This week on FLOSS Weekly, Randal Schwartz is joined by Jonathan Bennett to chat with Allen Firstenberg, founder and CEO of AI21 Labs, to discuss Agentic AI, Google’s AI plans and OpenAI.
They talk about what agentic AI is, how it differs from an ambient AI like Siri and whether we are close to creating something akin to the computer that powers the starship Enterprise in Star Trek, and if so, whether open sourcing such an AI would be possible or even desirable.
Firstenberg talks about Google’s AI plans and what we can expect in the future from the company and also looks at the recent focus on and investment in AI by Google, and the role of the company’s techno-conscious leadership in shaping its AI trajectories, before wrapping up with a dive into OpenAI, its role and its relationship with Microsoft.
