Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Updated: 14 May 2025 • 197 episodes
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How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, on his quest to demistify the era of exponential change.

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Lennart Heim, a researcher and information scientist at RAND Corporation, joins Azeem Azhar to unpack a provocative claim: China is catching up with US AI capabilities, but it doesn't matter.  Timestamps:  (00:00) Episode trailer  (01:19) Lennart’s core thesis  (03:26)   Why compute matters so much  (07:31)  The invest

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Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, joins Azeem to discuss the Iberian blackout and how we can create a more stable, flexible, and resilient energy grid for the future. This conversation digs into grid technology, market structures, and the real opportunities of the clean energy transition. (00:00) Episode trailer (01

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Physicist and entrepreneur Steve Hsu, whose startup Superfocus tackles hallucination problems in large language models, joins Azeem to discuss AI agents, hallucination challenges and what happens when technology meets labor markets.  They discuss:  (01:31) The deeper shift that Superfocus represents  (07:00)  Will mode

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Sir Niall Ferguson, renowned historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the evolving relationship between the U.S. and China, Trump's foreign policy doctrine, and what the new global economic and security order might look like.  (00:00)  What most analysts are mis

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In this episode, Azeem Azhar speaks with Ryan Petersen, CEO and founder of logistics platform Flexport, about the current state of global trade amidst escalating tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and technological disruption. Ryan offers unique insights from the frontlines of the US-China trade war and explores how busin

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Azeem Azhar welcomes Packy McCormick, founder and investor at Not Boring, to discuss the current tech landscape.  In this episode you'll hear:  (01:50) What Packy got wrong (and right) about Web3  (10:17) The shift to "know thyself and know thyself-nots"  (14:28) Europe just woke up  (18:46) Bits and atoms are cool aga

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