The Neuron: AI Explained
Episodes
Your AI Meeting Agents Aren’t Enough: Otter.ai's Sam Liang on Enterprise Knowledge
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Liang worked on the team that built the "blue dot" for Google Maps and now he's transforming how we think about meetings with Otter....
The Future of Windows: AI-Native Computing with Pavan Davuluri
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Pavan Davuluri, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Windows + Devices business, to explore how Windows is ev...
The "Android Moment" for AI Infrastructure: Why Modular Just Raised $250M
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While everyone obsesses over which AI model is smartest, a quiet revolution is happening in the infrastructure layer underneath. Modular just raised $...
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Scott Guthrie, EVP of Microsoft's Cloud + AI Group, to explore the architecture behind Azure's AI Superfacto...
How 48% of Non-Engineers Are Shipping Production Software (with Retool CEO David Hsu)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Retool CEO David Hsu reveals that 48% of non-engineers are now shipping software. We explore how AI is democratizing software development, why enginee...
The Humans Behind AI: How Invisible Technologies Trains 80% of the World's Top Models
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered who's actually teaching ChatGPT and Claude how to think? Meet Caspar Eliot from Invisible Technologies - the company behind 80% of t...
Inside Adobe's AI Strategy with CTO Ely Greenfield
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Adobe Max 2025 in Los Angeles, Corey and Grant sit down with Ely Greenfield, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer, to explore the philosophy behi...
AI PC Buyer’s Guide: Specs That Actually Matter (ft. Dell’s Logan Lawler)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing what we need from our computers—but does that mean you need an "AI PC"? Corey and Grant sit down with Logan Lawler from Del...
NVIDIA’s Kari Briski on How to Use NVIDIA Nemotron Open-Source AI
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to use NVIDIA's Nemotron open-source AI models with VP Kari Briski. We cover what Nemotron is, minimum hardware specs, the difference betwee...
AI vs Google Search....behind the scenes
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI search is fundamentally changing how people find information online, but it's also creating a Wild West of spam, manipulation, and brand impers...
AI Inference: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think (with SambaNova's Kwasi Ankomah)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone's talking about the AI datacenter boom right now. Billion dollar deals here, hundred billion dollar deals there. Well, why do data centers ma...
First 48 Hours With Sora 2: The Good, The Bizarre, and Sam Altman
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special hands-on episode, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey dive into OpenAI's Sora 2 - the AI video platform that's part TikTok, part meme generat...
How OpenAI Beat Every Human Team at the World's Hardest Coding Competition
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're joined by Ahmed El-Kishky, research lead at OpenAI, to discuss their historic victory at the International Collegiate Progr...
Mustafa Suleyman on Seemingly Conscious AI and Microsoft's Next Chapter
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of DeepMind) joins The Neuron to discuss his provocative essay on "Seemingly Conscious AI" and...
Agentic Medicine: How AI Saved a Life and Built CureWise
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Brown's house burned down in a wildfire—and accidentally saved his life. When doctors missed his aggressive blood cancer for over a year, ...
Illia Polosukhin: Fixing the Broken System He Helped Create
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Illia Polosukhin, co-author of Attention Is All You Need and co-founder of NEAR Protocol, believes today's centralized AI ecosystem is broken. In this...
How Thomson Reuters Built AI Agents That Think Like Lawyers
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thomson Reuters just launched Deep Research—an AI system that doesn't just search legal databases, but plans and strategizes like an experienced att...
Google AI Studio Deep Dive: From Vibe Coding to AGI with Logan Kilpatrick
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we go deeper on Google's AI stack with Logan Kilpatrick: what AI Studio is great at, how it fits with Firebase/Colab/Gemini CLI/Jules, and where...
How ZoomInfo's CEO Rewired a 3,500-Person Company to Be AI-First with Henry Schuck
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to steer a 3,500-person company into the age of generative AI? ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck joins us to unpack the company'...
AI Governance Unpacked: Credo CEO Navrina Singh on Building Trust in AI Models
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does "AI governance" really entail, and why does it matter right now? Credo AI founder Navrina Singh joins The Neuron to unpack risk buckets, Mod...
How to use AI: Prompts vs. Projects vs. Agents
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people aren't sure whether they should just chat with an AI model, craft a structured prompt, spin up a project, or unleash a full-blown agen...
Live DEMO: We Build 3 AI Apps (In Under An Hour!)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this hands-on episode, Corey and Grant attempt to build three different AI apps in one hour using Google AI Studio - with zero coding experience re...
We Go Hands-On with OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent LIVE
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI just dropped ChatGPT Agent, and we test it LIVE for the first time. Watch as we put this "true" AI agent through its paces - from fin...
How AI Could Solve Education (Instead of Breaking It)
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Headlines scream that AI is "breaking the classroom," but is the story that simple? In this episode we explore the real cracks in today'...
Will AI Supercharge Our Output or Sink Our Standards?
