to highlights:(00:46) The web’s currency is dying(16:19) A mathematical model for knowledge – and its implications on the web(24:35)

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