Alex Smith

Super Confident AI

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Super Confident AI gets right to what's actually happening at the frontier of AI. Host Alex Smith runs one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world, selling prepaid AI access cards in stores across 150+ countries. That puts him in weekly conversations most people never get to hear, with researchers at frontier labs, the founders building on top of them, the operators keeping it running, and the people writing the rules. Every week he sits down with those voices to cut through the headlines and figure out where this is really going, so you can see what's coming before it gets here.

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Alex Smith

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70 Years of AI History in Under 8 Minutes | EP 2 03.07.2026 7:56

In 1956, ten researchers at Dartmouth College promised to build a thinking machine in two months. Seventy years later, ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any product in history, DeepSeek wiped half a trillion dollars off Nvidia in a single day, and autonomous AI agents started booking flights, filing taxes, and writing code. This episode is the complete story of how we got here. Alex Smith,...

The US Government Just Shut Down the Most Powerful AI | EP 1 27.06.2026 10:44

The US government used export controls to shut down Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 AI models in under 90 minutes, marking the first time federal authority targeted a live AI model instead of hardware. Alex Smith, founder of Instant AI and host of Super Confident AI, walks through exactly how Amazon reportedly found a jailbreak in its own partner's model and took it to the Commerce Departme...

The Next Ten Years of AI Will Blindside Almost Everyone (Don't Be One of Them) 27.06.2026 1:58

My name is Alex Smith. I am the founder of My Instant AI, one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world, selling prepaid AI access cards in retail stores across more than 150 countries. In this show, I lay out why my weekly conversations with frontier lab researchers, infrastructure operators, and policy makers reveal a version of AI that the headlines are not giving you. I make the case th...