Not a demo reel and not a doom panel. Long-form conversations with the people building with AI about what it is doing to their work, their taste and their nerve.
Most AI shows are one of two things: a product tour, or an argument about the end of the world. Both are easier to make than the third option, which is a real conversation with someone in the middle of building — who has funding, a team, a roadmap they have rewritten twice this year, and no idea how any of it looks in 2030.
That is the series. Founders, researchers, designers and creators, asked about the decisions rather than the demos.
Every founder we speak to has had the same year: a model release rearranged their roadmap, their moat, or their headcount. The interesting material is not the pivot slide. It is the week before the pivot — who they called, what they were afraid of admitting, and how they told a team that the plan had changed again.
When making is cheap, judgement is the constraint. We ask designers, writers and directors working with these tools what they still refuse to automate, where the output is uncanny, and what they have learned about their own standards by watching a machine approximate them.
Less headline, more shop floor. What a twelve-person company now does that a hundred-person company used to, what happened to the junior role, and what founders actually tell candidates about their two-year prospects. Honest answers, on camera, from people who have to live with them.
Being right too soon is indistinguishable from being wrong. We talk to builders and investors about the bets they held through ridicule, the ones they quietly closed, and how they tell the difference between conviction and stubbornness in real time.
Every serious person in this field has a line. Almost nobody is asked to say it out loud with a camera running. We ask it in every episode of this series, and we let the answer sit there without rescuing it.
Founders and operators shipping with AI, researchers who can explain their own work, creators whose craft has changed, and the people running the teams underneath all of it. You do not need a publicist or a funding announcement — you need something true to say. Applications are open for New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
In Between Worlds is filmed like a film: one room, warm light, two chairs, no laptop screens. The subject is technology, but the treatment is human. The series is in production now and launches in 2027 — the launch list sees the first episodes before anyone else.
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