Zero Shot (Private)

Zero Shot (Private)

The Ken

Episodes 39
Avg. Duration 55m
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Since Sep 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Join Brady Ng, Praveen Gopal Krishnan, and Rohin Dharmakumar of The Ken as they discuss the big ideas in artificial intelligence. You’ll get the macro view, explore their experiments in practical applications, go deeper than the news coverage you’ve seen, and hear about the implications of the latest developments. Nothing is off the table.

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Physical AI is a Mexican standoff. Who walks away as the winner?

Jun 10, 2026 1h 9m

Think of an action or crime film. At some point, when all of the different threads and plots converge, you witness a high-stakes scene. Three characters are locked in a fight. You don’t know who…

Lossfunk is the third space for Indian AI, beyond industry and academia

Jun 03, 2026 1h

After 15 years of building Wingify, Paras Chopra spent some time deliberating about his next stint.For years, he had chased the 0 to 1 journey of building something from the ground up and watching it…

HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake

May 27, 2026 1h 4m

For decades, Indian IT grew and grew some more based on the labor arbitrage model: deploy engineers from Bangalore at one-sixth the cost of an American engineer, bill, repeat. The industry perfected…

‘The application layer is dead': SpotDraft's Shashank Bijapur on why System of Record is the real moat

May 20, 2026 1h 5m

Another day and another Anthropic announcement has spurred conversation. This time, it is Claude for Legal services. On May 12, Anthropic unveiled 20+ new "MCP connectors that link Claude to the…

Anthropic's agents are your new finance professionals. But they don’t offer investment advice

May 13, 2026 42m

On May 5, Anthropic released 10 financial services agents. The company said they “pair best” with Claude Opus 4.7, a “state-of-the-art” model that leads the industry on financial agent benchmarks.…

The AI wearable market is full of dead devices. NeoSapien thinks India can turn the tide

May 06, 2026 50m

What is the market for AI wearables? And what do they do that a phone already doesn’t?These were the two main questions we asked Dhananjay Yadav, the co-founder and CEO of NeoSapien, a startup that…

How Presentations.AI went from $0 to $5M in revenue with zero new hires

Apr 29, 2026 57m

Most AI startup success stories start in November 2022. For the story of Presentations.AI, however, we have to go back to 2005.That year, Sumanth Raghavendra, who is also the co-founder of The Ken,…

China built AI differently than the US. Can India do the same?

Apr 22, 2026 52m

"People in Silicon Valley and in China often have assumptions about each other. And their assumptions about each other are extremely self-centered."Our guest today is Afra Wang,  a fellow at the…

Zero Shot Live: Who will survive Agentic AI in India?

Apr 14, 2026 31m

Today is not regular programming for Zero Shot.We present to you a glimpse of our first live event, which we dramatically titled “The Great Unbundling”. It had a simple premise: agentic AI is coming.…

Kuku used AI to crack micro dramas. It is now coming for Bollywood

Apr 08, 2026 1h 1m

"We have 353 billion data points on user behaviour. Why wouldn't I use them to make a better story and get into newer businesses within content?"That's Kunj Sanghvi, the vice president and head of…

Salary, Bonus, Equity… Tokens?

Mar 31, 2026 1h 3m

Your next job offer might just come with a "token budget" line item. The idea has been gaining steam in Silicon Valley. In February, a VC named Tomasz Tunguz dropped a blog post arguing that…

The AI agent era has started in China. It looks different from anywhere else

Mar 24, 2026 1h

Ever wondered what happens when AI agents are adopted at scale? Look no further than China.Over the last two months, people — yes, ordinary citizens — have been installing OpenClaw on their devices.…

India’s biggest B2B marketplace takes OpenAI to court

Mar 18, 2026 53m

Say you want a chunk of plywood. Or a passenger lift. Or a power cable. Or a corrugated packaging box. Chances are you will find yourself on IndiaMART, the country’s largest B2B marketplace…

India’s biggest B2B marketplace takes OpenAI to court

Mar 18, 2026 53m

Say you want a chunk of plywood. Or a passenger lift. Or a power cable. Or a corrugated packaging box. Chances are you will find yourself on IndiaMART, the country’s largest B2B marketplace…

AI and the end of SaaS 'playbooks'

Mar 11, 2026 1h 1m

“We were so close to the finish line and boom ‘SaaS is dead’. We are restarting…. There is one more round to run.”That’s an honest admission from Avinash Raghava, the founding volunteer and CEO of…

Engineers don’t want AI tool contracts. At least the ones they are caught in

Mar 04, 2026 55m

As enterprises make sure their employees use AI, integrate it into their workflows, track productivity, and highlight AI usage in their investor calls, a new kind of tension is emerging within…

A tale of two AI summits: Beyond the stolen robot dog

Feb 25, 2026 47m

Here’s a fresh take on the India AI Impact Summit that took place last week in New Delhi: it was two events stitched together, happening at the same time. There was the expo, where companies and…

Voice AI startups are drawing in VC cheques fast. Will they 'differentiate or suffocate'?

Feb 17, 2026 56m

“It’s a land grab market…” That’s how our guest Devyani Gupta, the founder of voice AI startup Arrowhead, describes the space she is operating in.  A simple fact illustrates the competition she is…

'Vibe coding lawyers': How AI is changing work at Trilegal

Feb 11, 2026 50m

"We have vibe coding and Biryani sessions on Fridays…”This is not a scene from a tech startup or a weekend hackathon. It is a statement by Nikhil Narendran, a partner at Trilegal who heads the firm’s…

Will Sarvam be to AI what PhonePe became for UPI? No.

Feb 04, 2026 51m

Pick any conversation on AI in India, one project keeps coming up again and again: UPI. Every major stakeholder — across government and industry — seems to be interested in replicating the success…

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