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Y Combinator· Oct 24, 2026Why Inference Matters 12× More Than TrainingFrançois Chaubard, Dan Fu, Jeff Morgan, Joe Fioti, Liangsheng Yin · Y CombinatorYC Paper Club walks the inference stack from an API request down to GPU kernels. Four talks from Together AI, Ollama, Luminal, and SGLang argue that serving quality, not just training FLOPs, is where most of the compute and the money now sit.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 24, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNaveen Rao on Energy, AI Hardware, Verification and the Future of RoboticsGuest Naveen Rao · Host Harry StebbingsThe Unconventional AI founder argues that energy efficiency will shape AI hardware, while the growing volume of model output makes verification more valuable.
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Latent Space· Oct 22, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersWhy GPU Capacity Comes in Three-Year Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, ModalGuest Erik Bernhardsson · Host Vibhu SapraModal’s CEO tells Latent Space why AI demand almost never looks like a three-year GPU contract, how the company pools compute across thousands of customers, and why sandboxes grew from a product they almost killed into a third of revenue.
1:19:50EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 19, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersSameer Dholakia on AI Investing, Bessemer's Growth Strategy and Company CultureGuest Sameer Dholakia · Host Harry StebbingsThe Bessemer partner explains his approach to pricing fast-growing AI companies, backing founders and building teams, while discussing the risks behind his optimistic forecasts.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 8, 2026PodcastThere Likely Is a Level of Intelligence We Shouldn't Go PastHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz brings notes from The Curve, a chip startup whose token bill beat payroll, and a software industry that now performance-reviews people for Claude slop.
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Sequoia Capital· Oct 6, 2026PodcastAt 100,000 Accelerators, Something Fails Every HourGoogle AI infrastructure chief Amin Vahdat tells Sequoia's Sonya Huang why FLOPS is a vanity metric, why the TPU line split in two, and why he would rather wait on a utility than build his own gigawatt.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 6, 2026PodcastPost-Training Wins Inference: Why Owning the Weights Beats Betting on One LabHost Jacob EffronApplied Compute CEO Yash Patil argues that control, private evals, and post-training on the biggest workloads matter more than fearing that frontier labs will turn malicious.
1:05:01EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 3, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersChase Lochmiller on AI Data Centers, Energy and GPU EconomicsGuest Chase Lochmiller · Host Harry StebbingsCrusoe’s CEO discusses the constraints on AI infrastructure, the economics of GPU capacity and his company’s approach to energy and managed inference.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 2, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCompute Scaled a Millionfold. Bandwidth Only 40x. Fractile Wants to Fix That RatioHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn the summer of 2022, Walter Goodwin founded Fractile in London to build very fast inference chips for the world's largest models.
1:20:28EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 1, 2026Podcast · 4 speakersAI Valuations, Talent Wars and the Venture Capital Tradeoffs Behind ThemGuest Jack Altman, Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jack Altman, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll debate large early-stage bets, open-weight models and the changing market for exits.
1:15:42EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAlex Mashrabov on Higgsfield's AI Video Business, Model Costs and GrowthGuest Alex Mashrabov · Host Harry StebbingsHiggsfield's founder explains the search for product-market fit, how he calculates annualized revenue and why creative workflows matter more than chasing model benchmarks.
1:20:43EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 24, 2026Podcast · 3 speakersAI Agents, Venture Pricing and the Tradeoffs Behind the Funding BoomGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll debate AI products, high-priced venture rounds, enterprise software and infrastructure risk.
1:19:54EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 19, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThomas Sohmers on AI Inference, Memory and Data-Center GrowthGuest Thomas Sohmers · Host Harry StebbingsPositron’s co-founder discusses the engineering economics of inference, his views on AI infrastructure and regulation, and the risks he sees in financing and concentration.
38:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDiffusion Will Win Inference: Stefano Ermon Bets Parallel Tokens Beat Custom SiliconHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Stanford diffusion pioneer tells No Priors why a 50-person lab is training language models that generate many tokens at once — and why that maps to GPUs the way transformers once mapped to training.
2:19:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 5, 2026PodcastThe investigators were allowed six days. The word protein appeared once.Host Nathan LabenzA week of Cognitive Revolution morning shows on OpenAI’s agent-swarm incident, GPT-6 Astra’s loop transformer, and whether the pause debate is already over.
1:20:29EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 3, 2026Podcast · 3 speakersAI Compute, Agent Security and the Race to Build More SoftwareGuest Jason Lemkin, Rory O’Driscoll · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll discuss chip demand, personal agents, software competition and how AI may change enterprise buying.
1:08:25EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 10, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersAlex Atallah on OpenRouter, Model Competition and AI MarketplacesGuest Alex Atallah · Host Harry StebbingsThe OpenRouter CEO discusses inference providers, open-weight models, enterprise safety and the economics of routing.
1:20:22EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 30, 2026Podcast · 3 speakers20VC 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.
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.
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.
2:06:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 9, 2026PodcastZero the J-Space and a Model's Hidden Goal Lights Up on Token OneHost Nathan LabenzA weekly Cognitive Revolution cut of Anthropic's global-workspace paper, AI superforecasters, open video world models, and a chip that treats inference as data movement.
1:11:53EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 4, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersSierra Co-founder Clay Bavor on Open Models, Enterprise AI and Building TeamsGuest Clay Bavor · Host Harry StebbingsBavor discusses model selection and compute costs, deploying AI agents for enterprises, and how Sierra approaches hiring and company culture.
1:10:15ENSequoia Capital· Jun 30, 2026PodcastThe 100x lives between the layers: Dylan Patel on co-design and a 60x yearSemiAnalysis’s founder argues that matching models, kernels, and silicon is what turns a 2x here and a 2x there into 100x, while equivalent-quality inference has gotten about 60 times cheaper in a year.
1:35:16EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 15, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersPerplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on AI Agents, Compute and CompetitionGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Harry StebbingsSrinivas discusses the future of AI products, infrastructure constraints, export controls and the challenge of building a business around model advances.Load moreShowing 24 of 69