The AI arms race is on, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Bankless podcast producer Josh Kale breaks down which players are poised to dominate this next industrial revolution. From the transformative power of AI across industries to the geopolitical and economic implications, we explore the critical dynamics shaping our technological future—and what this means for investors, builders, and society at large.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
0:25 A New Life Form?
4:23 The AI Rabbithole
11:49 xAI & Grok 3
26:51 Deepseek Breakthrough
28:47 English as a Programming Language
30:19 Open Sourcing LLMs
34:13 Other Models
39:29 Meta AI
44:04 AI Bets
46:27 Elon Musk vs Sam Altman
51:59 Worldcoin
55:48 From OpenAI to AGI
1:03:01 AI Doomerism
1:10:06 Neuralink
1:15:20 AI vs Humans
1:22:08 Frontier Tech
1:24:43 Crypto’s Role
1:28:00 Closing & Disclaimers

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