Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness
The entire startup ecosystem is racing to build agent harnesses. Logan Kilpatrick, who leads Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, argues that scramble has a roughly 12-month shelf life. Models will ab...
11 Jun 51min
LIVE: Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, makes the case that computing is undergoing its biggest shift in 60 years: from retrieval, where data centers store files we look up, to generation, where ever...
10 Jun 41min
Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss
Alfred Wahlforss, co-founder and CEO of Listen Labs, is building an AI agent that interviews your customers at a scale no focus group ever could—thousands of voice conversations at once, drawn from an...
2 Jun 40min
How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL
Cursor's Federico Cassano and Fireworks' Dmytro Dzhulgakov explain how they collaborated to build Composer as a specialized foundation model. The core insight: models have finite capacity in their wei...
26 Mai 45min
Rebuilding IT From the Ground Up for the AI Age: Serval's Jake Stauch
Jake Stauch, founder and CEO of Serval, is building a ServiceNow for the AI era. His most contrarian bet is that the product should look like boring old enterprise software, but with unlimited intelli...
19 Mai 38min
Suno's Mikey Shulman: Everyone Can Make Music Now
Most music platforms assume you're a listener. On Suno, 90% of daily users make something. Founder and CEO Mikey Shulman explains why that flips the model: the act of creating IS the entertainment, w...
13 Mai 34min
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything
Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, joins Sequoia partner Andrew Reed at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about how a four-year-old company built a frontier audio AI business with just over 400...
8 Mai 26min
Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't written a line of code in ...
5 Mai 24min
