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1:24:03ENDanny Rimer on Missed Deals, Investment Discipline and Building Index VenturesGuest Danny Rimer · Host Harry StebbingsThe Index partner reflects on Spotify, Snap, Airbnb and Facebook, explains how the firm makes decisions, and weighs patience against the need to realize returns.
27:37ENLeo Pekelis on Extending Llama 3 to a Million-Token ContextMatthew Berman, Leo Pekelis · Forward FutureGradient’s chief scientist explains long-context training, coding use cases, inference costs and why retrieval benchmarks tell only part of the story.
1:25:10ENA Tenth of Google's Index, 99.9% Recall: How 20 People Built Brave SearchHost Nathan LabenzJosep M. Pujol walks Cognitive Revolution through Brave's privacy-first index, hybrid retrieval stack, and the Search API Nathan Labenz now wants his own product team to use.
1:06:40ENJanie Lee on Product Judgment, Hiring and Enterprise ExpansionGuest Janie Lee · Host Harry StebbingsThe Loom product leader discusses customer problems, clear writing, product reviews and the shift from self-serve adoption to enterprise sales.
2:51:58ENSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
11:28ENOCaml Local Types: Regional Parameters and Loop RegionsRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetA demonstration explains why some local parameters can cross a function boundary and how loop regions reclaim allocations.
1:01:30ENLeopold Aschenbrenner’s 2024 Forecast for AGI, Superintelligence and SecurityMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Situational Awareness, its extrapolation to automated AI research, and the industrial, geopolitical and alignment challenges it envisions.
52:45ENA $150 million model, $5 million six months later: Benchmark’s AI investment mathHost Nathan LabenzEric Vishria and Quilter’s Sergiy Nesterenko explain why PCB layout is not a Copilot problem, why human board data would be the wrong training set, and which AI companies look like sugar highs.
1:06:04ENAlexandr Wang on AI Data, Model Development and Building ScaleGuest Alexandr Wang · Host Harry StebbingsScale’s founder discusses his data-bottleneck thesis, enterprise adoption, AI security and the challenges of growing a team.
35:24ENScott Belsky: Models Are Commoditizing. Controls, Data, and Taste Are the MoatHost Jacob EffronAdobe’s chief product officer tells Unsupervised Learning why Project Neo leaking into Firefly, a three-second Premiere extend, and Superhuman-priced software all point to the same shift.
26:00ENWhy a Zapier founder thinks AGI research has been stalled for four yearsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMike Knoop and François Chollet put more than a million dollars on beating ARC-AGI, the eval they say actually measures general intelligence.
35:27ENApple Intelligence at WWDC 2024: Siri, Privacy and ChatGPTMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Apple’s 2024 AI announcements, emphasizing cross-app actions, on-device processing, Private Cloud Compute and the ChatGPT integration.
1:25:42ENReid Hoffman on AI Models, Inflection, Governance and Technology’s Social ImpactGuest Reid Hoffman · Host Harry StebbingsHoffman discusses the Microsoft–Inflection arrangement, AI competition and regulation, and his political views in a time-specific 2024 interview.
4:01:26ENAndrej Karpathy: Reproducing GPT-2 from ScratchAndrej KarpathyBuild the 124-million-parameter GPT-2, accelerate its training, and evaluate the resulting model with validation loss and HellaSwag.
17:03ENQwen2 0.5B and 72B: A Hands-On ComparisonMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts on the smallest and largest Qwen2 models in a 2024 demonstration.
1:23:10ENThe night Flo Crivello slept five hours: GPT-4 never hit a wallHost Nathan LabenzThe Lindy AI founder walks Nathan Labenz through timelines, misuse, open-source risk, and why two longtime libertarians now want regulation.
53:43ENAshley Kelly on Hiring, Onboarding and Scaling Sales DevelopmentGuest Ashley Kelly · Host Harry StebbingsRippling’s sales-development leader discusses SDR roles, compensation, coaching and the practical challenges of growing a global team.
0:53ENNVIDIA’s Computex Keynote: Digital Humans, Weather and RoboticsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman briefly reviews Jensen Huang’s announcements on AI-generated characters, weather modeling, Blackwell hardware and factory robots.
21:13ENAI Workers’ Right to Warn and the Debate Over AGI SafetyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a 2024 open letter on speaking up about AI risks alongside predictions from former OpenAI employees Leopold Aschenbrenner and Daniel Kokotajlo.
36:20ENA Hundred Million Tokens in Context Would Cost $10 Million. Tengyu Ma Runs the RAG MathHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford professor and Voyage AI founder argues that retrieval, not a giant context window, is how enterprises should manage private knowledge.
1:10:07ENSame Intelligence, 1% of the Price: Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini FlashHost Nathan LabenzA former OpenAI developer-relations lead, now the product manager for Google AI Studio, walks through what Gemini 1.5 Flash actually changes for builders.
0:59ENNVIDIA’s Computex 2024 AI AnnouncementsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews gaming assistants, digital characters, AI laptops and developer tools in an NVIDIA partner video.
2:19:08ENHe Asked to Vanish from the Poster. The Second Time, Hollywood Did It for HimGuest Kevin Spacey · Host Lex FridmanKevin Spacey talks with Lex Fridman about Se7en, American Beauty, House of Cards, the 2017 allegations, and a father whose study held a Nazi flag.
1:13:59ENJensen Huang’s Computex 2024 Vision: NIM, Blackwell and Physical AIMatthew Berman, Jensen Huang · Forward FutureMatthew Berman presents NVIDIA’s keynote on AI infrastructure, digital humans, weather simulation and robot factories, with the demonstrations and vendor claims in context.
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