Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Marc Andreessen introspects on The Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"

3 Apr 2026

Marc Andreessen introspects on The Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"

3 Apr 2026

Fresh off raising a monster $15B (https://a16z.com/why-did-we-raise-15b/), Marc Andreessen (http://x.com/pmarca) has lived through multiple computing platform shifts firsthand, from Mosaic and

Moonlake: Causal World Models should be Multimodal, Interactive, and Efficient — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun

2 Apr 2026

Moonlake: Causal World Models should be Multimodal, Interactive, and Efficient — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun

2 Apr 2026

We’ve been on a bit of a mini World Models series over the last quarter: from introducing the topic with Yi Tay

The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

8 Dec 2023

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 Newsletter and Latent Space University is making

Notebooks = Chat++ and RAG = RecSys! — with Bryan Bischof of Hex Magic

29 Nov 2023

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 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-bischof/)’s very wide

The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis

17 Nov 2023

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 some segments, we apologize. We’re currently

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (DevDay Recap - cleaned audio)

8 Nov 2023

We left a high amount of background audio in the Devday podcast (https://www.latent.space/p/devday#details), which many of you loved, but we definitely understand that some of you may have had

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

8 Nov 2023

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 Cerebral Arena. Our community page is up to date

Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs — with Michael Royzen of Phind

3 Nov 2023

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 enterprise early adopter, fill out this form and

Powering your Copilot for Data – with Artem Keydunov of Cube.dev

26 Oct 2023

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 @latentspacepod), and chat with us on Discord!

The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai

19 Oct 2023

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 Engineering survey! See our Community page for upcoming

Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue

14 Oct 2023

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 on Twitter and YouTube, 2) help us reach 1000

[AIE Summit Preview #2] The AI Horcrux — Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

8 Oct 2023

This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit (https://www.ai.engineer/summit) next week. After our first friendly feedswap with the

[AIE Summit Preview #1] Swyx on Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer

7 Oct 2023

This is a special double weekend crosspost of AI podcasts, helping attendees prepare for the AI Engineer Summit (https://www.ai.engineer/summit) next week. Swyx gave a keynote on the Software 3.0

RAG Is A Hack - with Jerry Liu from LlamaIndex

5 Oct 2023

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 survey, which we will present for the first time

Building the Foundation Model Ops Platform — with Raza Habib of Humanloop

29 Sep 2023

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 survey! Please fill it out (and help us reach

Heralds of the AI Content Flippening — with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai

20 Sep 2023

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 launch the first State of AI Engineering survey!

Doing it the Hard Way: Making the AI engine and language 🔥 of the future — with Chris Lattner of Modular

14 Sep 2023

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 launch the first State of AI Engineering survey!

The Point of LangChain — with Harrison Chase of LangChain

6 Sep 2023

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.” It’s available to everyone with a LangSmith

RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era — with Eugene Cheah of UIlicious

30 Aug 2023

The AI Engineer Summit Expo has been announced, presented by AutoGPT (and future guest Toran Bruce-Richards!) Stay tuned for more updates on the Summit livestream and Latent Space University. This

Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere

22 Aug 2023

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, which makes the show notes here! * swyx

The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI

16 Aug 2023

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, Aug 26 in our SF HQ (we’ll record talks for those

LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML

10 Aug 2023

We have just announced our first set of speakers at AI Engineer Summit! Sign up for the livestream or email sponsors@ai.engineer if you’d like to support. We are facing a massive GPU crunch

[AI Breakdown] Summer AI Technical Roundup: a Latent Space x AI Breakdown crossover pod!

