From the trading floor to physical AI: Matt Renirie on Africa's AI moment
The next wave of AI will be physical, and Africa is ready to build it.
Matt Renirie spent two decades on the trading floors of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in London before coming home to Cape Town to build AI for mines, factories and data centres. Now he's running two companies at once, and he believes Cape Town will rival San Francisco and London within three years.
In this episode, Matt and Nicky talk about why bad actors now have the same access to cutting-edge AI as everyone else, how deepfake fraud is far bigger than the headlines suggest, what embodied AI means in plain terms, and…
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