Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO

Apr 22, 2026 · 1h 12m

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✨ AI Summary

Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin discusses the company's AI transition.
Details on AI usage explosion, token budgets, and internal ML systems.
Insights into AI adoption, experimentation, and low-latency search at Shopify.

Guests on This Episode

Mikhail Parakhin

Microsoft manager (Bing search engine) · 1 podcast appearance

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