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Leveraging AI

Dive into the world of artificial intelligence with ‘Leveraging AI,’ a podcast tailored for forward-thinking business professionals. Each episode brings insightful discussions on how AI can ethically transform business practices, offering practical solutions to day-to-day business challenges.
Join our host Isar Meitis (4 time CEO), and expert guests as they turn AI’s complexities into actionable insights, and explore its ethical implications in the business world. Whether you are an AI novice or a seasoned professional, ‘Leveraging AI’ equips you with the knowledge and tools to harness AI’s power responsibly and effectively. Tune in weekly for inspiring conversations and real-world applications. Subscribe now and unlock the potential of AI in your business.

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311 | How to generate professional graphic designs and videos for any need in seconds instead of hours or days (web design, interior design, marketing assets, brochures, architecture, etc.) Jul 21, 2026

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What if you could turn a rough idea, a handful of inspiration images, or even a back-of-the-napkin sketch into a professional design or promotional video—in seconds rather than days?

Today’s AI design tools can help you create mood boards, photorealistic rooms, 3D objects, architectural visuals, marketing assets, product advertisements, and videos without mastering a long list of complicated creative platforms.

The key is to stop treating AI as a one-off image generator. Instead, build repeatable workflows that move from inspiration to finished asset—while dramatically reducing the time, cost, and manual effort involved.

In this episode of the Leveraging AI Podcast, Isar Meitis walks through practical AI-powered design workflows that can be applied far beyond interior design.

Whether you need visuals for a website, presentation, brochure, proposal, product campaign, architectural project, or social media post, these methods can help you create more options and move from concept to execution faster.

In this session, you’ll discover:

The difference between free 2D-to-3D tools and more detailed paid alternatives.
How to move a 3D asset into tools such as SketchUp and create a photorealistic render.
How to transform a collection of inspiration images into a professional mood board with ChatGPT.
How to preserve a room’s layout while changing its furniture, lighting, materials, and atmosphere.
How Figma Weave can turn a manual creative process into a repeatable visual workflow.
How to place products realistically into new environments with the correct angle, lighting, and shadows.
How AI can generate multiple advertising concepts for the same product automatically.
How these workflows can support web design, architecture, brochures, proposals, presentations, product marketing, and other business needs.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
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310 | 61% Believe AI Agents Could Do Half Their Job in 3 Years, Open Source Models Take Over, OpenAI Launches First Hardware But Faces Apple Lawsuit and more important AI news for July 17, 2026 Jul 18, 2026

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Open source AI models just hit 41% of Hugging Face downloads — and the real cost gap is 90% or more. Here's what that means for your business.

The numbers moved fast this week. Chinese open-weight models now dominate downloads, the quality gap versus closed models has shrunk to 3.3%, and a new repo opens on Hugging Face every seven seconds. Half of the Fortune 500 is already running open source models in production.

Isar walks through the new frontier open models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4, Thinking Machines Lab's first release, Satya Nadella's Token Capital essay, the new state-level AI laws in New York and Illinois, BCG's AI at Work report, and the Apple lawsuit hanging over OpenAI's hardware plans.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why Chinese open-weight models now account for 41% of Hugging Face downloads
How Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 price against top US closed models ($15 vs $50 per million output tokens, down to 87 cents)
What Satya Nadella's "Token Capital" and reverse information paradox mean for your company's data
What New York's data center moratorium and Illinois Senate Bill 315 change for AI companies
Why BCG found that AI strategy beats tool access — and 72% of CEOs now own the AI decision

BCG "AI at Work: Strategy Matters More Than Tools" — the 12,000-person study covered in this episode — https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/ai-at-work-why-strategy-matters-more-than-tools

AI 2040 "Plan A" paper — the 90-page proposal to delay superintelligence until 2040 discussed in the rapid fire — https://ai-2040.com/

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
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309 | Claude Fable 5: My Business, Transformed — My Playbook, Shared Jul 14, 2026

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Could one AI model save you weeks of work—or even reshape how you run your business?

