AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang

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Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Alexandr Wang is the CEO and co-founder of Scale AI. He joins Big Technology Podcast to share his predictions for AI in 2025, including insights about emerging geopolitical drama in the AI field, AI agents for consumers, why data may matter more than computing power, and how militaries worldwide are preparing to deploy AI in warfare. We also cover quantum computing and why Wang believes we're approaching the current limits of what massive GPU clusters can achieve. Hit play for a mind-expanding conversation about where artificial intelligence is headed and how it will transform our world in the coming year. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Scale AI founder and CEO Alexander Wang joins us to predict where AI is heading in 2025,
0:06.5	looking at everything from geopolitics to AI agents. That's coming up right after this.
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0:56.4	So thrilled about the show that we're bringing to you today because we have Alexander Wang here.
1:00.9	He's the founder and CEO of Scale AI.
1:04.0	That company, it's worth $14 billion that raised a billion dollars this year.
1:08.5	It creates data that powers LLMs from Open AI meta and other big companies.
1:13.9	And it also provides technical solutions to businesses and the U.S. government, which helps them build and deploy AI.
1:20.2	So Alex is working with all the big companies really there in the heart of what they're doing and including, you know, not just companies, but the U.S.
1:28.5	government. And we're definitely going to touch on that. So, Alex, great to have you here.
1:31.6	Thanks so much for coming on the show.
1:33.1	Thanks for having me. Super excited to be chatting today.
1:36.3	Yes. And we're going to get into plenty of your predictions. And I just want to kick off
1:40.8	the one that I find the most interesting, which is that you see some geopolitical
1:44.2	shifts coming up in the next year in the world of AI. Why don't you lead with that one?
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