<blockquote>Rowan's Notes is a podcast where The Rundown's founder, Rowan Cheung, interviews the people shaping the AI industry — breaking down what’s real vs hype and how to leverage it to get ahead in your life, work, and business.</blockquote>
Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.
It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.
In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack:
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI era
How to structure content to get cited in AI answers
The hidden risk of low-quality AI content
Effectively using AI agents as teammates
The coming “AI App Store” for agents
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Google just revealed Gemini 3.0 -- its most intelligent AI model yet with SOTA reasoning and 1501 Elo on the LMArena.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:
Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy
Google's new Antigravity tool
Medical-grade AI and proactive healthcare
The skill of "learning how to learn"
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OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack:
Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viral
Zero-person billion dollar companies run by agents
AI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter
ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform
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Meta just unveiled its latest AI glasses at Connect 2025 – including Ray-Ban's with a built-in display, controlled by a band that reads muscle signals.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) to unpack:
The timeline for glasses replacing smartphones
How the Neural Band will personalize to you over time
Building "personal superintelligence" while raising kids
Why Zuck rebuilt Meta's AI lab within 15 feet of his desk
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Google just revealed a ton of AI developments at Google I/O 2025 - from AI Mode in Search, VEO 3, proactive agents, Gemini 2.5 upgrades, AI shopping assistants, and more.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:
-How AI could cure all diseases
-Advice to the education system
-Relationships and reliance on AI
-Are humans at risk of becoming dumber?
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Microsoft just revealed its next big AI bets at Build 2025 - from autonomous coding agents, Copilot Tuning, Windows AI Foundry, and more.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) to unpack:
-Microsoft’s vision for the “agentic web”
-Why your next job might be AI agent manager
-What happens when 95% of code is AI-generated
-Where AI agents will create the most value first
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Google just launched Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, and AI agents for gaming & web browsing. Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis), to discuss the launch, why it matters, and Google’s entry into the AI agent era.
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Exclusive: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time.
Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down for an exclusive interview with Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), CEO of Microsoft AI, to discuss how it works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more.
Find all the details of Copilot Vision on Microsoft’s official announcement blog post.
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Google just released two upgraded Gemini 1.5 models 1.5-Pro-002 and 1.5-Flash-002 — achieving new, state-of-the-art performance across math benchmarks.
Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Logan Kilpatrick (https://x.com/OfficialLoganK), product lead for Google AI Studio, to discuss what makes these models so unique, AI agents, AGI, and more.
Listen to the full interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvMdmk8IkM
Try the new models on Google AI Studio: https://shortclick.link/djojib
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Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks.
Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Mark Zuckerberg for an exclusive interview, diving into why this marks a significant moment in AI history.
Find all the details about Llama 3.1 405B on Meta's official announcement page.
Read our exclusive deep dive with the most important quotes here.
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