After spending two weeks putting Claude Fable 5 through real-world business challenges, the answer surprised me. This wasn't about writing better prompts or generating content faster. It was about handing complex, multi-step strategic work to AI and getting back solutions that would normally require weeks of research, multiple consultants, and significant investment.

In this episode, I share exactly how I approached Fable 5, which projects produced the highest ROI, where it exceeded expectations, where it failed, and the framework I'll continue using once usage moves to token-based pricing.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why Claude Fable 5 feels less like a chatbot and more like a senior strategist.
The framework I used to identify the highest-ROI AI projects across my business.
How Fable delegated work to less expensive models to dramatically reduce costs.
Real examples where hours—or even weeks—of work were completed in under an hour.
Why long-running AI workflows are becoming a competitive advantage.
The biggest strengths (and surprising weaknesses) I discovered during two weeks of intensive testing.
How to decide when premium AI models are actually worth the investment.
Why measuring business ROI matters more than chasing the newest AI model.
The mindset shift every business leader needs as AI moves from assistant to orchestrator.

If you're evaluating whether advanced AI is worth the investment for your business, this episode provides a practical, experience-based playbook—not hype. Whether you're building workflows, scaling operations, or looking for your next competitive advantage, you'll walk away with ideas you can apply immediately.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

308 | The craziest new releases week in AI history, the shift towards cheaper AI is intensifying, the new roles of the AI era. And more important AI news ending of week of July 11, 2026 Jul 11, 2026

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Can AI keep getting smarter while becoming dramatically cheaper?

This week may go down as the biggest release week in AI history. OpenAI, Meta, SpaceX AI, and Anthropic all introduced major new models and capabilities but the biggest story isn't just who launched what. It's the dramatic shift toward lower-cost, highly capable AI and what that means for every business.

In this episode, Isar Meitis breaks down the week's biggest announcements, explains why the AI race is moving beyond benchmark scores toward cost-efficient agentic systems, and explores how these changes are reshaping enterprise adoption, workforce roles, and the future competitive landscape.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why this may have been the biggest AI release week ever.
OpenAI's latest releases, including GPT-5.6, GPT Work, and GPT Live.
Meta's surprise entry with Muse Spark 1.1 and why it's turning heads.
SpaceX AI's Grok 4.5 and the growing focus on performance at dramatically lower costs.
Why AI companies are shifting from "best model" to "best value."
What falling AI costs mean for enterprise adoption and ROI.
How businesses should think about model routing and using the right AI for the right task.
The rise of agentic AI and why autonomous execution is becoming the new competitive battleground.
The geopolitical implications of AI model restrictions between the U.S. and China.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

307 | Stop Starting From Scratch: Build AI Projects That Actually Remember with Loren Bartley Jul 07, 2026

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What if the biggest thing holding back your AI results isn't your prompts... it's your workflow?

Most people treat AI like a chatbot—opening a new conversation, asking a few questions, and starting over the next day. The result? Lost context, inconsistent outputs, and hours wasted trying to recreate work that's already been done.

In this episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis is joined by AI strategist Loren Bartley to reveal a smarter way to work. You'll discover how to build AI Projects that remember your context, organize your work, coordinate multiple AI conversations, and become a true operating system for your business—not just another chat window.

Whether you're using Claude to manage clients, marketing campaigns, business operations, or strategic initiatives, this conversation will completely change how you think about working with AI.

In this session, you'll discover:

What Claude Projects are—and why they're one of the most underused AI features available.
How to build AI workspaces that retain context and deliver consistently better results.
Loren's "Command Center" framework for managing multiple AI conversations without losing track of work.
How AI Skills can automate project setup, documentation, and workflow management.
Simple organization hacks that make working with AI faster, cleaner, and more scalable.

Loren Bartley is an AI strategist, marketing expert, and founder of Digital Business Momentum. She helps organizations move beyond basic prompting to build practical AI systems that improve productivity, streamline operations, and scale business workflows.

