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1:32:22ENA Million Bytes and 256 Symbols: Meta's MEGABYTE Wants to Throw the Tokenizer AwayHost Nathan LabenzLili Yu of Meta AI explains a multiscale transformer that predicts million-byte sequences, skips tokenization, and aims to model any file as raw bytes.
1:04:52ENJennifer Hyman on Building Rent the Runway and Managing for the Long TermGuest Jennifer Hyman · Host Harry StebbingsThe founder discusses hiring, rental economics, paid marketing, board leadership and the work of turning a fashion subscription into a durable business.
5:02ENMatthew Berman on Publishing Videos About Unrestricted AI ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureAfter viewers raise concerns, Berman explains how he weighs freedom of information, research and the risk of misuse.
1:52:46ENCharge Neural Nets by Connection Length, and the Black Box Splits Into Modules You Can SeeHost Nathan LabenzMIT physicist Ziming Liu walks Nathan Labenz through BIMT, a brain-inspired training trick that sparsifies networks until you can read them by looking.
59:36ENPascal Pfeiffer on Retrieval, Open Models, Kaggle and Fine-Tuning with H2O LLM StudioMatthew Berman, Pascal Pfeiffer · Forward FutureIn a 2023 interview, H2O.ai’s Pascal Pfeiffer explains document retrieval and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, reflects on Kaggle competitions and demonstrates LLM Studio. He and Matthew Berman also consider coding assistants and unverified rumors about model architecture.
27:25ENConvolution: Adding Probability DistributionsGrant Sanderson · 3Blue1BrownTwo visualizations connect weighted dice, continuous densities and the central limit theorem.
1:52:28ENAkin Babayigit on Building Tripledot, Mobile Games and Questioning Startup AdviceGuest Akin Babayigit · Host Harry StebbingsThe Tripledot co-founder discusses execution, hiring, gaming economics and why founders should treat universal startup rules with care.
7:21ENTesting Orca Mini 13B, an Unofficial Model Inspired by OrcaMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman loads a quantized Orca Mini 13B and tries coding, reasoning, arithmetic, and summarization prompts. His 2023 informal test produces several failures and a few successes.
13:50ENMPT-30B: Running MosaicML’s Model Locally and Testing Its Chat VariantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews MosaicML’s June 2023 release, demonstrates a local setup, and puts the hosted chat model through an informal prompt rubric.
1:07:41ENRob Go on Raising Venture Funds and Building LP RelationshipsGuest Rob Go · Host Harry StebbingsThe NextView co-founder explains fund construction, anchor investors, fundraising follow-up and the trade-offs in seed investing.
39:37ENNobody Plans Dinner in KeywordsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilInstacart CEO Fidji Simo tells No Priors why generative AI finally lets grocery software answer the questions people actually ask, and why 80,000 existing stores still beat a dark warehouse.
8:17ENUsing OpenLLM to Serve Open Models Through an APIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a local model server, its interactive API and a Python client in a 2023 walkthrough.
1:09:33ENGina Gotthilf on Duolingo Growth, Experiments and Public RelationsGuest Gina Gotthilf · Host Harry StebbingsThe Latitud co-founder shares lessons on retention, testing, pitching journalists and turning coverage into distribution.
6:49ENReddit’s API Changes, AI Training Data and the Open InternetMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman argues that the 2023 Reddit API dispute exposed tensions between AI data demand, third-party developers and the people who create online content.
3:11:35ENSearch was always a hack: Marc Andreessen on AI, truth, and the next internetGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with the Mosaic co-creator and Andreessen Horowitz founder to ask whether Google Search, the browser, and open-source AI survive the decade.
1:18:18ENFifteen Thousand Brain Numbers Were Enough to Reconstruct What Someone SawHost Nathan LabenzTanishq Mathew Abraham walks through MindEye, the fMRI-to-image system that maps a handful of voxel values onto CLIP and diffusion models.
4:36ENTesting WizardCoder 15B as a Local Coding AssistantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs the 2023 WizardCoder model locally, testing small Python exercises and a longer Snake game.
9:46ENInstalling Text Generation WebUI on Windows: A 2023 Local-Model WalkthroughMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman installs an early version of Text Generation WebUI, resolves setup errors and explains model downloads and interface settings. The steps and packages are historical; consult the project’s current documentation for a modern installation.
1:16:44ENAlex Lebrun on AI Assistants for Doctors, Model Limits and Building NablaGuest Alex Lebrun · Host Harry StebbingsThe Nabla co-founder explains his approach to healthcare AI, lessons from Facebook and his 2023 views on competition and regulation.
3:15:07ENWikipedia Worked Once Writing Stopped Feeling Like Grad SchoolGuest Jimmy Wales · Host Lex FridmanJimmy Wales tells Lex Fridman how Nupedia's seven-stage review died, why Wikipedia still refuses ads and governments, and what large language models should actually do with an encyclopedia.
1:02:21ENNoah Weiss on Product-Led Growth and Scaling SlackGuest Noah Weiss · Host Harry StebbingsSlack’s product leader discusses product principles, enterprise growth, speed and the lessons from products that did not work.
59:28ENFrom $500,000 to $50,000: MosaicML Made Training Your Own Model a Priced ProductHost Nathan LabenzJonathan Frankle and Abhi Venigalla explain who is training custom LLMs, why extraction beats chat, and how ALiBi stretches a 65k context window.
44:19ENAI Will Write Ten Times More Code. Someone Still Has to Keep It Running.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilDatadog co-founder Olivier Pomel on why faster generation moves value from writing software to understanding, securing, and operating it.
10:23ENTesting Hosted Falcon 40B and Document Chat in h2oGPTMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries H2O.ai’s 2023 hosted Falcon 40B interface on coding, writing and reasoning prompts, then demonstrates document chat.
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