The State of AI with Rowan Cheung

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The State of AI is a podcast hosted by Rowan Cheung, where he talks with experts in the AI industry about the latest developments, why they matter, and how you can leverage them for the future of work. This podcast is produced by rundown.ai, the world's largest daily AI newsletter.

Episodes

  1. 1D AGO

    Mark Zuckerberg on AI Glasses, Superintelligence, Neural Control, and More

    Meta just unveiled its latest AI glasses at Connect 2025 – including Ray-Ban's with a built-in display, controlled by a band that reads muscle signals. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) to unpack: The timeline for glasses replacing smartphonesHow the Neural Band will personalize to you over timeBuilding "personal superintelligence" while raising kidsWhy Zuck rebuilt Meta's AI lab within 15 feet of his desk __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    45 min

  2. MAY 27

    Demis Hassabis on Curing Diseases with AI, Proactive Agents, AI Relationships, and more

    Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack: -How AI could cure all diseases -Advice to the education system -Relationships and reliance on AI -Are humans at risk of becoming dumber? __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    14 min

  3. MAY 21

    Satya Nadella on AI Agents, Rebuilding the Web, the Future of Work, and more

    Microsoft just revealed its next big AI bets at Build 2025 - from autonomous coding agents, Copilot Tuning, Windows AI Foundry, and more. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) to unpack: -Microsoft’s vision for the “agentic web” -Why your next job might be AI agent manager -What happens when 95% of code is AI-generated -Where AI agents will create the most value first __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    22 min

  4. 12/11/2024

    Demis Hassabis on Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, Agents, Gaming with Elon, and more

    Google just launched Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, and AI agents for gaming & web browsing. Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis), to discuss the launch, why it matters, and Google’s entry into the AI agent era. __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    14 min

  5. 12/05/2024

    Mustafa Suleyman on Copilot Vision, AI Companions, Infinite Memory, AI Agents, and more

    Exclusive: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time. Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), CEO of Microsoft AI, to discuss how it works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more. Find all the details of Copilot Vision on Microsoft’s official announcement blog post. __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    26 min

  6. 09/24/2024

    Logan Kilpatrick on Google’s new Gemini Models, AI Agents, AGI, and more

    Google just released two upgraded Gemini 1.5 models 1.5-Pro-002 and 1.5-Flash-002 — achieving new, state-of-the-art performance across math benchmarks. Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Logan Kilpatrick (https://x.com/OfficialLoganK), product lead for Google AI Studio, to discuss what makes these models so unique, AI agents, AGI, and more. Listen to the full interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvMdmk8IkM Try the new models on Google AI Studio: https://shortclick.link/djojib __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    46 min

  7. 08/12/2024

    Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more

    Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks. Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Mark Zuckerberg for an exclusive interview, diving into why this marks a significant moment in AI history. Find all the details about Llama 3.1 405B on Meta's official announcement page. Read our exclusive deep dive with the most important quotes here. __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/

    35 min
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The State of AI is a podcast hosted by Rowan Cheung, where he talks with experts in the AI industry about the latest developments, why they matter, and how you can leverage them for the future of work. This podcast is produced by rundown.ai, the world's largest daily AI newsletter.

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