The AI Company Building the Autonomous Enterprise with Sam Pasupalak, Skyfall AI
Sam Pasupalak, founder of Skyfall AI and co-founder of Maluuba, explains world models, autonomous enterprises, continual learning, and what comes after large language models.
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Summary
What comes after large language models? According to Skyfall AI founder Sam Pasupalak, the next frontier is AI that can continuously learn, reason about organizations, and eventually operate businesses autonomously. In this episode of The Flywheel, M13 Partner Morgan Blumberg talks with the former Maluuba co-founder about world models, autonomous enterprises, continual learning, reinforcement learning, AI startups, and why today's AI infrastructure is still in its earliest stages. Sam explains how Skyfall AI is building enterprise intelligence that understands businesses over months and years instead of responding one prompt at a time.
Through the conversation, Morgan Blumberg explores why M13 believes the next generation of enterprise AI will be built on systems that can reason, learn continuously and operate in dynamic environments.
Key insights
Why AI wrapper companies face increasing pressure
As foundation models improve, application-layer companies will need proprietary data, workflows or distribution to maintain an advantage. Sam explains why many application-layer companies could struggle as foundation models improve.
Why continual learning matters
Today's LLMs largely stop learning after training. World models continually update their understanding.
How the autonomous enterprise becomes possible
Skyfall's research focuses on AI systems that reason across months of business activity rather than isolated prompts.
Founder lessons from two AI platform shifts
Sam reflects on building Maluuba before Microsoft's acquisition and what today's founders underestimate.
Related topics
What is Skyfall AI?
Skyfall AI is building world models that can understand, learn from and eventually operate complex businesses autonomously.
What is a world model?
A world model is an AI architecture that builds an internal representation of how environments change over time. Unlike large language models, which generate responses from prompts, world models are designed to learn continuously, reason about cause and effect and make decisions over long time horizons.
Can an LLM run a business?
Large language models can automate many tasks, but lack long-term memory, continual learning and persistent reasoning. Skyfall believes world models are needed before AI can operate an entire business.
What is an autonomous enterprise?
An autonomous enterprise is a company where AI systems perform many operational decisions, continuously learning from business outcomes while humans supervise strategy and governance. Learn how M13 portfolio company Rime is building enterprise voice AI.
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