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Podcast · By John Koetsier · English · Official site

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    He runs 100s of AI agents ... here’s how (opens the original)

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    What does it actually look like to work with hundreds of AI agents? In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, I chat with Steve Ancheta, founder and CEO of Zig.ai, an AI-native platform for relationship-driven sales. Steve explains why what looks like a single AI agent to a user can actually be a swarm of hundreds of specialized agents working behind the scenes, handling copywriting, follow-ups, CRM updates, next-best actions, orchestration, and more. We also dig into how Steve personally uses

  2. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    2035 Homes: 1 Humanoid Robot or 10 Specialized Robots? (opens the original)

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    What will the home of 2035 actually look like: One humanoid robot that does everything, or 10 specialized robots, each handling one specific task extremely well?In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, I talk with Amber Atherton, serial entrepreneur and investor at Patron, about a very different vision for the future of home robotics.Instead of assuming that every household will eventually have a general-purpose humanoid assistant, Amber argues that consumer robotics may scale first through h

  3. Episode · Aug 28, 2026

    Quantum computing + AI + agents = AGI? (opens the original)

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    What happens when you combine frontier AI, agentic systems, and quantum computing? In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, we chat with Mykola Maksymenko, co-founder and CTO of Haiqu, about how AI agents are dramatically accelerating quantum research and potentially scientific discovery as a whole. Maksymenko shares how an AI system was able to reconstruct months of his own PhD research in a fraction of the time, even identifying a bug in one of his formulas. He also discusses experiments in

  4. Episode · Aug 13, 2026

    AI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses (opens the original)

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    AI is moving beyond text, images, and code. Now it’s learning to read and write -- shall we say program -- DNA.In this episode of NEXT, John Koetsier talks with Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics, about the rapidly emerging world of biological AI.Nguyen and his team helped create Evo and Evo 2, generative foundation models for DNA, and are now working toward what they call “general biological intelligence”: AI systems capable of understanding biology across DNA, gene expression,

  5. Episode · Jul 30, 2026

    Do we really need 400 humanoid robot companies? (opens the original)

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    Why aren’t hundreds of millions of intelligent robots already operating in the physical world? In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, John speaks with Seth Winterroth, partner at Eclipse, about the rapidly changing robotics investment landscape, the rise of physical AI, and the race to build the next generation of autonomous machines. They explore whether the world really needs hundreds of humanoid robotics companies, why timing matters as much as technology, and why some robotics startups

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