Lex Fridman

Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #424

Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #423

Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs | Lex Fridman Podcast #422

Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck | Lex Fridman Podcast #421

Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420

Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, discusses the company's board saga, reflecting on the personal and professional challenges during that period. Altman emphasizes the importance of building a resilient organization and board structure to withstand future pressures as OpenAI approaches AGI. The conversation explores the select...

Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris | Lex Fridman Podcast #418

Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family | Lex Fridman Podcast #417

Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, joins Lex Fridman to discuss the limitations of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) and proposes joint embedding predictive architectures (JEPA) as a more promising path toward advanced machine intelligence. LeCun argues that LLMs lack a true understanding of the physical ...

Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415

Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414

Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413

Bill Ackman, a legendary activist investor, discusses core principles of finance and investing, emphasizing the distinction between price and value as outlined in Benjamin Graham's "Intelligent Investor." Ackman highlights the importance of understanding a business's long-term cash-generating potential, citing Universa...

Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #412

Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411

Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #410

Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man - $55 Million in Bank Fraud | Lex Fridman Podcast #409

Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen | Lex Fridman Podcast #408

Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #407

Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D'Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness | Lex Fridman Podcast #406

Boxing trainer and commentator Teddy Atlas explores the profound connection between athletic discipline and human character, emphasizing that true greatness requires facing fear and maintaining unwavering loyalty. Reflecting on his formative years under mentor Cus D'Amato and his early work with a young Mike Tyson, Atl...

Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, discusses space exploration, business strategies, and the future of humanity. Bezos emphasizes the importance of self-reliance, a lesson instilled by his grandfather, and recounts his early fascination with space, inspired by Neil Armstrong's moonwalk. He envisions a futur...