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...
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Sep 29, 2026 · 1:32:29
We are excited to have Anthropic share their latest AI x Finance work at AI Engineer New York , coming up in 2 weeks! In case you’ve been under a rock, here’s a non-exhaustive…
Sep 25, 2026 · 1:20:43
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers , OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of…
Sep 25, 2026 · 1:36:21
Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2 , a research preview that “turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive…
Sep 23, 2026 · 1:31:58
The OpenAI → Hugging Face attack has people asking “what else do we need to worry about?” and Anthropic’s filters flag two things: cyber-security and biology. The natural…
Sep 22, 2026 · 2:01:26
How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar , two textbook algorithms ,…
Sep 21, 2026 · 2:20:53
Tickets for AIE NYC now open, and apply for the invite-only AIE CODE . Join us ! We have an unusual relationship with today’s guest: for years since coauthoring the InstructGPT…
Sep 16, 2026 · 1:26:14
AIUC first got our attention with the NFDG backing, and have just announced a $40M series A today, with the most impressive industry advisor list we may have ever seen for an…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:32:10
At 1:09:00 we talk about the rise of AI x Finance, and AIE NYC is one month away - our hotel block is 97% sold out, get tix & travel ASAP - we will announce speakers from…
Aug 26, 2026 · 1:23:31
A few years ago, Caltech Prof. and co-founder of Accelerated Understanding, Anima Anandkumar set out to develop the first open-source weather model with AI. Talking to experts in…
Aug 21, 2026 · 1:09:38
When we first dicsussed the Summer of Simulative AI in 2024 we knew it would be a brief summer, but it has recently come back with a vengeance with SimGym in April and now Simile…
Aug 11, 2026 · 1:35:19
This January, four big AI × Pharma tools deals were announced at the huge JPM Pharma conference that takes over San Francisco every year. OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery ( now worth…
Aug 3, 2026 · 1:41:29
Watch the full episode on YouTube: We first covered Baseten last year when DeepSeek mania was at peak hype. Now they have raised a monster $13B round and become one of the new…
Jul 28, 2026 · 1:09:28
There are roughly 100x more people who use code than who can write code. As code that “just works” becomes easier to generate, this group may be the biggest prize of all — if you…
Jul 23, 2026 · 1:54:33
In recent months, the open vs closed, and US vs China discussions on model ownership and sovereign/local AI have heated up to a fever pitch. So it is very very good news that…
Jul 21, 2026 · 1:29:47
Bet on information If test loss flatlines after 1.5B parameters while training loss continues to drop as you scale, that tells you that your model is limited by the amount of…
Jul 16, 2026 · 1:41:04
Imagine a dark warehouse. Racks and racks of devices with wires, tubes, and electronics sticking out. The next AI data center? No. This is Lila Sciences ‘ dream for the future of…
Jul 8, 2026 · 57:55
We’ve been running a bit of an Agent Cloud series surveying all the top inference/compute/cloud providers, from Databricks to Daytona to Railway and, even further back, E2B , but…
Jul 1, 2026 · 1:48:39
This episode has a fun personal twist: There’s a counterfactual world where I was employee #1 at Genesis Molecular AI , the company behind today’s episode. A certain introduction…
Jun 24, 2026 · 1:08:52
We’re excited to have Databricks join us at AIEWF , among hundreds of the top companies in the AI Engineer ecosystem. LS subscribers can use their discount to get past the late…
Jun 22, 2026 · 1:06:23
AI Engineer World’s Fair regular bird tix will sell out ~today! Join us next week ahead of the Late Bird price hike and get >$40,000 in sponsor credits for attending ! Thanks to…
Jun 18, 2026 · 59:25
Last 4 days before regular tickets sell out at AI Engineer World’s Fair - this is the single biggest gathering of AI Engineers, Founders, Leaders, and Researchers in the world.…
Jun 17, 2026 · 1:16:50
On the Science pod, we’ve been covering a lot of the ground on how AI is revolutionizing STEM, but one of our favorite off the record topics since our launch is which field is…
Jun 4, 2026 · 1:15:39
The new AIEWF website is live! Get your tickets booked ASAP as they -will- sell out. Take the AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and free AIE WF tickets ! Most…
Jun 3, 2026 · 1:33:04
In 2025, seven-month-old startup Axiom solved all 12 of the problems Putnam exam (scoring 8/12 in the time limit) a prestigious undergraduate math exam. The 12/12 score is better…
