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1:15:53ENMike Schroepfer on Leadership, Climate Technology and Clean EnergyGuest Mike Schroepfer · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Meta CTO explains how leaders align teams and how his climate investment firm evaluates technology, financing and market risk.
9:14ENOCaml Local Function Types: Why Partial Application Can EscapeRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetRichard Eisenberg uses a list-append example to show how a local argument changes the mode of a partially applied function in Jane Street’s OCaml compiler branch.
9:53ENTesting Microsoft Phi-3 Medium Locally: Mixed Coding and Reasoning ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a quantized Phi-3 Medium on a MacBook and explores coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
1:24:54ENJason Lemkin on SaaS Investing, Churn and Seed ValuationsGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe SaaStr founder revisits successful and disappointing deals, explains his diligence process and assesses the economics of seed investing.
15:20ENOpenAI Exit Agreements: Vested Equity, Reporting and the Company’s ResponseMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses Vox’s reporting on departure documents and distinguishes equity cancellation from access to private-company tender offers.
0:58ENBiotechnology and the Challenge of Biological NetworksA short conversation about possible advances in biological intervention.
1:59:15ENA Protein Backbone in a Minute: The Real Progress, Bottlenecks, and Risks of AI BiologyHost Nathan LabenzThe White House set a thousand-fold lower reporting bar for biological models than for language models—and this conversation shows why that gap already looks prescient.
3:10:49ENMemory Is Not a Replay: Charan Ranganath on Forgetting, Imagination, and False MemoriesGuest Charan Ranganath · Host Lex FridmanA UC Davis neuroscientist explains why the brain is a cheap prediction machine — and why forgetting is how memory works.
1:19:26ENHard Fork on an AI Voice Dispute, Neuralink and Microsoft’s AI PCsGuest Noland Arbaugh, Karen Weise · Host Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonA 2024 episode examines a voice controversy, one participant’s implant experience and computer privacy.
1:00ENNVIDIA and Microsoft’s 2024 RTX AI AnnouncementsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Windows AI development, RTX inference improvements and potential uses in games and creative tools.
39:59ENFrom $6 million to $30 million ARR in three months: Garry Tan on YC’s AI boomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Y Combinator president tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why this batch looks like nothing he has seen in twenty years, and why a weak elephant is good news for startups.
1:00ENJan Leike's Departure and Criticism of OpenAI's Safety PrioritiesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn May 2024, Matthew Berman discusses the departing alignment leader's concerns about OpenAI's safety culture and its preparations for more capable AI.
25:00ENMicrosoft Build 2024: Copilot+ PCs, Phi-3 and AI DemosMatthew Berman, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Seth Juarez · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews selected Microsoft keynote announcements, product demonstrations and a conversation with Sam Altman.
59:47ENAaron Levie on AI Agents, SaaS Pricing and the Race Between Startups and IncumbentsGuest Aaron Levie · Host Harry StebbingsThe Box CEO considers how AI might change business workflows, employment and software pricing, and why established companies and startups both have a chance.
58:28ENFrom Jailbreaking ChatGPT to Anthropic’s First Prompt Engineer: How Alex Albert Ships Claude 3Host Nathan LabenzA year after building jailbreakchat.com, Alex Albert walks Nathan Labenz through Claude 3’s writing, orchestration, character work, and the guardrails app developers still skip.
39:00ENJPMorgan Has 150 Petabytes. GPT-4 Trained on Less Than One.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilScale AI founder Alexandr Wang tells No Priors why easy internet data is exhausted, why expert-plus-model teams still win, and why the path to AGI looks more like curing cancer than inventing a vaccine.
12:50ENTesting Smaug: Hosted 70B Versus a Smaller Local ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares two Smaug configurations on Snake, math and reasoning puzzles.
16:47ENMeta Ray-Ban Glasses: A 2024 Review of Hands-Free PhotographyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman finds the camera more useful than the AI features in his daily routine.
54:32ENNikesh Arora on Competition, Acquisitions and Leading Through ChangeGuest Nikesh Arora · Host Harry StebbingsThe Palo Alto Networks CEO discusses product advantages, acquisition discipline, communication and the personal tradeoffs of leadership.
11:42ENOpenAI’s First Model Spec: Rules, Defaults and a Debate About PersuasionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the May 2024 draft’s proposed model behavior and questions its example for correcting a false belief.
56:35ENThey Asked for a Fraction of the 20 Percent and Still Got NoHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz unpack Jan Leike’s resignation, OpenAI’s broken compute pledge, and what a safety culture looks like when the money does not follow the mission.
0:26ENSarah Tavel on Recruiting as a Venture InvestorGuest Sarah TavelA venture investor describes building recruiting experience through repetition.
58:18ENJiaona Zhang on Product Scorecards, Strategy and Faster LearningGuest Jiaona Zhang · Host Harry StebbingsLinktree’s product leader explains how KPI trees, weekly scorecards and collaborative rituals connect customer needs to business outcomes.
30:55ENGPT-4o's Early Demos: Voice, Tutoring, Meetings and AccessibilityMatthew Berman, Greg Brockman, Sal Khan, Imran · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI's May 2024 demonstrations and considers what real-time multimodal interaction might enable.
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