Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs' Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud

All right, everybody, welcome back to This Week in Startups. It's time again for our AI basics series. What is this? Ah man, founders ask us all the time the same questions over and over again. So we have done basics for legal, we've done it for marketing and growth tactics, obviously accounting, and here we are in the age of AI.

People need to understand the best practices and hey, it's moving pretty quickly. If you want to get caught up on your AI basics, go ahead and download this fantastic report by our partner, Google Cloud. It's called The Future of AI Perspectives for Startups, featuring insights from 23 top AI experts. And today, one of them is with us, Joav Shoam is here. He's a Stanford professor emeritus, as you know, and he is the co-founder of AI 21.

Labs, the team behind Jurassic 2 and WordTune, building large language models and tools for collaborative reasoning. Welcome to the show, Joab. Fun to be here. Thanks for having me. Let's talk a little bit about what we mean by reasoning, you know, here in 2025.

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