Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-07-10
Jason Calacanis & Yoav Shoham: books mentioned on This Week in Startups
Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs' Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud
In this episode of AI Basics, Jason sits down with Yoav Shoham — Stanford professor emeritus and co-founder of AI21 Labs, creators of Jurassic-2, Wordtune, and the new orchestration system Maestro.
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Great Expectations
“And you think about the role of professors creating courses, creating quizzes, even you can go into any LLM today, ask it to take uh Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, and give you a series of Q&A and be your coach, and you just give it that tiny prompt”