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“A new survey of uh 750 chief financial officers found that AI had essentially no negative employment effect in 2025. Uh but data show employers are increasingly hiring for AI talent. In 2023, AI relat…”
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“Up next, we have Liz Hoffman. She is Semaphore's business and finance editor and host of compound interest, a podcast from Semaphore Business.”
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“Up next, uh, Gray Matter Robotics. We have the CEO and co-founder joining. Bringing physical AI into US ship building, scaling autonomous production for national security.”
“We are launching a partnership today. We're announcing this partnership with Huntington Industries, HII. Yeah. They're huge. And together we're bringing factory super intelligence to ship building.”
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“We have haiku sonnet and opus. Haiku being kind of like our most costefficient models.”
“if any of you guys have your applications or services deployed in those clouds, then you can use cloud's APIs via um bedrock and vertex in addition to cloud's firstparty API.”
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“We have haiku sonnet and opus. Haiku being kind of like our most costefficient models. Opus being the top of the line our biggest and most intelligence model and sonnet being kind of like your day-to-…”
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“if any of you guys have your applications or services deployed in those clouds, then you can use cloud's APIs via um bedrock and vertex in addition to cloud's firstparty API.”
“So, I wanted to really focus specifically on um, our recent model we launched, Sonnet 45, which is our most intelligent model to date.”
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“Jeremy Frankle is here. He's the CEO and co-founder of Fundamental. They're building large tabular models for enterprises.”
“So the company is named Fundamental and your flagship model, the LTM, large tabular model, is called Nexus. Am I correct there?”
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“Victor Ripar Belly, I got your name correct. I hope welcome back to the program. You're with Synthesia. Cynthia. Synthesisia. S Y N T H E S I A. You're an AI video platform for business.”
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