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We will be recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair soon with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have!

Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candidate is an ex-technical co-founder type (can MVP products end to end, comfortable with ambiguous prod requirements, etc). Reach out to him for more!

Thanks for all the love on the Four Wars episode! We’re excited to develop this new “swyx & Alessio rapid-fire thru a bunch of things” format with you, and feedback is welcome.

Jan 2024 Recap

The first half of this monthly audio recap pod goes over our highlights from the Jan Recap, which is mainly focused on notable research trends we saw in Jan 2024:

Feb 2024 Recap

The second half catches you up on everything that was topical in Feb, including:

* OpenAI Sora - does it have a world model? Yann LeCun vs Jim Fan

* Google Gemini Pro 1.5 - 1m Long Context, Video Understanding

* Groq offering Mixtral at 500 tok/s at $0.27 per million toks (swyx vs dylan math)

* The {Gemini | Meta | Copilot} Alignment Crisis (Sydney is back!)

* Grimes’ poetic take: Art for no one, by no one

* F*** you, show me the prompt

Latent Space Anniversary

Please also read Alessio’s longform reflections on One Year of Latent Space!

We launched the podcast 1 year ago with Logan from OpenAI:

and also held an incredible demo day that got covered in The Information:

Over 750k downloads later, having established ourselves as the top AI Engineering podcast, reaching #10 in the US Tech podcast charts, and crossing 1 million unique readers on Substack, for our first anniversary we held Latent Space Final Frontiers, where 10 handpicked teams, including Lindy.ai and Julius.ai, competed for prizes judged by technical AI le