Archive - Exponential View

🔮 Six mental models for working with AI

The operating manual we wish we'd had

Dec 29 • Azeem Azhar

🔮 The best of my 2025 conversations: Kevin Kelly, Tyler Cowen, Steve Hsu, Dan Wang, Matthew Prince & others

Listen now | This year, I recorded 30 conversations on AI, technology, geopolitics, and the economy.

Dec 26 • Azeem Azhar and Chantal Smith

21:31

🧠 We are all spiky

We’ve done this trick once, turning spiky humans into civilization. We’re about to do it again.

Dec 23 • Azeem Azhar

📈 2025 in 25 stats

The data that explains the year

Dec 22 • Azeem Azhar and Hannah Petrovic

🔮 Exponential View #555: Ukraine’s drone first; the China syndrome; the San Francisco Concensus; slop-timism, McKinsey cuts jobs …

An insider's guide to AI and exponential technologies

Dec 21 • Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren

🔮 Reflecting on 2025, the year AI became real

Listen now | This was the year artificial intelligence stopped being a curiosity and became infrastructure. The year models got good enough to do real…

Dec 20 • Azeem Azhar and Chantal Smith

25:17

📈 Data to start your week

AI at work ↑ Age of construction ↓ Chip power gap ↓ Cognitive shocks of heat and pollution ↑

Dec 15 • Azeem Azhar and Hannah Petrovic

🔮 Exponential View #554: Intelligence gets cheaper. Adoption gets harder. Jet engines become power plants; tiny brain chips & emotional…

An insider’s view of AI and exponential technologies

Dec 14 • Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren

🔮 What it will take for AI to scale (energy, compute, talent)

Looking at the next 24 months of AI

Dec 11 • Azeem Azhar and Chantal Smith

24:06

📈 Data to start your week

Quick AI revenues ↑ Underestimating competitors ↑ Sourcing from China ↓

Dec 8 • Azeem Azhar and Hannah Petrovic

🔮 Exponential View #553: The story of 100 trillion tokens; China’s chip win; superhuman persuasion, Waymo ethics, Polymarket & hydrology++

An insider's view of AI and exponential technologies

Dec 7 • Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren

🔮 The real bottlenecks in AI + Q&A

Tough questions for the year ahead

Dec 5 • Azeem Azhar

29:27

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