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15:56ENSora, World Models, and the Speculation Around Simulated RealityMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s early Sora videos and researchers’ ideas about learned physics, future games, and simulation theory.
59:25ENScott Williamson on Hiring Product Managers and Writing Better StrategyGuest Scott Williamson · Host Harry StebbingsThe former GitLab product leader explains his hiring process, written strategy tools and routines for coaching and reviewing product work.
3:32:44ENWhen a Company Fails, Blame the Board: Bill Ackman on Value, Harvard, and a Journalist With a PenGuest Bill Ackman · Host Lex FridmanThe Pershing Square founder walks Lex Fridman from Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market through activist battles, campus ideology, and a looming fight with Business Insider.
23:25ENRichard Eisenberg: How OCaml Locals Reduce Garbage-Collected AllocationRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetAn annotated list-processing example shows why locality must be preserved both when values are created and when functions consume them.
0:37ENHard Fork Shares a Listener’s Chatbot Retry AnecdoteHost Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonA short story about following up after an initial refusal.
1:21:27ENRoger Ehrenberg on Venture Returns, Liquidity and Life After SuccessGuest Roger Ehrenberg · Host Harry StebbingsThe IA Ventures founder examines a changing LP base, continuation funds and the trade-offs behind selling winners, then reflects on wealth and family.
1:00:45ENChristian Hecker and Johan Brenner on Trade Republic’s Fundraising and GrowthGuest Christian Hecker, Johan Brenner · Host Harry StebbingsThe founder and investor discuss early financing, customer acquisition, board relationships and their long-term savings thesis.
28:28ENGemini 1.5’s Long Context: What the 2024 Tests ShowedA historical review of Google’s retrieval experiments, demos and evaluation limits.
1:43:47ENYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
1:12:40EN3% of Users Said an AI Friend Ended Their Suicidal Thoughts. Then Replika Made the Model Smarter.Host Nathan LabenzReplika founder Eugenia Kuyda on a Stanford study, why a smarter model felt like a stolen partner, and why relationship may be the real moat in consumer AI.
3:48ENBrilliant Labs Frame: AI Glasses, Open Code and a 2024 PreorderMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the launch presentation for Frame, including its display, AI partnerships and initial $349 non-prescription preorder.
42:07ENNotion’s Ivan Zhao: RAG Will Make Organizing OptionalHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Notion CEO tells No Priors why he bet the company on GPT-4, why embeddings matter as much as agents, and why software is entering a bundling cycle.
1:11:02ENMartin Gontovnikas on Product-Led Growth and Selling to EnterprisesGuest Martin Gontovnikas · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Auth0 growth leader explains how to connect user adoption to enterprise sales, learn from failed experiments and protect the product experience.
27:07ENSam Altman on AI Abundance, Regulation and the Economics of ComputeMatthew Berman, Sam Altman, Chamath Palihapitiya · Forward FutureA 2024 World Governments Summit interview is followed by Matthew Berman’s discussion of chip investment and open-model competition.
0:27ENA Berkeley Bipedal Robot Runs OutdoorsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman shares a brief clip of a two-legged research robot moving outdoors.
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.
1:23:43ENThomas Plantenga and Alex Taussig on Vinted’s Turnaround and Marketplace GrowthGuest Thomas Plantenga, Alex Taussig · Host Harry StebbingsThe Vinted CEO and Lightspeed investor discuss pricing, cross-border expansion, acquisition economics and the limits of simple metrics.
0:56EN1X’s 2024 EVE Robot Demonstration and the Path to Household ChoresMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights a 1X robotics demonstration and imagines household help. The company describes autonomous execution trained using human demonstration data.
1:25:09ENTwo-Headed Worms, Regenerated Legs, and a Sort That Learned to WaitHost Nathan LabenzTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Cognitive Revolution why anatomy is rewritable software, and why he stopped a paper that might have made AI more alive.
39:25ENThree Engineers, Three Weeks: The Internal LLM Tool Half of Stripe Uses Every WeekHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEmily Glassberg Sands, Stripe's head of information, explains how a non-AI company got generative AI into employees' hands, then into Radar, Sigma, and the products customers actually pay for.
11:14ENGemini Advanced and Ultra 1.0: A First Look and Hands-On TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn February 2024, Matthew Berman reviews Google’s Bard rebrand and tests its new paid Gemini experience on coding, logic and image recognition.
1:23:21ENErik Allebest on Building Chess.com, Growth and Life Beyond MetricsGuest Erik Allebest · Host Harry StebbingsChess.com’s co-founder explains how early revenue, content and a global remote team shaped the business, and why its ownership story is more complicated than no outside investment.
22:27ENHow OCaml Infers LocalityRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetA look at local and global mode inference, module signatures, mode crossing for integers, and conversions between function types.
6:56ENWhy Meta Said Open AI Infrastructure Serves Its BusinessMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureMatthew Berman revisits Meta’s open-development history and Mark Zuckerberg’s 2024 case for sharing AI infrastructure.
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