The Every Podcast

How did the race to build AGI really unfold, and who made the decisions that shaped it?
Tech journalist Kevin Roose interviewed 150 people at the center of the AI industry to find out. The result is The AGI Chronicles, a riveting account of  how modern AI was built and the choice...

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Can AI create good art? 
Fred Graver thinks the answer depends on you. The Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, and founder of AI Writer’s Studio says AI can help with many parts of the creative process—b...

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Every time a new AI model drops, companies face the same dilemma: Figure out what’s new and how to use it, or focus on getting work done.
Every solves this dilemma with a frontier team: a small group that tests new models...

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Bet on founders who understand the technology, because their first idea probably won’t be the one that sticks.
That’s the view of Matt Hartman, founder and managing partner of Factorial Capital. In 2016, as a partner at B...

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On this week's episode of The Every Podcast, Dan Shipper sits down with Willie Williams, Every's head of platform and one of the driving force...

Sam Altman's Dot, OpenAI's new always-on agent, gave him back the most productive part of his day.

The OpenAI CEO would lose his early mornings—his window of "maximum creativity"—to whatever fire needed putting out. Now, his Dot triages those issues and flags only what's truly u...

Two years ago, Katie Parrott was laid off from a crypto firm and couldn’t afford a career coach—so she turned to a $20-a-month ChatGPT subscription instead.
The Every staff writer’s habit of feeding AI good context eventually became compound writing, a codified system for brainst...

Will England is the CEO of Walleye Capital, a hedge fund managing nearly $10 billion in assets. An engineer by training with a math background from Oxford, he has spent his career at the intersection of machines and markets—and has made AI fluency mandatory for all 400 employees....

LLMs are a new medium for storytelling.
That’s according to the creators of Portola, the company behind Tolan: an embodied AI companion that lives on its own planet and chats to you with a distinct personality. In 2025, Portola's founder and CEO Quinten Farmer and Head of Story E...

In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI.
The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—which would mean giving them access to the same sprawl of tools, data, and systems...

Most consumer AI so far has been single-player: you and a chatbot, alone.
Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, one of Pinterest's first 30 employees, is betting that's about to change. She's looking for a product genius who can build an AI product with social DNA: status, network effec...

Kevin Kelly has spent over 30 years experiencing the edge of new technology: from the earliest days of the internet to the first years of Burning Man. But he’s always treated the frontier as a place to visit, not somewhere to live. It’s partially how he’s been able to stay ground...