
Michael Weiss
Co-founder of Ai4, North America's largest AI industry conference, which grew from 300 attendees in 2018 to 8,000+ global participants.
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Jul 15, 2026
What Building AI's Biggest Conference Taught Michael Weiss About Where the Industry Is Going
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Michael WeissGUEST
Yeah, so if you look back to 2018 when we started, You know, all the models being trained were being trained in-house on proprietary data.

Michael WeissGUEST
You know, what that means is just like the organizations coming, whether it was a big bank, a big hospital, pharma company, government agency, whatever.

Michael WeissGUEST
You know, they were all doing these custom in-house models on relatively small amounts of data with relatively small amounts of compute.

Michael WeissGUEST
And then, yeah, fast forward to, you know, winter, December, I think it was, 2022, and CheckGPT is released.

Michael WeissGUEST
And, you know, all that really did was it dazzled people with the power of these, you know, foundation models, these models that are, you know, trained by model-specific companies, which OpenAI and Anthropic are.
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Greg MatuskyHOST
Go into a little bit about that, explaining what that should do to our economy and how it should impact it with regard to the cost of intelligence and this seemingly endless stream of demand for it.