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The podcast by and for AI Engineers! In 2025, over 10 million readers and listeners came to Latent Space to hear about news, papers and interviews in Software 3.0.
We cover Foundation Models changing every domain in Code Generation, Multimodality, AI Agents, GPU Infra and more, directly from the founders, builders, and thinkers involved in pushing the cutting edge. Striving to give you both the definitive take on the Current Thing down to the first introduction to the tech you'll be using in the next 3 months! We break news and exclusive interviews from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Meta (Soumith Chintala), Sierra (Bret Taylor), tiny (George Hotz), Databricks/MosaicML (Jon Frankle), Modular (Chris Lattner), Answer.ai (Jeremy Howard), et al.
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METR’s Joel Becker on exponential Time Horizon Evals, Threat Models, and the Limits of AI Productivity
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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[LIVE] Anthropic Distillation & How Models Cheat (SWE-Bench Dead) | Nathan Lambert & Sebastian Raschka
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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🔬Searching the Space of All Possible Materials — Prof. Max Welling, CuspAI
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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⚡️The End of SWE-Bench Verified — Mia Glaese & Olivia Watkins, OpenAI Frontier Evals & Human Data
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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🔬Beyond AlphaFold: How Boltz is Open-Sourcing the Future of Drug Discovery
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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The First Mechanistic Interpretability Frontier Lab — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell of Goodfire AI
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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🔬 Automating Science: World Models, Scientific Taste, Agent Loops — Andrew White
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Artificial Analysis: Independent LLM Evals as a Service — with George Cameron and Micah-Hill Smith
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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[State of Evals] LMArena's $1.7B Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang et al, Princeton
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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[State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parra and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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⚡ [AIE CODE Preview] Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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AI is Eating Search
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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[AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)
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May 31, 2025 |
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The AI Coding Factory
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May 29, 2025 |
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[AIEWF Preview] Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
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May 23, 2025 |
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⚡️The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB Category
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May 01, 2025 |
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⚡️GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute to solve the GPU Bubble forever
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Creators of Model Context Protocol
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Building Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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⚡️The new OpenAI Agents Platform
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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⚡️How Claude 3.7 Plays Pokémon
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Open Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using Agents
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Inventors of Deep Research
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The AI Architect — Bret Taylor
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The Agent Reasoning Interface: o1/o3, Claude 3, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, and Operator — with Karina Nguyen of OpenAI
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chai AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Everything you need to run Mission Critical Inference (ft. DeepSeek v3 + SGLang)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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AI Engineering for Art — with comfyanonymous, of ComfyUI
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Latent.Space 2024 Year in Review
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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2024 in Agents [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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2024 in Synthetic Data and Smol Models [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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2024 in Post-Transformers Architectures (State Space Models, RWKV) [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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2024 in Open Models [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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2024 in AI Startups [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE - with Varun and Anshul of Codeium AI
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Generative Video WorldSim, Diffusion, Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics — ICML 2024 Part 1
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Bolt.new, Flow Engineering for Code Agents, and >$8m ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Agents @ Work: Dust.tt
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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How NotebookLM Was Made
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Building the AI Engineer Nation — with Josephine Teo, Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Building the Silicon Brain - with Drew Houston of Dropbox
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Ultimate Guide to Prompting
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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From API to AGI: Structured Outputs, OpenAI API platform and O1 Q&A — with Michelle Pokrass & OpenAI Devrel + Strawberry team
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Why you should write your own LLM benchmarks — with Nicholas Carlini, Google DeepMind
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12 — Jeremy Howard of Answer.ai
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Segment Anything 2: Demo-first Model Development
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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State of the Art: Training >70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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How To Hire AI Engineers — with James Brady & Adam Wiggins of Elicit
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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How AI is eating Finance — with Mike Conover of Brightwave
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
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May 30, 2024 |
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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (ImageGen, Vision, Transformers, State Space Models) ft. Durk Kingma, Christian Szegedy, Ilya Sutskever
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May 27, 2024 |
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Emulating Humans with NSFW Chatbots - with Jesse Silver
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May 16, 2024 |
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WebSim, WorldSim, and The Summer of Simulative AI — with Joscha Bach of Liquid AI, Karan Malhotra of Nous Research, Rob Haisfield of WebSim.ai
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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High Agency Pydantic > VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Latent Space Chats: NLW (Four Wars, GPT5), Josh Albrecht/Ali Rohde (TNAI), Dylan Patel/Semianalysis (Groq), Milind Naphade (Nvidia GTC), Personal AI (ft. Harrison Chase — LangFriend/LangMem)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Presenting the AI Engineer World's Fair — with Sam Schillace, Deputy CTO of Microsoft
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Top 5 Research Trends + OpenAI Sora, Google Gemini, Groq Math (Jan-Feb 2024 Audio Recap) + Latent Space Anniversary with Lindy.ai, RWKV, Pixee, Julius.ai, Listener Q&A!
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Cloud Intelligence at the speed of 5000 tok/s - with Ce Zhang and Vipul Ved Prakash of Together AI
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Why StackOverflow usage is down 50% — with David Hsu of Retool
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Audio Recap)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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How to train your own Large Multimodal Model — with Hugo Laurençon & Leo Tronchon of HuggingFace M4
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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RLHF 201 - with Nathan Lambert of AI2 and Interconnects
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Top Startups
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Best Papers
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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[AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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[AIE Summit Preview #1] Swyx on Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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RAG Is A Hack - with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Building the Foundation Model Ops Platform — with Raza Habib of Humanloop
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Heralds of the AI Content Flippening — with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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The Point of LangChain — with Harrison Chase of LangChain
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era — with Eugene Cheah of UIlicious
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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[AI Breakdown] Summer AI Technical Roundup: a Latent Space x AI Breakdown crossover pod!
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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FlashAttention 2: making Transformers 800% faster w/o approximation - with Tri Dao of Together AI
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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[Practical AI] AI Trends: a Latent Space x Practical AI crossover pod!
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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[Cognitive Revolution] The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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From RLHF to RLHB: The Case for Learning from Human Behavior - with Jeffrey Wang and Joe Reeve of Amplitude
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Building the AI × UX Scenius — with Linus Lee of Notion AI
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Debugging the Internet with AI agents – with Itamar Friedman of Codium AI and AutoGPT
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May 25, 2023 |
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MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML
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May 20, 2023 |
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Guaranteed quality and structure in LLM outputs - with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI
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May 16, 2023 |
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The AI Founder Gene: Being Early, Building Fast, and Believing in Greatness — with Sharif Shameem of Lexica
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May 08, 2023 |
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No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison
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May 05, 2023 |
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Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes — with Reza Shabani of Replit
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May 03, 2023 |
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Mapping the future of *truly* Open Models and Training Dolly for $30 — with Mike Conover of Databricks
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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AI-powered Search for the Enterprise — with Deedy Das of Glean
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Segment Anything Model and the Hard Problems of Computer Vision — with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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AI Fundamentals: Benchmarks 101
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Grounded Research: From Google Brain to MLOps to LLMOps — with Shreya Shankar of UC Berkeley
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Emergency Pod: ChatGPT's App Store Moment (w/ OpenAI's Logan Kilpatrick, LindyAI's Florent Crivello and Nader Dabit)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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From Astrophysics to AI: Building the future AI Data Stack — with Sarah Nagy of Seek.ai
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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97% Cheaper, Faster, Better, Correct AI — with Varun Mohan of Codeium
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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ChatGPT, GPT4 hype, and Building LLM-native products — with Logan Kilpatrick of OpenAI
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Feb 23, 2023 |