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56:56ENA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.
1:02:14ENRujul Zaparde on Building Zip, Hiring for Potential and Moving FastGuest Rujul Zaparde · Host Harry StebbingsThe Zip co-founder explains how a procurement problem became a company, why repeatability matters, and how he balances speed with creativity and careful hiring.
21:47ENPhi-3 Mini: Microsoft’s Small Model, Phone Deployment and an Uncertain Local TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Microsoft’s 2024 technical report and runs informal prompts, with an unresolved model label in the demonstration.
16:28ENTesting Reka Core: Multimodal Benchmarks, Coding and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Reka’s reported model comparisons and tests Core on code, logic and image understanding.
2:35:24ENThe Equation Was Smarter Than EinsteinGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanSean Carroll tells Lex Fridman why general relativity is the most beautiful theory in physics, and why its equation predicted black holes, gravitational waves, and the Big Bang before anyone, including Einstein, understood them.
21:48ENVinod Khosla’s 12 Predictions for Technology and AbundanceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman responds to a venture capitalist’s vision for 2035–2049, from AI expertise and robots to transportation, energy and climate technology.
1:44:48ENDaniel Dines on Building UiPath, Risk and Finding PeaceGuest Daniel Dines · Host Harry StebbingsThe UiPath founder traces his path from learning C++ without a computer to finding a global market for automation, and reflects on leadership, money and the costs of growth.
0:32ENDaniel Dines on Bootstrapping UiPath and Learning to GrowGuest Daniel DinesThe UiPath co-founder recalls early hardship, a decade of bootstrapping and the freedom of outside funding.
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.
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