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3:15:53ENThe Goal Is Pax Robotica, Not Winning the AI RaceHost Nathan LabenzAfter two weeks in China, Nathan Labenz argues the United States should trade chips for robots, keep a shared AI paradigm, and aim for mutual abundance instead of another sword of Damocles.
1:57:29ENFrontier vision models score 12.5%: Joseph Nelson on the real waterline of computer visionHost Nathan LabenzThe Roboflow CEO tells Nathan Labenz why vision still lags language, how to distill SAM 3 into an edge model for Wimbledon, and why the United States has almost never led open-source vision.
1:34:29ENThree IMO Golds Missed the Same Problem. Harmonic Wants Math to CompileHost Nathan LabenzVlad Tenev and Tudor Achim built Aristotle to emit Lean proofs a kernel can check—and they argue that is how mathematical superintelligence stays trustworthy.
1:25:54ENHours after training ends, Z.ai puts the weights on the internetHost Nathan LabenzZixuan Li of Z.ai tells ChinaTalk how a Chinese lab ships GLM, treats open weights as a ticket into Western ecosystems, and still sees itself as an upstart.
2:20:35ENChatGPT Is a Thousand Days Old. Emad Mostaque Says We Have About a Thousand Left.Host Nathan LabenzThe Stability AI founder’s new economics argues that when intelligence is abundant, scarcity-based money and GDP stop making sense.
1:45:00ENAmerica Holds 45% of the World's Data Centers. Everyone Else Must Build, Buy, or AllyHost Nathan LabenzAnjney Midha of a16z maps what “sovereign AI” actually means for companies and for countries that will never own the talent, data, and compute frontier.
1:24:29ENStackBlitz Almost Shut Down. Then Bolt Hit $20 Million ARR in Eight Weeks.Host Nathan LabenzEric Simons tells Nathan Labenz how a seven-year browser operating system, Claude Sonnet 3.5, and a text box replaced the local toolchain.
2:16:17ENA 10B Model Trained Across Three Continents — and an H200 for $1.49 an HourHost Nathan LabenzPrime Intellect's founders lay out a four-step plan to turn spare global GPUs into collectively owned intelligence, and argue that reinforcement learning just made their job easier.
2:11:15ENA 50% Chance of Extinction — and a $50 GPT-4 for EveryoneHost Nathan LabenzEmad Mostaque tells Nathan Labenz why he puts p(doom) at even odds, why a five-watt model changes the energy debate, and how the Intelligent Internet would fund universal basic AI with a Bitcoin-like token.
1:40:13ENIf I Were Governor, I Would Sign: California's Last Debate Over SB 1047Host Nathan LabenzThree guests return to unpack the rewritten frontier-AI bill as OpenAI opposes it, Anthropic calls it workable, and a final vote looms in Sacramento.
2:04:15ENA parrot cannot paraphrase — and Claude cannot be talked into harmHost Nathan LabenzRobert Wright of the Nonzero podcast interviews Nathan Labenz on whether large language models understand anything, what Anthropic’s 10 million features actually show, and why open weights collide with U.S.–China policy.
1:56:03ENHumans Near a Perfect Score. The Best AI Still Gets 39%Host Nathan LabenzZapier co-founder Mike Knoop and François Chollet put $1 million on ARC-AGI, a 2019 test of sample-efficient intelligence that language models still cannot crack under a one-cent-per-puzzle budget.
1:23:10ENThe night Flo Crivello slept five hours: GPT-4 never hit a wallHost Nathan LabenzThe Lindy AI founder walks Nathan Labenz through timelines, misuse, open-source risk, and why two longtime libertarians now want regulation.
31:04ENThe Risk Is Not China Copying. It Is America Refusing to Use the ToolsHost Nathan LabenzAt the 2024 Hill & Valley Forum, Alex Wang, Jack Clark, and Andrew Ng tell Senator Cory Booker that Chinese labs are inventing, open-source models are already strong, and the Pentagon’s real AI failure is under-adoption.
46:20ENOne Vector Made the Assistant Plot to Take Over the WorldHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Robert Wright pick apart AI doom, mechanistic interpretability, and why today's alignment tricks are not expected to work.
54:25ENJail Only for Perjury: Scott Wiener Walks Through California's Frontier AI BillHost Nathan LabenzSB 1047 sets the same 10^26 FLOPs threshold as the Biden executive order, and the San Francisco senator wants testing without a licensing regime.
1:52:18ENTwo Weeks, Thirty Compiles: How Adam Majmudar Wrote a GPU From ScratchHost Nathan LabenzA Cognitive Revolution walkthrough of TinyGPU, from SIMD kernels and memory latency to an open-source chip flow that runs on a laptop.
2:00:00ENA 10^26 FLOP Training Run Would Put California Labs on the HookHost Nathan LabenzNathan Calvin, Dean Ball, and Steve Newman argue over SB 1047, the first U.S. statute aimed at frontier-model tail risk.
1:37:52ENChina Has 17 Million Chatbot Users and No OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzA Beijing-based watcher walks through China's LLM players, products, regulation, and the delayed bill from the U.S. chip ban.
1:44:23ENYou Can Split Your Vote by Issue — and Hand It to an AIHost Nathan LabenzTim Reutemann’s 2018 novel Liquid Reign sketches a 2051 democracy built on Swiss citizen initiatives, liquid delegation, and personal AIs you can mute.
1:01:53ENCompanion Apps Open Twice as Often as TikTok. a16z Only Funds Weird but WorkingHost Nathan Labenza16z consumer partners Anish Acharya and Justine Moore walk Nathan Labenz through their Abundance Agenda for AI-native consumer apps.
1:15:39ENAfter 20 Years of Frontend, v0 Wrote Better Code Than Guillermo Rauch DidHost Nathan LabenzThe Vercel CEO tells Nathan Labenz why every product needs ghost text, why Software 2.0 will ossify the old stack, and why betting against open source is still the expensive mistake.
1:25:11EN105 lines of code, a million impressions, and a VC who refused to found the companyHost Nathan LabenzBabyAGI creator Yohei Nakajima tells Nathan Labenz how a weekend prototype set off the agent wave — and why he went back to writing checks.
55:13ENTwo Days to a Prototype: How a16z Turned a Stanford Paper Into AI TownHost Nathan LabenzA companion named Alice, a weekend Phaser hack, and Martin Casado's argument that models will never replace formal languages.
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