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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

The podcast by and for AI Engineers! In 2025, over 10 million readers and listeners came to Latent Space to hear about news, papers and interviews in Software 3.0. We cover Foundation Models changing every domain in Code Generation, Multimodality, AI Agents, GPU Infra and more, directly from the founders, builders, and thinkers involved in pushing the cutting edge. Striving to give you both the definitive take on the Current Thing down to the first introduction to the tech you'll be using in the next 3 months! We break news and exclusive interviews from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Meta (Soumith Chintala), Sierra (Bret Taylor), tiny (George Hotz), Databricks/MosaicML (Jon Frankle), Modular (Chris Lattner), Answer.ai (Jeremy Howard), et al. Full show notes always on https://latent.space Sponsorship and business inquiries: [email protected] www.latent.space

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Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI

25 Nov 2024
58m
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In this episode of the Latent Space podcast, Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, shares insights into the company's evolution and its innovative Compound AI platform. Originally centered on a PyTorch cloud platform, Fireworks AI shifted its focus to Generative AI (GenAI) in response to customer needs. They have developed a ...

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Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai

15 Nov 2024
1h 9m
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In this podcast episode, Florent Crivello, the founder of Lindy.ai, shares insights about his no-code AI agent building platform. He introduces Lindy 2.0, a major overhaul designed to be more user-friendly, featuring a visual interface that allows users to create reliable agents without the need for complicated text pr...

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Agents @ Work: Dust.tt

11 Nov 2024
1h 0m
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In this podcast, Stanislas Polu, the CEO of Dust, shares his journey from OpenAI to launching Dust, a platform that empowers non-technical users to create AI assistants linked to their company data. He reflects on his time at OpenAI, discussing the team's efforts in applying AI to mathematical reasoning and the hurdles...

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In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever

01 Nov 2024
41m
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In this podcast episode, listeners explore the journey of Chatbot Arena, developed by LMSys. Anastasios and Wei-Lin discuss the hurdles of assessing conversational AI models and the innovative, community-driven strategies they employed. They share the story behind LMSys, tackling the intricacies of model evaluation, th...

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How NotebookLM Was Made

25 Oct 2024
1h 13m
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In this podcast episode, Raiza Martin and Usama Shafqat take listeners on an exciting journey through the development of NotebookLM, a cutting-edge AI tool from Google Labs. They explore its beginnings in innovative project development and how user-driven features have played a crucial role in its evolution. Raiza and ...

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Building the AI Engineer Nation — with Josephine Teo, Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore

19 Oct 2024
56m
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In this podcast episode, Minister Josephine Teo discusses Singapore's robust AI strategy, which aims to harness the benefits of AI for both citizens and businesses. The conversation delves into the Ministry of Digital Development's diverse role in promoting a dynamic digital economy and ensuring responsible AI practice...

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Building the Silicon Brain - with Drew Houston of Dropbox

18 Oct 2024
1h 11m
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In this podcast episode, Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, shares his insights on AI's impact, the evolution of knowledge work, and Dropbox's shift to an AI-first approach. He underscores the need for realistic expectations in AI development, the value of practical data strategies, and prioritizing a human-centered design....

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Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust

11 Oct 2024
1h 56m
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In this podcast episode, Ankur Goyal, the CEO of Braintrust, explores the complex world of LLM Ops, sharing insights from his diverse career in AI engineering. He reflects on his journey from SingleStore to founding Impira and its acquisition by Figma. Ankur delves into the challenges of advanced database technologies ...

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Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)

03 Oct 2024
2h 9m
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This podcast episode offers an engaging recap of OpenAI's Dev Day 2024, spotlighting major announcements and organizational changes. Key highlights include the launch of the Realtime API, the transition from non-profit to for-profit, and enhancements in AI capabilities with the O1 model. Featuring interviews with influ...

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Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting

27 Sep 2024
1h 29m
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This podcast episode delves deeply into the evolution and future of language model agents, highlighting the significant contributions of leading figures like Xunyu Yao, particularly through the React paper and the CoALA framework. The hosts, Alessio and Swyx, guide listeners through a variety of topics, from enhancing ...

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The Ultimate Guide to Prompting

20 Sep 2024
1h 9m
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This podcast episode dives deep into the intricate world of prompt engineering, featuring insights from Sander Schulhoff, the author of "The Prompt Report." He discusses his journey in AI and emphasizes the significance of various prompting techniques, including his findings on the effectiveness of role prompting and e...

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From API to AGI: Structured Outputs, OpenAI API platform and O1 Q&A — with Michelle Pokrass & OpenAI Devrel + Strawberry team

13 Sep 2024
2h 4m
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This podcast episode features Michelle Pokrass, who discusses her extensive experience building scalable platforms at top tech companies and her current role leading the API platform at OpenAI. Highlighting the challenges of scaling databases, developing structured outputs, and the evolving nature of AI APIs, she empha...

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Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation

03 Sep 2024
1h 5m
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This podcast episode follows Nyla Worker's inspiring journey from astrophysics to AI, detailing her commitment to optimizing AI efficiency and exploring the intersection of synthetic data, LLMs, and 3D content creation. Nyla's work illustrates the significance of inference efficiency and the delicate balance between mo...

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Why you should write your own LLM benchmarks — with Nicholas Carlini, Google DeepMind

29 Aug 2024
1h 10m
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This podcast episode features Nick Carlini, a research scientist at DeepMind, who delves into the complexities of adversarial AI security and the balanced use of large language models (LLMs). Carlini combines a playful exploratory approach with rigorous analysis, promoting the understanding of AI's dual capabilities an...

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Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

22 Aug 2024
1h 5m
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This podcast episode delves into the revolutionary coding agent, Cosine's Genie, and its significant advancements in software engineering capabilities, as shared by co-founder Ali Pullen. Highlighting Pullen's journey from mobile developer to AI innovator, the discussion covers the evolution of Genie, driven by cutting...

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AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12 — Jeremy Howard of Answer.ai

16 Aug 2024
58m
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This podcast episode features Jeremy Howard, a key voice in AI, discussing the evolution of fine-tuning into a continuous process, the governance challenges in AI innovation, and the unconventional talent approach at Answer AI. He emphasizes the importance of collaborative environments, advancements in making AI access...

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Segment Anything 2: Demo-first Model Development

07 Aug 2024
1h 3m
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This podcast episode delves into the transformative advancements brought by Segment Anything 2 (SAM 2) in the realm of computer vision, highlighting the impressive zero-shot segmentation capabilities of its predecessor SAM 1 and the innovative features of SAM 2 that enhance user experience and efficiency. Hosts Joseph ...

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The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

02 Aug 2024
1h 55m
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This podcast episode dives into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, highlighting the momentum generated by recent advancements and competition among leading organizations. Swyx and Alessio reflect on the implications of the "Winds of AI Winter," addressing the shifting dynamics in the AI model marketplac...

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Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI

23 Jul 2024
1h 5m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges and advancements in scaling language models, the importance of tokenizers and algorithms, the concept of expert iteration and continual augmentation, the choices made in post-training to optimize models, the benefits of using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)...

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Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge

12 Jul 2024
58m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of HuggingFace's evaluation practice, the significance of leaderboards in the AI community, and the limitations and biases in current evaluation methods. It emphasizes the need for reproducibility, unbiased evaluation metrics, and continuous benchmarking in the field of AI. The...

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