Episodes (Page 7)
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Simon Willison, top AI blogger, recaps 2024 learnings about LLMs in crossover episode with TechMeme Ride Home's Brian, targeting tech-literate non-technical audiences
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Will Bryk (Exa.ai) building neural PageRank alternative with $5M H200 investment to move search from links-based to embeddings-based context retrieval for LLMs
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ComfyUI founder comfyanonymous discusses open source AI image generation, building alternative to AUTOMATIC1111 after involvement with Stability in 2023
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Latent Space celebrates 100th episode milestone with year-in-review covering rise of AI engineering, competitive landscape evolution, and major conferences (LIVE events, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML)
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Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024 keynote on state of LLM agents features Professor Graham Neubig covering 2024 agent developments and industry relevance
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2024 dominated by synthetic data rise, with major shift from real data-only training paradigm toward hybrid and fully synthetic approaches
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Post-transformer architectures (State Space Models, RWKV) gaining traction as researchers hunt for next 'Attention Is All You Need' breakthrough beyond scaling transformers
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Open models exploded in 2024 with shift from five dominant players (2023) to diverse ecosystem of Mistral, Mosaic, and others competing in top LLM ranks
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Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS features computer vision 2024 recap with Roboflow, addressing most-requested domain from organizers and audience
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Latent Space LIVE! opening keynote on AI startups features Sarah Guo (Conviction founder, AI superinvestor) and Pranav Reddy (Conviction partner) analyzing 2024 landscape
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Codeium CEO Varun Mohan returns as second-ever podcast guest (March 2023) after scaling from 10K to 1M+ developers while maintaining free autocomplete tier, now launching Windsurf AI IDE
Varun Mohan
Generative Video WorldSim, Diffusion, Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics — ICML 2024 Part 1
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ICML 2024 Part 1 deep dive into generative video worldsim with Bill Peebles (Diffusion Transformers author) discussing Sora, Genie, and video generation foundations
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Bolt.new (by Stackblitz) surpasses $8M ARR in just 2 months as Claude wrapper, demonstrating explosive growth of vibe coding platforms alongside flow engineering for code agents
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Erik Schluntz from Anthropic discusses new Claude 3.5 Sonnet capabilities, computer use features, and building state-of-the-art agents with latest model
Erik Schluntz
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Discussion of compound AI systems and open source advantages versus closed AI models in competitive landscape
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Lindy.ai founder Flo Crivello discusses agent platform evolution from late 2022 to present, challenging conventional wisdom in agent design with Rails and structured workflows
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Stanislas from Dust discusses evolution of agent frameworks since LangChain vs Dust debate; Dust prioritizes practical agent workflows at enterprises
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LMSys Chatbot Arena leads Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang discuss crowdsourced AI evaluation platform attracting 1M+ votes, becoming de facto LLM comparison standard
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NotebookLM's Audio Overviews feature converts documents, websites, and videos into conversational podcasts using voice models, RAG, and GPT, pioneered by PMs Raiza Martin and Usama Bin Shafqat
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Singapore's GovTech is hosting an AI CTF challenge with ~$15,000 in prizes starting October 26th on Dreadnode's Crucible platform, open to local and virtual hackers
Josephine Teo