# Welcome to AIE LEAD - Alex Lieberman, Tenex AI Engineer ยท 2025-12-19 Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and Tenex.co, opens the AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 by polling the audience on their origins (New York, San Francisco, Austin, Ecuador, New Zealand) and explaining why a newsletter guy hosts an AI engineering conference: he wants to spend the next 20 years at the AI frontier. He describes co-founding Tenex, an AI transformation firm serving mid-market and enterprise companies, and notes that 2025 has been a banner year for AI. The summit will feature the labs, unicorn AI startups, academics, management consultants, and Fortune 50 brands. Lieberman thanks presenting sponsor Google DeepMind, platinum sponsor Anthropic, and all gold and silver sponsors available in the expo downstairs. ## Questions this episode answers ### Why did Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew, decide to host an AI engineer conference? After leaving his role at Morning Brew, Alex Lieberman asked himself what space he wanted to spend the next 20 years in to build something consequential and work with smart people. He concluded it was AI, so he co-founded Tenex.co, an AI transformation firm. Now he spends all his time with AI engineers, the only non-technical person in the business. [1:09](https://aie.addtry.com/a6652533-2ee8-4246-90cb-bb652e49c7fc?t=69000) ### What does Alex Lieberman's company Tenex do? Tenex.co is an AI transformation firm that helps mid-market and enterprise companies learn how to use AI within their business. Alex Lieberman co-founded it to be at the frontier of AI after leaving Morning Brew. He notes that he is the only non-technical person there and spends all his time with AI engineers. [1:32](https://aie.addtry.com/a6652533-2ee8-4246-90cb-bb652e49c7fc?t=92000) ## Key moments - **[0:00] Intro** - **[0:21] Room read** - **[1:09] My story** - [1:09] Alex Lieberman co-founds Tenex.co, an AI transformation firm, after leaving Morning Brew to get closer to the AI frontier. - **[1:47] Agenda** - **[2:13] Sponsors** - **[2:53] Rally** - [2:53] "Are you guys ready to do the damn thing?" - **[3:00] Outro** ## Speakers - **Alex Lieberman** (guest) ## Topics AI Conference Keynotes ## Mentioned Anthropic (company), Google DeepMind (company), Morning Brew (company), Tenex.co (company) ## Transcript ### Room read **Alex Lieberman** [0:21] Let's get a quick read of the room. If you are coming fromright here in the Big Apple, from New York, make some noise. Okay. Now, I have to say it, I assume this is the biggest group: San Francisco. Wow, that is surprising. Austin? Okay, we got Austin. Who thinks they came from the furthest place and is in the room today? Where? **Guest** [0:45] Ecuador. **Alex Lieberman** [0:46] Ecuador. Can anyone beat Ecuador? **Guest** [0:49] New Zealand. **Alex Lieberman** [0:49] New Zealand? I don't think anyone's going to beat New Zealand. There we go. Well, first of all, I am so excited to welcome you all to the AI Engineer Code Summit 2025. I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and your MC for the day. Now, you may be wondering, why is a newsletter guy hosting an AI engineer conference? It's a great question. Well, after I left my role at Morning Brew, I asked myself one simple question, and it was, what space do I want to spend my time in for the next 20 years where I can build something consequential and spend my time with some of the smartest people I've ever met? ### My story **Alex Lieberman** [1:32] And the answer became obvious. I wanted to be as close to the frontier of AI as humanly possible, which is why I co-founded Tenex.co, which is an AI transformation firm helping mid-market and enterprise companies learn how to use AI within their business. And I spend basically all of my time now with AI engineers like yourselves. I'm the only non-technical person in the business, and I wouldn't have it any other way. So, as you know, this year has been a banner year for the industry. ### Agenda **Alex Lieberman** [2:01] And I would think of today as both a look back on where we've been, as well as a tactical view of where we are headed in companies, small and large, old and new. We're going to hear from the labs. ### Sponsors **Alex Lieberman** [2:13] We'll hear from unicorn AI startups. We'll hear from academics, big-time management consultants, and Fortune 50 brands. But before we do that, we have to give the brands that made this day possible their flowers. So let's go into it. Let's give it up for Google DeepMind, today's presenting sponsor. Love it. Keep it going for Anthropic, the platinum sponsor for the day. And then one more round of applause for all of the gold and silver sponsors who you can meet in the expo downstairs throughout the day. One more. Let's keep it going. Are you guys ready to do the damn thing? Let's do it. --- This library is powered by PodHood (https://podhood.com), the podcast website platform.