AI's Next Leap: Hyper-Realistic Agents & Unlimited Power | E2094

All right, guys, welcome back to Twist. This is Alex. AI is absolutely everywhere. We have been talking about it in terms of new models. Faster reasoning, who has the best inference engine, the list goes on. But AI is not just about the core technology. When we think about AI, we have to think about how we're going to empower the future. And how AI is going to change business today. So we have two interviews today with amazing twist five hundred companies.

The first one is with Zap Energy. Now, in this case, CEO Bench Conway and I talk about why they're pursuing Z pinch technology in their approach to fusion and how that's gonna get us all the way to commercialization. I'm very excited about fusion technology, not just in the AI context. And it's chats like this that really give me the confidence to say, Hey We are going to figure this out. Then we're talking to Poly AI and its CEO, Nikola Mircich.

Now we break down how AI powered voice assistants are taking on the customer service game and are changing it very, very quickly. So if you care about how AI actually interacts with the real world. how it impacts jobs, how it impacts workflows, that's the chat for you. We're gonna start with our zap energy interview. So here's my chat with Bench Conway all about fusion and why it's coming sooner than you think. This week in Startups is brought to you by

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