1. Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference Yash Patil, a former OpenAI researcher who worked on Codex and now runs Applied Compute, argues that post-training is the most overlooked part of the AI stack and the key to owning 10/06 21:00 ♡
2. Top Alignment Researcher on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds Jacob sits down with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, one of the organizations that led the independent investigation into OpenAI/Hugging Face's incident. They dig into the 09/03 21:00 ♡
3. AI Vibe Check: Unpacking Chinese Open Models, Cursor's Data Bet & Containment In this installment of their recurring roundtable, Jacob, Ari, and Rob dig into the accelerating Chinese open-source model race, debating whether Kimi K3 has actually closed the ga 08/03 21:16 ♡
4. xAI Co-Founder: Igor Babuschkin Unpacks the Future of Model Development Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of River AI and formerly a co-founder of xAI, joins to unpack a career that spans nearly every major AI lab: he led the StarCraft and AlphaCode work at 07/31 23:21 ♡
5. Top AI Analyst Unpacks Today's AI Hype Cycle Benedict Evans, one of tech's most widely-read analysts, joins Jacob Effron. The conversation centers on Benedict's core thesis that comparing AI's scale to past platform shifts (t 07/16 21:00 ♡
6. AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber on the State of AI Today Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, a renowned scientist and AI researcher widely regarded as one of the pioneers in the field, originated key ideas behind today's transformers, LSTMs, and rec 07/09 21:00 ♡
7. AI Vibe Check: Lab Wars, Why APIs Might Vanish & Future Predictions Six months after their last roundup, Jacob sits down with Ari Morcos (Datology AI CEO, former Meta AI researcher) and Rob Toews (Radical Ventures partner, Forbes AI columnist) to t 06/12 21:00 ♡
8. AI Research Legend’s Honest Assessment of Where We Are This episode with Lukasz Kaiser, co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" transformer paper and former researcher at both Google Brain and OpenAI, is a wide-ranging con 06/03 21:04 ♡
9. A Conversation With Demis Hassabis' Biographer Sebastian Mallaby spent three years and 30+ hours interviewing Demis Hassabis in the back of a British pub to write The Infinity Machine, and the conversation uses that reporting t 06/01 21:00 ♡
10. Gemini Co-Lead on World Models, RL's Next Domains & Continual Learning Oriol Vinyals, VP of Research at Google DeepMind and co-lead of the Gemini program, joins Jacob the day after Google I/O to unpack the research underpinning Google's latest announc 05/22 21:00 ♡