Podcast Episodes

Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Speak (https://speak.com) may not be very well known to native English speakers, but they have come from a slow start in 2016 to emerge as one of the favorite partners of OpenAI, with their Startup F…

Published on 2 months ago

AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z

When the first video diffusion models started emerging, they were little more than just “moving pictures” - still frames extended a few seconds in either direction in time. There was a ton of excitem…

Published on 2 months ago

Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris

Our last AI PhD grad student feature was Shunyu Yao, who happened to focus on Language Agents for his thesis and immediately went to work on them for OpenAI. Our pick this year is Jack Morris, who bu…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI

Solving Poker and Diplomacy, Debating RL+Reasoning with Ilya, what's *wrong* with the System 1/2 analogy, and where Test-Time Compute hits a wall

Timestamps

00:00 Intro – Diplomacy, Cicero & World Cham…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)

Chris Lattner of Modular (https://modular.com) joined us (again!) to talk about how they are breaking the CUDA monopoly, what it took to match NVIDIA performance with AMD, and how they are building a…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen

Emmanuel Amiesen is lead author of “Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models” (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html ), which is part of a du…

Published on 3 months ago

[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes

Solomon most famously created Docker and now runs Dagger… which has something special to share with you on Thursday.

Catch Dagger at:

- Tuesday: Dagger’s workshop https://www.ai.engineer/schedule#ship-…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)

One of the new tracks at next week’s AI Engineer conference in SF is a new focus on LLMs + Robotics, ft. household names like Waymo and Physical Intelligence. However there are many other companies a…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The AI Coding Factory

We are joined by Eno Reyes and Matan Grinberg, the co-founders of Factory.ai. They are building droids for autonomous software engineering, handling everything from code generation to incident respon…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

[AIEWF Preview] Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect

In an otherwise heavy week packed with Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and OpenAI io, the worst kept secret in biglab land was the launch of Claude 4, particularly the triumphant return of Opus, which m…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago