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The Superintelligence Podcast

Kim Isenberg & Peter Thum

Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum talk with the founders, researchers and business leaders building AI, robotics and the technology around them.We ask how their products work, what customers actually use, where the technology falls short and what it takes to build a business around it. Conversations range from AI models and agents to infrastructure, startups and the future of work.Watch the interviews and read Superintelligence at https://getsuperintel.com.

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00:57:41

Can AI Tell How You Feel? | Hume AI’s Andrew Ettinger...

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2026/10/08

Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with Hume AI’s Andrew Ettinger and Olya Ossipova to explore voice AI, emotion, and the challenge of measuring how well a model listens.The conversation focuses on the information a transcript can miss: tone, hesitation, urgency, and the context behind someone’s words. We look at Hume’s VoiceEQ benchmark and Kairos evaluation platform, where human judgment remains essential, and how companies can evaluate voice models for the situations their customers actually

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00:35:20

Can Europe Trust Google With Its AI? | Google VP...

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2026/10/02

I sat down with Dr. Wieland Holfelder, Vice President of Engineering at Google and Site Lead for Google’s Engineering Center in Munich, to discuss sovereign AI for Europe—and what security means when AI agents can take action inside organizations.

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01:25:41

Is LTX-2.5 Really a World Model? LTX CTO Yaron Inger...

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2026/09/02

Can an AI video model genuinely understand how the world works, or is it still just generating increasingly convincing pixels?In this episode, Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with Yaron Inger, Co-Founder and CTO of LTX, to examine the technology and business behind LTX-2.5, the company’s latest open-weights video and world model.We discuss what actually changed from LTX-2.3, how native multi-shot generation maintains consistency across cuts, where the model still fails, and whether its

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00:51:19

Open-Source AI vs. Frontier Models: DataCamp’s...

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2026/08/27

In this episode, Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with DataCamp co-founder and CEO Jonathan Cornelissen and Chief AI Officer Yusuf Saber to explore how generative AI is transforming education and professional learning.They discuss the development of DataCamp’s AI Tutor, how the company evaluates open-source models against proprietary frontier systems, and what it takes to turn rapidly improving AI capabilities into a reliable product for millions of learners.Yusuf also shares lessons from

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01:08:23

Is Europe actually building sovereign AI—or simply...

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2026/08/14

In this episode of Means of Production, Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with PandaOS co-founders Philipp Türker and Marco Szeidenleder to examine what technological sovereignty really means in the age of AI.The conversation explores Europe’s dependence on US frontier models, why hosting a foreign model in a European data center does not automatically create sovereignty, and whether European companies need to rethink how they control their data, infrastructure, and access to AI.Philipp and Marco

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00:27:54

Can Cloudflare Make AI Companies Pay Creators? —...

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2026/08/03

AI companies increasingly crawl and use content from the open web, while creators and publishers often receive neither meaningful traffic nor compensation in return.In this episode, Kim Isenberg speaks with Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudflare, about the company’s plan to reshape that relationship. They discuss why Cloudflare is giving website owners greater control over AI bots, the shift from Pay Per Crawl to Pay Per Use, and whether major AI companies are genuinely prepared to

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01:08:20

Why AI Agents Break in Production | Alex Salazar (CEO...

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2026/07/30

AI agents are rapidly moving from demos into production, but intelligence isn't the biggest challenge. Trust is.In this episode, Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with Alex Salazar, co-founder and CEO of Arcade and former VP of Product at Okta, to explore why permissions, governance, and identity are becoming the critical infrastructure for enterprise AI.Alex explains why today's agents often fail in production, why giving an AI agent unrestricted access is dangerous, how MCP differs from

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00:35:42

Why AI Factories Need a New Data Layer — with Sven...

