Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We first had Nathan on to give us his RLHF deep dive when he was joining AI2, and now he’s back to help us catch up on the evolution to RLVR (Reinfo...

AI is Eating Search

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT handles 2.5B prompts/day and is on track to match Google's daily searches by end of 2026. AI agents don't browse like us—they crave queryabl...

AI is Eating Search

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT handles 2.5B prompts/day and is on track to match Google’s daily searches by end of 2026. AI agents don’t browse like us—they crave quer...

Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Saoud Rizwan and Pash from Cline joined us to talk about why fast apply models got bitter lesson'd, how they pioneered the plan + act paradigm for cod...

Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Saoud Rizwan and Pash from Cline joined us to talk about why fast apply models got bitter lesson’d, how they pioneered the plan + act paradigm for c...

Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Speak (https://speak.com) may not be very well known to native English speakers, but they have come from a slow start in 2016 to emerge as one of the ...

Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Speak (https://speak.com) may not be very well known to native English speakers, but they have come from a slow start in 2016 to emerge as one of the ...

AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the first video diffusion models started emerging, they were little more than just “moving pictures” - still frames extended a few seconds in...

AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the first video diffusion models started emerging, they were little more than just “moving pictures” - still frames extended a few seconds in...

Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our last AI PhD grad student feature was Shunyu Yao, who happened to focus on Language Agents for his thesis and immediately went to work on them for ...

Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our last AI PhD grad student feature was Shunyu Yao, who happened to focus on Language Agents for his thesis and immediately went to work on them for ...

Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solving Poker and Diplomacy, Debating RL+Reasoning with Ilya, what's *wrong* with the System 1/2 analogy, and where Test-Time Compute hits a wall Tim...

Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solving Poker and Diplomacy, Debating RL+Reasoning with Ilya, what’s *wrong* with the System 1/2 analogy, and where Test-Time Compute hits a wallFul...

The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Lattner of Modular (https://modular.com) joined us (again!) to talk about how they are breaking the CUDA monopoly, what it took to match NVIDIA ...

The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Lattner of Modular (https://modular.com) joined us (again!) to talk about how they are breaking the CUDA monopoly, what it took to match NVIDIA ...

The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmanuel Amiesen is lead author of “Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models” (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/att...

The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmanuel Amiesen is lead author of “Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models” (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/att...

[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solomon most famously created Docker and now runs Dagger… which has something special to share with you on Thursday.Catch Dagger at:- Tuesday: Dagge...

[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solomon most famously created Docker and now runs Dagger… which has something special to share with you on Thursday. Catch Dagger at: - Tuesday:...

[AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our AI Engineer World’s Fair preview, we’re releasing a special cross podcast recorded with Sam Charrington of TWiML AI at last week’...

[AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our AI Engineer World’s Fair preview, we’re releasing a special cross podcast recorded with Sam Charrington of TWiML AI at last week’...

[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the new tracks at next week’s AI Engineer conference in SF is a new focus on LLMs + Robotics, ft. household names like Waymo and Physical Int...

[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the new tracks at next week’s AI Engineer conference in SF is a new focus on LLMs + Robotics, ft. household names like Waymo and Physical Int...

The AI Coding Factory

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Eno Reyes and Matan Grinberg, the co-founders of Factory.ai. They are building droids for autonomous software engineering, handling e...

The AI Coding Factory

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Eno Reyes and Matan Grinberg, the co-founders of Factory.ai. They are building droids for autonomous software engineering, handling e...

[AIEWF Preview] Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an otherwise heavy week packed with Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and OpenAI io, the worst kept secret in biglab land was the launch of Claude 4, pa...

[AIEWF Preview] Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an otherwise heavy week packed with Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and OpenAI io, the worst kept secret in biglab land was the launch of Claude 4, pa...

ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT Codex is here - the first cloud hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) from OpenAI. We sat down for a quick pod with two core devs on the...

ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT Codex is here - the first cloud hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) from OpenAI. We sat down for a quick pod with two core devs on the...

Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More info: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/overview The AI coding wars have now split across four battlegrounds: 1. AI IDEs: with two...

Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More info: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/overviewThe AI coding wars have now split across four battlegrounds:1. AI IDEs: with two lea...

⚡️The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB Category

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note from your hosts: we were off this week for ICLR and RSA! This week we’re bringing you one of the top episodes from our lightning podcast series...

⚡️The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB Category

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note from your hosts: we were off this week for ICLR and RSA! This week we’re bringing you one of the top episodes from our lightning podcast series...

Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vasek Mlejnsky from E2B joins us today to talk about sandboxes for AI agents. In the last 2 years, E2B has grown from a handful of developers building...

Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vasek Mlejnsky from E2B joins us today to talk about sandboxes for AI agents. In the last 2 years, E2B has grown from a handful of developers building...

⚡️GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ll keep this brief because we’re on a tight turnaround: GPT 4.1, previously known as the Quasar and Optimus models, is now live as the natural ...

⚡️GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ll keep this brief because we’re on a tight turnaround: GPT 4.1, previously known as the Quasar and Optimus models, is now live as the natural ...

SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute to solve the GPU Bubble forever

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are calling for the world’s best AI Engineer talks for AI Architects, /r/localLlama, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GraphRAG, AI in Action, Evals,...

SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Conrad, co-founder of SF Compute, joined us to talk about how they started as an AI lab that avoided bankruptcy by selling GPU clusters, why Core...

The Creators of Model Context Protocol

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guests, David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers, are the creators of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). When we first wrote Why ...

The Creators of Model Context Protocol

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are happy to announce that there will be a dedicated MCP track at the 2025 AI Engineer World's Fair, taking place Jun 3rd to 5th in San Francisco, ...

Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re in SF: Join us for the Claude Plays Pokemon hackathon this Sunday!If you’re not: Fill out the 2025 State of AI Eng survey for $250 in Am...

Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unsupervised Learning is a podcast that interviews the sharpest minds in AI about what’s real today, what will be real in the future and what it mea...

The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re in SF: Join us for the Claude Plays Pokemon hackathon this Sunday!If you’re not: Fill out the 2025 State of AI Eng survey for $250 in Am...

Building Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are working with Amplify on the 2025 State of AI Engineering Survey to be presented at the AIE World’s Fair in SF! Join the survey to shape the f...

⚡️The new OpenAI Agents Platform

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While everyone is now repeating that 2025 is the “Year of the Agent”, OpenAI is heads down building towards it. In the first 2 months of the year ...

⚡️How Claude 3.7 Plays Pokémon

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Special lightning pod with David Hershey from Anthropic, the person behind Claude Plays Pokémon. Sonnet 3.7 is currently trying to complete Pokémon ...

Open Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using Agents

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is with Paul Klein, founder of Browserbase. We talked about building browser infrastructure for AI agents, the future of agent authent...

The Inventors of Deep Research

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While “LLM-powered Search” is as old as Perplexity and SearchGPT, and open source projects like GPTResearcher and clones like OpenDeepResearch exi...

Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bundle tickets for AIE Summit NYC have now sold out. You can now sign up for the livestream — where we will be making a big announcement soon. NYC-b...

The AI Architect — Bret Taylor

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re in SF, join us tomorrow for a fun meetup at CodeGen Night!If you’re in NYC, join us for AI Engineer Summit! The Agent Engineering track ...

Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that adding a simple Code Interpreter took o3 from 9.2% to 32% on FrontierMath? The Latent Space crew is hosting a hack night Feb 11th in...

The Agent Reasoning Interface: o1/o3, Claude 3, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, and Operator — with Karina Nguyen of OpenAI

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sponsorships and tickets for the AI Engineer Summit are selling fast! See the new website with speakers and schedules live! If you are building AI age...

Outlasting Noam Shazeer, crowdsourcing Chat + AI with >1.4m DAU, and becoming the "Western DeepSeek" — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One last Gold sponsor slot is available for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC. Our last round of invites is going out soon - apply here - If you are buil...

Everything you need to run Mission Critical Inference (ft. DeepSeek v3 + SGLang)

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sponsorships and applications for the AI Engineer Summit in NYC are live! (Speaker CFPs have closed) If you are building AI agents or leading teams of...

[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Due to overwhelming demand (15x applications:slots), we are closing CFPs for AI Engineer Summit NYC today. Last call! Thanks, we’ll be reaching out ...

Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Applications close Monday for the NYC AI Engineer Summit focusing on AI Leadership and Agent Engineering! If you applied, invites should be rolling ou...

AI Engineering for Art — with comfyanonymous, of ComfyUI

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Applications for the NYC AI Engineer Summit, focused on Agents at Work, are open!When we first started Latent Space, in the lightning round we’d alw...

Latent.Space 2024 Year in Review

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World’s Fair 2025 in June.Happy ne...