Building Open World AI w/Andrew Mason

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Sep 27, 202551:39Technology

Nabeel and Fraser sit down with Andrew Mason, founder of Descript, for a deep dive into evolution "open world agents" in AI products. The trio uses the recent Airtable re-founding as a lens to look at open world agent ar...

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