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1:20:50ENJason Lemkin on SaaS Valuations, Private Equity and the Liquidity ProblemGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe SaaStr founder discusses slowing software growth, AI budgets, venture returns and why the next exit may be harder to find.
14:25ENTesting Phi-3 Vision, LLaVA-Llama 3 and GPT-4o on ImagesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares three 2024 vision setups on image descriptions, screenshots, a meme and table extraction, with mixed results.
2:15:39ENRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
1:01:55ENA $9 AI nurse, an 86 on the medical boards, and a 10% extinction lineHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s solo scouting report walks from medical state of the art through how models actually learn, then to live players, scaling trends, and a control plan that still does not exist.
3:11ENAlok on Quantitative Research at Jane StreetAlok Puranik · Jane StreetA researcher describes projects, useful mathematical background and how candidates can prepare for interviews.
20:51ENElon Musk’s Truth-Seeking AI: A 2024 Interview and ResponseMatthew Berman, Elon Musk · Forward FutureMatthew Berman questions how AI truthfulness, safety and accountability can be put into practice.
56:35ENMatt Lerner on Finding Growth Levers and Hiring Teams That LearnGuest Matt Lerner · Host Harry StebbingsThe former PayPal growth leader explains how startups can discover their strongest channels, choose customer-centered metrics and hire for curiosity.
1:00ENOpenAI Voice Demos: Translation and Math TutoringMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA short compilation shows a translation exchange and an assistant guiding a student through a triangle problem.
24:06ENOpenAI’s 2023 Board Crisis: Helen Toner’s Account and the Governance DebateMatthew Berman, Helen Toner · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a former director’s allegations, a subsequent review and competing views on AI safety oversight.
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.
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