Zero Shot
Episodes
Lossfunk is the third space for Indian AI, beyond industry and academia
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After 15 years of building Wingify, Paras Chopra spent some time deliberating about his next stint.For years, he had chased the 0 to 1 journey of buil...
HCL invests in Sarvam and goes down the 5-layer AI cake
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Indian IT grew and grew some more based on the labor arbitrage model: deploy engineers from Bangalore at one-sixth the cost of an America...
'The application layer is dead': SpotDraft's Shashank Bijapur on why System of Record is the real advantage
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Another day and another Anthropic announcement has spurred conversation. This time, it is Claude for Legal services. On May 12, Anthropic unveiled 20...
Anthropic's agents are your new finance professionals. They don’t offer investment advice
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On May 5, Anthropic released 10 financial services agents. The company said they "pair best" with Claude Opus 4.7, a "state-of-the-art" model that lea...
The AI wearable market is full of dead devices. NeoSapien thinks India can turn the tide
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is the market for AI wearables? And what does they do that a phone already doesn’t?These were the two main questions we asked Dhananjay Yadav, ...
How SaaS startup Presentations.AI went from $0 to $5M in revenue
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most AI startup success stories start in November 2022. For the story of Presentations.AI, however, we have to go back to 2005.That year, Sumanth Ragh...
What the world gets wrong about Chinese AI, and why India should look carefully
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"People in Silicon Valley and in China often have assumptions about each other. And their assumptions about each other are extremely self-centered."Ou...
Zero Shot Live: Who will survive Agentic AI in India?
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today is not regular programming for Zero Shot.We present to you a glimpse of our first live event, which we dramatically titled “The Great Unbundli...
Kuku used AI to crack micro dramas. It is now coming for Bollywood
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"We have 353 billion data points on user behaviour. Why wouldn't I use them to make a better story and get into newer businesses within content?"That'...
Salary, Bonus, Equity… Tokens?
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Your next job offer might just come with a "token budget" line item. The idea has been gaining steam in Silicon Valley. In February, a VC named Tomas...
The AI agent era has started in China. It looks different from anywhere else
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what happens when AI agents are adopted at scale? Look no further than China.Over the last two months, people — yes, ordinary citizens...
India’s biggest B2B marketplace takes OpenAI to court
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Say you want a chunk of plywood. Or a passenger lift. Or a power cable. Or a corrugated packaging box. Chances are you will find yourself on IndiaMART...
AI and the end of SaaS 'playbooks'
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
That’s an honest admission from Avinash Raghava, the founding volunteer and CEO of the pay-it-forward community SaaSBoomi. As someone who has spent ...
Engineers don’t want AI tool contracts. At least the ones they are caught in
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As enterprises make sure their employees use AI, integrate it into their workflows, track productivity, and highlight AI usage in their investor calls...
A tale of two AI summits: Beyond the stolen robot dog
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a fresh take on the India AI Impact Summit that took place last week in New Delhi: it was two events stitched together, happening at the same...
Voice AI startups are drawing in VC cheques fast. Will they 'differentiate or suffocate'?
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s a land grab market…” That’s how our guest Devyani Gupta, the founder of Voice AI startup Arrowhead, describes the space she is operat...
'Vibe coding lawyers': How AI is changing work at Trilegal
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"We have vibe coding and Biryani sessions on Fridays…”This is not a scene from a tech startup or a weekend hackathon. It is a statement by Nikhil ...
Will Sarvam be to AI what PhonePe became for UPI? No.
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pick any conversation on AI in India, one project keeps coming up again and again: UPI. Every major stakeholder — across government and industry —...
Google’s on the driver’s seat in the AI race. Who could trip it?
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Imagine the AI race is a giant F1 race where the biggest AI companies are driving in their souped up racing vehicles around the track again and aga...
Perplexity’s rug pull in India, AI PCs are the new Chromebooks, Deepseek isn’t an AI company
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin discuss and analyse major developments related to artificial intelligence every week.Pravee...
Stop buying AI tools: Why process re-engineering is the only competitive advantage
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, a weekly podcast where Praveen, Rohin, and Brady unpack big ideas that matter to anyone who cares about artificial intellig...
Anti-AI backlash aids big tech, CEOs and prompt-generated rhetoric, Emergent’s emergence
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Zero Shot, a weekly podcast by The Ken where Praveen, Brady, and Rohin ponder the latest developments in artificial intelligence—in India...
Taking aim for 2026
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the end of 2025, so we don’t have a full episode of Zero Shot for you today.This podcast launched in September, and we’ve produced 14 episo...
Habitually outlandish valuations, AI’s trough of disillusionment
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Zero Shot, The Ken’s weekly podcast that interprets the latest big moves in artificial intelligence—in India and around the world.This ...
Energy engineers, SaaS prices and the moment of AI truth, Broadcom and the bubble
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin take on the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence every Wednesday.Th...
People evaluating people, AI’s changing seasons, shattering the mobile internet
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady deliver their takes on new developments in artificial intelligence every Wednesday.This wee...
One-human unicorns, Suno’s musical future, ‘back to the age of research’
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Praveen, Brady, and Rohin discuss the biggest moves in artificial intelligence.This week, Brady mulls over the possib...
Perplexity kills student incentives, moving past peak Nvidia, the Google Empire strikes back
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin offer their perspectives on the latest developments in artificial intelligence.This week, P...
Threat models, using taste to defend margins, ChatGPT’s ‘collab’ with Phonepe
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady discover new ideas and interpretations of the latest developments in artificial intelligenc...
‘Made by humans’, Perplexity says the quiet part out loud, AI in courtrooms
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Zero Shot, The Ken’s weekly discussion where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin go beyond the headlines to probe the major shake-ups in artif...
Introducing Zero Shot
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Brady Ng, Praveen Gopal Krishnan, and Rohin Dharmakumar of The Ken as they discuss the big ideas in artificial intelligence. You’ll get the mac...