AI HQ: Episode 1 featuring Noam Shazeer

“AI HQ” is an Axios HQ original series that takes you to the heart of the AI revolution — and the implications it’ll have on society, industry, communication, and our future.

Each episode will introduce you to a titan or trailblazer of AI, the folks whose names you may — or may not — know, but the ones who are shaping the most transformative technology of our time.

In our first conversation you’ll meet Noam Shazeer, Character.AI’s Co-founder. He helped build the “T” in “GPT” and worked on industry-changing projects like LaMDA at Google. Here he talks about Character.AI, super intelligence, and what’s on the horizon for AI.