Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — Manifold #89
Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google. He is now lead engineer for Google's software agent group.
Steve and Omar discuss:
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:18) - Journey from Physics to AI
(10:51) - Elon Tried to Buy DeepMind
(16:52) - Building Mutable and Auto Wiki as Context for LLMs
(33:39) - The Value of AI Talent and Meta's AI Hiring Spree
(42:58) - AI and The Workforce
(58:02) - The Intersection of Physics and AI
Audio-only version and transcript:
https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/omar-shams-ai-founder-and-google-ai-agent-lead-89