We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab, our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech.
By episode 5 we’re rolling online again (with great weather on both ends), and somehow our moderator skills are improving one chaotic episode at a time.
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This week:
OpenAI just pulled off the biggest private AI funding round yet, raising $122B at an $852B valuation — and it says a lot about how insane the race for compute, infrastructure, and distribution has become.
Agentic AI keeps heating up: Gartner says more than half of enterprises could move away from assistive copilots by 2028 and shift toward outcome-driven agent platforms instead.
Humanoid robots are moving from demo hype into real factory workflows, with BMW publicly confirming a humanoid robot pilot in production.
OpenAI is also pushing a much bigger conversation: robot taxes, public wealth funds, and even four-day workweek pilots in an AI-heavy future.
We also get into AI IPO rumors, solo-founder scale with tiny teams, local agents, token-saving hacks, and why the next wave of AI products may look a lot more autonomous than assistive.
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