Jun 3, 2026 · 38:58
We’ve informally heard that Satya is a listener to LS for a couple years now, but it was still absolutely surreal to meet him and do a live pod at Build, together with our…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:23:27
I’m excited to work with Microsoft once again as the presenting sponsors of the AI Engineer World’s Fair ! We’ll streaming live from MS Build today for a special crossover pod…
Jun 1, 2026 · 1:43:26
We’re announcing AIEWF speakers this week! Take the AI Engineering Survey ! Today’s guest Ethan first joined us for the LS Paper Club as the lead on NVIDIA Cosmos World Model ,…
May 28, 2026 · 1:08:02
The new AIEWF website is live! CFPs close in 2 days and we will run our first New Engineer Orientation this weekend, get your tickets booked ASAP as they -will- sell out. Take…
May 27, 2026 · 1:10:12
Editor’s note: In our first BioHub pod with Priscilla and Mark they discussed their acquisition of EvoScale , led by Alex Rives , who is now Head of Science at BioHub. With ESM-1…
May 21, 2026 · 1:10:27
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! On the product side, everyone is getting Computer - Perplexity , Manus , Cursor , and so on.…
May 20, 2026 · 1:28:34
Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets ! This was recorded before Railway suffered a major GCP outage on May 19, despite being a multi-AZ,…
May 18, 2026 · 1:59:28
The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith ( @noahpinion ) and…
May 14, 2026 · 1:05:20
Special discounts up for AIE Melbourne ( LS discount ) and AIE World’s Fair (group discounts up to 25% - CFPs still open for Autoresearch and Vertical AI ) Cya there! Abridge did…
May 5, 2026 · 1:31:51
Some people are going crazy over GPT 5.5. Some people. This is the story of the Jagged Frontier . People who use AI to write emails or even code implementation work find the lift…
Apr 27, 2026 · 1:12:21
From building Applied Intuition from YC-era autonomy tooling into a $15B physical AI company , Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig have spent the last decade living through the full…
Apr 23, 2026 · 54:52
Today, we check in a year after the first Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover special to discuss everything that has changed (there is a lot) in the world of AI. This…
Apr 22, 2026 · 1:12:25
Early bird discounts for the San Francisco World’s Fair , the biggest AIE gathering of the year, end today - prices will go up by ~$500 tonight so do please lock in ASAP! From…
Apr 20, 2026 · 1:25:21
Today, we explain this piece of “clickbait” from our guest! TL;DR: 95% of cancer treatments fail to pass clinical trials , but it may be a matching problem — if we better…
Apr 15, 2026 · 1:17:17
For all those who missed out on London, see you in Miami next week! Notion, the knowledge work decacorn , has been building AI tooling since before ChatGPT , with many hits from…
Apr 7, 2026 · 1:12:43
We’re proud to release this ahead of Ryan’s keynote at AIE Europe . Hit the bell, get notified when it is live! Attendees: come prepped for Ryan’s AMA with Vibhu after . Move…
Apr 3, 2026 · 1:16:20
Fresh off raising a monster $15B , Marc Andreessen has lived through multiple computing platform shifts firsthand, from Mosaic and Netscape to cofounding A16z. In this episode,…
Apr 2, 2026 · 1:06:47
We’ve been on a bit of a mini World Models series over the last quarter: from introducing the topic with Yi Tay , to exploring Marble with World Labs’ Fei-Fei Li and Justin…
Mar 30, 2026 · 48:48
Mistral has been on an absolute tear - with frequent successful model launches it is easy to forget that they raised the largest European AI round in history last year. We were…
Mar 24, 2026 · 35:14
Materials science is the unsung hero of the science world. Behind every physical product you interact was decades of research into getting the properties of materials just right.…
Mar 20, 2026 · 1:03:35
Mar 23 update for Latent Spacenauts: this episode was recorded before the Dreamer team announced they were joining Meta Superintelligence Labs , and it turned out to be the last…
Mar 17, 2026 · 1:26:59
Claude Cowork came out of an accident. Felix and the Anthropic team noticed something interesting with Claude Code : many users were using it primarily for all kinds of messy…
Mar 12, 2026 · 1:00:32
Turbopuffer came out of a reading app. In 2022 , Simon was helping his friends at Readwise scale their infra for a highly requested feature: article recommendations and semantic…
Mar 10, 2026 · 1:23:37
Join Kyle, Nader, Vibhu, and swyx live at NVIDIA GTC next week ! Now that AIE Europe tix are ~sold out, our attention turns to Miami and World’s Fair ! The definitive AI…
Mar 6, 2026 · 1:06:39
