Jansen Teng: Inside Virtuals’ Meteoric Rise, The Race to Billion-Dollar Crypto-AI Agents and life after AGI

The Delphi Podcast

Join Tom Shaughnessy and Pondering Durian as they host Jansen Teng, CEO and co-founder of Virtuals, for an in-depth exploration of AI agents and the future of decentralized AI. From Virtuals' evolution as a gaming DAO to becoming the leading crypto AI platform, the conversation covers crucial developments in agent autonomy, tokenization, and the path toward an agentic economy.

🎯 Key Highlights

▶ Origins and evolution of Virtuals platform

▶ Analysis of agent frameworks and autonomous capabilities

▶ Discussion of value capture in crypto AI projects

▶ Deep dive into decentralized infrastructure challenges

▶ Vision for agent coordination and business development

▶ Future outlook on AI-human interaction and cybernetics

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Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction and Background

01:29 - Virtuals Origin Story

07:42 - Agent Development Discussion

13:00 - Vision for Agentic Economy

22:51 - Framework Competition Analysis

29:37 - Infrastructure Challenges

36:20 - Agent Value Capture

42:46 - Decentralized AI Stack

54:00 - Team Analysis and Due Diligence

01:00:10 - Future Risks and Opportunities

01:05:44 - Agent Autonomy Vision

01:09:43 - Future of Human-AI Interaction

Disclaimer

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