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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Weekend Prototype Now Autocompletes a Third of Brex ExpensesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPedro Franceschi tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a 48-hour GPT-3.5 hack became an assistant for 30,000 companies — and why firing 20,000 customers was a leadership-bandwidth decision.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAlexis Ohanian on Angel City, Sports Ownership and the Business of AttentionGuest Alexis Ohanian · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor explains his Angel City thesis, the club’s revenue and governance, and why he sees value in sports storytelling and creators.
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Matthew Berman· Aug 7, 2024Strawberry Rumors and Two Anonymous Chatbot Reasoning TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn August 2024, Matthew Berman examined speculation about OpenAI’s next model and tested mystery chatbots on simple reasoning puzzles. Later disclosures clarified the identity of one of them.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 7, 2024PodcastWaymo's Injury Rate Is Five Times Lower. It Still Loses to a Lyft.Host Nathan LabenzHuman drivers average one fatal crash per 100 million miles — and that bar still defines the self-driving debate.
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Jane Street· Aug 7, 2024How OCaml's Proposed Include Functor Syntax Reduces RepetitionRichard Eisenberg · Jane StreetA reverse-array example shows how to derive common module functions from a minimal implementation without an extra wrapper module.
12:17ENMatthew Berman· Aug 7, 2024Testing Gemini 1.5 Pro on Code, Reasoning, Images and VideoMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares standard and experimental Gemini versions in an informal 2024 review, finding mixed results and repeated output errors.
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Hard Fork· Aug 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersStephen Nedoroscik and the Roots of Pommel HorseA short conversation about the gymnast, stereotypes and the apparatus’s history.
17:27ENMatthew Berman· Aug 6, 2024AI News in August 2024: Figure 02, Groq and Training-Data DisputesMatthew Berman · Matthew BermanMatthew Berman surveys robot previews, an inference funding round, AI watermarking, synthetic robot data and new creative tools.
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Sequoia Capital· Aug 6, 2024PodcastGitHub Didn’t Believe Copilot Was Writing 25% of the CodeThomas Dohmke tells Sequoia how an unplanned GPT-3 experiment became Copilot, why GitHub still will not train its own foundation model, and how he wants a billion people writing software by 2030.
8:39ENMatthew Berman· Aug 6, 2024Figure 02: A Look at Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot and Its Long-Term AmbitionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Figure’s 2024 announcement, from redesigned hands and onboard vision to the company’s ambitions for physical labor and homes.
1:13:02EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Cahn on AI Infrastructure, Capital Spending and Venture ConvictionGuest David Cahn · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia investor examines data centers, chips and power before explaining how he evaluates companies and builds conviction.
1:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 5, 2024PodcastBuilding AI Products When Research Changes the ConstraintsA short discussion of model quality, training time and development uncertainty.
46:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 3, 2024PodcastEditing Video Like a Document: How Descript Puts AI in the Copilot SeatHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Andrew Mason on Underlord, why the timeline had to die, and what a ten-times-more-expensive editor would look like.
58:31EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersBen Fiechtner on Deal Design, Forecasting and Building Sales TeamsGuest Ben Fiechtner · Host Harry StebbingsClari’s chief revenue officer explains his quarterly sales cadence, how to find real buying constraints, and what he looks for when hiring.
4:51ENJane Street· Aug 2, 2024How Jane Street’s Creative Engagement Team Shapes Company CultureTala, Lana · Jane StreetTeam members describe how events, design and digital projects bring colleagues together and introduce the firm to new people.
9:58ENMatthew Berman· Aug 2, 2024Abstract AI: A Proposed Routing Layer for Language ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman outlines a startup idea for choosing models and workflows by cost, speed and quality.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
1:03:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2024PodcastA 40-person team at $35 million ARR: HeyGen made AI avatars a business, not a demoHost Nathan LabenzJoshua Xu and Benchmark’s Victor Lazarte tell Nathan Labenz how a camera-replacement product grew past 40,000 business customers — and why half the faces on this episode are fake.
21:59ENHard Fork· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 3 speakersHow DeepMind’s Math Systems Reached an Olympiad Silver-Level ScoreGuest Pushmeet Kohli · Host Kevin Roose, Casey NewtonPushmeet Kohli explains formal proofs, training, timing and the limits of a 2024 result.
3:18ENJane Street· Aug 1, 2024Rory on Production Engineering and Incident Support at Jane StreetRory · Jane StreetA production engineer describes monitoring order engines, responding to outages and building a supportive team.
11:34ENMatthew Berman· Aug 1, 2024Testing Mistral Large 2: Coding, Reasoning and Safety in 2024Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests Mistral’s 123-billion-parameter model with small coding tasks, logic puzzles and ethical hypotheticals. The results are promising but narrowly scoped.
46:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 1, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersOriol Vinyals: The Days of Burning 90% of Compute on Pretraining Are NumberedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle DeepMind’s VP of research on Gemini, long context, the coming shift from pretraining to RL, and why AGI may never have a finish line.
8:34ENMatthew Berman· Jul 31, 2024The Promise and Tradeoffs of Running AI on Phones and Other DevicesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn a Qualcomm-partnered video, Matthew Berman explores local AI, model routing and demonstrations across phones, PCs, cars and drones.
1:09:06EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 31, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEthan Mollick on AI Adoption, Education and the Uncertain Path to AGIGuest Ethan Mollick · Host Harry StebbingsThe Wharton professor argues that model progress is only part of the story: organizations, product design and human choices determine how AI changes work and education.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,455