All speakers are announced at AIE EU , schedule coming soon. Join us there or in Miami with the renowned organizers of React Miami! Singapore CFP also open! We’ve called this out…
Mar 5, 2026 · 1:16:58
The reception to our recent post on Code Reviews has been strong . Catch up! Amid a maelstrom of discussion on whether or not AI is killing SaaS , one of the top publicly listed…
Feb 27, 2026 · 56:14
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.latent.space AIE Europe CFP and AIE World’s Fair paper submissions for CAIS peer review are due TODAY - do not…
Feb 26, 2026 · 52:17
Swyx joined SAIL ! Thank you SAIL Media , Prof. Tom Yeh , 8Lee , Hamid Bagheri , c9n , and many others for tuning into SAIL Live #6 with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka, PhD…
Feb 25, 2026 · 33:56
Editor’s note: CuspAI raised a $100m Series A in September and is rumored to have reached a unicorn valuation . They have all-star advisors from Geoff Hinton to Yann Lecun and…
Feb 24, 2026 · 2:04:13
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.latent.space First speakers for AIE Europe and AIEi Miami have been announced. If you’re in Asia/Aus, come by…
Feb 23, 2026 · 26:12
Olivia Watkins (Frontier Evals team) and Mia Glaese (VP of Research at OpenAI, leading the Codex, human data, and alignment teams) discuss a new blog post (…
Feb 19, 2026 · 55:18
Tickets for AIEi Miami and AIE Europe are live, with first wave speakers announced ! From pioneering software-defined networking to backing many of the most aggressive AI model…
Feb 12, 2026 · 1:23:31
From rewriting Google’s search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with frontier ML research , Jeff Dean has quietly…
Feb 12, 2026 · 1:21:07
This podcast features Gabriele Corso and Jeremy Wohlwend , co-founders of Boltz and authors of the Boltz Manifesto , discussing the rapid evolution of structural biology models…
Feb 6, 2026 · 1:08:01
From Palantir and Two Sigma to building Goodfire into the poster-child for actionable mechanistic interpretability, Mark Bissell (Member of Technical Staff) and Myra Deng (Head…
Jan 28, 2026 · 1:13:56
Editor’s note : Welcome to our new AI for Science pod, with your new hosts RJ and Brandon! See the writeup on Latent.Space (https://Latent.Space) for more details on why we’re…
Jan 23, 2026 · 1:32:05
From shipping Gemini Deep Think and IMO Gold to launching the Reasoning and AGI team in Singapore , Yi Tay has spent the last 18 months living through the full arc of Google…
Jan 17, 2026 · 1:13:26
From building internal AI labs to becoming CTO of Brex, James Reggio has helped lead one of the most disciplined AI transformations inside a real financial institution where…
Jan 8, 2026 · 1:18:24
Happy New Year! You may have noticed that in 2025 we had moved toward YouTube as our primary podcasting platform. As we’ll explain in the next State of Latent Space post, we’ll…
Jan 6, 2026 · 24:02
We are reupping this episode after LMArena announced their fresh Series A ( https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-evaluation-startup-lmarena-valued-1-7-billion-new-funding-ro…
Jan 2, 2026 · 28:19
From undergraduate research seminars at Princeton to winning Best Paper award at NeurIPS 2025 , Kevin Wang, Ishaan Javali, Michał Bortkiewicz, Tomasz Trzcinski, Benjamin…
Dec 31, 2025 · 17:45
From creating SWE-bench in a Princeton basement to shipping CodeClash , SWE-bench Multimodal , and SWE-bench Multilingual , John Yang has spent the last year and a half watching…
Dec 31, 2025 · 27:34
From pre-training data curation to shipping GPT-4o , o1 , o3 , and now GPT-5 thinking and the shopping model , Josh McGrath has lived through the full arc of OpenAI’s…
Dec 30, 2025 · 45:13
From Berkeley robotics and OpenAI’s 2017 Dota-era internship to shipping RL breakthroughs on GPT-4o, o1, and o3, and now leading model development at Cursor , Ashvin Nair has…
Dec 30, 2025 · 28:42
From investing through the modern data stack era (DBT, Fivetran, and the analytics explosion) to now investing at the frontier of AI infrastructure and applications at Amplify…
Dec 27, 2025 · 1:39:18
One year ago, Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) —a simple, open standard to connect AI applications to the data and tools they need. Today, MCP has exploded…
Dec 26, 2025 · 37:24
Note: Steve and Gene’s talk on Vibe Coding and the post IDE world was one of the top talks of AIE CODE: From building legendary platforms at Google and Amazon to authoring one of…
Dec 26, 2025 · 27:45
From the frontlines of OpenAI’s Codex and GPT-5 training teams, Bryan and Bill are building the future of AI-powered coding—where agents don’t just autocomplete, they architect,…
Dec 18, 2025 · 1:15:03
