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Matthew Berman· Jul 29, 2026Open-Weight AI: Competition, Safety and the Debate over AnthropicMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman argues for broad access to AI models, weighs the economics and security arguments, and responds to Dario Amodei’s position on open weights.
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Sequoia Capital· Jul 29, 2026PodcastThe People Writing the Transformer’s Eulogy Want a Lab That Can Take Vacation Without Themo1’s reasoning lead and a Gemini pre-training lead argue the architecture, not more scale, is now the bottleneck — and that replacing it starts with automating kernel generation.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Jul 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersYou Kaichao on How vLLM Grew from Open-Source Project to AI Infrastructure CompanyGuest You Kaichao · Host 张小珺Inferact co-founder You Kaichao traces vLLM’s path from Berkeley research to a company, then explains why model, inference, hardware and agent design increasingly have to move together.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGuest Gary Gallagher · Host Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 27, 2026PodcastHe Bought an Android, Two SIMs, and Left Claude Watching His InboxHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz asked a dozen friends how to visit China and got two irreconcilable answers.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersMatt Murphy on Anthropic, Open Models and the New Venture PlaybookGuest Matt Murphy · Host Harry StebbingsThe Menlo Ventures partner explains his investments in Anthropic, Lovable and Legora, and debates AI margins, model competition and venture fund strategy.
1:02:42EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 25, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersMercor’s Osvald Nitski on AI Training Data, Product and Customer ConcentrationGuest Osvald Nitski · Host Harry StebbingsMercor’s head of product discusses how the company supplies expert data to AI labs, designs its marketplace and plans to reach more enterprise customers.
52:29ENMatthew Berman· Jul 24, 2026Claude Opus 5: Benchmarks, Cost per Task, and Early ImpressionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to the model launch, examines reported benchmark and pricing data, and explains why the cost of completing a task matters more than token price alone.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Ask DoorDash Orders Hit a New Restaurant. In Ten Years There Will Be More Dashers, Not Fewer.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCo-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang tell Sarah Guo how a conversational ordering interface moved DoorDash's hardest metric, why they built a 300-pound delivery robot in-house, and why autonomy means more human riders, not less.
1:27:39EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 3 speakers20VC Roundtable on Open Models, AI Economics and Payments DealsGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll discuss model security, inference investment and a reported PayPal proposal.
16:09ENMatthew Berman· Jul 23, 2026How to Compare AI Task Costs and Split Coding Work Across ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares token prices with benchmark task costs and proposes a planning, execution and review workflow using different models.
1:15ENMatthew Berman· Jul 23, 2026Using Codex to Negotiate a Return and Subscription RefundMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman describes delegating two customer-service conversations to an AI agent and reports the outcomes.
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Reid Hoffman· Jul 22, 2026Podcast · 3 speakersWill Weinbach on Autonomous Social Media Agents and Learning by ExperimentGuest Will Weinbach · Host Reid Hoffman, Parth PatilThe social strategist explains his content workflow, an unexpected 4 a.m. posting spree, and why young creators should show what they can build.
51:31ENSequoia Capital· Jul 21, 2026PodcastThey Refunded Nearly $2 Million. Then Factory’s CEO Explained the Dark FactoryMatan Grinberg on being two years early, why a model-agnostic harness beats lab co-design, and why 90 percent of coding tokens will soon run with the lights off.
27:13ENMatthew Berman· Jul 21, 2026Kimi K3 and the Debate Over Open-Weight AIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines model economics, competition and security arguments after Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 announcement.
1:28:42EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 20, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLin Qiao on Specialized AI, Open Models and the Economics of InferenceGuest Lin Qiao · Host Harry StebbingsThe Fireworks AI CEO explains her case for customized models, discusses infrastructure trade-offs and forecasts lower AI costs and higher use.
1:52ENMatthew Berman· Jul 19, 2026Anthropic, Compute Capacity and the Competition for AI SubscribersMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman weighs a claimed compute constraint against model quality, subscription limits and the possibility of future self-improvement.
12:12ENMatthew Berman· Jul 18, 2026Kimi K3: Coding Benchmarks, Cost and the Open-Weight AI RaceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Kimi K3’s early benchmark results, its cost per task and a Rubik’s Cube simulator, while weighing their limits.
1:29:35EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersFred Turner on Curative’s Pandemic Pivot, Health Insurance and AI AutomationGuest Fred Turner · Host Harry StebbingsCurative’s CEO recounts building a COVID testing operation, moving into health insurance and using AI agents across the company’s workflows.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jul 16, 2026PodcastCarriers Spend $200 Billion a Year. The Money Went Up the StackHost Jacob EffronBenedict Evans tells Jacob Effron why analogizing AI to past platforms is a dead end, and why looking at how those platforms actually made money is not.
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Sources Podcast· Jul 16, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersTolan Founder Quinten Farmer on AI Guides, Real Relationships and Building a Calm CompanyGuest Quinten Farmer · Host Ellis HamburgerFarmer explains the alien character’s design, user-reported outcomes and premium pricing—and why he wants it to challenge users as well as listen.
3:46:12ENZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Jul 16, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersKay Ke on Physical Intelligence, Robot Learning, and the Future of RoboticsGuest Kay Ke · Host 张小珺Physical Intelligence researcher Kay Ke traces the field's research lineages and explains Pi's progression from π₀ to π*₀.₆. She also reflects on education, fiction, ambition, and what it means to build robots that work beyond a demo.
1:26:12EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 16, 2026Podcast · 3 speakers20VC Roundtable on AI Competition, Enterprise Spending and Venture CapitalGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll discuss a reported Apple lawsuit, AI pricing, memory markets and venture financing.
1:18ENMatthew Berman· Jul 15, 2026AI News Live: A Brief Interrupted OpeningThe Forward Future team starts a live broadcast, checks its stream and introduces a planned OpenAI hardware topic before the recording ends.Load moreShowing 24 of 3,311