Kyle Vogt, a serial entrepreneur known for co-founding Twitch and Cruise, now leads The Bot Company, focusing on AI-driven home robotics. In this conversation, he discusses the journey of building transformative tech and the challenges of scaling autonomous systems. Vogt believes home robots are the next frontier and draws parallels between autonomous vehicles and robotics. He also addresses consumer skepticism, the differences in U.S. and Chinese manufacturing practices, and the regulatory needs to bolster a competitive domestic robotics industry.

Sam Altman is reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO. Kyle Vogt resigns as Cruise co-founder and CEO. Meta disbands its Responsible AI team. Amazon cuts jobs in its Alexa business. Alibaba scraps cloud spinoff due to US chip ban. Tencent stockpiles NVIDIA AI GPUs. Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU. US launches $3 billion effort to boost advanced chip packaging. Meta launches AI-based video editing tools. Discord kills its OpenAI chatbot. French AI research lab Kyutai receives $330 million budget.

Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise Automation and co-founder of Twitch, shares his journey from building Battlebots to developing self-driving cars. He discusses overcoming challenges in the tech industry, navigating corporate acquisitions, and the unique pitch that led to Cruise's success. The podcast also delves into his unexpected partnership that birthed Dropbox and his record-setting marathon challenge on every continent with a plant-based diet.

Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise, discusses self-driving's rapid expansion, the exponential growth in technology, the design of self-driving vehicles and expanding into cities like Los Angeles. They also talk about the challenges of adapting self-driving cars to different cities and the coexistence of human-driven and autonomous vehicles.

Most of us are familiar with rideshare apps at this point. We tap a few buttons on a phone and...voila! A vehicle arrives to take you virtually anywhere you want to go. But what if these vehicles could operate entirely without a human driver? Will we one day live in a world where most cars drive themselves?Kyle Vogt believes that autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change how we get from place to place, and soon! After being part of the team that launched the video game streaming platform Twitch, Kyle charted a new course in 2013 by founding Cruise, which was acquired by General Motors just three years later.This week on How I Built This Lab, Kyle talks with Guy about the process of building a fleet of fully driverless ‘robo taxis’—which are now available for service in San Francisco and coming to more cities across the U.S.. Plus, the two discuss the potential of autonomous vehicles to reduce the alarming number of vehicle-related fatalities and injuries experienced every year.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.