As with all demo-heavy and especially vision AI podcasts, we encourage watching along on our YouTube (and tossing us an upvote/subscribe if you like!) From SAM 1’s…
Dec 16, 2025 · 40:40
Note: this is Pliny and John’s first major podcast. Voices have been changed for opsec. From jailbreaking every frontier model and turning down Anthropic’s Constitutional AI…
Dec 12, 2025 · 1:09:43
Glean started as a Kleiner Perkins incubation and is now a $7B, $200m ARR Enterprise AI leader. Now KP has tapped its own podcaster to lead it’s next big swing. From building…
Dec 11, 2025 · 1:11:02
From applied cryptography and offensive security in France’s defense industry to optimizing nuclear submarine workflows, then selling his e-signature startup to Docusign (…
Dec 6, 2025 · 1:04:17
From building Medal into a 12M-user game clipping platform with 3.8B highlight moments to turning down a reported $500M offer from OpenAI (…
Nov 25, 2025 · 1:00:38
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are cofounders of World Labs , who have recently launched Marble (https://marble.worldlabs.ai/), a new kind of generative “world model” that can…
Nov 19, 2025 · 27:11
Alex Lieberman and Arman Hezarkani , co-founders of Tenex, reveal how they’re revolutionizing software consulting by compensating AI engineers for output rather than…
Nov 14, 2025 · 1:25:27
Deedy Das , Partner at Menlo Ventures , returns to Latent Space to discuss his journey from Glean to venture capital, the explosive rise of Anthropic, and how AI is reshaping…
Nov 10, 2025 · 35:51
Jared Palmer , SVP at GitHub and VP of CoreAI at Microsoft , joins Latent Space for an in-depth look at the evolution of coding agents and modern developer tools. Recently…
Nov 10, 2025 · 43:53
Jed Borovik , Product Lead at Google Labs , joins Latent Space to unpack how Google is building the future of AI-powered software development with Jules. From his journey…
Oct 31, 2025 · 42:02
In this conversation with Malte Ubl , CTO of Vercel ( http://x.com/cramforce ), we explore how the company is pioneering the infrastructure for AI-powered development through…
Oct 16, 2025 · 1:08:23
In this deep dive with Kyle Corbitt , co-founder and CEO of OpenPipe (recently acquired by CoreWeave), we explore the evolution of fine-tuning in the age of AI agents and the…
Oct 7, 2025 · 45:08
At OpenAI DevDay , we sit down with Sherwin Wu and Christina Huang from the OpenAI Platform Team to discuss the launch of AgentKit - a comprehensive suite of tools for building,…
Oct 2, 2025 · 1:01:43
Dylan Field (CEO Figma) on how they are letting designers build with Figma Make, how Figma can be the context repository for aesthetic in the age of vibe coding, and why design…
Sep 25, 2025 · 1:20:13
Quinn Slack (CEO) and Thorsten Ball (Amp Dictator) from SourceGraph join the show to talk about Amp Code, how they ship 15x/day with no code reviews, and why subagents and prompt…
Sep 11, 2025 · 57:33
Lance: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-martin-64a33b5/ How Context Fails: https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-how-to-fix-them.html How New Buzzwords Get…
Aug 29, 2025 · 1:18:43
Our chat with Ari shows that data curation is the most impactful and underinvested area in AI . He argues that the prevailing focus on model architecture and compute scaling…
Jul 31, 2025 · 1:18:59
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 (Reinforcement Learning with…
Jul 23, 2025 · 56:22
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 queryable, chunkable data for tools…
Jul 16, 2025 · 1:15:44
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 coding, and why non-technical…
Jul 11, 2025 · 1:04:09
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 favorite partners of OpenAI…
Jul 9, 2025 · 49:28
When the first video diffusion models started emerging, they were little more than just “moving pictures” - still frames extended a few seconds in either direction in time. There…
Jul 2, 2025 · 1:18:13
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 OpenAI . Our pick this year…
Jun 19, 2025 · 1:17:47
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 Full Video Episode Timestamps…
Jun 6, 2025 · 1:53:02
Emmanuel Amiesen is lead author of “Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models” (https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html ),…
Jun 3, 2025 · 27:13
Solomon most famously created Docker and now runs Dagger… which has something special to share with you on Thursday. Catch Dagger at: - Tuesday: Dagger’s workshop…
Jun 2, 2025 · 24:29
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’s Google I/O! TUESDAY: Shrestha…
May 31, 2025 · 20:50
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 Intelligence. However there are…
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