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 prioritise if he were CEO of OpenAI.
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Chapters:
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
