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Visualizing the AI boom (or bubble), with Carta’s Peter Walker

12/10/2025 • 42 min

We’ve all heard the hype, but what does the data say about the AI gold rush? According to Peter Walker, Head of Insights for Carta, around 40 percent of the money they see being raised goes to AI companies. A master of data visualization, Walker takes investment information from the over 55,000 start-ups on Carta and turns it into digestible figures. He joins Pi… Play episode

Walmart, AI, and the future of shopping, with Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar
Andrew Ng on winning the AI race, with DJ Patil
Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in the world of AI
Possible: Lisa Su on semiconductors, compute, and big bets
How AI can unlock life-saving cures, with Siddhartha Mukherjee
Designing AI for people and the planet, with Aza Raskin
Baratunde Thurston wants us to reimagine our relationship with AI
Could this be the future of K-12 education?, with Alpha School’s Joe Liema…
Vibe coding and the one-person start-up, with Lovable's Anton Osika
Rapid Response: Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Va…
How Harvey is reinventing legal work with AI
Arianna Huffington thinks AI could be a GPS for the soul
How Microsoft is democratizing safe AI
The power of storytelling in VCs, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and ChenLi Wang
Replay: How AI is shaping the job market, with Hilke Schellmann
Inside how The New York Times leverages AI
Back to school: How AI is transforming the classroom, with Sal Khan
Can artists and AI coexist?
Does OpenAI’s new model deliver on the hype? Inside GPT-5 with Jeremy Kahn
Possible: Alexis Ohanian on the future of online and offline communities
How Writer is helping Fortune 500 companies become AI-forward
How Google DeepMind is building AI that can help humanity
Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theories?
How today’s AI giants mirror global empires of the past, with journalist K…
What humans get (and don’t get) from AI, with MIT’s Pattie Maes
Possible: Latanya Sweeney on AI, trust, and privacy
Elias Torres wants to reach unicorn status with just 100 employees
Possible: Jane Goodall on hope, AI, and the natural world
How to use AI to fight online image abuse, with Breeze Liu
Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 3, featuring Paul Trillo
How to build robots that can live alongside us, with Cynthia Breazeal
Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 2, featuring Elise Swopes
The hidden environmental costs of a single AI prompt, with Dr. Sasha Lucci…
Remarkable People: Deepak Chopra on becoming your own guru in the digital …
How AI helps women track hormonal health, with Marina Pavlovic Rivas
Rapid Response: The enterprise AI revolution is underway, with Box’s Aaron…
Investing in the age of AI, part 2: Jeff Bussgang
Investing in the age of AI, part 1: Vinod Khosla
The start-up fixing AI's errors, with Invisible Technologies' Francis Pedr…
Revisited: Dr. Joy Buolamwini wants AI to see everyone
Reid Hoffman on AI’s environmental impact and the path to sustainability
Preparing the next generation of AI scientists, with Taniya Mishra
With Groq, Jonathan Ross is taking AI inference to new speeds
From Abundance Summit: How AI is shaking up the start-up ecosystem
Your next manager could be powered by AI, with Katherine von Jan
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is keeping wearable AI tech close to the chest
Why AI agents are the future of work, with Marc Benioff
Etched is ready to disrupt the AI chip market, with Gavin Uberti
The making of an AI clone, with Natalie Monbiot

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