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4:18:22ENEvery Cycle Matters: The Volunteers Who Decode Almost All Internet VideoGuest FFmpeg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya about FFmpeg, VLC, handwritten assembly, and the unpaid crew behind YouTube, Netflix, and a rover on Mars.
2:25:58ENAGI Is Already Here. Building NVIDIA Is Not.Guest Jensen Huang · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with Jensen Huang for two and a half hours on extreme co-design, CUDA, four scaling laws, and why a $1 billion AI company is easier than a durable one.
4:34:10ENPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
3:08:46ENWho owns the off switch? George Hotz on tinygrad, open-source AI, and GodGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanOn his third Lex Fridman podcast, the comma.ai and tiny corp founder argues that compute, intelligence, and the off switch should live in people's houses, not in a trusted few.
3:34:03ENPython Isn't Finished: Chris Lattner on Mojo and the Hardware MessGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanThe LLVM creator returns to Lex Fridman to argue that Python should grow C-like performance instead of forcing people out of the language.
1:09:10ENThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
3:02:00ENVitalik Buterin Walked Away From Billions of Dog Coins — Then Mapped Ethereum's Next DecadeGuest Vitalik Buterin · Host Lex FridmanIn a three-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Ethereum co-founder explains the Shiba Inu dump, proof of stake, rollups, and why he thinks most evil comes from fear.
2:39:15ENCraftsmanship, Graphs and Consciousness: Jim Keller on Building Computers That ThinkGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanLegendary chip architect Jim Keller talks with Lex Fridman about design philosophy, the future of AI hardware, the human mind and how to live well.
2:46:57ENProgramming Languages Are Bicycles for the MindGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner talks with Lex Fridman about Swift, LLVM, RISC-V, and why the next leap in computing is as much a language problem as a silicon one.
1:49:51ENThe Idea Once Called a Devolution Now Powers Almost Every New ChipGuest David Patterson · Host Lex FridmanTuring Award winner David Patterson talks with Lex Fridman about RISC, RAID, Moore's Law, open hardware, and why chips without a software stack die.
1:47:04ENGustav Söderström on Why Spotify Could Only Be Born in SwedenGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Spotify’s chief R&D officer about three-minute songs, 250-millisecond playback, playlist luck, and herding record labels.
1:13:06ENThe Compiler That Got Apple, Google, and Intel to Share a CodebaseGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner walks through LLVM, Clang, Swift, TPU numeric formats, and why compiler work is mostly software engineering.
15:43ENInside RIDER: The Rugged Black Box Behind MIT's Large-Scale Driving StudyGuest MIT-AVT · Host Lex FridmanA walkthrough of the data-collection device MIT-AVT uses to record drivers and vehicles in semi-autonomous cars month after month.
17:19ENFrom Atoms to Data Centers: How a Modern Processor Finds Parallelism in a Serial ProgramGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanJim Keller walks through the layers of abstraction in computer design, from transistors to out-of-order execution, branch prediction and deterministic answers.









