Episode 23 of The Offline Network connects three rails shaping 2025 — frontier AI, travel monetization, and on-chain payments. From Grok’s product feel and falling inference costs to airlines turning ancillaries into profit engines and stablecoins moving into everyday spend, we sit down with three operators building what’s next from India. We open with Deepinder Goyal’s new book — and why “India winning” is now an operating system, not a slogan.

🧠 Gaurav Jain: xAI — what’s shipping at xAI, why Grok feels different to a normal user, the plain-English version of cheaper/faster answers from d-Matrix-style kernel work, Grokipedia’s living knowledge layer, and a clear 12-month AI outlook.

✈️ Ankit Sawant: Co-founder & CEO, OnArrival — what truly drives per-passenger spend, concrete “AI-in-the-flow” moments that lift attach and margin, India’s curve vs US/EU on ancillaries, and the founder playbook for building travel infra toward 2030.

🪙 Nakul Gupta: Co-founder & CBO, Multipli — stablecoins for non-crypto users (when they beat card/UPI), what unlocked the category’s surge, global access (IN/SG/US) and tax watch-outs, real user yields, and the roadmap post-funding.

This episode is made possible by Smartworks — India’s largest managed office platform.

🎧 Watch, subscribe, and tell us in the comments: What’s the first “AI-in-the-flow” you want in your daily travel — and would you pay with stablecoins for it?

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