AI Gone Global

This week we’re focusing on Mexico. We are honored to chat with Mario Rodriguez, AI solutions consultant at a multilateral development bank and former robotics engineer who operated Sophia the Robot, joins AI Gone Global to talk physical AI, why latency is still robotics’ hardest problem, and his open source research on Mexican Sign Language recognition. He also shares the story behind Empowered by AI, the community he co-founded to close Latin America’s AI literacy gap through free weekly lessons for developers and non-technical professionals alike. We close on outsourced teleoperation jobs and what sovereign AI could look like for the region.

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This week we're focusing on Switzerland. Julien Weissenberg, Managing Director of Deep Tech Experts, joins AI Gone Global to trace AI's evolution from hand labeled datasets to foundational models, then we zoom into Switzerland's rise as a sovereign AI player with Apertus. We cover why harnesses beat bigger models, why human expertise still beats an AI powered data room, and what a burned Pompeii scroll has to do with the future of discovery. We close on why people bury their Tamagotchis, and why the antidote to AI fear is staying playful.

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Welcome to AI Gone Global. I started this podcast because I was getting increasingly frustrated with how narrow the AI conversation can feel.

There’s a lot happening outside of Silicon Valley; really interesting companies, researchers, founders, artists, governments, and entire ecosystems building and experimenting with AI in very different ways. But you don’t hear nearly as much about them. So I decided to go find them and interview them.

In this first episode, I talk about why I launched the podcast, what I’m interested in exploring, and why I think we need a much more global view of where AI is actually being built and what it looks like on the ground. This is episode one. Let’s go!

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