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The Future of AI: Personal Agents, Taste & Private Data | Lin Qiao & Demi Guo | E9

Apr 15, 2026 · 1h 14m

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This week we sit down with Lin Qiao and Demi Guo on This Week in AI Episode 9. Lin is the co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, a frontier inference platform processing tens of trillions of tokens per day, built by seven ex-Meta engineers who created PyTorch. Demi is the co-founder and CEO of Pika, building humanized AI agents for creative work, agents you interact with like a person, not a prompt box. This Week In AI is made possible by: PayPalOpen - One Platform for all Business: https://paypalopen.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome & intro to Lin Qiao and Demi Guo 02:38 Lin's journey from Meta to Fireworks AI 05:13 Building PyTorch and bootstrapping AI infrastructure 06:58 Who Fireworks…