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AI in the Real World

AI in the Real World is a video series featuring the founders building with AI and the researchers behind it. We explore how AI is reshaping real products and real businesses, what it takes to make it work, and what they're learning along the way. Follow along on Youtube.

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Joanne Chen

What robots can (and can’t) do in 2025

Ken Goldberg is a professor of engineering at UC Berkeley and the co-founder of Ambi Robotics, a company applying AI-enabled robotics to the logistics industry. Ken has spent over four decades working on one of the hardest problems in robotics: how machines perceive and manipulate the physical world. We spoke about why tasks that seem effortless to humans - like picking up a glass or folding laundry - are still incredibly difficult for robots.

AI in the Real World

Enterprise

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Jaya Gupta

The promise of State Space Models - Karan Goel (Co-founder & CEO of Cartesia)

Welcome to AI in the Real World! In this episode, Foundation Capital Partner Jaya Gupta sits down with Karan Goel, co-founder and CEO of Cartesia, a company pioneering the use of state space models (SSMs) for AI applications.

AI in the Real World

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Jaya Gupta

Building the next generation of AI models: Rohan Taori | Researcher at Anthropic & Alpaca co-creator

Welcome to AI in the Real World! In this episode, Foundation Capital Partner Jaya Gupta sits down with Rohan Taori, a researcher on Anthropic's multimodal pre-training team.

AI in the Real World

Cyber

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Sid Trivedi

Securing AI systems against adversarial attacks - Chris 'Tito' Sestito (Co-founder, CEO HiddenLayer)

Welcome to AI in the Real World! In this episode, Foundation Capital Partner Sid Trivedi speaks to Chris "Tito" Sestito, the co-founder and CEO of HiddenLayer.

AI in the Real World

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Joanne Chen

How generative AI changes software development - Melody Meckfessel, CTO, Jasper

Welcome to AI in the Real World! In this episode, Foundation Capital General Partner Joanne Chen speaks with Melody Meckfessel, the CTO of Jasper.

AI in the Real World

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Steve Vassallo

The Path Forward for Multimodal AI with Darius Lam, Founder and CEO of NEX

Welcome to AI in the Real World! I'm Andrew Han, a partner at Foundation Capital, and I'll be your host today. I work closely with technical founders who are building software to solve hard, valuable problems.

The way we see AI

AI is reshaping how companies operate. We back technical founders building the infrastructure, applications, and agents that will define the next decade of business software.

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The way we see AI

AI is reshaping how companies operate. We back technical founders building the infrastructure, applications, and agents that will define the next decade of business software.

Learn more about our enterprise practice

AI in the Real World

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Steve Vassallo

Building the World's Fastest AI Chip with Cerebras Systems' Co-founder and CTO Sean Lie

Welcome to "AI in the Real World." I'm Steve Vassallo, a General Partner at Foundation Capital. In this series, we talk with leading AI researchers about their groundbreaking work and how it's being applied in real businesses today.

AI in the Real World

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Joanne Chen

What's Next After Transformers

I talk with Recursal AI founder Eugene Cheah about RWKV, a new architecture for AI.

AI in the Real World

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Joanne Chen

The Promise of Multi-Agent AI

In this post, I share learnings from my conversation with Chi Wang, a principal researcher at Microsoft and the creator of AutoGen.

AI in the Real World

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Joanne Chen

The Future of Generative AI Agents

In the coming months, I’ll be hosting a series of in-depth conversations with leading AI researchers where we’ll explore how state-of-the-art models are being applied in the real world.

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