# Eric Schmidt

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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.

- Role: Executive chair & CEO, Relativity Space
- On X: https://x.com/ericschmidt

## What Eric Schmidt said

- [AI agents could flatten business and speed up work](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-agents-could-flatten-business-and-speed-up-work/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 6 min
  > “Anthropic is busy writing most of its code using its own code.” — Eric Schmidt · [15:27](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=927)
- [Europe needs to make it easier to build AI companies](https://realalpha.app/s/europe-needs-to-make-it-easier-to-build-ai-companies/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
  > “The regulators regulate before they innovate. My favorite example is that five years ago, Brussels wrote their AI strategy.” — Eric Schmidt · [18:41](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=1121)
- [AI could remove the coordination tax in large companies](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-could-remove-the-coordination-tax-in-large-companies/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min
  > “Much of that coordination tax can be eliminated by these ai platforms for business” — Eric Schmidt · [36:44](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=2204)
- [Free Chinese models could win users despite trailing by months](https://realalpha.app/s/free-chinese-models-could-win-users-despite-trailing-by/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
  > “the vast majority of the world will use the free Chinese models rather than the more expensive Western models.” — Eric Schmidt · [25:37](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=1537)
- [Anthropic surpassed Google's revenue-growth record](https://realalpha.app/s/anthropic-surpassed-googles-revenue-growth-record/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min
  > “they smashed it more than twice the speed as we did right” — Eric Schmidt · [3:51](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=231)
- [AI can use known knowledge, but novel discovery remains uncertain](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-can-use-known-knowledge-but-novel-discovery-remains/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we don't know, it's somewhere between, my estimate is five to 10 years.” — Eric Schmidt · [11:14](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=674)
- [A bot incident showed why AI containment matters](https://realalpha.app/s/a-bot-incident-showed-why-ai-containment-matters/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
  > “once it started, it was very hard to stop. And it was a warning.” — Eric Schmidt · [22:23](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=1343)
- [Online recommendation loops can boost false claims](https://realalpha.app/s/online-recommendation-loops-can-boost-false-claims/)
  In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
  > “there are no police reports there's no veterinary reports in other words it's fake” — Eric Schmidt · [31:28](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/?t=1888)

## The episode

- [Eric Schmidt: Are We Ready for Superintelligence? | Podcast | In Good Company](https://realalpha.app/v/U5YtR3OG5Uo/) · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Oct 21, 2026