Building an Intelligent Business OS, with Runway CEO Siqi Chen

Nathan interviews Siqi Chen, CEO of Runway, about revolutionizing business finance through AI. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we explore how Runway is creating an intelligent business operating system that generates financial scenarios and explains complex metrics. Siqi shares insights on AI's future impact on finance, business, and society at large.

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CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) About the Show

(00:02:45) Runway

(00:06:11) AI features

(00:12:10) Defining the syntax

(00:14:48) How AI has been expressed since GPT-3

(00:18:32) When did it become clear that the models were getting good enough?

(00:24:29) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave

(00:26:38) How the model is being asked to generate a scenario

(00:26:38) What will drive the most improvement?

(00:28:50) How Runway can help you make decisions

(00:37:47) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad

(00:39:34) Runway as a business operating system

(00:39:51) How does the product work?

(00:44:31) What does the future hold?

(00:47:34) The frontier model has passed the average person

(00:51:18) AI tools for operations

(00:55:21) How to get the best out of AI models

(01:00:39) How AI models can write as you

(01:02:43) AGI, work, and the future

(01:08:33) AI safety, regulation, and the future

(01:11:26) Closing thoughts

(01:12:20) Outro