MARS Magazine

This time Adario Strange spoke to Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft's venture capital arm, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had on the channel. They dive into everything from the rise of AI and the push toward AGI, to the future of quantum computing, and new technologies are reshaping energy use, education, and even space itself. Along the way, Michael shared...

In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work for humans. Neville takes us from his early tech days at Macromedia to the birth of Circle, sharing how USDC went from an experiment to a cornerstone of the global crypto economy. We dig i...

Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painlessly integrate AI into their workflow, and where AI design tools are most likely to dominate soon. Then the two explore the world of European tech startups, a rapidly unfolding landscap...

AI security expert Christopher "Tito" Sestito, the CEO and co-founder of Austin-based Hidden Layer, joins Adario Strange to uncover what's really happening in the world of AI when is comes to fighting hackers, malicious code, and threats from other AI systems.   Sestito has been working within the realm of cybersecurity for many years, but AI security presents new challenges, and we get into them,...

While OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others dominate the AI news, there's a rapidly growing wild west of open source AI software and developers also pushing the technology boundaries forward, sometimes in unexpected ways.  Manos Koukoumidis, the founder of Oumi. AI and a veteran of Microsoft, Meta, and Google, joins Adario Strange to explain how he's working to organize the open source AI community to...

In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by veteran marketing and public relations expert Aaron Kwittken, the founder of Prophet, a new tool that helps brands harness the power of AI to market to the public more efficiently. Kwittken isn't a newcomer to using data to leverage brands to shape their message, but the power of AI is taking his efforts to new levels, and he explains how the industry w...

In this episode, computer scientist and author Andriy Burkov joins Adario Strange to unpack the secrets of AI that many have overlooked. In his new book, "The Hundred-Page Language Models Book," Andriy breaks down what AI actually means, how the space has developed over the last few decades, and how even non-AI engineers can begin to understand even the most complicated aspects of AI. Later, the t...

In this episode, we are joined by the fascinating Andrew Mayne. A former OpenAI team member, he has also hosted documentaries on the Discovery Channel and worked with some of the world's most famous illusionists.  Along with host Adario Strange, the two explore what China's DeepSeek AI effort really means to Silicon Valley tech giants, whether OpenAI, Meta, and Google can catch up, and if this maj...

The next phase of artificial intelligence is agents and robotics, but in the real of tangible scientific and medical breakthroughs, quantum computing combined with AI is where the future is headed. To introduce us to this new frontier of super-powered AI, SandboxAQ vice president Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga joins the pod to explain the possibilities. From new medicines and treatments for disease, t...

The year 2025 is guaranteed to reveal new surprises and advancements in artificial intelligence, but what about the human hands guiding that progress? Can we trust ourselves to wield this new power responsibly? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, the author of "Building A God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It" has a few answers to these important questions.  Host Adario Strang...

The year 2024 experienced an explosion of AI video tools from existing players, Chinese tech giants, and even European startups. But how can you pick which one is right for you? Viral AI video creator Blaine Brown returns to The Hundred Year Podcast to help us pick the best AI video creation tools released this year, as well as what we can expect in the year 2025. Guest website:  Blizaine.com

Artificial intelligence can optimize our work and social lives, but without security measures, it can potentially destroy both. Joining Adario Strange is Ian Swanson, the founder and CEO of Protect AI, a company devoted to helping major companies and individuals alike guard against malicious AI models and other nefarious exploits attempting to leverage AI against its users. After testifying in fro...

The recent election season proved that many traditional mainstream media businesses have lost their way, as social media and independent creators suck up much of the attention and revenue. The rise of generative artificial intelligence would seem to threaten to deepen the news media's woes, but Nota CEO Josh Brandau has a different vision for how journalists and publishers can harness the power of...

Hugging Face is one of the leading names in artificial intelligence and now they've launched an initiative to harness AI in the medical field. Leading these efforts is Dr. Cyril Zakka, a fellow at Stanford's Hiesinger Lab where a team of researchers have been creating new intersections between AI, cardiac imaging, and robotic surgery.  Dr. Zakka joins Adario Strange to explain his childhood experi...

Veteran security expert Perry Carpenter joins Adario Strange to talk about his new book "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." The book is an in-depth but easy-to-grasp dive into how hackers, criminals, and even governments are using AI to deceive you and what you can do to defend yourself as AI keeps improving.  Guest website:  Th...

In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near future of the emerging market of smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence.   The two delve into the many AI smart glasses offerings from Snapchat, Meta,...

This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfec...

Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called "The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI."  Among the science fiction masters included in the book are Ken Liu, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Marina...

One of the pioneers of digital imaging joins us to unpack the secrets Adobe has in store for AI imaging in 2024 and beyond. Alexandru Costin is Adobe's Vice President of Generative AI, and he's been helping to lead the company's digital art mission for decades. Adario Strange gets Costin to compare the early '90s concerns over Photoshop possibly destroying art to the new fears around AI art and vi...

Duncan Eddy has spent years working in the realm of space satellite communications, and now he's directing his talents toward AI as the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. In this episode, Duncan speaks with Adario Strange to explain why the commercialization of space will continue to fuel our explorations into the Moon and Mars, and how AI-powered robots may be the primary me...

Nem Perez started out as a traditional filmmaker, but he is now one of the most prolific and connected AI filmmakers in Hollywood. Adario Strange managed to get him to take a break from his busy schedule of organizing live AI film screenings, competing in film festivals, and producing traditional commercial work to talk about why what he's doing is the new path for filmmakers. From his work as a p...

The historic rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar (and Rick Ross) has inspired the first legitimate AI music hit called "BBL Drizzy" and we have the song's creator! The song by comedian Willonius Hatcher (aka King Willonius) has gone so viral that even hit-making producer Metro Boomin has sampled the hilarious original to make his own remix of the song, and now Willonius is officially part...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to train students and employees is about to take off. But Roy Mor, the founder and CEO of Loora.ai, believes that instead of generalized AI tools, we will all have specialized AI tutors that are designed and trained to teach each one of us in a way that optimizes our ability to learn. In the case of Loora.ai, that specialization is focused on learning English (as...

Artificial intelligence experts Pedro Domingos, author of "The Master Algorithm" and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Patrice Simard, Chief Scientist at AI startup Irreverent Labs, join Adario Strange to debate the future of AI. We tackle the new AI Act in Europe and what it means for the global balance of AI power. Then we delve into the new AI group formed by Meta and IBM...

AI artists love Midjourney and now the tech startup has created a print magazine that highlights the most talented creators using its tool to produce stunning visual stories. Thomas "TK" Kim is the co-founder of Asimov Collective, the company working with Midjourney to create its official print magazine. TK tells us how the he started working with AI art in the early days, where the innovative ide...