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2026/07/23

In this episode of Means of Production, Kim Isenberg speaks with Sven Breuner from VAST Data about one of the most underestimated bottlenecks in AI infrastructure: the data layer.As AI factories scale from thousands to tens of thousands of GPUs, performance is no longer just about having faster chips. The real challenge is often whether the underlying storage, metadata, networking, and data architecture can keep up with the demands of modern training and inference workloads.Sven explains why GPUs

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00:19:53

NVIDIA’s Quantum Computing Strategy with Sam Stanwyck...

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2026/07/09

In this episode, Kim Isenberg sits down with NVIDIA’s Sam Stanwyck at ISC to discuss one of the most misunderstood frontiers in technology: quantum computing.Sam leads NVIDIA’s quantum computing product team, where he focuses on how accelerated computing, GPUs, AI, and software tools like CUDA-Q can help move quantum computing from research toward practical applications.The conversation explores why NVIDIA is not building its own quantum computer, but instead working on the infrastructure around

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00:54:32

Notion’s Co-Founder on the Rise of AI Agent Workspaces

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2026/06/22

Description:In this exclusive Superintelligence interview, Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum sit down with Akshay Kothari, Co-Founder of Notion, to discuss how Notion is evolving from a notes and productivity app into an agent-first workspace.The conversation explores how humans, custom code, and AI agents could soon collaborate side by side inside the same operating layer for work. Akshay explains why Notion’s template ecosystem became such a powerful unlock, how AI agents can automate busy work without

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00:27:08

Google DeepMind on Local Models, Open Source & the...

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2026/06/09

In this exclusive interview from Google I/O, I speak with Omar Sanseviero and Paige Bailey from Google DeepMind about the rapidly evolving AI landscape.We discuss the rise of local models, the growing importance of open source and open models, the role of developer communities, and how global competition — especially from China — is shaping the next phase of artificial intelligence.A conversation about where AI is heading next: from frontier labs to local inference, from closed systems to open

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00:42:12

LTX CEO Zeev Farbman on Open AI Video Models, Local...

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2026/05/28

In this episode, Superintelligence Editor-in-Chief Kim Isenberg speaks with Zeev Farbman, CEO and co-founder of Lightricks/LTX, about the future of AI video, open foundation models, and local creative workflows.Farbman explains why LTX is betting on open weights, local inference, and efficient models optimized for Nvidia GPUs — and why closed API models may be a long-term problem for developers, studios, and enterprises. The conversation also covers Lightricks’ strategic restructuring, competition

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00:43:48

"Your Calendar Is Leaking Revenue" — How SkipUp's AI...

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2026/05/14

Every company has a scheduling problem. Most just don't know how expensive it is. The coordination tax on mid-market companies runs up to $4,500 per employee per year, and up to 70% of inbound leads never even make it to a booked meeting. In this episode, Superintelligence Editor-in-Chief Kim sits down with SkipUp co-founders Dheer and Sasha to unpack why scheduling is still fundamentally broken in 2026 and how their AI agent is replacing the entire back-and-forth. SkipUp doesn't send a booking link

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00:20:22

Beyond LLMs: How Large Quantitative Models Are Curing...

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2026/04/28

LLMs predict the next word. LQMs predict the physical world.In this episode, Kim sits down with Nadia Harhen, General Manager of AI Simulation at SandboxAQ — a company that spun out of Google's Moonshot Factory, raised over $950 million, and counts NVIDIA and Google among its investors.Nadia explains what Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) are, how they differ from the LLMs we all know, and why they could be the key to inventing new drugs, designing next-generation batteries, and tackling problems

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00:19:07

Inside Nemotron: NVIDIA’s Kari Briski on the...

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2026/04/14

NVIDIA’s Kari Briski joins Kim Isenberg live from GTC 2026 to break down Nemotron 3 Super — a 120B parameter model with a hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer/MoE architecture, 1M token context, and 5x throughput gains. They go deep on what makes it different, why NVIDIA released the full training recipe, and what the new Nemotron Coalition signals about where enterprise AI is heading.

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