Building the Pathway from Agentive AI to AGI

Please join us for our 2025 Spring seminar series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries." Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley and the U.S.

As Generative AI expands from the world of chatbots to AI Agents that automate wider ranges of tasks in addition to communication, artificial intelligence will have to take on more and more aspects of AGI (artificial general intelligence). In doing so, AI models have to incorporate more diverse knowledge and skills of human beings. This will require a new, more cost- (and energy-) efficient technical approach. After a brief presentation of such a new approach and its initial applications in robotics and gaming, Jad Tarifi, Co-Founder and CEO of Integral.AI engages in a fireside chat with US-ATMC Director Dasher and the audience about this major new stage in the evolution of AI and its prospects for value creation.

Guest speaker Dr. Jad Tarifi is an AGI expert and the CEO & Co-founder of Integral AI, where he is driving industry-changing breakthroughs in scalable, energy-efficient AGI to bring humanity closer towards superintelligence.

​​With over 20 years of experience, he has dedicated much of his career to pioneering approaches to AGI. Before founding Integral AI, Jad spent nearly a decade at Google AI, where he founded and led its first Generative AI team and spearheaded research on learning from limited data. He holds a Ph.D. in AI, with a dissertation focusing on brain-inspired and mathematically rigorous theories of intelligence, and an M.S. in Quantum Computing.

​​Jad is also the author of the , a four-volume guidebook that explores the future of AI, human potential, and societal transformation in the age of AGI. The series presents a hopeful yet pragmatic vision for aligning AI with humanity’s highest ideals, detailing the technical path to building AGI, while offering readers a new worldview and practical tools for flourishing in a world shaped by superintelligence.

​​Born in Lebanon, educated and working in the US, and now based in Japan, Jad brings a deeply human and universal perspective to his mission of advancing AGI for the benefit of all.

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Parking options:

• Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Lasuen St. and Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking (A or C) and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm. Paid parking is enforced around The Oval until 6:00 pm.

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Our series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries" begins April 1, 2025 and continues weekly until June 3, 2025.

For our schedule of speakers, please visit our event page: https://asia.stanford.edu/course/entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/2025-entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/

Session Recordings are typically posted within 3 business days after each session on our .

Host or Publisher US-Asia Technology Management Center