The state of AI in 2025: Reasoning, regulation, and rethinking scale

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/ideas

Intercom

43 episodes

2 weeks ago

/ideas podcast is all about what it really takes to become an AI-first company.

Hosted by the visionary minds behind Fin, the show brings together leaders from forward-thinking companies to share how they’re reworking the way they build, operate, and think in the age of AI.

These are honest, fast-moving conversations - the kind that usually happen off the record. From overhauling product and engineering processes to reshaping marketing teams, /ideas captures how companies are navigating the biggest shifts in modern work.

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/ideas podcast is all about what it really takes to become an AI-first company.

Hosted by the visionary minds behind Fin, the show brings together leaders from forward-thinking companies to share how they’re reworking the way they build, operate, and think in the age of AI.

https://fin.ai/ideas/

Technology

Business

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The state of AI in 2025: Reasoning, regulation, and rethinking scale

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1 hour 1 minute 11 seconds

2 months ago

The state of AI in 2025: Reasoning, regulation, and rethinking scale

Intercom's Chief AI Officer Fergal Reid and VP of Design Emmet Connolly sit down to chart the current state of AI – why scaling pre-training hit limits, how reasoning models and reinforcement learning surged, and what the “DeepSeek moment” revealed about costs and competitiveness. They dig into massive CapEx and data centers, the shrinking gap between frontier and open-weight models, and why value is shifting up the stack from models to the AI layer and product UX. The conversation explores world models and representational convergence, where real breakthroughs may show up, evolving regulation and copyright, and practical implications for builders in a post-training-first world. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ISy0PswHvE?si=TBooKTEXH191DfIg Follow the people https://www.linkedin.com/in/fergalreid/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmetconnolly/ https://fin.ai/ideas/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.