Connect with Loren on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenbartley/

👉 Learn more about building smarter AI workflows here:
https://aimegasuccess.com/commodore

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

306 | The AI world just did a U-turn on several aspects - Governments’ regulation, model selection, model reliability, and spending, it may have a profound impact on the future of AI, and more important AI news for the weekend ending in July 3, 2026 Jul 04, 2026

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Will governments, budgets, and AI economics—not model intelligence—determine who wins the AI race?

This week, the biggest AI stories weren't just about new models. They revealed three major shifts that every business leader should be paying attention to. Governments are becoming active gatekeepers of frontier AI. Companies are moving away from "use the smartest model for everything" toward cost-optimized AI strategies. And specialized AI solutions are rapidly gaining ground over one-size-fits-all frontier models.

If you're leading AI adoption inside your organization, these changes will influence your technology choices, budgets, competitive strategy, and long-term planning.

In this episode, Isar connects the dots between regulation, economics, and innovation to explain where AI is heading—and what it means for businesses over the next 12–24 months.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why the U.S. government's approach to frontier AI appears to have shifted dramatically.
What the Anthropic and OpenAI model restrictions could mean for future AI releases.
Why China's AI ecosystem may benefit from tighter U.S. controls.
How regulatory decisions could affect OpenAI, Anthropic, and their upcoming IPO ambitions.
Whether independent AI safety auditors could become the future of AI regulation.
Why Ford rehired hundreds of engineers after discovering AI couldn't fully replace experienced talent.
What OpenAI's latest model revealed about AI reliability and model "cheating."
Why enterprises are abandoning expensive frontier models for dramatically cheaper alternatives.
How companies like Lindy, Uber, Amazon, and Glean are changing their AI spending strategies.
Why orchestration layers and specialized AI models may become more valuable than simply building larger foundation models.
The week's most important rapid-fire AI product launches, funding announcements, and industry developments.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
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305 | Mastering AI Automation: Custom GPTs to Agents with Isar Meitis Jun 30, 2026

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Are your Custom GPTs living on borrowed time—or is this the perfect opportunity to build something even better?

Rumors that OpenAI may phase out Custom GPTs have sparked plenty of debate. But instead of focusing on what might disappear, this episode explores what comes next—and why business leaders should be paying attention now.

If you've invested time building AI automations, or you're just starting to explore how AI can streamline your business, you'll discover how Custom GPTs, Projects, Skills, and Agents fit together, where each one excels, and why the future belongs to portable, reusable AI workflows.

Rather than waiting for platform changes to force your hand, learn how to build AI systems that are flexible, scalable, and ready for what's next. This episode breaks down the concepts into practical examples you can apply immediately.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why the rumors around Custom GPTs matter—and what they could mean for your business.
The differences between Chats, Custom GPTs, Projects, Skills, and AI Agents.
When Projects are a better choice than Custom GPTs.
How Skills make AI automations reusable across multiple workflows.
The building blocks behind effective AI automation: instructions, context, and memory.
A practical framework for creating reliable AI workflows that deliver consistent results.
How to transition from simple prompts to sophisticated AI-powered business processes.
Real-world examples of proposal automation, reporting, and workflow orchestration.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

304 | Chat is dead... long live agents - 99.8% of tokens used by OpenAI are now agentic (Codex), Google stock down 7.2% on top researchers departure, AI is transforming healthcare, and more AI news for the week of June 26, 2026 Jun 27, 2026

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Is your business ready for a world where AI doesn't just answer questions—but gets the work done?

The age of agentic AI has officially arrived. Companies are rapidly shifting from chat-based AI to autonomous AI agents capable of completing hours of work with minimal human involvement. The organizations that adapt early are likely to gain a significant competitive advantage, while those that hesitate risk falling behind.

