Rowan's Notes
Rowan's Notes is a podcast where The Rundown's founder, Rowan Cheung, interviews the people shaping the AI industry — breaking down what’s real vs hype and how to leverage it to get ahead in your life, work, and business.
Episodes
10 episodes
Dharmesh Shah on AEO, AI Agents, and the ‘AI App Store’
Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.In this conversation...
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56:37
Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, Google Antigravity, Medical-grade AI, and more
Google just revealed Gemini 3.0 -- its most intelligent AI model yet with SOTA reasoning and 1501 Elo on the LMArena.In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with...
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19:51
Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more
OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks.In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@
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30:45
Mark Zuckerberg on AI Glasses, Superintelligence, Neural Control, and More
Meta just unveiled its latest AI glasses at Connect 2025 – including Ray-Ban's with a built-in display, controlled by a band that reads muscle signals.In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@
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45:28
Demis Hassabis on Curing Diseases with AI, Proactive Agents, AI Relationships, and more
Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more.In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@
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13:45
Satya Nadella on AI Agents, Rebuilding the Web, the Future of Work, and more
Microsoft just revealed its next big AI bets at Build 2025 - from autonomous coding agents, Copilot Tuning, Windows AI Foundry, and more.In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung
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21:44
Demis Hassabis on Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, Agents, Gaming with Elon, and more
Google just launched Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, and AI agents for gaming & web browsing. Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind (@<...
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13:34
Mustafa Suleyman on Copilot Vision, AI Companions, Infinite Memory, AI Agents, and more
Exclusive: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time.Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Must...
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26:16
Logan Kilpatrick on Google’s new Gemini Models, AI Agents, AGI, and more
Google just released two upgraded Gemini 1.5 models 1.5-Pro-002 and 1.5-Flash-002 — achieving new, state-of-the-art performance across math benchmarks.Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Logan Kilpatrick (https://x.com...
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46:23
Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more
Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks.Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Mark Zuckerberg for an exclusive i...
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