In this episode, we sit down with Azeem Azhar, an expert on AI and technologies, whose weekly newsletter "The Exponential View" (www.exponentialview.co) is read by nearly two hundred thousand people from around the world. We delve into the nuances of AI adoption, discussing how LLM's are reshaping industries and what this means for corporate leaders, the dynamics between the U.S., China, and Europe in the AI race, and the concept of sovereign AI. Azeem Azhar Website - https://www.exponentialview.co Twitter - https://x.com/azeem FIRSTMARK Website - https://firstmark.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap Matt Turck (Managing Director) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck (00:00) Intro (02:05) What does the "Exponential" really mean? (05:43) "Moore's law has not died" (11:52) Claude is the Macintosh of AI. What does it mean? (25:57) How does AI affect the enterprise? (34:06) Asia is more optimistic about AI than the West. Why? (38:42) Azeem's perspective on the sovereign AI (45:19) AI in the modern warfare (48:47) What is the Exponential asymmetry? (51:59) Energy transition and the influence of AI on it (55:21) Big Oil vs Chinese Solar: who's going to win? (59:18) AI opens new possibilities for everyone. How?