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Matthew Berman· Apr 18, 2025AI News: Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI Models, Claude Research and Kling 2.0Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of 2025 model releases, research tools and agent announcements, including historical price and benchmark comparisons.
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Lex Fridman· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobert Rodriguez: Sift the Ashes, Keep the Pipe Open, Don't BlinkGuest Robert Rodriguez · Host Lex FridmanThe director of El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel tells Lex Fridman how limitation, failure, sound, and identity became his method.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDiscovery rates collapsed tenfold. KoBold still found a 5% copper depositHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJosh Goldman explains why KoBold Metals treats mineral exploration as an information problem, pairing AI with century-old maps to hunt lithium and copper.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 3 speakersa16z, Founders Fund and the Risks Behind Venture’s Biggest FundsGuest Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin debate fund size, late-stage returns, AI uncertainty and delayed liquidity.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 16, 2025PodcastThe Q* Letter Never Happened: Helen Toner on OpenAI, Adaptation Buffers, and AI at WarHost Nathan LabenzThe former OpenAI director explains why a famous Reuters story was false, why locking down AI will not work, and how military “battle buddy” demos skip the hard questions.
15:46ENMatthew Berman· Apr 16, 2025OpenAI o3 and o4-mini: Tool Use, Benchmarks and the First Codex CLIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews OpenAI’s April 2025 reasoning-model release, a scientific image-analysis demonstration and the debut of its terminal coding agent.
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Sequoia Capital· Apr 15, 2025PodcastPatrick Hsu Wants an App Store for Biology, Not Just Better DrugsThe Arc Institute co-founder argues that Evo 2, trained on genomes rather than proteins, should underpin tools for every step of the scientific method.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 15, 2025PodcastThe Transformer Co-Author Who Says Scaling Hit a WallHost Jacob EffronCohere CEO Aidan Gomez tells Redpoint that a $100 million model is still an amnesiac genius, and that enterprise AI money is concentrating in support, research, and the back office.
21:16ENMatthew Berman· Apr 14, 2025GPT-4.1, Mini and Nano: Coding, Long Context and 2025 API PricingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews OpenAI’s April 2025 model launch, selected coding benchmarks and demonstrations, and a sponsored Box evaluation.
1:12:26EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersVictor Lazarte on Founders, AI and Investing Through a Technology ShiftGuest Victor Lazarte · Host Harry StebbingsThe Benchmark partner discusses founder selection, AI revenue quality, the future of work and the role of a venture investor.
1:37:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2025PodcastChina, Japan, and Korea fought only one war in six centuriesHost Nathan LabenzFrom 1200 to 1800, East Asia’s great powers stayed at peace while Europe fought almost without pause — and David C. Kang argues that history still shapes how Asia lives with China.
41:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMercor Hit $100 Million ARR Teaching Models to Hire. Humans Now Write the Exams.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrendan Foody tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Mercor automated recruiting for frontier labs — and why building evals may become the world's most common knowledge job.
1:26:21ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 10, 2025PodcastFor under $10, Google's AI independently recovered a lab result nobody had publishedHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu tell Nathan Labenz how AMIE beats primary-care doctors on treatment plans, and how Co-Scientist matched Imperial College's unpublished bacterial-resistance mechanism.
1:26:17EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 3 speakersTom Hulme and Stan Boland on Talent, Capital and the UK Tech EcosystemGuest Tom Hulme, Stan Boland · Host Harry StebbingsThe investor and entrepreneur debate how the UK can retain talent, finance global companies and build a stronger technology economy.
43:51ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Apr 9, 2025PodcastThe $177 Billion GPU Bet Only Works If AI Becomes a $1.5 Trillion MarketHost Jacob EffronFour Redpoint partners walk their limited partners through where AI value will accrue—and why revenue is now the easiest metric to misread.
1:26:19ENSequoia Capital· Apr 8, 2025PodcastHe turned down a billion dollars for a world with a billion developersReplit CEO Amjad Masad tells Sequoia’s Training Data why a six-person company walked away from a life-changing offer, and why a billion people writing software is a better end state than AGI as universal basic income.
3:19:00ENLex Fridman· Apr 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGuest Dave Smith · Host Lex FridmanComedian and libertarian Dave Smith tells Lex Fridman that American wars keep manufacturing enemies, that Gaza and Ukraine follow the same arithmetic, and that long conversations broke the old monopoly on selling war.
18:23ENMatthew Berman· Apr 7, 2025Llama 4 Reactions: Benchmarks, Long Context and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews early industry reactions to Meta's Llama 4 release, from benchmark and price comparisons to long-context claims and local inference.
1:10:19EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersCarvana CEO Ernie Garcia on Conviction, Debt and Building Through Difficult MarketsGuest Ernest Garcia · Host Harry StebbingsThe co-founder reflects on fundraising, operations, public markets and the personal trade-offs of leading a company.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Apr 7, 2025Podcast · 4 speakersChen Jianyu: How Robot Foundation Models Can Become General-Purpose VLA SystemsGuest 陈建宇 · Host 张小珺From SayCan and RT-2 to Diffusion Policy, Tsinghua assistant professor and Epoch Robotics founder Chen Jianyu traces the path from borrowing language models to end-to-end VLA. The hard problems remain diverse data, cross-embodiment generalization, and high-frequency action control.
1:14:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 5, 2025PodcastThe Reasoning Curve Was Smooth All Along: Gemini 2.5's Jack Rae on Thinking, Memory, and AGIHost Nathan LabenzDeepMind's thinking-and-inference lead explains why RL-for-reasoning felt sudden, why Gemini shows raw chain of thought, and why a million-token window still is not memory.
7:33ENMatthew Berman· Apr 4, 2025Ace Computer-Use Agent: Fast Desktop and Browser DemonstrationsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews General Agents’ examples and reported click accuracy and latency, while noting he has not yet tested Ace himself.
23:50ENMatthew Berman· Apr 3, 2025PaperBench: How AI Agents Attempt to Replicate Machine-Learning ResearchMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s research-replication benchmark, its partial-credit scoring and the prospect of faster AI research.
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Jane Street· Apr 3, 2025Chris Casinghino on Making OCaml Safe for Performance EngineeringChris Casinghino · Jane StreetJane Street’s OCaml extensions use layouts and modes to offer more control over memory and parallelism while preserving safety and familiar programming patterns.Load moreShowing 24 of 3,574