Video Conversations on AI
Third Frontier is a lab focused on understanding AI-human interaction through research and analysis of on-ground insights, real-world implementation of AI and adoption patterns across personal and professional use.
We do this through multiple formats: long-form essays, research papers (like the recently published Behind India’s ChatGPT Conversations), active engagement with LinkedIn News India with an audience of 8M+ readers where we share our findings and Third Frontier Lab Notes with 3,000 highly engaged readers online.
The video conversation series is an extension of this project.
What This Series Is
This is not an interview series or a podcast. This is a living thesis/document.
I’m Kalyani Khona, an independent AI researcher who sits at an unusual intersection: behavioral research on LLM users, active investing in AI companies, and 11+ years building consumer products. I use these conversations to test hypotheses in public and connect patterns that emerge when you’re tracking user behavior, VC’s assumptions and product development simultaneously. I am also LinkedIn’s top AI expert to follow which gives my research a great distribution network.
Each conversation builds on the last, creating a knowledge graph that explores the unresolved questions and structural gaps in AI. I’m focused on exhausting topics until we hit structural truth, nothing surface level.
When Anagh Prasad (VP, Accel) said “every AI company is an evals company,” I spent the next few conversations testing that hypothesis. When Shashank (who runs an Evals Company) validated what Anagh predicted, I saw the pattern nobody else is connecting because we are in the early days..
This series is my way of closing the gap between what people think AI is and what’s actually happening beneath the surface.
How These Conversations Work
I add value through research. Every guest walks away having learned something new.
Most interviewers ask “Is SEO dead?” and move on. I ask “Is SEO dead?” then “But what about the two-tier user problem between free and paid ChatGPT?” then “And attribution is broken, so isn’t this just branding, not marketing?”
These aren’t interviews. They’re collaborative thinking sessions.
Past Conversations
Is It the Right Time to Build an AI Startup | Anagh Prasad, Accel India (AI talent in India, the AI memory problem, RL scaling) [link]
$46M Raised, 200 Employees: How This CEO Made Them All AI-First | Anand Subbaraj, Zuper [link]
The Truth About AI Search, GEO vs SEO | Ankit Kokkeri
95% of AI Agents Fail in Production | Shashank Agarwal, Noveum AI (Evals and AI traceability)
India Has NO AI Laws | Mohit Kapoor, Universal Legal [link]
5M Users on WhatsApp: India’s Largest Consumer AI App | Anuruddh Mishra, August AI [link]
Memory, Continual Learning & Why Current Models Hit Walls | Anshuman Kumar [link]
Can Your Phone Train Tomorrow’s AI Models? | Swayam S, SoraChain AI (Decentralised, federated learning) [link]
CMU Robotics PhD on Why World Models Are The Real Future | Aayush Bansal, PhD @ CMU Robotics [link]
Why American Factories Are Betting on Adaptive AI Robots Right Now | Siddharth Girdhar, Pivot Robots [link]
References and more.
Published Research:
Behind India’s ChatGPT Conversations (arXiv)
Lab Notes on LinkedIn (3,000+ engaged readers)
Third Frontier Essays: Notes on AI-Human Interaction
My insights were recently published on Accel’s Inside a Builder’s Mind: The Opportunity for Consumer AI in India and Linkedin India’s 20 Big Ideas that will define India in 2026.
Ongoing Research (6+ months):
Multi-platform LLM behavior analysis across search engines
LLM pretraining bias and business recommendation patterns
Authentic user prompt datasets with category-specific frameworks
AI adoption patterns across cultural and demographic segments
Background:
11+ years in product strategy, behavioral economics, and philosophy
Founding member at Jupiter Money (1M+ users, ~$150M raised)
Co-founder of Inclov (UN-recognized Top 50 Global Innovation, 50k users)
Active investor in 10+ tech and AI startups (4-8x portfolio returns)
Recognition:
AIYD Fellow | INK Fellow | Zero Project Keynote Speaker | Rajeev Circle Fellow (MJF)
Featured: Wikipedia, BBC, Forbes, The Guardian, Business Today, Mint, India Today, The Economic Times, Business Standard, The Hindu, Business Line
Speaking: TEDx Gateway, TED.com, INK Talk, CNBC TV18
Awards: UK Tech Rocketship Award (UK Govt.), Women Entrepreneur Quest (Govt. of India), Zero Project Award Winner, 35 under 35 by Entrepreneur Magazine
Where to Find This
All conversations are published on Lab Notes by Third Frontier (3,000 highly engaged readers) and hosted on YouTube.
Platform: LinkedIn | Hosted on YouTube
What People Are Saying
“Started listening to it. Proper classroom this is. Smashing work.”
- Subscriber, VC in Deep Tech and AI
“Hi Kalyani, it’s a pleasure connecting with you to let you know that this video series is amazing and I really loved the conversation and got to learn something amazing thanks for putting this effort.”
- Subscriber, Sr. Software Engineer at AI native company
Audience
Startup founders, VCs and angel investors, engineers and researchers in AI.
Signing off,