Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we're talking about,

I want to do a startup highlight. It's a company called Gumloop. They just raised $50 million from

Benchmark, one of the top tier VCs. And they're, essentially their goal is to help every employee

turn into an AI agent builder. So look at those tasks you're doing, look at the things you're doing,

and how do we create AI agents to automate stuff you're doing? Share those to other organizations,

share them within your department and around your company to help everyone do more with AI agents.

And honestly, this is a pretty ambitious company, but I think they've actually landed some

pretty successful plays. I'm excited to get into

this because this is a company that was started in mid-20203, right? So we're talking like

post-chat GPT hype, and they were able to grow scale successfully, and now they've raised

$50 million. So this is going to be a good one to get into. Before we get into that, I just wanted

to say a big thank you to everyone. Yesterday was my birthday, and I asked everyone if you hadn't already to leave a review for my birthday. And I wanted to say a huge thank you. I had tons of reviews. I wanted to read a couple of them. Some of them are funny. Someone said, I think Jaden does a great job of concisely capturing the latest AI-oriented news. He comes across as a generally good guy, and I always look forward to his take on things. That is from Texa Saint. Thank you, Texas Saint for saying, I am a generally good guy. I hope someday to become, like, a super good guy, but a generally good guy is awesome. I think especially in the field of politics,

you probably see this on a lot of other podcasts too, but in the field of AI, like there's so much

that touches into politics and ethics and so many areas where people have a lot of strong

opinions. So inevitably, I'm going to say things that probably people don't agree with for a

variety of different reasons other people agree with so

anyways i hope that it's still insightful and educational and you know we're all learning about

i i appreciate all of you guys uh coming along uh one other one other i got a four star review

uh from matthew ccote or matthew come on bro is my birthday got to give me a four star review

like that this what he said he said provides a good overview of recent news and AI, but can be very subjective and repetitive in some topics and comes across as biased for certain vendors. As far as being repetitive, it's kind of hard, right? Because you have like Google and Open AI and Anthropic, and they all kind of come up with features. and when someone does one feature, they also copy it. So I totally get that how it can feel

repetitive sometimes. Also, as far as being biased to certain vendors, I will say not sponsored

by any of the, any of the companies I talk about on the podcast currently, although shout out to

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