Radar – by nexxworks: Xiaomi's 10x Factory, Flying Taxis, Humanoid Robots, AI as Your Best Friend & Europe's Capital Problem

In this Never Normal Heroes episode, Peter Hinssen talks with Ethan Mollick about his new book, Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, and why AI’s jagged frontier still matters even as AI conquers maths. They also cover the end of apprenticeship, rogue AI swarms, and why every executive needs to use a frontier model themselves.

Hosted by Steven Van Belleghem, Peter Hinssen and Pascal Coppens, this episode unpacks how 1,200 OpenAI agents secretly swarmed and broke into Hugging Face. Plus China's "new new three", Cory Doctorow's reverse centaur, NVIDIA's $13bn Hugging Face deal and humanoids running the 100m in 9.39 seconds.Keywords OpenAI, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Moonshot AI, Kimi, DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Z.ai GLM, MiniMax, Zhipu, Unitree, CXMT, AI agents, reward hacking, agent swarm, reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow, future of work, humanoid robots, World Humanoid Robot Games, embodied AI, China innovation, new new three, biotech, WAICO, World AI Conference, Pax Silica, AI governance, open weight models, IPO, STAR Market, Hong Kong IPO, Gartner, customer experience, chatbots, Massimo Bottura, storytelling, Steven Van Belleghem, Peter Hinssen, Pascal Coppens, nexxworks

What if the org chart on your boardroom wall was designed for a factory floor in 1875 — and you've been running a knowledge business on it ever since? Peter Hinssen sits down with Clay Parker Jones — Head of Organisational Design & Development at Airbnb and author of Hidden Patterns: A Playbook for More Human Workplaces — for a conversation that cuts through the noise on why most companies are structurally broken and what it actually takes to build an organisation that can execute its strategy. They cover: 🔹 Why if you can't see your strategy in your org design, your design is decorative 🔹 The ghost of the Industrial Revolution haunting every corporate hierarchy — and why knowledge companies inherited a blueprint built for unskilled factory workers 🔹 Why "role clarity" is a symptom of relational poverty, not a solution to it 🔹 Why the future organisation will feel smaller — and why that's exactly the point If you lead a team, design organisations, or wonder why so much corporate complexity feels so broken — you'll learn stuff here

Hosted by Pascal Coppens with special guest Dado Van Peteghem, this special edition of Radar goes all-in on the robot revolution. From Nvidia calling this "the ChatGPT moment of robots" to Unitree humanoids running a Beijing half marathon faster than any human, Pascal and Dado map how fast China is pulling ahead. They dig into JD.com paying 500,000 people €3 an hour to harvest household data, China's 90% grip on the magnets every robot needs, Unitree's price crashing from €85,000 to €23,000, and the world models from Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun set to train the next generation. Plus Galbot's underground robotic pharmacies, DeepSeek's fresh $7 billion, and Europe's uncomfortable question of whether it can catch this wave after sleeping through EVs. A timeline that puts robots in factories by 2027 and homes by 2030, and an invitation to stop reading about the future and come see it live in China this November.

In this episode, Steven Van Belleghem, Peter Hinssen and Pascal Coppens unpack Peter's intense week with TSMC and Tesla's stunning TerraFab announcement — a one-terawatt AI chip factory built with Intel and SpaceX, equivalent to 500 nuclear reactors. Pascal counters with Jensen Huang's argument that US export controls have failed, China now dominates mature-node chips and AI researchers, and predicts the coming "Temu of semiconductors." They then dive into the looming IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX, the customer-service AI paradox (six surveys show consumers genuinely hate it), China's landmark Hangzhou ruling that makes AI an illegal reason to fire employees, Elon's Mars-colony pay package, the Character.ai lawsuit over chatbots posing as doctors, Steven's upcoming children's thriller Takeover, and Beijing weaponising rare-earth processing as the EU moves to ban Huawei and ZTE. Keywords TSMC, Taiwan chips, Tesla TerraFab, Intel, terawatt, end of the chip war, Jensen Huang, DeepSeek, Huawei Ascend, Temu of semiconductors, Anthropic IPO, OpenAI, SpaceX, Sarah Friar, Cursor, Colossus, customer service AI, chatbot paradox, China AI labor law, Hangzhou ruling, Universal High Income, Mars colony, Character.ai, Takeover, rare earths, Huawei ban