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1:09:26ENAnastasios Angelopoulos on Arena, Open Models and AI EvaluationGuest Anastasios Angelopoulos · Host Harry StebbingsArena’s CEO discusses real-world model comparisons, enterprise AI control, security and the economics of evaluation.
2:16:29ENFrom Two Papers a Month to Sixty: What Two Weeks in China Revealed About AI SafetyHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz argues that the familiar 'China will never slow down' line does not survive contact with the actual Chinese AI safety ecosystem.
0:40ENEnabling Max Reasoning Effort in CodexMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman shows an August 2026 settings menu for exposing Max reasoning effort and explains his preference for Luna.
1:05:02ENJoon Sung Park on Simulating Human Behavior and Building SimileGuest Joon Sung Park · Host Harry StebbingsThe Simile co-founder explains his research on generative agents, the challenges of validating simulations, and his ambitions for a business built around modeling people.
34:30ENNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
1:04:14ENThe Man Who Helped Stand Up Colossus in 120 Days Is Betting on an AI That Lives in Your HouseHost Jacob EffronxAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin left to start River AI, arguing coding agents have crossed a threshold, closed labs are getting squeezed, and the next prize is personal, local intelligence.
1:40ENQualcomm's Edge-to-Cloud AI StrategyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn a sponsored short, Matthew Berman argues that AI infrastructure across devices and data centers could be an important business opportunity.
1:43:45ENA $300 Universal Jailbreak: Why FAR.AI Now Thinks Defense Can WinHost Nathan LabenzAdam Gleave walks through FAR.AI’s first head-to-head AI security leaderboard, and explains why a decade of offense-dominant thinking is starting to crack.
1:20:22EN20VC Roundtable on Open Weights, AI Spending and Software InvestingGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll debate AI safety, chip investment, enterprise budgets and the future of software.
35:27ENJoe Salvatore on AI, Creative Direction and the Taste Behind a BrandGuest Joe Salvatore · Host Reid Hoffman, Parth PatilThe visual artist explains how he turns creative briefs into agent-driven advertising workflows—and why judgment and storytelling still matter.
54:57ENOpen-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.
49:12ENThe 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.
2:59:03ENYou 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.
1:53ENA Meeting-Memory Test with Genspark SecondBrain NoteMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares his recall with notes generated from three meetings in a brief promotional demonstration.
3:46:18ENIf 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.
2:23:43ENHe 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.
1:06:45ENMatt 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.
1:02:42ENMercor’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.
52:29ENClaude 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.
49:20ENHalf 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 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.
16:09ENHow 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.
1:15ENUsing 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.
1:24ENMatthew Berman on Using Model Routing to Reduce AI CostsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA short, sponsored explanation of splitting planning and coding between models of different cost, with a customer savings claim from DigitalOcean.
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