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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 10, 2026PodcastResample Every Token and You Can Watch the Model DecideHost Nathan LabenzGoodfire's Eric Bigelow on forking paths, in-context learning, and why chain-of-thought monitoring is getting harder to trust.
2:06:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 14, 2026PodcastLindy Runs on DeepSeek. Its CEO Still Wants Chinese Models BannedHost Nathan LabenzFlo Crivello tells Nathan Labenz how Lindy Teammate lives in Slack, reaches two billion tokens of memory in two model calls, and why he would still outlaw the cheap Chinese models that currently power the product.
2:16:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2026PodcastFrom 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.
1:47:38ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2026Podcast19 Neurons Can Drive a Car. Liquid AI Wants Foundation Models on Every ChipHost Nathan LabenzRamin Hasani traces liquid neural networks from a worm's 300-cell brain to a 600-megabyte model that will talk from inside a Mercedes, and explains why architecture search now beats architecture avengers.
54:26ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 22, 2026PodcastTen Billion Active Parameters, and the Unsexy Work of Making Them Agent-ReadyHost Nathan LabenzMiniMax researcher Olive Song explains how M2 was trained with expert developers as reward models, interleaved thinking, and a perturbation pipeline that treats every scaffold change as the real generalization test.
1:54:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 9, 2026PodcastFrom One in Ten Cancer Cells to One in a MillionHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz's solo AMA updates his son's lymphoma treatment, calls Claude Opus 4.5 software AGI, and ranks the live players of early 2026.
1:18:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 1, 2026PodcastWhen AI Becomes the Oil Well: Luke Drago on the Intelligence CurseHost Nathan LabenzThe Workshop Labs co-founder tells the FLI Podcast why a world of non-human production could recreate the resource curse — and how private data, open weights, and moonshot careers might still break it.
1:32:38ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 6, 2025PodcastPolish Is 1% of Frontier Training Data, So Poland Built Its Own ModelHost Nathan LabenzMarek Kozlowski of Poland's National Information Processing Institute explains how PLLuM uses language adaptation, organic instructions, and on-prem small models to keep a mid-size country in control of its AI.
1:25:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 3, 2025PodcastHours after training ends, Z.ai puts the weights on the internetHost Nathan LabenzZixuan Li of Z.ai tells ChinaTalk how a Chinese lab ships GLM, treats open weights as a ticket into Western ecosystems, and still sees itself as an upstart.
2:14:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 26, 2025PodcastFrom Character AI to a 1% Warning Shot: Gabriel Weil's Case for Liability as AI GovernanceHost Nathan LabenzA Touro law professor tells Nathan Labenz how negligence, strict liability, and punitive damages could make frontier labs treat public risk as a hit to their own balance sheet.
1:30:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 12, 2025PodcastAnt's $320 Billion IPO Was Stopped at the Eleventh Hour: Angela Zhang on China's Tech TightropeHost Nathan LabenzA USC law professor walks through the dynamic pyramid that governs Chinese tech, from Didi's listing to DeepSeek's price war, and why she thinks the United States is starting to look more like China.
1:08:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 1, 2025PodcastChip Controls Are Meant to Buy Ten Years, Not Win the AI RaceHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Noah Smith tells Nathan Labenz that U.S. export controls are a piece of conventional deterrence against China — not a plan to kneecap DeepSeek.
2:33:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 27, 2025PodcastThe Attacker Goes Second: Why Nicholas Carlini Keeps Breaking AI DefensesHost Nathan LabenzA Google DeepMind security researcher on simple loss functions, 70% robust accuracy, and why the fix has to live in the system, not the model.
1:48:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 25, 2025PodcastFrom 15% to 70% on Right-or-Wrong Scores: DeepSeek-R1 Laid Reinforcement Learning's Cards on the TableHost Nathan LabenzOn Inauguration Day 2025, DeepSeek and Moonshot dropped reasoning-model results that Nathan Labenz reads as proof the reinforcement-learning recipe is simple, public, and still climbing.
3:53:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 3, 2025PodcastWith One-Twelfth the Data, an Open-Source Vision Model Beat GPT-4oHost Nathan LabenzWill Hardman of Veratai walks Nathan Labenz through two years of vision-language models, from ViT and CLIP to InternVL, BLINK, and Transfusion.
1:57:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 28, 2024PodcastLess Than 1%: Why OpenAI's roon Thinks the Good Guys Get AGI FirstHost Nathan LabenzDoom Debates host Liron Shapira presses OpenAI technical staffer roon on extinction odds, alignment-by-default, and a plan that even he admits is balancing on razor wire.
1:49:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 21, 2024PodcastA Team of Fifteen Matched Meta’s Post-Training on Meta’s Own BaseHost Nathan LabenzNathan Lambert walks through Tulu 3: the three-stage recipe, the 1 percent versus 14 percent lesson, and why open post-training now lives or dies on data and evals.
2:24:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 30, 2024PodcastMMLU Stays at Chance Until Late Training. Loss Is Only an Alarm.Host Nathan LabenzZyphra’s training lead walks through Zamba 2’s hybrid architecture, the evals that actually matter, and the trade secrets small labs still have to rediscover.
1:54:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 26, 2024PodcastA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
1:42:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 20, 2024PodcastThe Cheapest Inference Provider Is the Most DangerousHost Nathan LabenzFireworks AI cofounders Lin Qiao and Dmytro Ivchenko explain why subsidized GPU bills vanish, how LoRA serving can cut cost a hundredfold, and why OpenAI is the rival that actually matters.
2:16:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 12, 2023PodcastSuperhuman Go Has a Blind Spot. Balaji Bets on a War of the GodsHost Nathan LabenzBalaji Srinivasan tells Nathan Labenz why adversarial inputs, missing actuators, and cryptography make a single runaway AI god less likely than a contest among many that still need priests.
1:14:36ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 13, 2023PodcastZulu Bypasses GPT-4, and a Hundred Examples Undo the GuardrailsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz reads seven papers — four hopeful, three not — on whether anyone can actually keep a language model under control.
52:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 25, 2023PodcastOpenAI Cut Fine-Tuning 90 Percent, and Founders Crossed Llama 2 Off the ListHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg walk through GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning, why self-hosting still loses on total cost, and what is actually working in code, school, and medicine.
59:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 16, 2023PodcastFrom $500,000 to $50,000: MosaicML Made Training Your Own Model a Priced ProductHost Nathan LabenzJonathan Frankle and Abhi Venigalla explain who is training custom LLMs, why extraction beats chat, and how ALiBi stretches a 65k context window.Load moreShowing 24 of 27