The Tech Strategy Podcast

Why I Like Agibot Robotics (290)

This week’s podcast is about Agibot, a fast rising full stack robot business in Shanghai.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to the TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.Why I like Agibot:Has rapidly expanded into a full suite of robotsGoing after all the humanoid industries and use casesBuilding an almost full AI tech stack. Everything except chips.Founded and run by Huawei executives. Moving very fast.A good strategy. It appears similar to Huawei.Agibot’s strategy is to flood the market with affordable humanoids while growing the entire ecosystem with open datasets and open models. They are scaling fast in manufacturing, usage and training.They mass-produce the hardware at scale so thousands of identical robots can collect real-world data in homes and factories.At the same time they open-source the entire stack: the million-trajectory AgiBot World dataset, the GO-1 foundation model, the training tools, and the GenieSim simulation twin—so researchers and developers can build skills and applications on top without paying anything.Agibot’s affordable humanoid platform as infrastructure. Hardware sales and ecosystem services become the revenue, not software licensing.Now in the top 1-2 in humanoid sales.AgiBot shipped approximately 5168 humanoid units in 2025. ---------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

My 4 Take-Aways from WAIC 2026 (289)

This week’s podcast is about my visit to WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to the TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.Take-Aways:Robots and AI are converging rapidly There is a convergence of world models / building, video generation and 3D model generationTencent has a very rapid product cadence. "Choose Your Buddy" is a user-friendly approach.We are seeing lots creativity and combinatorial innovation. A Cambrian explosion,--------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

Meituan's LongCat Has Just Made China AI Independent (288)

This week’s podcast is about the development and launch of Meituan's LongCat 2.0 LLM. This 1.6T parameter, frontier model was trained entirely on domestic hardware. That's a big milestone.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to the TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours. ---------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

5 Steps to Get Started in Agentic Commerce (287)

This week’s podcast is about the emergence of agentic commerce. This is a big change to traditional omnichannel.Plus, there is a bit more of a rant about the recent Anthropic and OpenAI ban. My prediction is the future of AI outside of the USA is now:Open source, downloadable and non-embargoable models plusLow cost, tech agnostic AI architectureWhich probably means China. And probably Nvidia.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to the TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.The 5 steps to get into agentic commerce are:Start building a council of LLMs.This means a couple of frontier models and lots of open source (a symphony of models). The net is a composable model with a router than directs all queries. The key AI and agents need to be able to code. That is their superpower.Get to the tipping point where an end-to-end workflow has agents and AI, with no humans in the loop. Then you can scale up to 100-200 agents.This means fixing the quality problems before you scale.Get to the tipping point where agents create agents (an agent factory). This gest you to thousands of agents.This includes onboarding, training and oversight of agents.Centralize enterprise data and context for AI and agents.You need updated centralized data that your enterprise AI can access. A lot of data is born somewhere else. Salesforce. System of record. ERP systems.--------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

Innovation and Strategy Lessons from My Visit to CATL - Part 1 (286)

This week’s podcast is about my recent visit to the CATL headquarters in Ningde, Fujian.Plus, there is a bit of a rant about the recent Anthropic ban. My prediction is the future of AI outside of the USA is now:Open source, downloadable and non-embargoable models plusLow cost, tech agnostic AI architectureWhich probably means China.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to the TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.-----------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show