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12:51ENLlama 3 70B on Groq: Fast Inference and an Informal Prompt TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, reasoning and repeated prompts on Groq’s April 2024 Llama 3 service, with mixed results and several scoring caveats.
0:51ENElad Gil on Incumbents and Startups in AIGuest Elad GilA 2024 comparison of who captures value in technology waves.
2:27:51ENNeil Adams Still Wakes in a Sweat From an Olympic Final He Cannot ReachGuest Neil Adams · Host Lex FridmanThe judo world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist talks with Lex Fridman about Moscow, Los Angeles, the luxury of danger, and why a real champion is the one who does the right thing when they lose.
1:42:17ENThe Cheapest Inference Provider Is the Most DangerousHost Nathan LabenzFireworks AI cofounders Lin Qiao and Dmytro Ivchenko explain why subsidized GPU bills vanish, how LoRA serving can cut cost a hundredfold, and why OpenAI is the rival that actually matters.
52:52ENGirish Mathrubootham on Freshworks Pricing, Products and ScalingGuest Girish Mathrubootham · Host Harry StebbingsThe Freshworks founder shares lessons from self-service software, a multi-product strategy, executive hiring and investing in Indian startups.
15:01ENTesting Llama 3 at Launch: Code, Reasoning and Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta AI’s new interface on a snake game, logic puzzles and rapid image generation.
15:35ENMeta Llama 3 Launch: Benchmarks, a Snake Test and the Meta AI AssistantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the April 2024 release, tries a generated game and considers what downloadable models mean for developers.
0:55ENMeta Llama 3: A Quick Coding and Image DemonstrationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the initial 8B and 70B Llama 3 release and tries a Python Snake game and an image prompt.
24:32ENImage Generation Is Still a Loot Box. Suhail Doshi Wants to Scale PixelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Playground AI founder tells No Priors why he skipped language models, how a noise-sampling trick fixed SDXL's muddy brightness, and what a large vision model would actually do.
10:55ENBoston Dynamics Unveils an Electric Atlas Humanoid RobotMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the 2024 electric Atlas unveiling, its striking movement, and Boston Dynamics’ plans to test industrial applications with Hyundai.
0:42ENBoston Dynamics Unveils an Electric Atlas RobotMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces a brief 2024 demonstration of the new Atlas, released after the retirement of its hydraulic predecessor.
14:21ENGrok-1.5V Preview: Vision Examples and a New Spatial BenchmarkMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews xAI’s 2024 multimodal model preview, its reported benchmark results and example image tasks.
52:54ENVickie Peng on Building Less, Measuring Customer Value and Finding Product-Market FitGuest Vickie Peng · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia product leader explains how to learn with less product, choose meaningful metrics and recognize different customer mindsets.
2:50:44ENThe Pirahã Have No Word for OneGuest Edward Gibson · Host Lex FridmanMIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson tells Lex Fridman why related words sit together, why language is not thought, and why large language models ace form while missing meaning.
1:34:11ENFrom forty hours in a scanner to one: reconstructing what you see from a shared brain spaceHost Nathan LabenzPaul Scotti explains how MindEye2 maps a new person's fMRI into CLIP with an hour of data, and why a linear layer plus better image generators changed the cost of reading minds.
21:02ENLimitless Pendant: A 2024 AI Wearable Launch and Its Privacy PromisesMatthew Berman, Dan Siroker · Forward FutureMatthew Berman watches the original Limitless announcement, weighing its promised recording features, consent controls and price against the risk of buying future functionality.
19:46ENBuilding a CrewAI Financial-Analysis Team on Lightning AIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a 2024 two-agent workflow, first using Groq and then connecting a cloud-hosted Ollama model.
53:06ENSam Altman and Brad Lightcap on OpenAI, Compute and AI StartupsGuest Sam Altman, Brad Lightcap · Host Harry StebbingsOpenAI’s CEO and COO discuss their partnership, model progress, enterprise adoption and how startups might build alongside improving AI.
2:51:59ENWhat's on Your Mind: Andrew Callaghan's Gonzo Tour of the American EdgeGuest Andrew Callaghan · Host Lex FridmanThe Channel 5 host tells Lex Fridman how a three-word question, a 70-day hitchhike, and a Molotov on Lake Street turned comedy bits into a beat at the margins.
12:02ENTesting Karasu Mixtral 8x22B on Coding and Reasoning TasksMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries an early community fine-tune of Mistral's large mixture-of-experts model on a Snake game, arithmetic and logic puzzles.
1:01:39ENGPT-5 Wants 100 Trillion Tokens. Does Earth Have Enough?Host Nathan LabenzTraining GPT-3 took about a trillion tokens; GPT-4 took about ten trillion. The next jump is a data question as much as a compute one.
34:20ENGoogle’s 2024 Vertex AI Agent Builder: A First Look at Agents, Workspace and Code AssistMatthew Berman, Thomas Kurian, Ola Källenius, Amanda Lewis, Gabe Weiss · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Google Cloud Next announcements, tests a weather agent and weighs customer-service demos against his expectations for autonomous tools.
1:15:57ENSam Blond on Hiring Sales Teams and Making Outbound WorkGuest Sam Blond · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Brex sales leader explains how founders can hire early reps, diagnose demand bottlenecks and build more distinctive outreach.
26:03ENGPT-4-Class Models Will Be Cheap. The Frontier Will Still Need a Patron.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through Mosaic’s Law, Microsoft’s Inflection hire, where the real money sits, and why the first AI wave looks consumer.
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