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13:19ENRunning a Local Language Model as an Offline BackupMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a 2024 local-model setup, from selecting a quantized model and storing it on an external drive to planning backup power.
46:36ENAfter a decade of code search, Sourcegraph’s CTO says the coding-AI fight is outside the modelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBeyang Liu on Cody, why keyword search still does most of RAG, and why CS fundamentals get more valuable as AI compresses the middleware.
3:37ENMark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
1:53:08ENWhen GPT-4 Writes SQL, Four Tables Is the Breaking PointHost Nathan LabenzJuan Sequeda on why a knowledge graph is the accurate, explainable brain that foundation models do not have.
6:00:54ENThe First Crime Was a Bottle of Wite-OutGuest Matthew Cox · Host Lex FridmanMatthew Cox walks Lex Fridman through how a 29-year-old broker's tiny lie became synthetic identities, fake banks, a three-year FBI manhunt, and 13 years in federal prison.
1:06:13ENShyam Sankar on Defense Procurement, Software and Building TalentGuest Shyam Sankar · Host Harry StebbingsPalantir’s CTO argues for changing how governments buy technology and explains his approach to product, hiring and AI.
3:20ENBrian Halligan on Finding Your Own CEO StyleGuest Brian Halligan · Host Harry StebbingsThe HubSpot co-founder reflects on mentors and a peer group.
1:26:38ENBrian Halligan on Scaling HubSpot, Building Teams and Knowing When to Step AsideGuest Brian Halligan · Host Harry StebbingsThe HubSpot co-founder reflects on leadership feedback, hiring, venture financing and the accident that prompted him to hand over the CEO role.
1:15:48ENKeith Rabois on Returning to Khosla Ventures and Investing at SeedGuest Keith Rabois · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor compares partnership styles, explains his approach to price and follow-on capital, and reflects on exits and founder relationships.
1:50:57ENTwenty-Eight Days After GPT-4, an AI Designed and Ran a Chemistry ExperimentHost Nathan LabenzGabe Gomes and his Carnegie Mellon students built Coscientist, a language-model agent that plans, codes, and executes real experiments on a remote cloud lab.
19:10ENThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
1:00ENWhy Light Bends When It Slows DownA wavefront explanation of refraction at an angled boundary.
1:14:40ENEd Sim and Jamin Ball on Startup Exits, IPOs and the 2024 Funding ResetGuest Ed Sim, Jamin Ball · Host Harry StebbingsTwo investors discuss the consequences of high private valuations, founder and investor incentives, acquisition markets and the path to an IPO.
29:58ENRabbit R1’s 2024 Launch Demo: An AI Assistant Built Around ActionsMatthew Berman, Jesse Lyu · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Rabbit’s launch presentation, from voice-controlled services and experimental teach mode to its proposed $199 device.
1:06:39ENOpenAI's First DevRel Writes 90% of His Code with ChatGPT — and Says Web Agents Still Need YearsHost Jacob EffronLogan Kilpatrick on picking GPT-3.5 versus GPT-4, why plugins stalled, and why the public internet is not ready for autonomous agents.
1:50:08ENJeff Beck gave his signature solo to a 21-year-old bassistGuest Tal Wilkenfeld · Host Lex FridmanTal Wilkenfeld talks with Lex Fridman about Crossroads, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and why she would rather stand on the edge of a cliff than play it safe.
1:22:43ENFive billion minutes of calls: why Dialpad trained its own business LLMHost Nathan LabenzDan O’Connell on real-time speech, verticalizing the stack, and why he and Nathan Labenz disagree about when AI employees show up.
54:55ENNick Tomaino and Kyle Samani Debate Crypto Beyond SpeculationGuest Nick Tomaino, Kyle Samani · Host Harry StebbingsThe investors debate Solana, Ethereum, authenticity, FTX and the political outlook for crypto in a conversation recorded ahead of the 2024 US election.
8:52ENIntroducing Local Parameters in OCamlRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetA demonstration of how Jane Street's experimental local mode restricts escaping values and makes function interfaces easier to reason about.
1:32:52ENJason Lemkin on SaaS, Venture and His 2024 PredictionsGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe SaaStr founder reviews a difficult 2023, reconsiders exit advice and debates what could change for startups in 2024.
35:22ENMatthew Berman’s Ten AI Predictions for 2024Matthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lex Fridman, Jaron Lanier, Joon Park, Elon Musk · Forward FutureAn early-2024 forecast covers model releases, robotics, agents, synthetic data and the risks of increasingly convincing bots.
1:00ENWhat Is a Bit in Information Theory?Grant SandersonA short visual route from probabilities to self-information.
25:14ENThe New York Times’ OpenAI Lawsuit: Claims, Fair Use and Requested RemediesMatthew Berman, Elon Musk · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the 2023 complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, with context on disputed claims and a later Midjourney case.
2:53:09ENFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
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