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Sequoia Capital· Aug 18, 2026PodcastThe Biggest Bug in Today’s Models Is That the Weights Never ChangeTuring Award winner Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed founded Oak Lab to build agents that keep learning after they ship — and they call synthetic data a big mistake.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 22, 2026PodcastThe GPT moment for video hasn’t arrived, but AGI may already be hereHost Jacob EffronA day after Google I/O 2026, Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals argues that world models, file-system memory, and infinite-complexity RL environments will define the next era of frontier models.
1:21:56ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 15, 2026PodcastYann LeCun Left Meta Because LLMs Will Not Get You to IntelligenceHost Jacob EffronThe Turing Award winner tells Jacob Effron why he spun AMI Labs out of Meta, why JEPA-style world models beat pixel generators, and why he thinks Hinton changed his mind in 2023.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Nov 28, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTan Jie: Data Is the Bottleneck for General-Purpose Robot Intelligence, and a General Form Will Take TimeGuest 谭捷 · Host 张小珺Tan Jie, a robotics research scientist at Google DeepMind, looks back on his path from computer graphics to robotics, from reinforcement learning to Gemini Robotics. He argues that robot foundation models have not yet become an independent discipline, and that data scale and coverage, cross-embodiment transfer, real-time reasoning, and safety remain key to real-world applications.
41:36ENSequoia Capital· Nov 18, 2025PodcastFour Months to Drive Tokyo: How Wayve Bet the Company on One End-to-End NetworkWayve CEO Alex Kendall tells Sequoia’s Training Data why AV 2.0 ditches HD maps and hand-written stacks for a foundation model that can adapt to a new car and a new country in weeks.
1:00:26ENSequoia Capital· Nov 6, 2025PodcastSeven Million Videos a Day, and Most Return Visits Are Spent CreatingOpenAI's Sora 2 leads walk through diffusion transformers, physics that rebounds off the backboard, and a feed designed against mindless scrolling.
43:09ENSequoia Capital· Sep 9, 2025PodcastA $100 Arm and a $300 Robot: Hugging Face Wants an App Store for Physical AIThomas Wolf tells Sequoia's Training Data why LeRobot, cheap hardware, and open datasets are Hugging Face's bet that software developers can become roboticists.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFei-Fei Li’s new bet: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligenceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe ImageNet pioneer tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why World Labs is building 3D generative foundation models, and why language was only one piece of the puzzle.
25:13ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 29, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe AI Table Is Being Cleared: Two or Three Coding Winners, and Forty Years Without a Biotech GiantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk through which AI markets have already consolidated, why rival startups still refuse to merge, and the biotech science sitting unused.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 11, 2025PodcastA Robot-Arm Shot That Took Months Now Lives in a PromptHost Nathan LabenzLuma Labs’ Amit Jain and Jiaming Song on Ray 2, few-shot camera concepts, and why they think video models sit on the path to multimodal AGI.
2:29:41ZH → EnglishZhang 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.
46:35ENSequoia Capital· Nov 13, 2024PodcastThey trained a real-time video model in 20 hours and skipped the game engineDecart CEO Dean Leitersdorf tells Sequoia how Oasis runs live on H100s, why ChatGPT is a fallen wall rather than a pain point, and why the next trillion-dollar company may be a generated experience.
54:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 9, 2024PodcastA Few Megabytes of Doom and a Few Gigabytes of Model: Why Runway Bets on GeneralizationHost Nathan LabenzCTO Anastasis Germanidis tells The Cognitive Revolution why video is a fuller record of the world than text, why physics shows up without being programmed in, and how a small lab competes with unlimited compute.
49:14ENSequoia Capital· Sep 17, 2024PodcastHumanoid robots fell from $1.5 million to $30,000. The GPT-3 moment is still a verbNvidia’s Jim Fan tells Sequoia how three kinds of data, a humanoid bet, and a System-1 motor-control model could unlock general-purpose robots.
1:54:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 28, 2024PodcastMetaculus Flagged Covid in January 2020. Now It Is Putting AI on the Forecasting DeskHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz talks with Metaculus CEO Deger Turan about epistemic security, a year-long bot tournament, and why a useful forecast is harder than an accurate one.
1:43:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 17, 2024PodcastThey want AI safety to quote failure odds the way civil engineers quote a bridgeHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann and Ben Goldhaber walk Nathan Labenz through Guaranteed Safe AI: world models, safety specs, verifiers, and why a chatbot’s good character is the wrong type for a dam.
31:24ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSora's Leads: A Minute of HD Video Is Just the GPT-1 of Video ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks, and Bill Peebles tell No Priors why text-to-video sits on the path to AGI, why they started from scratch instead of extending an image generator, and why they still have no product date.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
40:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakers99% of Factory Robots Are Dumb. Covariant Wants the Smart Ones Working in Warehouses FirstHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer OpenAI researcher Peter Chen explains why robot foundation models have to be trained on production floors, not in labs.
2:45:10ENLex Fridman· Jan 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Teenager Learns to Drive in Twenty Hours. A Car Still Cannot.Guest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why self-supervised world models are the missing dark matter of intelligence, and why machines are not even at the level of a house cat.
2:10:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGuest Dileep George · Host Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
1:45:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastTrust at Scale: Elicit's Founders on Reasoning Languages, World Models and Automating the CompanyHost Nathan LabenzAndreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun explain how Elicit keeps frontier models checkable for high-stakes science, and where they think AI reasoning is heading.Load moreShowing 24 of 32