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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 12, 2025PodcastA Perfect Score Is 32,000 Units: Only Claude Built a Cooperative SocietyHost Nathan LabenzThe same donor game, run for ten generations, can bank 32,000 resource units if everyone cooperates—and three frontier models miss that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
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Matthew Berman· Feb 12, 2025DeepScaleR: A Small Reasoning Model Tested on Competition MathMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a 1.5B model’s reported benchmark results and runs a quantized version locally on one AIME problem.
21:10ENMatthew Berman· Feb 11, 2025Sam Altman’s 2025 AI Coding Forecast and Three ObservationsMatthew Berman, Sam Altman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines predictions about reasoning models, software agents and AI economics, distinguishing competitive-programming results from broader work.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSridhar Ramaswamy on Snowflake, AI Competition and Leading Through ChangeGuest Sridhar Ramaswamy · Host Harry StebbingsThe Snowflake CEO discusses the overlap between models and applications, the importance of distribution, and how leaders can manage difficult transitions.
1:32:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2025Podcast17 Edits, Then 3 Prompts: Lovable Builds the Same App TwiceHost Nathan LabenzAnton Osika and Isaak Sundeman live-build a shopping comparison tool and argue that opinionated defaults—not open-ended agents—are how non-coders actually ship software.
1:24:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2025PodcastStackBlitz Almost Shut Down. Then Bolt Hit $20 Million ARR in Eight Weeks.Host Nathan LabenzEric Simons tells Nathan Labenz how a seven-year browser operating system, Claude Sonnet 3.5, and a text box replaced the local toolchain.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe $5.5 Million Was Only the Last MileHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn No Priors' 100th episode, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil separate DeepSeek's paper cost from the compute behind it, then walk through OpenAI's Deep Research, Stargate, and their bets for 2025.
46:53EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBrian Tolkin on Hiring Product Teams and Finding the Problem That MattersGuest Brian Tolkin · Host Harry StebbingsOpendoor’s head of product draws on Uber and Opendoor to discuss user choice, AI prototypes, decision-making and hiring.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Feb 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersAllen Zhu: How DeepSeek Changed My View of AIGuest 朱啸虎 · Host 张小珺In early 2025, the investor revisits his views on open models, application startups and artificial intelligence.
1:03:51EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMax Levchin on Hiring, Postmortems and Leading AffirmGuest Max Levchin · Host Harry StebbingsThe Affirm founder discusses candid feedback, calculated risk, durable product work and staying focused through public-market volatility.
2:16:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 5, 2025PodcastA 10B Model Trained Across Three Continents — and an H200 for $1.49 an HourHost Nathan LabenzPrime Intellect's founders lay out a four-step plan to turn spare global GPUs into collectively owned intelligence, and argue that reinforcement learning just made their job easier.
10:01ENMatthew Berman· Feb 5, 2025DeepSeek R1 Code Optimization and a $3 Visual Counting ExperimentMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a human-guided coding improvement and a small reinforcement-learning experiment, then considers their implications for AI research.
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Sequoia Capital· Feb 4, 2025PodcastNinety Thousand Games a Day: Roblox's Bet That AI Should Wash the DishesStef Corazza, head of generative AI at Roblox, tells Sequoia how a free Studio assistant, a community data bargain, and a 3D foundation model are meant to teach AI game development.
13:04ENMatthew Berman· Feb 4, 2025Deep Research, AI Takeoff and the Limits of Early ReactionsMatthew Berman, Sam Altman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys February 2025 reactions to OpenAI’s research agent and argues that reasoning and tools could accelerate AI progress.
2:49:35ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Feb 4, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPan Jiayi on R1, o1, and Kimi K1.5: How Reinforcement Learning Teaches Models to ReasonGuest 潘嘉怡 · Host 张小珺Pan Jiayi, a Berkeley PhD student, walks through reasoning-model reports from DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Kimi, unpacking long chains of thought, GRPO, reward design, and distillation. R1-Zero’s “aha moment” shows how reasoning strategies can emerge through reinforcement learning.
1:15:18EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Feb 3, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNabeel Hyatt on Venture Investing and the Uncertainty of AIGuest Nabeel Hyatt · Host Harry StebbingsThe Spark Capital partner argues for curiosity, founder relationships and product judgment in a fast-changing market.
12:07ENMatthew Berman· Feb 2, 2025TinyZero: A $30 Reinforcement-Learning Experiment on a Small Arithmetic TaskMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains how a pretrained Qwen model learned to search and check answers in Countdown, and why the experiment does not recreate DeepSeek-R1.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 2, 2025PodcastDeepSeek's $5 million training claim and the five-year bet on computeHost Lex FridmanDylan Patel and Nathan Lambert walk Lex Fridman through DeepSeek-V3 and R1, export controls, TSMC, megaclusters, and who actually makes money in the AI race.
9:58ENMatthew Berman· Feb 1, 2025Matthew Berman Tests o3-mini on Games, Puzzles and Web SearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2025 hands-on test finds working game prototypes and several successful answers alongside a delayed Tetris row, an ambiguous puzzle and a search configuration mistake.
6:44ENMatthew Berman· Feb 1, 2025Testing DeepSeek Janus-Pro for Image Understanding and GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries the 7B multimodal model on diagrams, memes and image prompts using a sponsored cloud GPU demonstration.
24:22ENMatthew Berman· Jan 31, 2025Dario Amodei on DeepSeek, AI Costs and Chip Export ControlsMatthew Berman, Jonathan Ross, David Sacks · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the Anthropic CEO’s 2025 essay, the limited evidence behind distillation allegations and the economics of model training.
57:31EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jan 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTS Anil on Monzo’s Turnaround, Product Strategy and Global AmbitionsGuest TS Anil · Host Harry StebbingsThe Monzo CEO explains how the bank addressed interlocking funding and control problems, built a diversified revenue model and is thinking about expansion.
9:58ENMatthew Berman· Jan 31, 2025OpenAI o3-mini Launch: Reasoning Effort, Benchmarks and a Snake TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn January 2025, Matthew Berman reviews OpenAI’s reported results and tries two coding examples with different reasoning settings.
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AI Explained· Jan 31, 2025o3-mini’s Early Results and the Rhetoric of an AI RaceA launch-day look at benchmarks, safety evaluations, and the pressures of competition.Load moreShowing 24 of 3,962