@nicholas/ai-ascent-2026
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already written. He walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the...
Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla, and now founder of Eureka Labs) talks with Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan at AI Ascent 2026 about what's changed in the year since he coined "vibe coding." He explains why he's never felt mo...
DJ Seo, co-founder and president of Neuralink, joins Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about what it takes to build the bridge between the human brain and AI. He walks through how Neuralink has gone from one human patient to over twent...
Sequoia Capital partners Pat Grady, Sonya Huang, and Konstantine Buhler make the case that the AI wave isn't just a revolution in communication like the internet or mobile, but a revolution in computation. Not faster horses, but cars—and the cars have final...
Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, joins Sequoia partner Alfred Lin at AI Ascent 2026 for a conversation that spans the full OpenAI stack. He explains why the company will never have enough compute, why he believes we're 80% of the way to AG...
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about where coding goes from here. He explains why he hasn't written a line of code in 2026, why he now ships dozens of PRs a day from his phone...
At AI Ascent 2026, Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, co-founders of Ricursive Intelligence, introduce the company and the thesis behind it: AI should design the chips that train AI. The two have spent the last decade building the foundations for this toget...
At AI Ascent 2026, Ben and Asher Spector, brothers and co-founders of the AI lab Flapping Airplanes, argue that the future of AI belongs to whoever can build models that need a lot less data. They make the case that the trillion-dollar wins in AI so far (se...
Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, takes the AI Ascent 2026 stage to make the case that the future of AI compute is in orbit. He walks through the economics of building data centers in space: why one square meter of solar in space generates e...
Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about the 20-year arc from the DARPA Grand Challenge to fully autonomous service in eleven cities and counting. He explains how Waymo persisted through every...
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already written. He walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the...
Oege de Moor, founder and CEO of XBOW, takes the AI Ascent 2026 stage to argue that autonomous AI hackers are already winning. He explains how XBOW's bot became the #1 ranked hacker on HackerOne in August 2025 using only black-box access, how it found a vul...
