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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 17, 2024Podcast4,096 Numbers Have to Carry Every Concept. Goodfire Wants the KnobsHost Nathan LabenzDan Balsam and Tom McGrath explain how sparse autoencoders unpack a language model's residual stream — and why a public-benefit startup is trying to make that a product.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Aug 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersLi Guangmi on a Year in Global LLMs: Scaling Law, the AGI Bet, and the US–China LandscapeGuest 李广密 · Host 张小珺Drawing on his front-row view from Silicon Valley, Shixiang Capital founder Li Guangmi looks back at the competition among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Chinese model companies. He argues that model capability and cost together will shape the next wave of applications, while today’s enormous investments are bets on whether intelligence can keep scaling and how AI will reshape the economy and industry over the long term.
1:14:56ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Aug 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWang Yajun on Jensen Huang’s Organizational System: Using Distributed Decision-Making to Drive InnovationGuest 王亚军 · Host 张小珺Wang Yajun, former chief strategy officer at Longfor Group, examines how strategy, products, and organization fit together through Nvidia’s practices: no layoffs, 60 direct reports, and little long-term planning. The point is not to copy the forms, but to build candor, trust, and lateral collaboration so more people have the information they need to make decisions.
49:41ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Aug 17, 2024Podcast · 3 speakersFu Sheng: Large Models Are a Productivity Revolution, and Robots Have a New Window of OpportunityGuest 傅盛 · Host 张小珺Fu Sheng sees the heart of large models in their capacity for logic and reasoning. Their impact, he says, is closer to the steam engine than to another round of ordinary internet evolution. He also reflects on open models, service robots, and how entrepreneurs can face difficult periods.
1:07:14ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Aug 17, 2024Podcast · 3 speakersWang Yajun: EQ Is No Universal Fix for OrganizationsGuest 王亚军 · Host 张小珺Wang Yajun, former chief strategy officer at Longfor Group, discusses EQ, rationality, and organizational collaboration. Individuals may use EQ to adapt to their environment, but companies need shared methods that can scale. When executives rely only on reading between the lines and managing relationships, decisions gradually lose touch with reality.
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Matthew Berman· Aug 16, 2024Grok-2 Beta and the FLUX.1 Image ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses xAI's 2024 Grok-2 beta, its earlier leaderboard alias and a partnership with Black Forest Labs on image generation.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersLaela Sturdy on Growth Investing, Second Acts and Building Durable CompaniesGuest Laela Sturdy · Host Harry StebbingsCapitalG’s managing partner explains how she assesses expansion, entry price and public-market readiness—and why conviction must extend beyond a founder’s story.
11:39ENMatthew Berman· Aug 15, 2024Grok 2 Beta: Matthew Berman Tests Reasoning and FLUX Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2024 look at xAI’s Grok 2 and Grok 2 mini covers early benchmark claims, a failed reasoning test and image-generation experiments.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNot Spending $100 Is a Hundred Times Better Than a Dollar BackHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRamp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh walk through self-driving money, Iron Man suits for sales, and why they never lead with the word AI.
1:05:48EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersKaz Nejatian on Shopify: Building Complete Products and a Company for the Long TermGuest Kaz Nejatian · Host Harry StebbingsShopify’s COO explains its product culture, internal tools and partnerships, and reflects on remote work, information flow and leadership.
24:18ENMatthew Berman· Aug 14, 2024Gemini Live and Pixel AI: Matthew Berman Reviews Google’s 2024 EventMatthew Berman · Matthew BermanA walkthrough of Google’s voice assistant and on-device AI demonstrations, including a live demo that needed several attempts.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCraig Jones Drove a Bag of Cash to Rogan — Then Put $2 Million on a Jiu-Jitsu MatGuest Craig Jones · Host Lex FridmanThe Australian grappler tells Lex Fridman how a Kazakhstan horse pit led to Ukraine, FPV drones, coral-belt trolling, and a tournament scheduled against ADCC.
2:04:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 14, 2024PodcastA parrot cannot paraphrase — and Claude cannot be talked into harmHost Nathan LabenzRobert Wright of the Nonzero podcast interviews Nathan Labenz on whether large language models understand anything, what Anthropic’s 10 million features actually show, and why open weights collide with U.S.–China policy.
15:24ENMatthew Berman· Aug 13, 2024Testing the Anonymous sus-column-r Model, Later Identified as Grok-2Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests a mysterious 2024 Arena model on coding and reasoning; its verbose answers prompted speculation about OpenAI that the later identification contradicted.
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Sequoia Capital· Aug 13, 2024PodcastOpen and Closed Will Tie at the Same Size: PyTorch's Former Lead on Fast InferenceA six-month library swap at Meta became a five-year rebuild. Lin Qiao wants the rest of the industry to get that stack in five weeks.
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Jane Street· Aug 13, 2024Erik and Martin Demaine on the Mathematics of Curved-Crease SculptureErik Demaine, Martin Demaine · MITThe MIT father-and-son collaborators turn paper folding into art and research, embedding puzzles and mathematical fonts in their sculpture Solve Me.
1:00ENMatthew Berman· Aug 12, 2024Qualcomm’s On-Device AI DemonstrationsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureAt a Qualcomm event, Matthew Berman highlights LM Studio, an in-car interface, drones and Snapdragon-powered PCs. The video description labels the post as an ad.
57:55ENMatthew Berman· Aug 12, 2024A First AI Livestream: Model Rumors, RAG, Agents, and Audience QuestionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests a livestream in August 2024 and answers viewers’ questions about AI tools, model evaluation, company knowledge, and future agents.
1:08:50EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersShaun Maguire on Foreign Policy, Speech and Venture InvestingGuest Shaun Maguire · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia partner shares controversial views on Iran, the US election and Europe, then discusses SpaceX, X and venture investing.
1:41:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2024PodcastIf Snail Experts Can't Agree, Nobody Gets to Be Sure About AI ConsciousnessHost Nathan LabenzPhilosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that every major theory of consciousness has to swallow bizarre bullets, and that confident claims about AI sentience are not epistemically justified.
14:32ENMatthew Berman· Aug 10, 2024OpenAI Departures, Developer Tools and Synthetic Media: An August 2024 AI RoundupMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews leadership changes, training-data disputes, structured API output, Qwen2-Math and emerging deepfake tools.
50:08EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 9, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDax Dasilva on Bootstrapping Lightspeed, Growth and Returning as CEOGuest Dax Dasilva · Host Harry StebbingsThe Lightspeed founder explains how close customer observation shaped its product, why he returned to lead a profitable-growth transition, and what acquisitions left unfinished.
16:06ENMatthew Berman· Aug 9, 2024Q* and Strawberry: What Was Known and Speculated in August 2024Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews contemporary rumors and research concepts around reasoning, search and self-play, while the underlying project remained undisclosed.
1:00ENMatthew Berman· Aug 8, 2024NVIDIA AI Resources for STEM StudentsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn a partnered short, Matthew Berman points students to learning, model development, robotics and local document tools.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,454