4 Aug 2023

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/podcaster with the AI Breakdown. His summaries and

FlashAttention 2: making Transformers 800% faster w/o approximation - with Tri Dao of Together AI

26 Jul 2023

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 of (RedPajama, MPT

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

19 Jul 2023

As first discussed on our May Emergency pod (https://www.latent.space/p/no-moat#details) and leaked 4 days ago (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1679925361247911936), Llama (renamed from LLaMA) was

AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101

17 Jul 2023

In April, we released our first AI Fundamentals episode: Benchmarks 101. We covered the history of benchmarks, why they exist, how they are structured, and how they influence the development of

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

10 Jul 2023

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 2-for-1 post - a longform essay with our

[Practical AI] AI Trends: a Latent Space x Practical AI crossover pod!

2 Jul 2023

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 the past 5 years, covering full journey of the

[Cognitive Revolution] The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research

1 Jul 2023

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 podcast feed swap! We’ve been big fans of

Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp

20 Jun 2023

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 friends! Notable followon discussions collected

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

Full Transcript and show notes: https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pf (https://www.latent.space/p/function-agents?sd=pf) Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:47] Recapping June 2023 Updates

From RLHF to RLHB: The Case for Learning from Human Behavior - with Jeffrey Wang and Joe Reeve of Amplitude

8 Jun 2023

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; join us if you want to meet past guests and put

Building the AI × UX Scenius — with Linus Lee of Notion AI

1 Jun 2023

Read: https://www.latent.space/p/ai-interfaces-and-notion (https://www.latent.space/p/ai-interfaces-and-notion) Show Notes * Linus on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thesephist) * Linus’ personal blog

Debugging the Internet with AI agents – with Itamar Friedman of Codium AI and AutoGPT

25 May 2023

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 different booths around the venue, all mixed with

MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

20 May 2023

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 - MosiacML MPT-7B! The Latent Space crew will be at

Guaranteed quality and structure in LLM outputs - with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI

16 May 2023

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 open co-working starting at 2pm. Spaces are limited,

The AI Founder Gene: Being Early, Building Fast, and Believing in Greatness — with Sharif Shameem of Lexica

8 May 2023

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 month. See you if in town! Lexica.art was

No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison

5 May 2023

It’s now almost 6 months since Google declared Code Red (https://www.latent.space/p/google-vs-openai?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fcode%2520red&utm_medium=reader2), and the results — Jeff Dean’s recap

Training a SOTA Code LLM in 1 week and Quantifying the Vibes — with Reza Shabani of Replit

3 May 2023

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, or start your own! This post spent 22 hours at the

Mapping the future of *truly* Open Models and Training Dolly for $30 — with Mike Conover of Databricks

29 Apr 2023

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 released and run on consumer-grade hardware (see

AI-powered Search for the Enterprise — with Deedy Das of Glean

22 Apr 2023

The most recent YCombinator W23 batch graduated 59 companies building with Generative AI for everything from sales, support, engineering, data, and more: Many of these B2B startups will be seeking to

Segment Anything Model and the Hard Problems of Computer Vision — with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow

13 Apr 2023

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 excuse to launch our YouTube - please subscribe!

AI Fundamentals: Benchmarks 101

7 Apr 2023

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 your understanding. We aren’t experts, we are

Grounded Research: From Google Brain to MLOps to LLMOps — with Shreya Shankar of UC Berkeley

29 Mar 2023

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 holistic approach to production grade machine

Emergency Pod: ChatGPT's App Store Moment (w/ OpenAI's Logan Kilpatrick, LindyAI's Florent Crivello and Nader Dabit)

24 Mar 2023

This blogpost has been updated since original release to add more links and references. The ChatGPT Plugins announcement (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins) today could be viewed as the launch

From Astrophysics to AI: Building the future AI Data Stack — with Sarah Nagy of Seek.ai

10 Mar 2023

If Text is the Universal Interface (https://scale.com/blog/text-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

2 Mar 2023

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 generated, which is 90% cheaper than the

ChatGPT, GPT4 hype, and Building LLM-native products — with Logan Kilpatrick of OpenAI

23 Feb 2023

We’re so glad to launch our first podcast episode with Logan Kilpatrick (https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK)! This also happens to be his first public interview since joining OpenAI as their first