The Frontier with Brendan Foody

Andy Fang is the co-founder of DoorDash, where he’s helping bring AI into nearly every part of the business, from how customers discover products to how deliveries happen in the physical world. He joins Brendan Foody to discuss how AI is transforming commerce, the challenges of applying frontier models to real enterprise workflows, DoorDash’s investments in robotics and physical AI, and why DoorDash expects autonomous delivery to create more opportunities for Dashers.

Where to find Brendan:

• X: x.com/BrendanFoody
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brendan-foody-2995ab10b/
• Mercor: mercor.com

Work with Mercor: www.mercor.com/partner

• GitHub: https://github.com/novasky-ai/skyrl

Jonathan Frankle is Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, co-founder of MosaicML, and the researcher behind the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. He joins Brendan Foody to discuss why evaluations are the biggest bottleneck to enterprise AI adoption, how companies are moving from maximizing token usage to optimizing cost and performance, the challenges of deploying agents securely, and how AI will change the work people do.

Where to find Brendan:

• X: x.com/BrendanFoody
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brendan-foody-2995ab10b/
• Mercor: mercor.com

Work with Mercor: www.mercor.com/partner

• GitHub: https://github.com/novasky-ai/skyrl

Liam Fedus is co-founder of Periodic Labs. He co-created ChatGPT and led post-training as VP of research at OpenAI before leaving to start the company with Ekin Dogus Cubuk. He and Brendan discuss why ChatGPT nearly shipped as a meeting bot instead of a chat interface, why code had GitHub's built-in tests and science never did, why Periodic's first small lab left the team intelligence bottlenecked almost overnight, and how close he thinks we are to commercially viable fusion.

Where to find Brendan:

• X: x.com/BrendanFoody
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brendan-foody-2995ab10b/
• Mercor: mercor.com

Work with Mercor: www.mercor.com/partner

• GitHub: https://github.com/novasky-ai/skyrl

Gabe Pereyra is co-founder and president of Harvey. He was a researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind before starting the company with Winston Weinberg. He and Brendan discuss why big law firms wanted the early product and startup lawyers didn't, the mistake of chasing custom models too early, why a partner's red lines are the closest thing legal work has to a unit test, and whether there will be more lawyers in five years.

Where to find Brendan:

• X: x.com/BrendanFoody
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brendan-foody-2995ab10b/
• Mercor: mercor.com

Work with Mercor: www.mercor.com/partner

• GitHub: https://github.com/novasky-ai/skyrl