In this episode, Isar Metis unpacks the biggest AI developments of the week—from OpenAI's dramatic internal transformation and Anthropic's latest enterprise agent, to the growing talent war between leading AI labs and breakthrough healthcare applications. More importantly, he explains what these changes mean for business leaders and how to prepare your organization for the next phase of AI adoption.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why OpenAI has shifted almost entirely to agentic AI internally.
What the end of Custom GPTs means for businesses.
How Anthropic's Claude is becoming a true AI teammate inside Slack.
The biggest challenges around AI governance, security, and trust.
Why AI agents are creating new budgeting and infrastructure challenges.
The growing competition for top AI researchers—and why it matters.
Healthcare breakthroughs showing AI's real-world impact.
Practical steps every business leader should take today to prepare for an agentic future.

If you're leading a team, shaping AI strategy, or simply trying to stay ahead of one of the fastest technology shifts in history, this episode will help you separate the hype from the practical reality.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

303 | From ChatGPT to Codex: How AI Agents Are Transforming Marketing and Business Operations with Dan Sanchez Jun 23, 2026

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What if the biggest AI opportunity for your business isn't ChatGPT—but the tool quietly replacing it?

While much of the AI conversation has focused on Claude Code and coding assistants, a new contender is changing how business leaders think about productivity, automation, and execution.

In this episode, Dan Sanchez joins Isar Meitis to explore how OpenAI Codex has evolved far beyond software development. Together they reveal how AI agents can proactively find context, take action, automate complex workflows, and become true collaborators inside your business, not just chatbots that answer questions.

If you're looking for practical ways to scale marketing, streamline operations, and unlock new levels of efficiency without increasing headcount, this conversation offers a glimpse into what the next generation of AI-powered work looks like.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why OpenAI Codex is gaining momentum beyond software development
The key differences between Codex, ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Claude CoWork
How AI agents proactively find context and execute tasks autonomously
Why project-based AI workflows are becoming essential for modern businesses
How Dan uses Codex for marketing, content creation, and process automation
The power of AI-accessible folders, files, and organizational systems
How AI can generate, manage, and improve business assets over time
Practical examples of automating large-scale content operations
Why business leaders should start thinking beyond prompts and toward AI-powered execution
The future of agentic workflows and AI-assisted business operations

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

302 | ChatGPT 1B user milestone but slips below 50% market share, GLM 5.2 takes the lead in coding, Microsoft CoPilot Cowork now available, and more AI news for the week ending on June 19 2026 Jun 20, 2026

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Can a company reach 1 billion users before figuring out how to make money—and still dominate the future of AI?

This week’s AI news cycle delivered a fascinating mix of milestones, competitive shakeups, enterprise AI breakthroughs, security concerns, and agentic innovation. OpenAI crossed the historic 1-billion-user mark, Microsoft opened Copilot CoWork to the masses, SpaceX made a massive move with its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, and new open-source challengers emerged to challenge the industry's biggest players.

For business leaders, the message is becoming increasingly clear: AI capabilities are no longer the bottleneck. Adoption, governance, employee enablement, and operational execution are now the real competitive advantages. Organizations that successfully train their teams and embed AI into daily workflows are already seeing dramatic productivity gains and measurable business outcomes.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why OpenAI's 1-billion-user milestone may be more complicated than the headlines suggest
How ChatGPT's market share slipped below 50% while Gemini and Claude continue gaining ground
OpenAI's new $150 million partner network and what it means for enterprise AI adoption
Why Microsoft Copilot CoWork could become a game changer for organizations already invested in Microsoft 365
The strategic implications of SpaceX acquiring Cursor for $60 billion
How new open-source coding models are challenging leading closed-source AI systems
Why AI governance and international cooperation became a major focus at the G7 Summit
The growing scrutiny facing OpenAI ahead of its anticipated IPO
New developments in agentic AI platforms from Databricks and Vercel
How leading companies are using AI agents to transform productivity and operations
What business leaders need to know about AI's growing impact on jobs, hiring, and workforce planning
Why employees who openly use AI may still face workplace stigma despite widespread adoption

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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