The Macro AI Podcast

What is Ilya Sutskever building at Safe Superintelligence — and why could it matter to business? In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan take a closer look at SSI, the highly secretive AI company founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. We explore SSI’s unusual “straight-shot” approach to developing safe superintelligence, the billions of dollars behind the company, its relationships with Google and NVIDIA, and why Sutskever believes th...

Grok is no longer just Elon Musk’s AI chatbot. It is becoming part of a much larger vertically integrated AI strategy inside SpaceX. In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down the rapidly evolving Grok ecosystem, including SpaceXAI, the massive Colossus compute infrastructure, the acquisition of Cursor, access to real-time data through X, and the arrival of Grok 4.6. They examine how Grok compares with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic, ...

In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan examine a remarkable Connecticut court case in which a litigant embedded hidden white-on-white instructions in legal filings in an apparent attempt to manipulate any AI system that might review them. The court discovered the prompt injection, sanctioned the litigant, and used the case to highlight the growing risks of generative AI in professional workflows. Gary and Scott use the case as a jumping-off point to explai...

What happens when AI does not just work inside a company—but begins to operate the company itself? In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott explore the emerging concept of non-human corporations: businesses in which AI agents can plan, make decisions, coordinate work, transact and manage day-to-day operations with limited human involvement. They explain how these organizations could be built using specialized AI agents, connected business systems, digital identity, ...

Most enterprises will not rely on a single AI model forever. Instead, they will use multiple models for different tasks—and model routers will decide where each request should go. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott explain how model routers work, where they sit in the enterprise AI architecture, and why the technology is becoming an important control layer for cost, performance, security, and resilience. They break down the differences between infrastructure r...