America already lost one AI race | TWiAI Ep 23
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The episode discusses the implications of foreign AI models and the cybersecurity challenges in the AI race.
This Week In Startups is made possible by: PAYPAL OPEN Today’s show: This week, our panel of AI experts — Anand Kannappan (Patronus AI), Ori Goshen (AI21 Labs), and Alex Finn (Henry Intelligent Machines) — join special guest host Lon Harris to debate whether Washington will move to formally limit powerful foreign AI models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and Z.ai ’s GLM-5.2. What does “winning the AI race” actually mean on a practical level? Why is cybersecurity, not benchmarks, likely the actual battleground. And why did Hugging Face have to use GLM-5.2 to investigate their recent breach rather than a frontier US model like Fable 5? PLUS why agents still fail so much on long horizon tasks, why proper model routing has such a HUGE impact on enterprise AI bills, and we take a look at Alex’s hacked digital typewriter he uses to code without distractions. Guests: Anand Kannappan on X: https://x.com/anandnk24 Patronus AI: https://www.patronus.ai/ Ori Goshen on X: https://x.com/origoshen AI21: https://www.ai21.com/ Alex Finn on X: https://x.com/AlexFinn Alex’s Vibe Coding Academy: https://www.skool.com/vibe-coding-academy/about Relevant Links: Axios: “The Secret Trump Administration Battle to…
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