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AI in the Real World is a 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.
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AI, agents, and the future of e-commerce | Zack Peng, Co-Founder and CEO, Seel
What does it take to run a billion-dollar brand with just a handful of employees?
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Jaya Gupta
Maximizing intelligence per watt | Avanika Narayan & Jon Saad-Falcon, Stanford AI CS Ph.D.s
The AI stack is about to change. Local language models now achieve competitive performance on many tasks and local accelerators are capable of hosting them. Why go frontier at all?
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Joanne Chen
The great reorg is just getting started, with Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View
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Joanne Chen
Making healthcare move faster (Trey Holterman, Co-founder & CEO, Tennr)
Tennr co-founder and CEO Trey Holterman joins Joanne to talk about what it takes to make AI work in healthcare, and why the answer is not simply "better models."
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Leo Lu
The great reorg: A human’s guide
Will humans be managed by agents or be the managers of agents?
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jaya Gupta
How AI agents are automating the CFO's office | Ajay Krishna, Co-Founder and CTO, Maximor
What does it take to make AI agents you can actually trust with your books?
AI in the Real World
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Rodolfo Gonzalez
AI, agents, and the future of e-commerce | Zack Peng, Co-Founder and CEO, Seel
What does it take to run a billion-dollar brand with just a handful of employees?
AI in the Real World
AI
Enterprise
Podcasts
Jaya Gupta
Maximizing intelligence per watt | Avanika Narayan & Jon Saad-Falcon, Stanford AI CS Ph.D.s
The AI stack is about to change. Local language models now achieve competitive performance on many tasks and local accelerators are capable of hosting them. Why go frontier at all?
AI in the Real World
AI
Enterprise
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Joanne Chen
The great reorg is just getting started, with Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View
AI in the Real World
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Joanne Chen
Making healthcare move faster (Trey Holterman, Co-founder & CEO, Tennr)
Tennr co-founder and CEO Trey Holterman joins Joanne to talk about what it takes to make AI work in healthcare, and why the answer is not simply "better models."
AI
Enterprise
Company Building
AI in the Real World
Perspectives
Joanne Chen
,
Leo Lu
The great reorg: A human’s guide
Will humans be managed by agents or be the managers of agents?
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.
AI
AI in the Real World
Podcasts
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
AI in the Real World
Enterprise
Podcasts
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
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
AI in the Real World
Cyber
Podcasts
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.
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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.
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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.
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