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The Builders with Walter Isaacson
The Builders with Walter Isaacson is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Walter Isaacson, with a new episode every day.
2 moments cut from one episode, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI startups and frontier models.
- New episodes
- Daily
- Latest
- Oct 22, 2026
- Moments cut
- 2
- Episodes cut
- 1
What its moments are about
- AI startups1
- Frontier models1
- Robotics1
- Jobs & the economy1
- AI business models1
Best moments from The Builders with Walter Isaacson
From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.
Musk says he stayed in government too long
“But I think I should have been more in the background and probably only had it last for a month or two.”
The Builders with Walter Isaacson12:47 Robots could make intelligence far more economically valuable
“My guess is digital superintelligence probably improves the output of goods and services by 20% to 30%, something like that.”
The Builders with Walter Isaacson16:34
The guest we’ve cut
- Elon MuskCEO, SpaceX & Tesla; founder, xAI3 moments
Recent episodes
Peter Thiel: The Real Danger of AI Isn't What You Think
Peter Thiel · Co-founder, PayPal
49.7K views · Oct 22
Elon Musk: The End of Work, the Death of Money, and a World Run by AI
Elon Musk
10:18of 37:14 · Oct 20

