#385 Adam Cheyer - The Man Who Created Siri

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Zuby is joined by Adam Cheyer, a tech entrepreneur, AI pioneer, and co-founder of Siri voice assistant. Adam traces the evolution of artificial intelligence from early hype cycles to today’s breakthroughs, explaining the ‘Iris project’ and how it led to Siri. Adam shares stories from Apple's secret acquisition, working with Steve Jobs, and launching Siri to the world. He also predicts the future of AI, and explains how magic informs his approach to entrepreneurship.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:41) Adam Cheyer: Tech Entrepreneur and AI Pioneer

(02:01) The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

(04:39) The Rise and Fall of AI Hype

(06:17) The Iris Project: A Precursor to Siri

(11:05) The Birth of Siri

(14:27) Predictions and Innovations in Tech

(24:32) The Apple Acquisition and Working with Steve Jobs

(30:58) Inside the Mind of Steve Jobs

(37:53) The Secret Acquisition and Launch of Siri

(38:47) The Excitement of Selling to Apple

(39:25) Steve Jobs' Visit and Welcoming

(41:29) The Launch of Siri and Steve Jobs' Legacy

(43:22) The Current AI Landscape

(47:39) The Future of AI and Its Implications

(1:07:48) The Intersection of Magic and Entrepreneurship

(1:13:03) Life Philosophy and Future Plans

(1:16:17) Outro

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0:18.6	What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world?
0:20.8	I'd like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast.
0:24.7	On today's episode, I am going to be talking to an entrepreneur in the tech world.
0:29.7	He is the co-founder of four different companies, including some I'm sure you will certainly
0:34.5	know of, as well as a founding member of Change.org. And this is Adam
0:38.7	Chire. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here. Happy to be here. Adam, I've done a very
0:43.6	brief intro there, but for my listeners who may not be familiar with who you are, please introduce
0:48.4	yourself. Sure. I don't know what there is to say, but I started out as a researcher in computer science for many years.
0:56.8	Next year will be my 40th year professionally in artificial intelligence.
1:02.1	So I've been doing that for a while.
1:04.5	Somewhere in my 40s, I got the idea to start companies.
1:08.2	And now I've been involved in starting five companies, including
1:12.9	Siri, which sold to Apple and we put our technology on two billion devices. SENTient, which was the
1:20.9	first large-scale machine learning platform company, right as neural nets were taking off. Viv Labs was sort of a Siri 2.0 company. I sold to
1:31.2	Samsung, got on to about half a billion devices. Game Planner AI sold to Airbnb, where I was most
1:39.6	recently VP of AI Experience. And then I was first developer and founding member of
1:45.5	Change.org, the world's largest petition platform with more than half a billion members
1:50.9	in 200 countries. Okay. There's a lot to get into right there, and I'm sure a lot of people
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