Rapid Response: Inside Intel’s AI ambitions, w/CEO Pat Gelsinger

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The AI boom in 2023 left Intel chasing rival Nvidia, whose chips — and shares — have been in high demand. Like other laggards amid this year’s AI mania, Intel is now fighting back, announcing the first-ever AI PC. Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger sits down with Rapid Response host Bob Safian to discuss how the company is working to re-establish itself — and sharing lessons for leaders everywhere about the long-term trajectory of the AI wave and how to practically position yourself to ride it. Plus, Pat shares leadership insights from his unceremonious exit from Intel a decade ago, and how he’s applying those learnings now in his second tour of duty.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,
0:07.8	with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.
0:17.0	We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.
0:24.7	So search for rapid response in your podcast player and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.
0:31.2	I'll see you on the other side.
0:34.0	AI was an overnight 40-year success.
0:39.0	Think about the role of AI, we think about the role of
0:42.0	social networks and online experiences,
0:45.0	your finances or your autonomous vehicles,
0:47.0	your connectivity and communic,
0:49.0	everything's becoming more digital,
0:51.0	and everything digital runs on semiconductors.
0:56.1	And to me that's what the silicon economy is about. Fundamentally,
1:00.1	everything on the planet needs silicon going forward.
1:06.4	Never was there a vote taken in Congress to get rid of the industry,
1:10.8	but there were votes taken in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, to get this industry.
1:17.1	And shifting that unique role that Intel played, that's a really, really big deal. That's Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel. Intel's just announced a new AI
1:37.0	Everywhere strategy including what it calls the world's first AI PC in a bid to reestablish its dominance in the tech industry.
1:46.8	I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company, founder of the Flux Group, and host of Masters of Scale
1:52.2	Rapid Response.
1:53.8	I wanted to talk with Pat because the rise in AI offers Intel both opportunity and challenge.
2:01.0	Competitor Invidia has become an AI darling with Intel playing catch-up, yet also having its own advantages.
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