{"podcast":{"title":"Energytech Startups","slug":"energytech-startups-5673200","podcast_index_feed_id":5673200,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/energy-tech-startups","website_url":"https://collide.io","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9aQ-p8TWw1dk7M2RoFhW6fgQJKBoQiW2AbMrIRAVzFI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kM2Fj/MzRlYTQ3ZDM0NmJm/ZDllOWE1Y2Y3MmRm/MDFkOS5qcGc.jpg","author":"collide.","episode_count":92,"summary":"They say everything's bigger in Texas, including climate change. That's why Houston is leading the energy transition. Here in H-Town, the fourth largest city in the United States, entrepreneurs from across Texas and around the world are gathering to work with titans of industry to build the technology that will reduce emissions and power a low carbon future. Welcome to Energytech Startups with Nada Ahmed and Jason Ethier. We sit down with those change makers and wildcatters who are solving the toughest energy challenges with trillions of dollars on the line. We dig into how Houston will bring technology to market on a massive scale. Join us as we talk with the leaders of the energy capital of the world as they show us how the energy transition gets done.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T02:20:49.967269+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energytech-startups-5673200"},"episode":{"title":"Mehrab Momin from aiCTO","slug":"mehrab-momin-from-aicto","published_at":"2026-02-03T15:26:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energytech-startups-5673200/mehrab-momin-from-aicto","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energytech-startups-5673200","url":"https://energytechstartups.collide.io/episodes/mehrab-momin-from-aicto","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/01d904c4/29477188.mp3","summary":"AI has been “old news” since the 1950s, but Mehrab Momin of aiCTO Services breaks down why it suddenly feels everywhere, how founders should actually think about AI (data first, buzzwords later), and why Houston’s physical-world industries might be the perfect playground for the next wave, from vision models to humanoid robots. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Show intro and guest setup 01:10 Fractional AI CTO explained 03:10 Early AI work and swarm intelligence 05:10 AI “flavors” from ML to deep learning 07:10 Transformers and the LLM leap 09:10 Where AI shows up in industry 12:00 Language, context, and why LLMs work 18:00 Energy AI applications and examples 19:30 Computer vision basics and VLMs 23:30 Open source models and fine-tuning 26:20 Houston vs Bay Area AI maturity 29:20 Solar, drones, and practical vision AI 31:00 Humanoid robots and physical AI 33:20 Edge computing and model stacks 36:00 Testing, validation, and “AI going rogue” 37:20 Common startup mistakes with AI 40:20 Human intuition vs machine intelligence 48:00 Language preservation and climate tech link 51:20 What’s next for Houston startups 53:50 How to connect and wrap-up https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters","meta_description":"AI has been “old news” since the 1950s, but Mehrab Momin of aiCTO Services breaks down why it suddenly feels everywhere, how founders should actually thin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3309,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/energytech-startups-5673200/episodes/mehrab-momin-from-aicto/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/energytech-startups-5673200/mehrab-momin-from-aicto.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}