Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
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Rainy Thanks for coming out, everybody. We're gonna have a great full contact, super hardcore discussion about the future, specifically around AI, which I think is the most important theme, not only of CES twenty twenty six as we've seen with all the incredible gadgets, chips being launched, self driving, But it's gonna be the most important transformation of our lifetimes. I think everything we've seen over the last thirty years of technology from the PC revolution to cloud computing to the Internet, mobile, all of that is gonna be dwarfed in comparison to the impact that AI is gonna have on
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So we're here at CES twenty twenty six. It's really interesting to watch this conference get this new life breathed into it. We had this period during COVID when CES obviously had to take a pause, And we were wondering in Silicon Valley, hey. Is anybody gonna show up at CES? Is it still relevant? Do people care? And now look at this. This is one of the largest ones ever, and everybody's here. I saw Lisa from AMD, Jensen from NVIDIA, Uber, Neuro, Waymo. The change is amazing. I think maybe to start, you spent a career at McKinsey trying to accelerate change, and in venture capital, you know, li
Yeah. Well, first, Jason, thanks. And it's great to be up here with you guys. And, yeah, I would just say this week is amazing. I I, think there's over a 150,000 folks here this week. And you talk about CES being back, I think CES is back. And and that's great. Right? And and with all of these things happening, I think there is such a premium on folks from different perspectives getting together because that's where new ideas are created. And and my big hope and why we're here is when you mix and mingle with different folks, you come up with new things, and the world needs new things. And you
Hey, Monk. How does this feel compared to our first, you know, couple of decades where companies would take two or three years to release a product, and now companies are releasing products in two or three weeks, two or three months?
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