Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Eric Schmidt (Executive chair & CEO, Relativity Space) talking, from an interview on In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen published Oct 21, 2026.
What Eric Schmidt said
AI agents could flatten business and speed up work
“Anthropic is busy writing most of its code using its own code.”
Eric Schmidt15:27 Europe needs to make it easier to build AI companies
“The regulators regulate before they innovate. My favorite example is that five years ago, Brussels wrote their AI strategy.”
Eric Schmidt18:41 AI could remove the coordination tax in large companies
“Much of that coordination tax can be eliminated by these ai platforms for business”
Eric Schmidt36:44 Free Chinese models could win users despite trailing by months
“the vast majority of the world will use the free Chinese models rather than the more expensive Western models.”
Eric Schmidt25:37 Anthropic surpassed Google's revenue-growth record
“they smashed it more than twice the speed as we did right”
Eric Schmidt3:51 AI can use known knowledge, but novel discovery remains uncertain
“we don't know, it's somewhere between, my estimate is five to 10 years.”
Eric Schmidt11:14 A bot incident showed why AI containment matters
“once it started, it was very hard to stop. And it was a warning.”
Eric Schmidt22:23 Online recommendation loops can boost false claims
“there are no police reports there's no veterinary reports in other words it's fake”
Eric Schmidt31:28
The episode
In Good Company with Nicolai TangenEric Schmidt: Are We Ready for Superintelligence? | Podcast | In Good Company
Eric Schmidt · Former CEO, Google
11:22of 43:08 · Oct 21
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