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI turbocharge our output—or erode our standards in the rush to automate? In this episode, strategist Andreas Welsch (ex-SAP, author of The AI ...
Can Your Laptop Handle DeepSeek, or Do You Need A Supercomputer?
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Ep 3 we explore DeepSeek's open-source R-series models that claim GPT-4-level performance at a fraction of the cost. We unpack whether you can ...
Panic or Progress? Reading Between the Lines of AI Safety Tests
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Ep 2 we ask: "Panic or Progress? Reading Between the Lines of AI Safety Tests." We unpack the recent Claude Opus 4 "blackmail" ...
Microsoft Shares Its Playbook for Surviving the AI Jobquake
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI really erase half of all white-collar jobs, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns? We unpack the numbers, the hype, and the hidden opportunities...
Apple’s AI Announcements, Apple Intelligence, The Real Personal AI Assistant
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a long wait, Apple is finally in the game with AI. They’re launching Apple Intelligence with MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18. Pete breaks down some t...
US Government Cranks Up the Heat, FTC vs. Big Tech, Microsoft’s Inflection Deal
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US government is opening up antitrust inquiries into the likes of Nvidia, OpenAI and Microsoft. Who's leading the charge, and what could they ...
“Artificial General Intelligence Is Coming”, Ex-OpenAI Leopold Aschenbrenner, Situational Awareness
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has released a series of essays talking about how he sees AI playing out and what we should all do abou...
Nvidia is Taking Over, Data Centers and Intelligence Factories
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced their next line of products called Rubin as Nvidia races to build what he calls “intelligence factories”. Pe...
Anthropic’s “Brain Surgery” Research, Clarity into Black Boxes, What’s Next
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic did something no other AI lab has done: cracked the code on what’s happening while an AI model is working. Pete breaks down the latest res...
Secret Microsoft Launch Event, Microsoft Copilot+ PCs, Eyes on Apple
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft’s launch event for Copilot+ PCs was only available to press and content creators. Pete’s taking you through the launch, what stands out ...
Political Battles at OpenAI, Safety vs. Capability in AI, Superalignment’s Death
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever and Head of Alignment Jan Leike have left the company, with the latter citing concerns around OpenAI’s approac...
Google I/O 2024 Launches, Unpacking Google vs. OpenAI, Project Astra
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google I/O 2024 was a laundry list of AI launches, with Google trying their best to position themselves as the leading company in AI. Pete breaks down...
OpenAI Drops GPT-4 Omni, New ChatGPT Free Plan, New ChatGPT Desktop App
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a surprise launch, OpenAI dropped GPT-4 Omni, their new leading model. They also made a bunch of paid features in ChatGPT free and announced a new ...
OpenAI's New Model Spec, Gen Z Loves AI Customer Support, OpenAI's Media Deals Revealed
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI releases its Model Spec, which tries to define how AI models should behave. Some highlights and examples, along with some more existential ques...
AI Hospital Simulation Produces AI Doctors!?
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers designed AI agents that simulated doctors and patients, and they found surprisingly good results from the experiment. Pete breaks down how...
OpenAI’s New Competitor?, MAI-1 and Synthetic Data, Mustafa Suleyman
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft is opening up new competition with MAI-1, it’s large language model effort that will compete with OpenAI, Meta and Google. It’s led by M...
New ChatGPT Search Engine, Google's Weakness, Perplexity vs. ChatGPT Search
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT Search is expected to launch May 9th. Pete breaks down how we know it's happening, the big moment of weakness for Google and what startups...
“Is this GPT-5?!”, Inside Microsoft’s $10B Deal with OpenAI, California Bill 1047
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mysterious new chatbot hit the market, blew everyone away, then disappeared. I unpack some of the leading hypotheses behind it. An email surfaced in...
Apple’s OpenAI Plans, How Meta’s Llama 3 Will Make Money, Verge’s AI Survey
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apple is talking with OpenAI about powering AI features in iOS. The story to-date with Apple and AI and what type of new features we could see in the ...
Elon Musk’s xAI Raising $6B, Worldcoin and OpenAI, Synthesia Expressive Avatars
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon’s raising $6 billion for his AI lab. I dig into how much of this is Elon hype versus banking on real potential. Worldcoin and OpenAI. What this...
Rabbit R1’s launch, ChatGPT memory, Perplexity and Devin’s crazy fundraising
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The launch of Rabbit R1. After a disastrous launch by their competitor Humane, how is Rabbit faring in the public eye? Next, ChatGPT now has memory. H...
Meta's New Llama, Microsoft's Deepfake AI, Microsoft Jailbroke Every AI Model
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meta’s new model called Llama 3 beats OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The reason the AI community is hailing this as a big win and where you can try i...
Introducing The Neuron: your go-to AI podcast, hosted by Pete Huang.
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Neuron covers the latest AI developments, trends and research, hosted by Pete Huang. Digestible, informative and authoritative takes on AI that ge...