Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Episodes
Supervise the Process of AI Research — with Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmüller of Elicit
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie, Linus, Geoffrey, and the LS crew are reuniting for our second annual AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don’t forget ...
Latent Space Chats: NLW (Four Wars, GPT5), Josh Albrecht/Ali Rohde (TNAI), Dylan Patel/Semianalysis (Groq), Milind Naphade (Nvidia GTC), Personal AI (ft. Harrison Chase — LangFriend/LangMem)
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our next 2 big events are AI UX and the World’s Fair. Join and apply to speak/sponsor!Due to timing issues we didn’t have an interview episode to ...
Presenting the AI Engineer World's Fair — with Sam Schillace, Deputy CTO of Microsoft
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TL;DR: You can now buy tickets, apply to speak, or join the expo for the biggest AI Engineer event of 2024. We’re gathering *everyone* you want to m...
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our next SF event is AI UX 2024 - let’s see the new frontier for UX since last year! Last call: we are recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’...
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Giving computers a voice has always been at the center of sci-fi movies; “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” wouldn’t hit as hard...
Top 5 Research Trends + OpenAI Sora, Google Gemini, Groq Math (Jan-Feb 2024 Audio Recap) + Latent Space Anniversary with Lindy.ai, RWKV, Pixee, Julius.ai, Listener Q&A!
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We will be recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair soon with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guid...
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides are now available for AIE World’s Fair — join us on June 25-27 for the biggest AI Engineer conference of 2024!Sou...
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This Friday we’re doing a special crossover event in SF with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis (previous guest!), and we will do a live podcast on site. R...
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re writing this one day after the monster release of OpenAI’s Sora and Gemini 1.5. We covered this on Alex Volkov ‘s ThursdAI space, so head ...
Cloud Intelligence at the speed of 5000 tok/s - with Ce Zhang and Vipul Ved Prakash of Together AI
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our first ever demo day aimed for 15-20 people and ended up ballooning to 200 and covered in the news. We are now running the 2024 edition in SF on Fe...
Why StackOverflow usage is down 50% — with David Hsu of Retool
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are announcing the second edition of our Latent Space demo day event in SF on 2/23: Final Frontiers, a startup and research competition in “The A...
The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Audio Recap)
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Note for Latent Space Community members: we have now soft-launched meetups in Singapore, as well as two new virtual paper club/meetups for AI in Actio...
How to train your own Large Multimodal Model — with Hugo Laurençon & Leo Tronchon of HuggingFace M4
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Latent Space is heating up! Our paper club ran into 99 person Discord limits, oops. We are also introducing 2 new online meetups: LLM Paper Club Asia ...
RLHF 201 - with Nathan Lambert of AI2 and Interconnects
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023 we did a few Fundamentals episodes covering Benchmarks 101, Datasets 101, FlashAttention, and Transformers Math, and it turns out those were s...
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 2024! We appreciated all the feedback on the listener survey (still open, link here)! Surprising to see that some people’s favorite episodes w...
NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Top Startups
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are running an end of year listener survey! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024...
NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Best Papers
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are running an end of year listener survey! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024...
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are running an end of year survey for our listeners! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests...
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are running an end of year survey for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have for us, what episodes resonated with you the most, and guest...
The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Latent Space crew will be at NeurIPS on Tuesday! Reach out with any parties and papers of interest. We have also been incubating a smol daily AI N...
Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catch us at Modular’s ModCon next week with Chris Lattner, and join our community!2024 note: Hex is now hiring AI Engineers.Due to Bryan’s very wi...
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode came together at ~4 hrs notice since Dylan had just landed in SF and we had to setup quickly; you might notice some small audio issues in...
AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We left a high amount of background audio in the Devday podcast, which many of you loved, but we definitely understand that some of you may have had t...
AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SF folks: join us at the AI Engineer Foundation’s Emergency Hackathon tomorrow and consider the Newton if you’d like to cowork in the heart of the...
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the AI Pioneers Summit we announced Latent Space Launchpad, an AI-focused accelerator in partnership with Decibel. If you’re an AI founder of ent...
Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first workshops and talks from the AI Engineer Summit are now up! Join the 20k viewers on YouTube, find clips on Twitter (we’re also clipping @l...
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the over 17,000 people who have joined the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming. Last call to fill out the State of AI Engineeri...
Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the over 11,000 people who joined us for the first AI Engineer Summit! A full recap is coming, but you can 1) catch up on the fun and videos...
[AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit next week. After our first friendly fe...
[AIE Summit Preview #1] Swyx on Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit next week. Swyx gave a keynote on the ...
RAG Is A Hack - with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? 800 folks have weighed in on the top tools, communities and builders for the first State of AI Engineering ...
Building the Foundation Model Ops Platform — with Raza Habib of Humanloop
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? 500 folks have weighed in on the top tools, communities and builders for the first State of AI Engineering ...
Heralds of the AI Content Flippening — with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? Have opinions on the top tools, communities and builders? We’re collaborating with friends at Amplify to ...
Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Want to help define the AI Engineer stack? Have opinions on the top tools, communities and builders? We’re collaborating with friends at Amplify to ...
The Point of LangChain — with Harrison Chase of LangChain
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As alluded to on the pod, LangChain has just launched LangChain Hub: “the go-to place for developers to discover new use cases and polished prompts....
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era — with Eugene Cheah of UIlicious
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The AI Engineer Summit Expo has been announced, presented by AutoGPT (and future guest Toran Bruce-Richards!) Stay tuned for more updates on the Summi...
Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the almost 30k people who tuned in to the last episode!Your podcast cohosts have been busy shipping:* Alessio open sourced smol-podcaster, w...
The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Invites are going out for AI Engineer Summit! In the meantime, we have just announced our first Actually Open AI event with Brev.dev and Langchain, Au...
LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have just announced our first set of speakers at AI Engineer Summit! Sign up for the livestream or email [email protected] if you’d like to su...
[AI Breakdown] Summer AI Technical Roundup: a Latent Space x AI Breakdown crossover pod!
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our 3rd podcast feed swap with other AI pod friends! Check out Cognitive Revolution and Practical AI as well.NLW is the best daily AI YouTube/podcaste...
FlashAttention 2: making Transformers 800% faster w/o approximation - with Tri Dao of Together AI
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FlashAttention was first published by Tri Dao in May 2022 and it had a deep impact in the large language models space. Most open models you’ve heard...
Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As first discussed on our May Emergency pod and leaked 4 days ago, Llama (renamed from LLaMA) was upgraded to Llama 2 (pretraining on 2 trillion token...
AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In April, we released our first AI Fundamentals episode: Benchmarks 101. We covered the history of benchmarks, why they exist, how they are structured...
Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Code Interpreter is GA! As we do with breaking news, we convened an emergency pod and 17,000 people tuned in, by far our most biggest ever. This is a ...
[Practical AI] AI Trends: a Latent Space x Practical AI crossover pod!
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our podcast feed swap weekend! Check out Cognitive Revolution as well."Data" Dan Whitenack has been co-host of the Practical AI podcast for ...
[Cognitive Revolution] The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the over 1m people that have checked out the Rise of the AI Engineer. It’s a long July 4 weekend in the US, and we’re celebrating with a...
Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are now launching our dedicated new YouTube and Twitter! Any help in amplifying our podcast would be greatly appreciated, and of course, tell your ...
Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Full Transcript and show notes: https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pfTimestamps:[00:00:00] Intro[00:01:47] Recapping June 2023 Updates[00:0...
From RLHF to RLHB: The Case for Learning from Human Behavior - with Jeffrey Wang and Joe Reeve of Amplitude
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the almost 3k latent space explorers that joined us last month! We’re holding our first SF listener meetup with Practical AI next Monday;...
Building the AI × UX Scenius — with Linus Lee of Notion AI
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read: https://www.latent.space/p/ai-interfaces-and-notionShow Notes* Linus on Twitter* Linus’ personal blog* Notion* Notion AI* Notion Projects* AI ...
Debugging the Internet with AI agents – with Itamar Friedman of Codium AI and AutoGPT
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are hosting the AI World’s Fair in San Francisco on June 8th! You can RSVP here. Come meet fellow builders, see amazing AI tech showcases at diff...
MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are excited to be the first podcast in the world to release an in-depth interview on the new SOTA in commercially licensed open source models - Mos...
Guaranteed quality and structure in LLM outputs - with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow, 5/16, we’re hosting Latent Space Liftoff Day in San Francisco. We have some amazing demos from founders at 5:30pm, and we’ll have an ope...
The AI Founder Gene: Being Early, Building Fast, and Believing in Greatness — with Sharif Shameem of Lexica
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the over 42,000 latent space explorers who checked out our Replit episode! We are hosting/attending a couple more events in SF and NYC this ...
No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s now almost 6 months since Google declared Code Red, and the results — Jeff Dean’s recap of 2022 achievements and a mass exodus of the top r...
Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes — with Reza Shabani of Replit
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Latent Space is popping off! Welcome to the over 8500 latent space explorers who have joined us. Join us this month at various events in SF and NYC, o...
Mapping the future of *truly* Open Models and Training Dolly for $30 — with Mike Conover of Databricks
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The race is on for the first fully GPT3/4-equivalent, truly open source Foundation Model! LLaMA’s release proved that a great model could be release...
AI-powered Search for the Enterprise — with Deedy Das of Glean
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most recent YCombinator W23 batch graduated 59 companies building with Generative AI for everything from sales, support, engineering, data, and mo...
Segment Anything Model and the Hard Problems of Computer Vision — with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 is the year of Multimodal AI, and Latent Space is going multimodal too! * This podcast comes with a video demo at the 1hr mark and it’s a good ...
AI Fundamentals: Benchmarks 101
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re trying a new format, inspired by Acquired.fm! No guests, no news, just highly prepared, in-depth conversation on one topic that will level up ...
Grounded Research: From Google Brain to MLOps to LLMOps — with Shreya Shankar of UC Berkeley
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are excited to feature our first academic on the pod! I first came across Shreya when her tweetstorm of MLOps principles went viral:Shreya’s holi...
Emergency Pod: ChatGPT's App Store Moment (w/ OpenAI's Logan Kilpatrick, LindyAI's Florent Crivello and Nader Dabit)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This blogpost has been updated since original release to add more links and references.The ChatGPT Plugins announcement today could be viewed as the l...
From Astrophysics to AI: Building the future AI Data Stack — with Sarah Nagy of Seek.ai
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If Text is the Universal Interface, then Text to SQL is perhaps the killer B2B business usecase for Generative AI. You may have seen incredible demos ...
97% Cheaper, Faster, Better, Correct AI — with Varun Mohan of Codeium
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI just rollicked the AI world yet again yesterday — while releasing the long awaited ChatGPT API, they also priced it at $2 per million tokens ...
ChatGPT, GPT4 hype, and Building LLM-native products — with Logan Kilpatrick of OpenAI
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re so glad to launch our first podcast episode with Logan Kilpatrick! This also happens to be his first public interview since joining OpenAI as ...