Summation with Auren Hoffman

Cory Gardner is a former U.S. Senator and Congressman from Colorado and was one of the Senate's leading Taiwan and China experts, chairing the Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and authoring the Taipei Act. He is now president and CEO of NCTA, the Internet & Television Association, whose members built the nation's largest broadband platform.
In this episode of Summation, Cory and Auren discuss:
Why the AI race gets won on spectrum, fiber, and memory chips
The bottleneck raising the price of your iPhone, PlayStation, and router
Why an open society is vulnerable to a campaign to turn Americans against AI
What a China expert thinks about our dependence on chips made off China's coast
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Cory Gardner on X at @CoryGardner

Harjot Gill is the co-founder and CEO of CodeRabbit, the AI code review company that became the most installed AI app on GitHub and GitLab. Over about two years, CodeRabbit went from zero to over $50M in ARR and a $1B+ valuation. It is his third startup.
In this episode of Summation, Harjot and Auren discuss:
Why the bottleneck in software just moved from writing code to reviewing it
Why mature companies now adopt AI first
Why you should never let a coding agent review its own work
The playbook that took CodeRabbit from zero to $50M+ in two years
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Harjot Gill on X at @harjotsgill

Moritz Baier-Lentz is one of the foremost investors in gaming, AI, and frontier technologies—including companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Etched, Decart, and Recursive. He founded Goldman Sachs's global gaming practice and was previously a partner, IC member, and head of gaming at Lightspeed. Moritz is part of the founding team of General Intuition, an AI research lab training agents on video game data, which has raised a $133M Seed round and a $320M Series A. He is also a senior advisor to OpenAI, McKinsey & Co., and TPG Capital.
In this episode of Summation, Moritz and Auren discuss:
Why video games are the best data set for the next phase of AI
The idea that humans only truly learn during play
Why Germany's fear of risk is cultural
Getting into Stanford with an essay about Diablo II
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Moritz Baier-Lentz on LinkedIn or his website.

Ronnie Chatterji is the Chief Economist at OpenAI, where he leads research on how AI reshapes growth, jobs, and the economy. He is also an economics professor at Duke. He was previously the White House CHIPS coordinator implementing the $52B CHIPS Act, and before that the chief economist at the US Department of Commerce.
In this episode of Summation, Ronnie and Auren discuss:
The three things people actually do with ChatGPT
The 10x jump in people handing their work to AI 
Why the next big leap in AI is adoption and not capability
The case that AI could cause a population boom 
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Ronnie Chatterji on X at @RonnieChatterji

Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. Before that he led desktop and web infrastructure at Notion and built software at Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft. 
In this episode of Summation, Felix and Auren discuss:
The next AI step function: going from solving a problem to owning a responsibility
Why AI will win many Nobel prizes before it wins a single Pulitzer
Bringing AI into the physical world, from a $30 coffee-machine display to a Wi-Fi garage opener
Why "here's what your team can learn from the Navy SEALs" is bad management advice
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Felix Rieseberg on X at @felixrieseberg