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Episode Summary

Will Liang, former CTO and Executive Director at MA Financial and a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI, joins the show to unpack the real-world impact of AI on business. A professional Go player turned deep tech expert, Will shares why most AI agents are just glorified workflows, why Perplexity AI is winning without its own model, and how companies can move beyond AI as a buzzword to embed it into their core operations. He also weighs in on whether Nvidia will remain dominant, how Claude and Gemini stack up against ChatGPT, and what he'd prioritize if he were CEO of OpenAI.

Time Stamps

01:20 – From MA Financial to AI Venture: Will’s bold new chapter

05:35 – Why most businesses still don’t actually use AI

07:18 – The “Purple Person” bridging tech and business

08:56 – What AlphaGo taught Will about the future of AI

11:16 – What is an AI agent? Will’s pineapple analogy

16:00 – Financial services + AI: A real-world use case

18:20 – Does AI raise the ceiling—or just the floor?

24:00 – Perplexity AI’s $18B valuation without its own LLM

30:06 – The “AI-first” mindset and Will’s productivity hack

33:47 – Will Nvidia stay dominant? Or is Apple, Google, DeepSeek catching up?

38:39 – Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini – What Will uses and why

Resources

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Weekly insights and top 5 tech takeaways – linkedin.com/in/willliang

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