Escape Velocity with CK and Teng Yan: AI and Tech Podcast

In this episode of Escape Velocity, Anand Iyer shares his extensive journey from Microsoft to becoming a venture capitalist, discussing the evolving landscape of AI and its impact on startups.  He emphasizes the importance of understanding market trends, the risks of the current AI bubble, and the significance of founder dynamics in early-stage investments. Our conversation also explores the inter...

Join us on Escape Velocity as Teng Yan, founder of Chain of Thought Research, and CK, founder of Tensorplex Labs, welcome a truly sharp mind to the show: Fiskantes, CIO at Sigil Fund and Partner at Zee Prime Capital. Known for his uncanny ability to spot emerging trends and make early, successful bets on companies like Nvidia and Palantir, Fiskantes shares his extraordinary journey from paper trad...

In this episode of Escape Velocity, CK and Teng Yan dive into Meta's ambitious push into superintelligence, explore XAI's bold $10 billion bet and the release of Grok 4, and analyze Tesla's robotaxi launch and its implications for autonomous driving. They also discuss Apple's strategic shift toward partnering with OpenAI and Anthropic, instead of developing in-house AI models. Addi...

In this episode of  Escape Velocity , CK and Teng Yan discuss key AI announcements from Google I.O. 2025 and Anthropic's Claude 4.0, unpack OpenAI's ambitious move into hardware, explore the UAE's strategic collaboration with OpenAI, and tackle the pressing question of AI-driven job displacement. Plus, they look into the exciting possibilities of decentralized AI training and its impli...