Guillermo, the AI enthusiast, discusses the AI bubble, transforming sales functions, best funding routes for tech founders, challenges in different markets, and the impact of a Trump administration on European venture. They touch on the need for AI regulation in the UK, fundraising challenges, and the significance of space exploration.

In this week’s episode, Anna and guest co-hosts Guillermo, Tarun and Kobi share their thoughts about the state of Zero Knowledge tech today and what it might look like going in 2023. The group discusses some exciting ZK experiments and some of the emerging topics such as: ZK ID, ZK Bridges, ZK DeFi, and more. Here are some additional links for this episode:Epicenter:State of the ZK Ecosystem with Anna Rose & Kobi Gurkan Pt 1Epicenter:State of the ZK Ecosystem with Anna Rose & Kobi Gurkan P2 Episode 246: Adversarial Machine Learning Research with Florian Tramèr Episode 247: Exploring Penumbra with Henry de Valence Apply for zkSummit9 here: zkSummit9 Ticket Application. Ever wish you could use existing rust libraries in ZK? This is a friendly reminder from the team at RISC Zero that you can! To learn more, check out the Risc Zero video tutorials from the last ZK Hack at www.youtube.com/@risczero. Follow RISC Zero on Twitter @risczero to make sure you don’t miss their upcoming 1.0 launch and the alpha launch of the Bonsai Network.Anoma’s first fractal instance, Namada, is launching soon! Namada is a proof-of-stake L1 for interchain asset-agnostic privacy. Namada natively interoperates with fast-finality chains via IBC and with Ethereum via a trustless two-way bridge. Visit namada.net for more information and join the community on Discord discord.gg/namada If you like what we do:Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletterFollow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch us on YoutubeHead to the ZK Community ForumSupport our Gitcoin Grant

Guillermo, Tarun, and Alex Evans discuss the year 2023 in the ZK space, exploring themes, applications, and research topics. They reflect on their state of mind in Jan 2023, covering open source language models, CK, AI models, ZK co-processor projects, friend tech boom, hardware teams, optimizing proving systems for H100 architecture, and ZK and ID for proving actions and establishing reputation.