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1:00:28ENScaling Laws Aren't Done. Don't Lock Yourself Into Yesterday's Architecture.Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on why the exponential is still compounding, why inference will dwarf training, and why a language model is the world's crappiest database.
18:57ENAI News in July 2024: Small Models, Voice Tools and OpenAI SecurityMatthew Berman, Andrej Karpathy · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews AI product announcements, model evaluation and security reporting, and shares his predictions about the future of computing.
1:12:12ENPat Grady on Sequoia’s Investment Process, Founders and Holding WinnersGuest Pat Grady · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia partner explains how he tests an investment thesis, judges founders and balances patience with the need to return capital.
8:53ENRouteLLM: Routing Queries Between Strong and Cheaper ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains a 2024 research framework that uses preference data to choose a model for each query.
1:12:41ENThe CEO Who Laid Himself Off Is Building a Business Operating SystemHost Nathan LabenzSiqi Chen of Runway tells Nathan Labenz why finance is a company-wide simulation, why chat boxes fail, and how a 100-person cap plus ambient intelligence is the real product strategy.
0:38ENTurning Simple Landscape Sketches into Images with NVIDIA CanvasMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates NVIDIA Canvas, which uses GauGAN technology to turn material-labeled brushstrokes into landscape images.
1:42:16EN267 Papers in Seven Months: Albert Gu Explains the State Space Model RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzThe Mamba co-author walks through five years of recurrent-model work, why selective compression beats a growing KV cache, and what Mamba 2 trades away to train faster.
1:05:52ENAvi Eyal on Venture Returns, Selling Discipline and Supporting FoundersGuest Avi Eyal · Host Harry StebbingsThe Entrée Capital co-founder reflects on monday.com, portfolio construction, liquidity and the difficult decisions behind early-stage investing.
14:30ENRetrieval-Augmented Generation: External Knowledge, Embeddings and SearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces RAG using customer-service, company-document and automotive-manual examples, then explains vector retrieval and agents.
55:13ENThe Best AI Scores 39% on This Test. Zapier’s Co-Founder Put $1 Million on Beating ItFrançois Chollet designed ARC to measure skill-acquisition efficiency; five years later humans still crush it and frontier models do not.
13:30ENAI News in July 2024: Smart Glasses, Robot Skin and Model RoutingMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys early plans for AI glasses, robotics demonstrations, generative video and RouteLLM's model-routing results.
3:04:08ENWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
11:20ENMatthew Berman Adapts Mixture of Agents to Groq InferenceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2024 tutorial changes an open-source multi-model ensemble to use Groq, then tests its interactive output and fixes a streaming error.
1:06:53ENMatt Clifford on AI Scaling, China, Defense and Finding FoundersGuest Matt Clifford · Host Harry StebbingsThe Entrepreneur First co-founder weighs new AI ideas against compute constraints, examines competing scenarios for China, and explains how he evaluates entrepreneurial talent.
1:48:41ENAGI Has Been a Moving Goalpost for Seventy YearsHost Nathan Labenza16z’s Martin Casado and host Nathan Labenz spend two hours arguing whether today’s models will become general knowledge workers, and whether that debate should drive AI regulation.
9:06ENTesting Nemotron-4 340B: Synthetic Data and a Handful of Reasoning TasksMatthew Berman · Matthew BermanMatthew Berman reviews NVIDIA’s 2024 model family for synthetic data and tries a small set of coding, arithmetic and logic prompts.
1:01:42ENSamir Vasavada on Vise: Fundraising, Hiring and Rebuilding After Rapid GrowthGuest Samir Vasavada · Host Harry StebbingsThe Vise co-founder reflects on raising capital quickly, executive hiring, a company reset and the personal pressure of building a startup young.
15:43ENHard Fork’s Technology News Game: AI Safety, Drive-Throughs and ComedyHost Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonA 2024 roundup examines product failures, research and responsibility.
24:25ENHard Fork on Defense Technology and the Ethics of Military AIGuest Chris Kirchhoff · Host Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonA 2024 discussion examines procurement, Silicon Valley and strategic risk.
34:09ENFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
1:47:18ENA Cannabis Clip Sat Quiet for a Year. Then It Hit X.Guest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanAndrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about online pile-ons, still minds, sharks, ayahuasca, and the slow work of picking who you eat with.
0:58ENNVIDIA Tools for Game Streaming and Video EffectsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn a sponsored 2024 short, Matthew Berman describes hardware video encoding and NVIDIA Broadcast features for streamers.
1:54:01ENA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
9:15ENOpenWorm, Neural Connectomes and the Simulation HypothesisMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explores an open-source C. elegans modeling project and asks philosophical questions about simulating life, consciousness and reality.
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