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What happens when an AI agent needs to keep working for hours, days, or longer? A model call is not enough. It needs history, state, and a reliable record of what happened before.
In this episode of the ODSC Ai X Podcast, guest host Jerry Wolfe speaks with Yohei Nakajima, creator of BabyAGI and General Partner at Untapped Capital. Yohei is known for his build-in-public approach, using small experiments to explore emerging technology, meet founders, and inform his work as an early-stage investor.
They trace the path from BabyAGI’s simple autonomous task loop to ActiveGraph, Yohei’s runtime for durable, long-running agents. Yohei explains why “the log is the agent,” how structured event histories can make agents resumable and auditable, and why preserving the complete process matters for research reproducibility. The conversation also explores rapid prototyping, organizational knowledge, multi-model research workflows, memory, identity, and why sharing what you build creates more opportunities for useful connections.
02:23 – Building in Public: AI Projects and VC
05:36 – Exploring New AI Capabilities with JEV
07:26 – AI Experiments: Knowledge Graphs and Context Mapping
13:15 – BabyAGI: The Origins of Autonomous AI Agents
17:47 – ActiveGraph: Rethinking AI Agent Architecture
19:27 – AI Agent Memory and Event-Driven Systems
23:08 – Building Self-Improving AI Agents
25:10 – Firm OS: AI-Powered Business Automation
28:06 – AI Agents for Team Workflows and Onboarding
31:58 – Data Storage and Retrieval for AI Agents
37:10 – AI Benchmarking and Reproducible Research
43:32 – The Future of AI Memory, Identity, and Agent Architecture
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